If you find yourself experiencing homelessness or housing instability, it can feel isolating, like you’re facing hard things alone without support: without family. But you can create your own family.
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Articles and Advice in this area:
- Adam England
Being caught between more than one world can be a struggle, so here’s what to try.
- Andy Izenson
The SCOTUS decision in n U.S. v. Skrmetti was bad and soul-crushing, but it doesn’t mean that you or trans youth as a whole won’t have a future. We always have, we always will, and we don’t need the government to have one, either, because we have each other.
- Sassafras Patterdale
LGBTQ+ people experience homelessness at higher rates not because there is something wrong with us or with being LGBTQ+, but because of homophobia, transphobia and other kinds of bias and bigotry.
- Sassafras Patterdale
In survival mode, the idea of true safety can sometimes feel unobtainable. Safety can feel like a privilege that you can’t access at all, or can only have in parts.
- Heather Corinna
I love my mom, I hate the way she talks about queer people like me, and I feel guilty for not saying something about it.
- Hans Lindahl
“How do I enjoy sex?” is hardly a question that’s unique to intersex people, but some of the answers to that question are different than they might be for people who aren’t intersex.
- Heather Corinna
- Jacob Mirzaian
Please vote for Scarleteen at Project for Awesome, from February 11th to February 19th, to help us have a shot at some much-needed funding!
- Sassafras Patterdale
Everyone’s situation of being kicked out is going to be different, but here are ten things for anyone to do to help prepare yourself if you think or know you’re going to get kicked out.
- the Scarleteam
Kate Adamo is a sex worker who heads up the policy and advocacy work at Reframe Health & Justice consulting, which supports organizations and movements engaging in “practices of care, compassion, and collaboration,” all through a harm reduction framework. Kate shared her thoughts on the necessity of sex workers and their perspective as we fight for reproductive autonomy, and the internalized sex phobia that progressive spaces still need to get rid of.