Resources: Stay Curious!
We can all help prevent suicide. The Suicide Prevention Lifeline (1-800-273-8255 or 988; for TTY Users, use your preferred relay service or dial 711 then 1-800-273-8255) provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals.
You are not alone.
Rachel's Book List
Zach Anner: If at Birth You Don't Succeed: My Adventures with Disaster and Destiny
Marya Hornbacher: Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia and Madness: A Bipolar Life
Ellen Forney: Marbles: Mania, Depression, Michelangelo, and Me: A Graphic Memoir
Lindy West: Shrill: Notes from a Loud Woman
Virgie Tovar: You Have the Right to Remain Fat
Carrie Fisher: Wishful Drinking
Alice Wong (editor): Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories From the Twenty-First Century
Emily Ladau: Demystifying Disability
Esmé Weijun Wang: The Collected Schizophrenias
Fave Videos
I'm not your inspiration, thank you very much! (Stella Young)
5 Tips for Being an Ally (Chescaleigh)
Zach Anner and the Quest for the Rainbow Bagel (Cerebral Palsy Foundation)
Not Special Needs (CoorDown)
How sign language innovators are bringing music to the Deaf (Vox)
Kids Explain Intersectionality (Soyheat)
Friendos (Saturday Night Live)
How microaggressions are like mosquito bites (Fusion Comedy)
Organizations
The Harriet Tubman Collective
The Sentencing Project
Disability Visibility Project
Black Lives Matter