Resource Page
This page is in process & will continue to be updated over time
This resource page includes a mix of podcasts, websites, Instagram accounts, novels, and non-fiction books that I believe can support introspection and healing. I intentionally organized this page to honor the different ways that people receive information. Throughout, I highlight work from Black and Brown authors and creators.
First is a list of support lines, in the event that folks are needing immediate help, followed by a list of therapist directories for folks looking for the right therapist.
Immediate Support Services
MH Oakland: call or text (510) 999-9MH1, Friday & Saturday nights from 8pm to 8am
Crisis Support Services of Alameda County: 1-800-309-2131
Alameda County Suicide Hotline: 800-784-2433
National Suicide Prevention Hotline: 1-800-273-8255
Crisis Text Line: Text NAMI to 741-741
Trans LifeLine: (877) 565-8860
Trevor Project LifeLine: 1-866-488-7386
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BlackLine call or text line: 1-800-604-5841
Asian LifeNet Hotline: 1-877-990-8585
Available languages: Cantonese, Mandarin, Japanese, Korean, Fujianese
RAINN National Sexual Assault Telephone Hotline: 800-656-4673
Live chat
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) Hotline: 1-800-662-4357
Therapist Directories
National Queer and Trans Therapists of Color Network
Resources
These categories are flexible—none of the resources are solely about gender, sexuality, race, grief, etc. They all have intersections.
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A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients (nonfiction)
A History of My Brief Body, Billy Ray-Belcourt (nonfiction)
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender, Kit Heyam (nonfiction)
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, C Riley Snorton (nonfiction)
Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters (fiction)
Felix Ever After, Kacen Callender (YA fiction)
Gender Reveal (podcast)
Gender Spectrum (website)
The Gender Affirming Letter Access Project (GALAP) (website)
Hijab Butch Blues, Lamya H (nonfiction)
Nevada, Imogen Binnie (fiction)
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, Micah Rajunov and A. Scott Duane (nonfiction)
Schuyler Bailar (IG)
Surviving Transphobia, ed. Laura A. Jacobs (nonfiction)
Tomboy Survival Guide, Ivan Coyote (nonfiction)
Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You, Kathryn Gonzales and Karen Rayne (nonfiction)
Trans Data Library (database)
Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, Lucie Fielding (nonfiction)
Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices, Kevin Manders and Elizabeth Marston (nonfiction)
Summer Fun, Jeanne Thornton (fiction)
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel (poetry)
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A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation, Tan Hoang Nguyen (nonfiction)
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, Angela Chen (nonfiction)
Don’t Cry For Me, Daniel Black (fiction)
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays, Jill Gutowitz (nonfiction)
Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much, Jen Winston (nonfiction)
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir, Lamya H (nonfiction)
How Far The Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures, Sabrina Imbler (nonfiction)
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir, Saeed Jones
In The Dream House: A Memoir, Carmen Maria Machado (nonfiction)
Kink: Stories, Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon (fiction)
Last Night at the Telegraph Club, Malinda Lo (YA fiction)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong (fiction)
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, Christopher Soto (poetry)
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir, Brian Broome (nonfiction)
Queer Sex Ed (podcast)
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Samra Habib (nonfiction)
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Autistic Self Advocacy Network (website)
Neuroqueer Heresies: Notes on the Neurodiversity Paradigm, Autistic Empowerment, and Postnormal Possibilities, Nick Walker (nonfiction)
Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words, Maxfield Sparrow (nonfiction)
Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults: A Guide for Professionals and Families, Finn V. Gratton (nonfiction)
The Trans Autistic Guide to Life, Yenn Purkis and Wenn B. Lawson (nonfiction)
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity, Devon Price (nonfiction)
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All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship, Jennifer Natalya Fink
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling With Cure, Eli Clare (nonfiction)
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (nonfiction)
Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid, Shayda Kafai (nonfiction)
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally, Emily Ladau (nonfiction)
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong (nonfiction)
Leaving Evidence, Mia Mingus (blog)
Sick Woman Theory, Johanna Hedva (nonfiction essay)
Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People (Second Edition), Sins Invalid (nonfiction)
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Esmé Weijun Wang (nonfiction)
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (nonfiction)
True Biz, Sara Nović (fiction)
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All Gender Nutrition: Vaughn Darst, intuitive eating and weight-neutral nutritionist
Aminatou Sow (IG)
Anti Diet: Reclaim Your Time, Money, Well-Being, and Happiness Through Intuitive Eating, Christy Harrison (nonfiction)
Bodies Are Cool, Tyler Feder (children’s book)
Decolonizing Fitness (IG)
FedUp Collective (IG)
Food Psych, Christy Harrison (podcast)
Happy Fat Trans Man (IG)
Jessamyn Stanley (IG)
Kimmie Singh, Fat Positive Nutritionist (IG)
Maintenance Phase (podcast)
Plus Size Trans Guy (IG)
Reclaiming Body Trust: A Path to Healing & Liberation, Hilary Kinavey and Dana Sturtevant (nonfiction)
Sacred Space for Fat Bodies (IG)
The Body Is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self-Love, Sonya Renee Taylor (nonfiction)
The Body Is Not an Apology (website)
The Other F Word: A Celebration of the Fat & Fierce, Angie Manfredi (nonfiction)
Weightless: Making Space for My Resilient Body and Soul, Evette Dionne (nonfiction)
“You Just Need to Lose Weight” And 19 Other Myths About Fat People, Aubrey Gordon (nonfiction)
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All My Mother's Lovers, Ilana Masad (fiction)
Blue Nights, Joan Didion (nonfiction)
Crying in H Mart, Michelle Zauner (nonfiction)
Goodbye, Vitamin, Rachel Khong (fiction)
Grief Is Love: Living With Loss, Marisa Renee Lee
In Love: A Memoir of Love and Loss, Amy Bloom (nonfiction)
It's Ok That You're Not Ok: Meeting Grief and Loss in a Culture That Doesn't Understand, Megan Devine (nonfiction)
Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, Maddie Mortimer (fiction)
Men We Reaped: A Memoir, Jesmyn Ward (nonfiction)
Mostly Dead Things, Kristen Arnett (fiction)
Our Wives Under The Sea, Julia Armfield (fiction)
The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion (nonfiction)
This Time Tomorrow, Emma Straub (fiction)
We All Want Impossible Things, Catherine Newman (fiction)
What We Carry: A Memoir, Maya Shanbhag Lang (nonfiction)
Why thinking about death helps you live a better life, Alua Arthur (TED Talk)
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Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love, Dr. Sue Johnson (nonfiction)
Mating In Captivity: Unlocking Erotic Intelligence, Esther Perel (nonfiction)
Monsters in Love: Why Your Partner Sometimes Drives You Crazy--And What You Can Do about It, Resmaa Menakem (nonfiction)
On Consent in Romantic Relationships (blog post)
Polyphilia Blog (IG)
Set Boundaries, Find Peace: A Guide to Reclaiming Yourself, Nedra Glover Tawwab (nonfiction)
The Power of Attachment: How to Create Deep and Lasting Intimate Relationships, Diane Poole Heller (nonfiction)
The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity, Esther Perel (nonfiction)
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Anne Hodder-Shipp (IG)
Come As You Are: The Surprising Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life, Emily Nagoski (nonfiction)
Conditions for Good Sex, Havelock Clinic
Clitoris Collective (IG)
Dirty South Sex Ed (IG)
Everyone Deserves Sex Education (IG)
Queer Sex Coach (IG)
Queer Sex Therapy (IG)
Sex Ed with DB (IG)
What’s My Body Doing (IG)
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Sex, Etc. (website)
Scarleteen (website)
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Black Cake, Charmaine Wilkerson (fiction)
Black Futures, Kimberly Drew and Jenna Wortham (nonfiction)
Crying in the Bathroom: A Memoir, Erika L. Sánchez (nonfiction)
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Erika L. Sánchez (YA fiction)
I Can Make You Feel Good, Tyler Mitchell (photography collection)
In Every Mirror She's Black, Lolá Ákínmádé Åkerström (fiction)
Nightcrawling, Leila Mottley (fiction)
Salvage The Bones, Jesmyn Ward (fiction)
Seven Days in June, Tia Williams (fiction)
Sing, Unburied, Sing, Jesmyn Ward (fiction)
Skye Falling, Mia McKenzie (fiction)
Still Processing (podcast)
Such A Fun Age, Kiley Reid (fiction)
The Nickel Boys, Colson Whitehead (fiction)
The Prophets, Robert Jones Jr. (fiction)
The Reformatory, Tananarive Due (fiction)
What's Mine and Yours, Naima Coster (fiction)
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A Quitter’s Paradise, Elysha Chang
All My Rage, Sabaa Tahir (YA fiction)
All That’s Left Unsaid, Tracey Lien (fiction)
Asians Do Therapy (podcast)
Disorientation, Elaine Hsieh Chou (fiction)
Displacement, Kiku Hughes (graphic novel)
Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows, Balli Kaur Jaswal (fiction)
Holding Pattern, Jenny Xie (fiction)
Joan Is Okay, Weike Wang (fiction)
Minor Feelings: An Asian American Reckoning, Cathy Park Hong (nonfiction)
Our Missing Hearts, Celeste Ng (fiction)
Owner of a Lonely Heart: A Memoir, Beth Nguyen (nonfiction)
Permission to Come Home: Reclaiming Mental Health as Asian Americans, Jenny Wang (nonfiction)
Sea Change, Gina Chung (fiction)
The Fortunes of Jaded Women, Carolyn Huynh (fiction)
The Magical Language of Others: A Memoir, E. J. Koh (nonfiction)
The Storm We Made, Vanessa Chan (fiction)
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches, Sangu Mandanna (fiction)
Things We Lost to the Water, Eric Nguyen (fiction)
Wandering Souls, Cecile Pin (fiction)
We Are Not Free, Traci Chee (fiction)
What We Kept to Ourselves, Nancy Jooyoun Kim (fiction)
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Against the Loveless World, Susan Abulhawa (fiction)
Behind You Is the Sea, Susan Muaddi Darraj (fiction)
Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement, Angela Y. Davis (nonfiction)
The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017, Rashid Khalidi (nonfiction)
Things You May Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza, Mosab Abu Toha (poetry)
We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir, Raja Shehadeh (nonfiction)
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Beautiful Country: A Memoir, Qian Julie Wang (nonfiction)
Lost Children Archive, Valeria Luiselli (fiction)
Solito: A Memoir, Javier Zamora (nonfiction)
Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions, Valeria Luiselli (nonfiction)
The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir, Thi Bui (nonfiction)
The Leavers, Lisa Ko (fiction)
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Everything I Never Told You, Celeste Ng (fiction)
Remarkably Bright Creatures, Shelby Van Pelt (fiction)
The Arsonists’ City, Hala Alyan (fiction)
The Island of Sea Women, Lisa See (fiction)
The Mountains Sing, Mai Phan Que Nguyen (fiction)
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Be Not Afraid of Love: Lessons on Fear, Intimacy, and Connection, Mimi Zhu (nonfiction)
Decolonizing Therapy: Oppression, Historical Trauma, and Politicizing Your Practice, Jennifer Mullan (nonfiction)
Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds, adrienne maree brown (nonfiction)
Falling Back in Love with Being Human: Letters to Lost Souls, Kai Cheng Thom (nonfiction)
Finding Our Way, Prentis Hemphill (podcast)
For Brown Girls with Sharp Edges and Tender Hearts: A Love Letter to Women of Color, Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez (nonfiction)
How to Survive the End of the World, Autumn Brown and adrienne maree brown (podcast)
Inciting Joy: Essays, Ross Gay (nonfiction)
The Book of Delights, Ross Gay (nonfiction)
The Book of (More) Delights, Ross Gay (nonfiction)
The Long Arm of Childhood Trauma, Road to Resilience (podcast episode)
My Grandmother's Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies, Resmaa Menakem (nonfiction)
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, adrienne maree brown (nonfiction)
Radical Healership: How to Build a Values-Driven Healing Practice in a Profit-Driven World, Laura Mae Northrup (nonfiction)
The Book of Delights: Essays, Ross Gay (nonfiction)
The Care We Dream of: Liberatory and Transformative Approaches to LGBTQ+ Health, Zena Sharman (nonfiction)
Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, Alexis Pauline Gumbs (nonfiction)
What My Bones Know: A Memoir of Healing from Complex Trauma, Stephanie Foo (nonfiction)
Why We Swim, Bonnie Tsiu (nonfiction)
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments, Aimee Nezhukumatathil (nonfiction)