Equity-deserving Gender, Body, Kinship, and Sexuality lived experience communities deserve to live free from harm, yet many of us with these lived experiences are targets of physical, structural, and other forms of violence on a daily basis.
I fully understand the deep and profound impact that encountering distressing news and increasingly relentless violations of our human rights can have on our lives, our identities, our relationships, our communities, and the very essence of our existence.
In these trying times, QLife and Rainbow Door are offering free online and phone compassionate LGBTQIA+ peer support services every single day of the week. I encourage you to reach out to these lived experience-led services in the days ahead if and when you need a reminder that you’re not alone.
Many of us know that telling marginalised people to “do self-care” can be isolating, oppressive, and neglectful unless it is also paired with options for community care and actions for systemic change. So if it feels right to you, take precious time for self-care, and if it doesn’t, I hope you have some supportive connections to counteract the harmful ways you’ve been treated.
Remember there are other people who want to come together in solidarity to create pockets of resistance, accountable solidarity, and peer support where you and your experiences are taken seriously.
Support for GBKS Communities by Rae Sabine
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