Orcas

Live cam of Orcas swimming in the ocean* https://explore.org/livecams/orcas/orcalab-base.

*Thanks to Alexis Pauline Gumbs for this link and tip to watch live cams of animals in the wild as a rest and care practice.

Free community resources

Collective Being offers free and low-cost trauma-informed mindfulness, yoga and somatic programs both in-person and online.

Embodied care is a free online monthly course for allied health professionals and carers:

https://www.collectivebeing.org/events-1/embodiedcareonline

If you live in Victoria with chronic illness (e.g. POTS), mental illness (depression, complex PTSD) and/or disability (e.g. cerebral palsy, ASD, ADHD), you might be eligible for a travel access pass i.e. FREE MYKI TRAVEL on metro and regional public transport, and don’t have to touch on/off EVER AGAIN!!

This is link to info and form below. Need a passport photo and either GP or psychologist to sign the form.

This pass is not widely known about so please spread the word!

https://www.ptv.vic.gov.au/tickets/myki/concessions-and-free-travel/access-travel-pass/

Books I love that make me think!

All About Love - bell hooks

Hoodie Economics - Jack Manning Bancroft

Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Decolonizing Therapy - Jennifer Mullan

Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals - Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Story About Feeling - Bill Neidjie

The Body Country - Susie Anderson

Emergent Strategy - adrienne maree brown

Future Lutruwita - editors Richie Cyngler and Leigh Rigozzi

this is my body - editors Vina Vo and Odelia Younge

Rest is Resistance - Tricia Hersey

Kindred - Kirli Saunders

Parable of the Sower - Octavia Butler

The Future is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs - Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha

Magazines

Archer - https://archermagazine.com.au/

About Time Prison Newspaper - https://www.abouttime.org.au/

Research articles and projects

Protocols for non-Indigenous people working with Indigenous Knowledge - Indigenous Knowledge Systems Lab Deakin University - https://ikslab.deakin.edu.au/wp-content/uploads/sites/217/2024/09/IK-Protocols.docx

Websites to organizations and collectives that I think do awesome work! **

**I am sharing because I’ve used these services myself and had incredible experiences, or know amazing humans who work for them.

Rainbow Muse Collective - radically affirming and responsive therapeutic care - https://www.rainbowmuse.com.au/

AIME mentoring - creating systemic change through Indigenous wisdom, joy and imagination - https://www.aimementoring.com/timeline

Convo Australia - online Auslan interpreting service 24/7 - https://www.convoaustralia.com/

Q+Law - free legal aid for Queer folx - https://fls.org.au/sample-page/qlaw/

AusPath - Australian Professional Organisation for Trans Health - https://auspath.org.au/