Resources

Post Hurricane Melissa Support

Find a group, a practice, a person, a space that can help through this moment.

MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT

Betterhelp is offering 3 months of free therapy to survivors of Hurricane Melissa. Use the code hurricane-melissa-support to access.

The Collective Ase — Community care and wellness space that offers grief circles.

Inclusive Therapists offers free sessions and other forms of mutual aid.

Jamaica Psychological Society’s social media page - tips for regulation and post-disaster support.

QUEER MUTUAL AID

Queertego’s Relief form (for affected LGBTQ people in western Jamaica).

Transwave’s Relief form (for affected nonbinary/trans/gender nonconforming people).

WE-Change’s relief form(for affected LBTQ people).

Learn More About [Queer] Grief

Readings, tools, practices and resources shared in VC grief circles. Continuously updated.

WRITING

Article  about embracing grief with Burkinabe grief practices as a point of reference.

Article about the the complexity of grief for queer people.

Journal issue about the intersecting perspectives of queer lives, desires, death and and queer grief studies.

Reptilian retrospective, rituals and reflections into black queer grief.

PODCASTS

Episode 003: Alchemizing Grief - Life, Death & Everything In Between podcast from Death Café Trinidad & Tobago.

We Need Queer Specific Grief Spaces — Grief Out Loud

PRACTICES

Yoga practice to move through stillness. This is tailored for winter in the northern hemisphere, a period often oriented towards slowness and grief.

Box breathing technique for anxiety.

25 min. yoga practice for grief support.

Playlist of somatic practices for grief curated by Camille Sapara Barton for the Global Diversity Foundation.