Hello! Thank you so much for having attended my workshop “Fight Like Hell and Live: Strategies for Surviving Suicidality and Supporting Friends in Crisis”
Please do be in touch:
Email me to continue our conversation, Ask for resources, or just connect! I love to hear from folks!!
Dreamsandzines@gmail.com
I would love to bring this workshop to another place near you, and am hoping to finish the lecture being a zine or small book in the next few months
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Local Resources I mentioned include:
Downpour: A Radical Mutual Support/Activist Community in Northampton MA
Every other week support meetings, workshops and activist planning coming soon- please like the Facebook page and let friends know to help get it running!
http://www.facebook.com/DownpourMutualSupport
The Hive in Brattleboro VT (our hosts!)
http://www.hivemutualsupport.net
Peer Respites:
Vermont- Alyssum:
http://www.alyssum.org
Massachusetts: Afiya
http://www.westernmassrlc.org/afiya
New Hampshire: Stepping Stone
http://www.steppingstonenextstep.org
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Some other resources on suicide you should check out:
My post below this one speaks to suicide of abuse victims
Hello Cruel World: 101 Alternatives to Suicide for Teens Freaks and Other Outlaws by Kate Bornstein (book)
Madness and Oppression Mad Map Guide by the Icarus Project
http://www.theicarusproject.net/article/updated-publication-ordering-and-downloads
Mapping Out Madness Zine for planning for difficult times:
http://freakoutcrazy.files.wordpress.com/2012/02/mappingmadness.pdf
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A few poems that speak to suicide:
Suicide Mary McDonahugh
Ariel by Sierra Demulder
The Nutritionist by Andrea Gibson
ADVICE FROM DIONYSUS
Shinji Moon
