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April 17, 2020
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Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz
Honor the Scorned

In "Honor, the Scorned," Xelestial's soul is in constant turmoil with the encounters of love she has in her life, as well as her insistence and demand to be seen under her terms. We enter a transient space of time and magic in this performance ritual with Xelestiál's body, heart, and soul.

Honor the Scorned
June 26, 2019
resistance
Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz
Straight, Cis-Passing Privilege & Rainbow ...

Because we encompass gender defiant ideologies and reject the mainstream, we who visibly navigate queerness, who practice transfeminism, miss out on the queer capitalist extravaganza that everyone else benefits from.

January 16, 2019
resistance
Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz
Finding Womxnhood

A video featuring Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz. “My perception as a self identified femme brings forth waves of validation to the divine I know myself to be.”

June 16, 2018
resistance
Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz
Disability Tales: PRIDE

Wanting to take space as a fat brown genderqueer femme is all fun and games until the folks who domineer the space take notice.

February 22, 2018
resistance, survival, featured
Robbie Ahmed
Self-Help Books Fail to Teach Us Self-Love

As a queer and trans person of color who struggled for years to understand what healing meant, I've learned a few things on my self-healing journey that countless self-help books failed to tell me.

Izzy
October 31, 2018
poetry

I’m Not Ready

Izzy
October 31, 2018
poetry

fuck you! / and now you want me to speak like a martyr? / well I am still alive and much smarter

Tagged: trauma

Shivani Seth
September 20, 2018
rest

What's Next in the Culture of Care

Shivani Seth
September 20, 2018
rest

As we dream of ways to change our world by embodying a more radical self-care and community care, let’s make sure that we don’t leave members of our community or those who could be part of our community behind.

Tagged: community, self-care, family

Jamie Grace Alexander
August 27, 2018
poetry

Cockeyed: A Poem about Confronting Transphobia

Jamie Grace Alexander
August 27, 2018
poetry

this water offers resolve. / —Touches every part of my body / & does not flinch (Poem also available en español)

Tagged: trans

Marcy Angeles
August 2, 2018
poetry, survival

The Ascending Circle: A Two-Spirit Poem

Marcy Angeles
August 2, 2018
poetry, survival

You there, you are Sacred & I am Sacred too. / Every one & Every being provides a purpose. / No purpose too small, for even our Beetle Brothers & Sisters bring us a Message.

Tagged: two-spirit, poetry feature

Eliana Buenrostro
July 28, 2018
survival

Post-Non-Profit Survival: How Unemployment Benefits Improved My Mental Health

Eliana Buenrostro
July 28, 2018
survival

Once I began to receive my benefits, I began to distance myself from an idea that productivity defines whether I am deserving of respect.

Tagged: mental health

Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz
June 16, 2018
resistance

Disability Tales: PRIDE

Eve Xelestiál Moreno-Luz
June 16, 2018
resistance

Wanting to take space as a fat brown genderqueer femme is all fun and games until the folks who domineer the space take notice.

Tagged: community, mental health, pride, eve

Samara Kasai
June 7, 2018
poetry

If God Knows My Hair: a poem

Samara Kasai
June 7, 2018
poetry

I don't know what God meant to do by putting something so un-straight on top of a head so un-straight, but there are reasons they say this is unmanageable / Not because it is impossible to love, or to care for, but because it is impossible to subdue. 

Tagged: self-love, black queer

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Dominic Bradley
Don’t Just Rest – HALT to Get through Difficult Days
Dominic Bradley

HALT stands for never get too Hungry, Angry, Lonely, or Tired.

Dominic Bradley
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Shivani Seth
Vitals: A Guide to Activist Maintenance
Shivani Seth

Our denial of our needs (and to be clear, needs, not wants) does not create a more just world. Food, shelter, safety and caring relationships are necessary to all.

Shivani Seth
 
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Nefertari Sloan
“Therapy Can't Look the Same for Everyone”: Healing from Assault as a Black Queer Kinkster
Nefertari Sloan

Past experiences of broken confidence held me back, and I had even less confidence that I would be able to find a queer competent, POC identified behavioral health professional with sexual assault experience who was worth investing time, money, and trust in.

Nefertari Sloan
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Daniel Nguyen
Queer & POC in Therapy: "In the Wrong Place"
Daniel Nguyen

My therapist tells me that everything said in this room will remain in between the two of us. He asks me why I came in today, and I wonder if I can tell him so much.

Daniel Nguyen
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Nicole Jones Abad
"I didn't always call it sexual assault..."
Nicole Jones Abad

For a long time I didn't call it anything, because I didn't think about.

Nicole Jones Abad
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Lance Hicks
You're Probably Smarter Than Your Therapist: How to Get What You Came for Anyways
Lance Hicks

Ask them what they can offer you besides coping skills, and remember that you’re worth it.

Lance Hicks
 
REST FEST NYC is next weekend!

Join us in #ProspectPark on Sunday 7/30 as we reclaim the right of QTBIPOC community to rest in public. We will have several places to lounge, as well as guided group activities.

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Schedule

Low-energy activities:
Savasana Saturdays: Yoga Practice is a time to be with gentle movement and deeper restfulness in an asana sequence.

Classes are led by Floria Fernandes (@floor.it.fernandes).

We practice together at 10 am est / 7:30 pm ist, every 3rd Saturday each
Share Widely! Workshop Alert!
The Burnt Out Activist Club 
Wednesday 7/5 
8am PST/MST, 11am EST.

Led by dom chatterjee (they/he), the founder of @qtpocmentalhealth ,Rest for Resistance empowers community through knowledge and compassion, with the ul
Rest Fest is wrapping up our virtual programming this evening with two workshops, on creative connection and decolonization, followed by a DJ set by @western_obsidian.

Yet, the spirit of Rest Fest will continue throughout July as we look forward to
Sadies “Sun” Yanes is leading an Herbs for Rest Workshop in honor of REST FEST. 

What does Rest mean to Sun?

“Rest allows us to drop on our bodies; clear our minds from the congestion of a colonized state; and receive love, t
✨REST FEST is a testimony to creativity as healing justice ✨!

TODAY Saturday 7/1, Rest for Resistance invites QTIBIPOC to share their creativity with the community! 

From the power of the body, to the importance of decolonizing the self for communi
Lucy-Lucas is leading an ASD Perspective Workshop in honor of REST FEST, happening today!

What does Rest mean to Lucy-Lucas ?

“Rest means:
Safety
Regulation
Peace”

 - Lucy-Lucas Valentine 

Register for the Mad Pride Virtual Workshops
✨REST FEST is a movement that addresses harm, that leads to healing ✨!

Join us as we begin to wrap up Pride Month on Friday 6/30 with our Mad Pride Virtual Panel happening tonight Eastern Time 7-9 PM (ET)!

This panel discussion honors the Mad Pride
✨REST FEST is a testimony to rest as a form of strength ✨!

Zulaikha is hosting a Radical Imagination Workshop in honor of REST FEST. 

What does Rest mean to Zuliakha ?

“Rest Gives us the ability to finally imagine the worlds we want to live
✨REST FEST is a testimony to those who are left behind ✨!

Tomorrow, REST FEST is honoring the Mad Pride movement, which arose in the 1990s as psychiatric survivors began to push against the harms within the mental health system. Isalina Sanchez will

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Lance Hicks
5 Ways to Stay Alive in a World That Wants You Dead
Lance Hicks

Thoughts of suicide come when we run out of options. The more we’re oppressed, the less power we have, which means thoughts of ending our lives might come up a lot. Here are resources and strategies to help you keep fighting for your life without compromising your agency.

Lance Hicks
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Lance Hicks
You're Probably Smarter Than Your Therapist: How to Get What You Came for Anyways
Lance Hicks

Ask them what they can offer you besides coping skills, and remember that you’re worth it.

Lance Hicks

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