Created by @m00nglades. Please engage with care and discernment. Resource linking ≠ endorsement. Feel free to share this resource. If you have any feedback, would like to recommend a resource to add, or want to collaborate, please email [email protected] (responses will be on crip time)
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The focus of this collection of resource pools is to support everyone, especially multiply marginalized folks with lived experience of trauma, disability, neurodivergence, and/or Madness, in weaving webs of anti-carceral care in our communities. This guide is named after **Things That Helped When The Despair Got Big & Loud** by Dandelion Hill.
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The following resources can be used when you or someone you know need crisis support from an organization that does not work with the police. I haven’t personally vetted each resource, **please let me know** if any of them are not providing safe support to folks in crisis. Additionally, I recommend checking out the **Suicide Hotline Transparency Project** and Warmline.org to find options that may be local to you.
anti-carceral crisis support resources
[ coming soon ]
Over the last few years of being involved in online disability justice spaces, I have come to know many elders, friends, grievers, peer supporters, and care workers to help our communities stay connected, supported, and resourced amidst the crushing isolation and oppression we are facing. The ever-growing database below is a collection of primarily virtual resources either I or friends have used at one point or another, or have been recommended. I am prioritizing listing resources that are explicitly anti-carceral, anti-genocide, practice disability justice, are queer/trans- affirming, sex positive, and are COVID-realist. Not all resources meet those criteria. Please do your own vetting and prioritize your access/safety needs!
A note on the structure of the tags: At the end of the day, the way each practitioner defines themselves is more important than how I choose to tag them, and many of the folks listed here fall into multiple of these categories at once. However, for convenience of navigating these listings, I have categorized resources into the following tags: