This piece is part of Rebel Well: a Starter Survival Guide to a Trumped America for Teens and Emerging Adults.
Resources offering direct services are marked with a *.
- *1 800-Runaway: www.1800runaway.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- ACLU: www.aclu.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Asian-Americans Advancing Justice: www.advancingjustice-aajc.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Black Lives Matter: www.blacklivesmatter.comexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Bend the Arc: www.bendthearc.usexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Council on American-Islamic Relations: www.cair.comexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Farmworker Justice: www.farmworkerjustice.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Friends Committee: www.afsc.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation: www.glaad.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Hindu American Foundation: www.hafsite.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- If/When/How: Lawyers for Reproductive Justice: www.ifwhenhow.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- IfNotNow (Jewish social justice organization): www.ifnotnowmovement.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Independent Living Research Utilization: www.ilru.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Lambda Legal: www.lambdalegal.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Latino Justice: www.latinojustice.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Leadership Conference: www.civilrights.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Muslim Alliance for Sexual and Gender Diversity www.muslimalliance.org/external link, opens in a new tab
- NAACP: www.naacp.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- NARAL Pro-Choice America: www.naral.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- National Black Justice Coalition: www.nbjc.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- National Center for Lesbian Rights: www.nclrights.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- National Disability Rights Network: www.ndrn.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- National Employment Law Program: www.nelp.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights: wexternal link, opens in a new tabww.nnirr.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- National Network of Abortion Funds: www.abortionfunds.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- National Women’s Law Center: www.nwlc.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- New Disabled South: www.newdisabledsouth.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Organized Communities Against Deportations: www.organizedcommunities.org/external link, opens in a new tab
- Planned Parenthood: www.plannedparenthood.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Red Umbrella Fund: www.redumbrellafund.org/external link, opens in a new tab
- Run for Something: www.runforsomething.netexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Sikhs for Justice: www.sikhsforjustice.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- *Scarleteen: www.scarleteen.com
- *Scarleteen Textline: (206) 866-2279 (text only)
- Southern Poverty Law Center: www.splcenter.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Transgender Law Center: www.transgenderlawcenter.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Unitarian Universalists: www.questformeaning.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- *Women on Web: www.womenonweb.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
- Zero Hour: www.thisiszerohour.orgexternal link, opens in a new tab
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)
- Herriot, Lindsay and Fry, Kate (eds.); Growing Up Trans (Orca Book Publishers, 2021)
- Abrego, Leisy and Negrón-Gonzales, Genevieve (eds.); We Are Not Dreamers (University of Chicago Press, 2020)
- Chung, Nicole and Gigney, Shannon (eds.); When We Become Ours (HarperTeen, 2023)
- Dionne, Evette; Lifting As We Climb (Penguin Random House, 2022)
- Hayes, Kelly and Kaba, Mariame; Let This Radicalize You (Haymarket Books; 2023)
- 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)
- Jensen, Kelly (ed.); Don’t Call Me Crazy: 33 Voices Start the Conversation About Mental
Health (Algonquin Young Readers, 2018) - Kendall, Mikki; Amazons, Abolitionists, and Activists: A Graphic History of Women’s Fight for Their Rights (Penguin Random House, 2015)
- Constanza-Chock, Sasha; Out of the Shadows, Into the Streets! (MIT Press, 2014)
- Locke, Katherine and Melleby, Nicole (eds.); Athlete is Agender (Christy Ottaviano Books, forthcoming 2025)
- 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)
- Wong, Alice (ed.); Disability Visibility: 17 First-Person Stories for Today (Adapted for Young Readers) (Algonquin Young Readers; 2021)
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