“Shouting ‘self-care’ at people who actually need ‘community care’ is how we fail people.”
Mutual Aid Fund
We believe in the power, ability, and creativity of our communities to engage
in care with one another
through the redistribution of individualized wealth and resources.
Resources
Helpful introductory resources on neuro & gender diversity:
For an introduction to the language of the neurodiversity paradigm & disability justice:
Neurodiversity: Some Basic Terms and Definitions, by Dr. Nick Walker(she/her)
The Significance of Semantics: Person-First Language: Why It Matters, by Autistic Hoya, Lydia X. Z. Brown
Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves from the Pathology Paradigm, by Dr. Nick Walker (she/her)
Changing the Framework: Disability Justice, by Mia Mingus
How to Talk About Autism Respectfully: A field guide for journalists, educators, doctors and anyone else who wants to know how to better communicate about Autism, by Mykola Bilokonsky
For an introduction to the language of gender:
The Language of Gender, from Gender Spectrum.
The Basics of Gender, a resource list compiled by ProjectLET’s.
Rachel’s Resource Lists…
If you are a professional, or a person with access to greater financial resources, and you find the resource lists below helpful for yourself, your colleagues, and/or your clients, please consider a small financial contribution to our mutual aid fund to support my continued time and emotional labor in researching and building resource lists that are available to all.
Mutual aid fund contributions increase our ability to provide financially accessible services to community while providing sustainable wages for our providers, as well as support our office lending library, which features learning and healing resources for neurodivergent and/or lgbtqia+ folks and their loved ones, resources and materials for therapists-in-training, and stories of neuroqueer + trans resistance & joy for all ages!
Centering Trans Joy:
A Coalition of Care Workers for Youth & Families
A call to action: let us set down our good intentions,
and pick up the work of building trans-centered spaces of empowerment for young people and their families, together.
