♥  Support Hub ♥ 

I’m thinking about suicide, or I know someone who is – read this via Grassroots

I’m hurting myself or plan to – a safer self-harm resource via QueerCare

Download this now: ‘Stay Alive’ a free suicide prevention app for the UK by Grassroots

NHS 111 Service
You can call 111 when you need medical help fast but it is not a 999 emergency. NHS 111 is available 24 hours a day, 365 days a year and also online.
Call 111 –  free from landlines and mobile phones or use the form online.

In an emergency please call 999 or go to your nearest Accident and Emergency Hospital.

If you want to talk to someone on the phone or text, there is someone who wants to listen. Get in touch with any of the helpline services below:

Maytree – Helpline
If you are feeling suicidal they offer confidential advice with email and telephone support between 8am and 8pm.
Call 020 7263 7070.

Samaritans – Helpline
They offer emotional support and befriending in complete confidence at any time of day or night.
Call 116 123 for the free national helpline.

Papyrus – Helpline
Prevention of young suicide, Mon-Fri: 10am-10pm, weekends: 2pm-10pm & bank holidays: 2pm-5pm
Call 0800 068 41 41 or text 07786 209697 or e-mail pat@papyrus-uk.org

Childline – Helpline
A free service for children and young people up to the age of 19 where you can speak to a counsellor at any time of day or night, and via online chat and e-mail services
Call 0800 11 11

Saneline – Mental Health Helpline
Offers and provides information and emotional support to those experiencing mental health difficulties, their families and carers, Monday to Friday 12pm-11pm, Weekends 12pm-6pm
Call 0845 7678 000

Switchboard – LGBT+ Helpline
Available 10am-11pm every day and for online chat and e-mail service
Call 0300 330 0630

Shelter – Urgent Housing Advice Helpline
Available every day of the year. 8am-8pm on weekdays. 9am-5pm on weekends. Non-urgent web chat also available.
Call 0808 800 4444

Download this now: ‘Stay Alive’ a free suicide prevention app for the UK by Grassroots

LGBT+ guide to self-isolation by House of Pride

The Right Lube – a trans hangout/discord every Sunday

MindLine Trans+ – a free confidential national support helpline for trans and non-binary people and their family and friends – Mondays and Fridays 8pm-midnight: 0300 330 5468

London Friend – LGBT Health and Wellbeing – services for mental health, drug and alcohol, domestic abuse and social support

GALOP – services for hate crime, domestic abuse, sexual violence plus trans advocacy

Black Trans Foundation – non-profit working for the wellbeing of Black trans, gender non-conforming people in the UK

UK LGBTQIA+ mental health resources, guidance, counselling and groups nationwide (Google Doc)

How to do care for others safely by Queercare

20 Small Things To Do When Gender Dysphoria Gets You Down by Buzzfeed

25 Things I Do To Make My Body Dysphoria Feel Smaller and Quieter by Autostraddle

5 ways to manage gender dysphoria – by Transformers, Allsorts Young People [pdf]

Laverne Cox explains #TransIsBeautiful and her relationship with her body

Alok Vaid-Menon on Learning to Love Who They Are

10 reasons to envy trans people (Gender Euphoria!) by Trans Magazine 

30 Strikingly Beautiful Gender Non-Conforming/Gender Non-Binary Selfies

19 trans and gender non-conforming beauty influencers redefining beauty standards

‘People Like Us’ photography project exploring AFAB trans and non-binary identities and gender euphoria by Holly Revell

More Adventures – a therapeutic resource to explore gender and talk about being trans

‘Do What You Want: a zine about mental wellbeing by Ruby Tandoh

Herbs for Mental Health

FutureMe – write a letter to your future self

Read this out loud – radical gratitude spell by adrienne maree brown

Misery Meets: Curriculum – resources and words of wisdom by QTIBPOC communities on grief, family, confidence, pleasure, addiction, sexual health, spirituality and more [Google Doc]

And one of my all time fave resources, Hell Yeah Self Care by Meg-John Barker [pdf]

Put a stressful thought in a star and watch it disappear – an interactive 60 second meditation

The Seven Types of Rest — It’s More Than Physical and Mental

Chill, distract and relax – resources from the Gendered Intelligence COVID-19 Hub

Free weekday zoom yoga – pranayama practice by @Nats Arm

Liberate – a meditation app for BPOC (recommendation for Seben Selassie) fund also available if you can’t afford the subscription

And eleven soothing podcasts to bring calm during self-isolation via The Independent

Trans memes –  subreddit 

Trans quality gifs – subreddit

Endless cute animal gifs!

Top 10 animal TikToks of 2019

18 hilarious stories that prove Twitter is pure gold

Hyperbole and a Half: This is why I’ll never be an adult, a comic

The Oatmeal Comics

A sketch by Elsa Majimbo (‘my brain when I’m sitting at the corner of a party peacefully drinking my juice’)

Allsorts of Thoughts – made by LGBT young people for LGBT young people at Allsorts Youth Project

Trans 20:20s – podcast series looking at life for young trans, non-binary and gender diverse people from across the UK and beyond, at the start of the 2020’s. By Juliet Jacques in partnership with Gendered Intelligence

Adventures in Time and Gender – a young non-binary person and a talking suitcase travel through time, space and Ikea in search of trans history

I’m Socially Distancing With…  LGBTQ+ adults to answer all the questions LGBTQ+ young people can throw at them over the internet. By The Kite Trust.

And 7 Black queer podcasts you should be listening to

Fireweed Collective – free webinars offering mental health education adn mutual aid htrough a healing justice lens

A list of free queer films by Leeds Queer Film Festival [Google Sheets]

LGBT Britain – free on BFI, this colourful and challenging collection explores screen representations of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender lives over the past century

BFI Flare – London LGBTQ Film Festival online streaming service, free for 14 days

Pose, series on BBC iPlayer (also on Netflix, majority trans cast/characters)

First Day, series on BBC iPlayer (trans main character)

Feel Good, series on All 4 (non-binary main character, content warning for drug addiction themes)

Tales of the City, series on Netflix (majority trans characters)

One Day at a Time, series on Netflix (non-binary character)