Rebel Well: Resources
This piece is part of Rebel Well: a Starter Survival Guide to a Trumped America for Teens and Emerging Adults.
- 1 800-Runaway: www.1800runaway.org
- ACLU: www.aclu.org
- Anti-Defamation League: www.adl.org
- Asian-Americans Advancing Justice: www.advancingjustice-aajc.org
- Black Lives Matter: www.blacklivesmatter.com
- Bend the Arc: hwww.bendthearc.us
- Council on American-Islamic Relations: www.cair.com
- Fair Immigration Reform Movement: www.fairimmigration.org
- Friends Committee: www.afsc.org
- Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation: www.glaad.org
- Hindu American Foundation: www.hafsite.org
- Immigrant Youth Justice League: www.iyjl.org
- Independent Living Research Utilization: www.ilru.org
- Lambda Legal: www.lambdalegal.org
- Latino Justice: www.latinojustice.org
- Leadership Conference: www.civilrights.org
- Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity www.muslimalliance.org/
- NAACP: www.naacp.org
- NARAL Pro-Choice America: www.naral.org
- National Black Justice Coalition: www.nbjc.org
- National Disability Rights Network: www.ndrn.org
- National Immigration Project: www.nationalimmigrationproject.org
- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights: www.nnirr.org
- National Network of Abortion Funds: www.abortionfunds.org
- Planned Parenthood: www.plannedparenthood.org
- RAD Remedy: www.radremedy.org
- Sikhs for Justice: www.sikhsforjustice.org
- Scarleteen: www.scarleteen.com
- Scarleteen Textline: (206) 866-2279 (text only)
- Southern Poverty Law Center: www.splcenter.org
- Standing on the Side of Love: standingonthesideoflove.org
- Transgender Law Center: www.transgenderlawcenter.org
- Unitarian Universalists: questformeaning.org/clfuu/#
- Women on Web: www.womenonweb.org
SOME BOOKS FOR YOUNG ACTIVISTS
- Halpin, Mikki; It’s Your World — If You Don’t Like It, Change It: Activism for Teenagers (Simon Pulse; 2004)
- Herman, Edward S., Chomsky, Noam; Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Pantheon; 2002)
- Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne; An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (Beacon Press; 2015)
- Charlton, James; Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment (University of California Press, 2000)
- Kuklin, Susan, Ed.; Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out (Candlewick, 2014)
- Jenkins, Henry, Shresthova, Sangita, Gamber-Thompson, Liana, Kligler-Vilenchik, Neta and Zimmerman, Arely; By Any Media Necessary: The New Youth Activism (NYU Press, 2016)
- Constanza-Chock, Sasha; Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! (MIT Press, 2014)
- Moraga, Cherríe and Anzaldúa, Gloria, This Bridge Called My Back, Fourth Edition: Writings by Radical Women of Color (State University of New York Press; 2015)
- Solnit, Rebecca; Hope in the Dark (Haymarket Books, Updated Edition, 2016)
all of rebel well: front page • why we made this guide • for everyone • healthcare • relationships & sex • conflict resolution • for those suffering harassment online, at school or at work • for those in abusive/controlling relationships, or who are homeless, transient or in the foster system • for those who are trans or LGBQ • for those who are of color • for those who experience religious intolerance or who are undocumented citizens • for those who are disabled • for those interacting with the justice system • for those engaging in active protest • when everything seems terrible or nowhere feels safe • how to help each other & improve this godawful mess • resources and helplines