crisis
SUICIDE/CRISIS HOTLINES:
Chat online:
- IMAlive, an online crisis network
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline Online Chat
Texting:
Talking on the Phone:
- Trans Lifeline, a suicide/crisis hotline specifically for trans people
- National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
ABUSE-SPECIFIC HOTLINES:
- The National Domestic Violence Hotline
- The Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline
- Love Is Respect domestic violence chat/phone/textlines
- The National Sexual Assault Online Hotline
SELF-HELP:
- Everything Is Awful And I'm Not Okay: Questions To Ask Before Giving Up
- Stress Analyst / Panic Attack Walkthrough
- Do Nothing For 2 Minutes
- Ten Ways To Untwist Your Thinking
- Assorted mental health resources
- Twitter thread of mental health resources.
- Coping with distressing events in the news
- Tips to look after your mental health during scary world events.
MORE LONG-TERM SOLUTIONS:
trans stuff
PRACTICAL/LEGAL:
- Find out how to get a legal name change where you live and update your name/gender on state and federal IDs and records.
- An online database of trans-positive legal resources for people living in the United States.
- Comfortable relatively-affordable chest binders.
- Trans crisis hotline.
- Trans-friendly health help; only in a few US cities.
- Money and resources for trans people.
- Trans road map; various trans guides, resources, etc-- kind of old and outdated in places, but still useful.
- The Okra Project provides food and resources for Black trans people.
- Black And Pink, an organization dedicated to assisting incarcerated and formerly-incarcerated members of the LGBT+ community.
- Community funding for trans-led groups.
INTERESTING/COOL:
- The Then and There of Transmasculine Pregnancy
- Expensive but pretty custom binders
- To Survive On This Shore - Photographs and Interviews with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Older Adults
- The Digital Transgender Archive, an archive dedicated to trans history.
- The US National Trans Survey.
- Svara, an organization dedicated to creating a space for queer & trans people to study and engage with Judaism, Jewish culture, and Talmud study.
- The Transfeminine Review, a blog dedicated to documenting and discussing transfeminine literature.
internet
WEBMASTERY:
- A collection of thousands of 88x31 buttons.
- Nearly Free Speech, a provider of reasonably cheap web hosting.
- Rarebit, a template for hosting webcomics on Neocities.
- JS Fiddle, a site for experimenting with code.
- How to put a GIF animation toggle button on your website.
- How to put a theme switcher button on your website.
- Sadgrl's snippet for how to make draggable elements on your website.
- Sadgrl's image gallery snippet.
- List of webrings.
- A privacy-friendly Google Fonts alternative.
- Webri.ng, a platform for creating and managing webrings.
- Atabook, a guestbook service.
- CSSwarp, an online tool for easily making shaped text using CSS & SVGs.
- 32-Bit Cafe's Resources List
- Clippy - CSS clip-path maker, a handy tool for making shapes in CSS.
- HTML Hobbyist, resources and tutorials for getting into HTML and CSS.
- Accessible Colors, a tool for finding color combinations that pass WCAG contrast standards.
THINGS TO USE:
- Wormhole, which lets you securely send files directly to another person.
- Status.cafe, a tiny social media site.
- Bearblog, a blog hosting site.
- Notepin, a blogging service.
- Miraheze, a wiki host.
- Catbox, a free file host.
- Filegarden, another free file host.
- Everest Pipkin's image scrubbing utility, for removing identifying metadata from image files.
- Micro.blog
- Write.as
- Animatiss, a collection of CSS animations.
SURFING & SEARCHING:
- The Internet Archive.
- Another internet archive.
- The Archive Stumbler, for randomly exploring the internet archive.
- 1337x.to is a torrent searching site. I sure hope there's nothing illegal on there!
- Marginalia Search, a search engine that focuses on non-commercial content.
- VHSearch, a neocities search engine (powered by Google).
- Sortition Social, a community RSS feed.
- Anime scene search engine - plug in an anime screenshot and it'll tell you what anime it's from.
- Kagi, an ad-free search engine.
- Ooh.directory, a blog directory.
- Indieseek, an indieweb directory.
- Href.cool,
- Href Hunt
- Curlie
- Smooth Sailing
- Bukmark.club
- A Website Is A Room
- Dead Simple Sites
IMPROVE YOUR ONLINE EXPERIENCE:
- Surveillance Self-Defense, a website where you can learn about digital privacy.
- Check if your email address is in a data breach.
- A tutorial on how to create a saved Ao3 search filter.
- Breezewiki, a site (and extension) that simplifies fandom.com wiki pages by removing ads and nonsense for you.
- Indie Wiki Buddy, which will let you know if a fandom.com wiki has an indie alternative and give you a link to that.
- Unpaywall, an extension that will find Open Access versions of academic work for you (if they exist).
- DeArrow, a browser extension that replaces clickbait thumbnails and video titles on Youtube with clear non-clickbait alternatives.
- Unhook, another browser extension for improving Youtube; block comment sections, recommended videos, and shorts, among other things.
- SponsorBlock, a third browser extension for improving Youtube; other users mark ad reads and patreon/merch promo and the extension skips them automatically.
- Ad Nauseam, an alternative to adblockers that clicks on every ad to confuse trackers.
reading & learning
EDUCATION:
- "Is The Post Reliable?", a tumblr blog dedicated to fact-checking Tumblr posts.
- Quote Investigator, a blog that investigates the actual origins and context of famous quotes.
- The University of Chicago Press's monthly free ebook.
- Open Book Publishers, which publishes research and academic writing for free.
- How to register for a free non-student JSTOR account to get access to academic research.
- Pew Research. They do research.
- LGBTQ Archives, an archive dedicated to LGBTQ+ history. Check out their list of other archives and resources!
- Ref Seek, a search engine for finding academic work.
- The Anarchist Library, a digital library of anarchist writing.
- GLAAD's research on the LGBTQ+ community, including their yearly "where we are on TV" report.
- Belling The Cat, an investigative research organization.
- Bioline International, a publishing coop that provides open access to research journals published in developing countries.
- Refdesk, a general-purpose reference site with factchecking, news, and useful links.
- Open Stax, free online textbooks.
ENRICHMENT:
- LGBTQ Reads, a blog/database with lists of books that have LGBT+ characters in them.
- Anna's Archive (annas-archive.org) is a website that has almost every book for free download. I hope there's nothing illegal on there!
- Project Gutenberg, which has public domain ebooks.
- Standard ebooks, a project that formats public domain ebooks so that they look good and work properly.
- Storygraph, a goodreads alternative.
- Papercut Zine Library.
- Queer Zine Archive Project.
- Sherwood Forest Zine Library.
- Diverse Book Finder, a comprehensive collection of children’s and young adult books featuring Black and Indigenous Peoples and People of Color (BIPOC).
plants & pollinators
- Guide to sowing plants in winter, with pictures.
- A searchable wildflower database.
- How to help fireflies.
- Lists of native plants for pollinators, sorted by region. US-specific, but has links to resources for some other countries.
- A searchable plant database, great for plant identification.
- A tumblr post about ways to help biodiversity besides planting plants.
- A database of caterpillar host plants.
- Information on gardening with native plants.
- Free Heirloom Seeds. What it says on the tin.
- Alliance of Native Seedkeepers, a source for buying seeds from Indigenous seedkeepers.
- Truelove Seeds, another source for buying seeds from Indigenous seedkeepers.
- National Wildlife Foundation's list of keystone plants, sorted by ecoregion.
- The NatureDB, a database for helping to identify plants and animals and such.
- iNaturalist, a platform for plant & animal identification. Has an app.
arts & crafts
- Seamless texture checker. Tiles an image for you so you can check to see if it looks weird.
- Electric Zine Maker on itch.
- Aggie.io, a collaborative art tool.
- Ditherify images.
- Turn images into vectors.
- Information on how to glue things to other things.
- Narrat, a tool for writing narrative games.
- Free sewing patterns and information.
- Free vintage sewing patterns.
- Don't Go To Art School; a list of resources for learning how to do art.
- Free Music Archive.
- Loyalty Freak Music; free public domain music.
- Internet Archive Book Images, a flickr account of public domain images from books uploaded by the Internet Archive.
- The British Library's flickr, also full of public domain images from books.
- The Smithsonian's open access art collection.
- The Met's open access art collection.
- Austrian National Library, which has a lot of public domain resources and art.
- A list of open image collections.
- Rawpixel's collection of public domain images.
- French National Library, which has a lot of public domain resources and art.
- The Cleveland Museum of Art's open access collection.
- The New York Public Library's open access collections.
- Open Game Art, a site for free to use game assets.
- Unsplash, a site for free stock photos.
- Bookbinding 101.
- The Toymaker, a site with foldable paper toys you can print out and make.
- Antique Pattern Library.
- The BBC's sound effects library.
- Lospec's palette list. Great for finding color schemes.
- The Iconolog, a collection of vintage icons.
- Javascript Kidpix
misc
- 5etools. Tools for playing D&D fifth edition.
- A searchable & sortable database of games from several massive itch.io charity bundles.
- A tool for auto-claiming games from massive itch.io charity bundles.
- Natural Resources Job Board. US-only.
- Coolworks, a job board for outdoorsy jobs in interesting places. US-only.
- Otherness Archive, a digital archive dedicated to queer films.
- Black Film Archive, a digital archive dedicated to Black cinema.
- Solidarity Cinema, a free library of leftist film.
- Rare Filmm, a catalog of rare and unusual films.
- Cinema of the World, an archive of films of all kinds from around the world.
- Onelook Thesaurus. A pretty good thesaurus.
- A listicle of nine places to volunteer online.
- The People's CDC - A CDC watchdog and public health advocacy and health justice group.
- Game Dev Galaxy, a community for marginalized game developers.
- Domino 2, a thought-collaging note-taking tool.
- Recipe Search