Page created: May 2020
Last updated: August 2020
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Here you'll find a whole host of resources and guidance (and some things to do to fight the boredom that can go hand-in-hand with self-isolation), split by category. We hope it's of some help to you.

Trans-specific and LGBTQ+ resources

Name	Organisation	Description	Link
Community organisations transitioning to online support	Gendered Intelligence	Other LGBTQ+ orgs that are moving services online	🔗Link here
Quarantine strategies in non-accepting environments	them.	With input from queer therapists and experts	🔗Link here
Monthly Online Therapeutic Support Group	Narratives of Us	A friendly, open, drop-in therapeutic support group, which hopes to run monthly, online for 1.5 hours, for trans non-binary and gender expansive folk anywhere in the world, aged 18+	🔗Link here
Trans resources in the capital	Voices4 London	Including emergency funds and mutual aid links	🔗Link here
Trans resilience in isolation	Galop	Guide with ideas around maintaining wellbeing during social distancing, isolation and quarantine	🔗Link here

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Partying (at a distance!)

Name	When	Description	Link
Queer House Party	Every Friday night - 9pm-1am	Does exactly what it says on the tin. 18+ space. We spoke about it here	🔗Link here

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Self-care

Name	Organisation	Description	Link
Why you should ignore all that coronavirus-inspired productivity	Chronicle.com	Article	🔗Link here
Together, Apart	Consent Collective	Learning from the sexual violence sector on surviving isolation	🔗Link here
Reframing COVID-19	Eco Green Love	Don’t be put off by the name – this illustration is quite powerful	🔗Link here
Hell Yeah self care zine	MJ Barker	A great resource at any time, particularly useful now	🔗Link here
Winter Support Hub	Sabah Choudrey	A cosy winter support hub, with crisis links, gender dysphoria first aid and trans memes. Built with queer, trans, people of colour youth in mind	🔗Link here

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Help for You

Group name	What they do	How they can help	Link
Bloody Good Period	Sanitation/menstruation support	Supply menstruation products to people who cannot access them elsewhere	🔗Link here
COVID mutual aid	List of all locally organised mutual aid groups in the UK	If you are quarantined or self isolating and need food or medicine or someone to talk to your local group can help - this website will help you find your local group	🔗Link here
DOTS	Homelessness support	if you are homeless they can supply food, are running hand cleaning stations, as well provideing vetinary care and dog food for your dog	🔗Link here
FTM London	Advice/support for transmasculine people in London	Monthly, online support meetings	🔗Link here
Galop	LGBT anti-violence service - hate crime, domestic abuse, intimate person violence, sexual violence	can help you if you are experiencing violence and want advice or support	🔗Link here
Gendered Intelligence	Trans youth work	hosting digital youth groups for young trans people	🔗Link here
Homerton Hub	Emotional support	can help you find emotional support in your area	🔗Link here
JoinGroupChat	Mutual aid / community support	Connect people through WhatsApp group chat, mutual aid in your local community	🔗Link here
Learnest	digital mentoring for LGBT people	The Learnest team are currently delivering FREE online mentoring sessions to LGBT+ people.They will prioritise those in quarantine due to vulnerabilities to COVID-19., including advice for neurodiverse people who rely on daily routines to help keep stable and well!	🔗Link here
LGBT Switchboard	listening service run by LGBT+ people	Emotional support if you need to speak to someone confidentially	🔗Link here
Maytree	Emotional support	there to listen if you need emotional support	🔗Link here
Mind	Mental health support	Mind have a section of their webpage specifically on wellbeing during COVID-19	🔗Link here
Mutual Aid	organising group offering mutual aid	fun activities, community, linking you up with people in your area who can help with tasks or who need help with tasks	🔗Link here
Portal Bookshop	Voices4 London	Will send trans youth who are struggling being in unaccepting families a copy of Trans Teens Survival Guide for free	🔗Link here
Renters' union	Renters' rights group	Many of us are going to end up on reduced hours or losing jobs, which can make paying rent difficult and put our homes at risk. This union will help you fight for your rights if the worse does happen	Please search for your local group online
Samaritans	Emotional support	there to listen if you need emotional support	🔗Link here
Stonewall Housing	Housing advice and support	Advice and guidance around homelessness and domestic violence for LGBTQ People	🔗Link here
Streets Kitchen	Homelessness support	Grassroots group working to help the homeless community, providing daily outreaches with food, clothing and information that benefits our streets.	🔗Link here
Trussell Trust	Food bank	Find the nearest food bank to you	🔗Link here
Worker support group	A Facebook group to support and organise workers during the epidemic	advice, emotional support, organising community actions	🔗Link here

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Helping others

Activity	Description	Link
Delivering resources - to at risk people	Here is how to deliver items to people in a way that reduces the risk of also passing on the virus	🔗Link here
Delivering resources - to infected people	Here is how to deliver items to people in a way that reduces the risk of catching the virus	🔗Link here
Disinfecting	If you plan to give tinned food, toiletries or any physical object to someone who is at risk you will need to disinfect it. Here is how to	🔗Link here
Leafleting	If you plan to give out leaflets letting neighbours know we are here to help its important to do this in a way that reduces the risk of infection from leaflets	🔗Link here
Prescription Collection	How to pick up and deliver prescriptions to at risk or ill people	🔗Link here
Protocol	Principles and assumptions for doing support actions during an epidemic	🔗Link here
Protocol	Policy for doing support actions during an epidemic	🔗Link here
Running a zoom meeting	Not all mutual aid is about giving physical things to people. Isolation and loneliness is a big issue too. Running social drop ins, skill sharing and playing games together is important for everyones mental wellbeing. A zoom group is an easy way to have group meetings	🔗Link here

Giving to others

A list of organisations you can support through donations and volunteering.

Who	What	Why	What do they need	Where
Bloody Good Period	Sanitation support	Supply sanitary products to people who cannot access them elsewhere	Donations	🔗Link here
Covid Mutual Aid	List of all locally organised mutual aid groups in the UK	It is important to look out for others in our communities through self organising	Volunteers	🔗Link here
Covid19 Hardship Fund for marginalised LGBTQIA+ folks – London Bi Pandas	Hardship fund for marginalised LGBTQIA+ folks	In this global pandemic, Covid19 is going to disproportionately impact marginalise LGBTQIA+ people in particular.	Donations	🔗Link here
DOTS	Homelessness support	Most homeless shetlers will not take dogs so homeless people with dogs often have no way off the streets leaving them vulnerable to an epidemic. DOTS are running hand cleaning stations for homeless people and giving them food, as well providing vetinary care and dog food for homeless people with dogs.	Donations	🔗DOTS Twitter 🔗DOTS website
Gendered Intelligence	Support to trans young people and their families	The 1000s of young trans and gender diverse people Gendered Intelligence works to provide solace and solidarity for are now stuck at home without access to our in-person youth groups. For many of them, home is the tricky place, with no support.	Donations	🔗Link here
London LGBTIQ+ COVID19 Mutual Aid	Organising group offering mutual aid	Find out who is in need of assistance in your local area	Volunteers	🔗Link here
Made in Hackney	Free food for communities	Made in Hackney is a group that makes sure people in Hackney have access to healthy, affordable food that’s good for people and planet. They have closed their kitchens and will be delivering food and supplies to people in need.	Donations and potentially food	🔗Link here
The Outside Project	Homelessness and LGBT community support	1 in 4 homeless people are LGBT in England, yet there is only one LGBT homeless shetler in the UK: the outside project in London. They are running online community drop ins and actvities. As well as providing beds/rooms, food and sanitary products to LGBT homeless people in London	Donations - money	🔗Link here
Rent Strike 2020	Renters rights group	Many of us are going to end up on reduced hours or losing jobs. While the PM is giving landlords breaks on paying their mortgages we are still supposed to pay our rent. This isnt fair and will leave people at risk of homelessness we need to fight for fairness and equality for the working classes as we are being exploited by landlords	Sign petition	🔗Link here
Renters union	Renters rights group	Many of us are going to end up on reduced hours or losing jobs, which can make paying rent difficult and put our homes at risk. This union will help you fight for your rights if the worse does happen.	Members	🔗London Renters Union Twitter 🔗London Renters Union website
Street Kitchen	Homelessness and Free food for communities	Grassroots group working to help the homeless community, providing daily outreaches with food, clothing and information that benefits our streets. Need volunteers and supplies	Donations	🔗Streets Kitchen Twitter 🔗Streets Kitchen website
Trans Grocery Fund	Fund for trans & non-binary people living around Glasgow. This fund is crowd-sourced, for redistribution to trans people who are struggling due to coronavirus/work instability	In response to the coronavirus outbreak leading to work instability, Small Trans Library Glasgow has created a small groceries & supplies fund for trans people in Scotland who are out of work or struggling	Donations	🔗Link here
UK QTIBIPOC Emergency Relief & Hardship Fund	Short term support to Queer, Trans and Intersex, Black, Indigenous, People of Color (QTIBIPOC) currently living in the UK who are affected by the outbreak and ongoing shutdown caused by Covid-19.	“For many in our communities, COVID-19 is only making worse what it already means to live as queer people of colour in Britain.” “COVID-19, and the attendant lockdowns and policies, will disproportionately impact Black women, our elders, immigrants, refugees and people of colour in ways we all know too well already.-- UK Black Pride	Donations	🔗Link here

Emotional support

Group name	What they do	How they can help	Link
Homerton Hub	Emotional support	They can help you find emotional support in your area	🔗Link here
Maytree Emotional support	Emotional support	They are there to listen if you need emotional support	🔗Link here
Mind	Mental Health Support	Mind have a section of their webpage specifically on wellbeing during COVID-19	🔗Link here
Samaritans	Emotional support	They are there to listen if you need emotional support	🔗Link here

Chill, distract, relax

This will have resources put in for people to enjoy and/or distract themselves as this is still important!

Activity	Type	Link
How to bake bread in a slow cooker on a budget	Cooking	🔗Link here
How to pickle vegetables	Cooking	🔗Link here
Free art lessons	Craft	🔗Link here
Learn to knit	Craft	🔗Link here
Zine making tutorials	Craft	🔗Link here
Black trans archive	Culture	🔗Link here
Concerts - Berliner Philharmoniker digital concert hall is streaming concerts, orchestras and operas for free	Culture	🔗Link here
Digital Soane Museum - virtual museum tour	Culture	🔗Link here
Digital Transgender Archives - look via the map for amazing free digital materials of trans + GNC material	Culture	🔗Link here
Free queer films online	Culture	🔗Link here
Magnum Photos Archive, including articles	Culture	🔗Link here
Online Art Events	Culture	🔗Link here
Opera - Metropolitan Opera House is streaming for free an opera each evening	Culture	🔗Link here
Portal to materials / articles on black history	Culture	🔗Link here
Wellcome Library Digital Collections	Culture	🔗Link here
New York Public Libraries Digital Collection - including Pride photos	Culture / Reading	🔗Link here
Queer Zine Archive Project - digitised queer zines to read online!	Culture / Reading	🔗Link here
POC Zine Project - free digitised zines by POC	Culture / Reading	🔗Link here
Free D&D workshops	Gaming	🔗Link here
Make your own Games with Twine. Free program. Also has rich queer history (see Porpentine's twine games)	Gaming	🔗Link here
High Intensity Interval Workout in Drag (you don't have to be in drag if you don't want to but the instructor is)	Health	🔗Link here
Live Kickboxing Group Lessons	Health	🔗Link here
The Soule Collective Free online yoga and meditation	Health	🔗Link here
Cambridge Core have made 700 of higher education textbooks in HTML format free to access online during the coronavirus outbreak.	Learning	🔗Link here
Free online college/uni courses	Learning	🔗Link here
Learn how to code for website creation	Learning	🔗Link here
Skillshare Classes	Learning	🔗Link here
Head space - covid specific mental wellbeing	Mental Wellbeing	🔗Link here
A list of webcams you can access to watch cute animals if you are feeling like you want to see something other than your flat walls	Mental Wellbeing	🔗Link here
Online laughter clubs	Mental Wellbeing	🔗Link here
Free audiobooks from Audible	Reading	🔗Link here
Free ebooks + e-audiobooks from your public library. In the UK they will use Borrowbox, Overdrive or Libby. If you have an existing library account you can sign in with these details on the apps and see what they have available. If you don't have a membership, a lot will take sign-up online. You can then read books and listen to audiobooks in-app (unfortunately, not on Kindles that aren't also tablets)	Reading	🔗Link here 🔗Link here 🔗Link here
Free ebooks from Haymarket books	Reading	🔗Link here
Free ebooks from Verso	Reading	🔗Link here
LibraryThing - now free	Reading	🔗Link here
Scribd - free one month trail	Reading	🔗Link here

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Useful Resources

Name	Type	Information	Link
Freelance resource lists	Resources	List of resources and where to go for help for people working in the freelance industry	🔗Link here
Inclusivity – Support BAME Trans People	Resources	This guide on inclusive practices & guidance is particularly relevant now that the pandemic is exposing injustices more than ever.	🔗Link here
NANHA Resources for the Elderly and Families	Resources	A list of covid-19 resources for children, young people and elderly from the National Association of Nursing Home Attorneys.	🔗Link here
Which Free Resources	Resources	News and advice on COVID-19, from protecting yourself and your loved ones to the financial support on offer and how to shop safely	🔗Link here

Reliable Information

Name	Information type	Link
BBC Reality Check	Evaluates and debunks common misinformation	🔗Link here
Corona Virus Information Center	Information on corona virus	🔗Link here
Corona Virus Simulator - Washington Post	Information on how to slow the spread of covid19 and how this will save lives	🔗Link here
Corona Virus Tech Handbook	Collating resources for support and information	🔗Link here
Covid19 International Media Brief	Global perspective of media portrayal of epidemic	🔗Link here
Doctors without borders	Latest updates on global situation	🔗Link here
Full Fact	Evaluates and debunks common misinformation	🔗Link here
University of Leeds COVID19 tracking	Graph showing daily updates of cases in UK and outcomes	🔗Link here
World Health Organisation	Information, research, guidance, news	🔗Health Topics 🔗Advice for public

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Staying in touch

Our youth groups here at Gendered Intelligence are moving online - see our page here for more information.

Our support line is still running as normal!

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