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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.

Dom Chatterjee
August 3, 2017
rest

Fighting Burnout, Rest Debt, and Work as a False Path to Self-Worth

Dom Chatterjee
August 3, 2017
rest

On low-energy, high-burnout days, I’m still feeding the cycle of working too much, not really resting, and definitely not feeling restored. To pay down rest debt, I have to notice when I’m doing this and give myself permission to pull back.

Tagged: productivity, self-care, dom, sidebar, archive 2

Shivani Seth
July 27, 2017
rest

Words for Healing Together: Queer & Trans Artists of Color Volume 2

Shivani Seth
July 27, 2017
rest

Each interview is a gold mine, a feast of quotes to be hung up on walls, tattooed on arms, and copied in notebooks. A flurry of words to hold close on nights when being seen seems impossible and it feels as if no one else in the world knows who or what you are.

Tagged: self-love, mental health, community, shivani, archive 2

Jarune Dante Uwujaren
July 13, 2017
resistance

For the Gods: Undoing Spiritual Displacement as a Restless Black Queer

Jarune Dante Uwujaren
July 13, 2017
resistance

I think of the story she told me of stealing fruit from her grandfather’s shrine to Ogun. I want to reach past her and my Christian grandparents, pluck that fruit, and make an offering of it.

Tagged: self-love, spirituality, archive

Dom Chatterjee
July 7, 2017
resistance

Centering Survivors is Not Disposability Culture: on who’s responsible for transformative justice

Dom Chatterjee
July 7, 2017
resistance

Until a violent person takes accountability and creates change in their patterns of behavior, the best thing to do is limit the harm being caused.

Tagged: abuse, community, dom, archive

Ky Peterson
June 29, 2017
rest

Resting in Unsafe Spaces

Ky Peterson
June 29, 2017
rest

Every day that passes, I have come to know who I am a little bit more, and I like who I am. I have a life and a future out there in the free world, and resting for resistance keeps me sane so that I can avoid any issues that might keep me here any longer.

Tagged: self-care, survival, archive

Clara Mejías
June 21, 2017
survival

White Transness Hurts Black Trans Girls: a personal story

Clara Mejías
June 21, 2017
survival

The role models I had access to were white, affluent and held a lot of disdain for women with lives different than theirs. But back then they had an image, and their way to be trans was what I had.

Tagged: trans, self-love, sidebar, archive, community

Roman Johnson
June 15, 2017
survival

Metta: A Lyric for Adult Survivors of Childhood Abuse

Roman Johnson
June 15, 2017
survival

You refuse to engage with your abuser. Their presence reopens old wounds. You try to heal but it hurts. You like a worm on a bamboo stick hooked on the teeth of lies. Pain pushes you to find silence somewhere.

Tagged: abuse, self-care, self-love, archive

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QTPoC Meditation

Our sangha is now on Zoom! Join us to meditate the last Thursday every month.

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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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