COMMUNITY BUILDING

• local libraries!!!

  • (PA residents can get a free library card through The Free Library of Philadelphia, which offers access to many amazing tools, including Mango Languages)

• check your local area for Time Banks to give and receive services

• community pantries

• mutual aid groups

• Women’s March has an ongoing workshop on implementing Feminist Mutual Aid in your community

• fix your shit with Repair Cafes

• CALL OR MESSAGE YOUR REPRESENTATIVES

• Braver Angels has a host of short classes dedicated to reducing polarization in politics, engaging with family members we disagree with, and more

• Volunteer with the American Bar Association as an Immigration Court Observer to help inform advocacy and help support due process rights

PHOTOGRAPHY

• Pat Kay’s photography for beginners series (Youtube)

• quickly cull photos with Photo Mechanic (paid software, not sponsored)

• Adobe Color Wheel

• Mike Butkus’s insane camera manual library

ADHD/TIME MANAGEMENT

• pomodoro timers (x time working, y time break)

  • I often just use my phone timer

  • focus friend by hank green is a cute app option

• free body doubling

• ADHD Coach Caren Magill has some useful videos on YouTube

• I’ve been enjoying Creative Pep Talk episodes about creative discipline, habit building, and getting things done as a neurodivergent artist

• Notion - taking notes, organizing info and projects

  • I turn off AI and all data sharing in settings

• Milanote - visual boards to organize projects. sign up for free for a limited number of cards

• Milanote referral link - if you sign up using this link, I get more space on the app. not paid, and NOT required - “Milanote” link above goes to the website home, no referral

HEALTHCARE

• access abortion pills in every state

• Trans Lifeline offers emotional and financial support to trans people in crisis

CRAFTING AND ZINES

• excellent resource list from bre’s tiny print shop

BOOK LIST

• Please consider utilizing your local library, borrowing a book from a friend, or supporting the authors directly.
  

• Decolonization/Politics

  • The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander

  • How To Be An Anti-Racist by Dr. Ibram X. Kendi

  • How Fascism Works by Jason Stanley

  • High Conflict by Amanda Ripley

  • Dear White Women by Misasha Suzuki Graham and Sara Blanchard

  • White Fragility by Dr. Robin Diangelo

  • Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the Next) by Dean Spade

• Additional Non-fiction

  • Atomic Habits by James Clear

  • Come As You Are by Dr. Emily Nagoski

  • Everything is Tuberculosis by John Green

  • Daring Greatly by Dr. Brené Brown

RESPECT YOUR MOTHER

• everyone should know the principles of Leave No Trace

• National Parks need bodies! Volunteer

• MIT article about the negative impacts of generative AI on the environment

SEASONAL WORK

• cool works - usa seasonal jobs

• world packers & workaway - international work for accommodation