EXTERNAL RESOURCES

Resources We Recommend

These are resources we’re either affiliated with or recommend.

We’ll always be 100% transparent about our relationship with these businesses and honest in our opinions.

(Aka no-one has paid us to be nice!)

Join Voda

Voda is a LGBTQIA+ mental wellness app designed with leading queer psychotherapists, derived from mindfulness and CBT.

Voda is designed to help people manage their mental health and overcome stigma and shame that society gives us as queer people.

Although no substitute for proper intensive therapy, it’s a MUCH cheaper and more accessible option.

We’re currently employed by Voda on a freelance basis to create content, however we both do genuinely believe in the app and love the team behind it.

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Trans Pride Manchester

Like London Trans Pride but for Manchester!

We’ve seen conventional Manchester pride move from a statement of equal rights to a commercialised money-making event. I mean the fact that it even calls itself a ‘festival’ is absolutely insane.

Trans Pride Manchester is a grassroots organisation to make trans people the focus of our equality efforts again.

Arlo and I are co-organisers of Trans Pride Manchester.

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Quircle

Quircle is a FREE online queer healing circle run by Max (they/them) which creates space and time to reflect on your self, your life, and find opportunities for growth.

“I find meditation, mindfulness, and gratitude really difficult but Max provides prompts and makes the process feel a lot easier. I didn’t realise how transformative guided meditation and sharing can be when you're in a safe space with likeminded queer people.” - Rosie

We have no affiliation with Max but Rosie attends Quircle whenever she can.

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The Queer Mental Health Workbook

I cannot understate how much this book has changed my life and the way I view myself, my mental health, and coping strategies. It is a fantastic resource to understand your emotions and behaviour, make change, but most of all treat yourself with more compassion.

Brendan (he/him) is incredibly nuanced in his explorations of each topic and allows room for people with hugely different experiences to use the workbook, from workplace discrimination to self harm, there really is a topic for literally everything. Though it’s a workbook I chose not to fill out the exercises and the book’s versatility allows for that.

We have no connection to this book nor the author, I just think it’s bloody fantastic.

-Rosie

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