Anti-Oppression: Anti-Oppression & Beloit College

Coping Strategies

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Resources for People of Color

• Coping with Race-Related Stress as a Student
• Surviving Institutions That Weren’t Created For You
• How to Deal with Racist People
• 6 Ways Women of Color Can Overcome Imposter Syndrome
• How to Cope with Perfectionism as a Black Student at a Mostly White Institution
• How Being the Only Black Student Taught Me What Internalized Racism Is Really About
• Not Alone: Talking Through Impostor Syndrome
• 9 Ways to Practice Self-Care When Dealing with Street Harassment
• 4 Reasons Black People Can Feel Responsible for White Feelings (And Why We’re Not)
• 3 Reasons We Cannot Cater to White Friends Who Say ‘I’m Not Racist’

LGBTQ Resources

• How to Deal with Transphobia
• 8 Tips for Coming Out as Non-Binary
• The Gender Playbook: A Guide to Figuring Out Your Non-Binary Identity

Mental & Physical Health Resources

• If you need to talk to someone...
• 4 Major Ways to Cope with Social Anxiety
• 3 Ways to Use Selfies to Make Peace with Your Mental Illness
• Emotional Support Dog Information

Islamic & Muslim Resources

• “I Wanted to Change My Name, Change My Identity": How Muslims in America cope with bigotry
• How can Muslims deal with Islamophobia?

Community Education & Support

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Resources for People of Color

• When Defending Your Writing Becomes Defending Yourself
• 4 Reasons ‘People of Color’ Isn’t Always the Best Choice of Words
• What’s Wrong With the Term ‘Person of Color’
• We are not "people of color"
• Why Racial Justice Work Needs to Address Settler Colonialism and Native Rights
• 3 Upsetting Examples of Anti-Native Racism in Pop Culture (And What To Do About It)
• Why Defending Your Cultural Appropriation is Dangerous
• Colorism in the Black Community: Perspectives on Light-Skinned Privilege
• The Woke Black Person’s Guide to Talking About Oppression with Family
• I Hate Cultural Appropriation – But Have I Appropriated African Cultures as a Black American?
• Your Guide On How to Support Black People After Incidents of Police Violence
• 5 Ways Latinxs Can Challenge Machismo in Our Families and Communities
• How Anti-Blackness Thrives in Latinx Communities (And What We Can Do About It)
• Negotiating the Hyphen in Asian-American
• Navigating Body Image in Asian American Communities Is No Easy Task – But Here Are 4 Places to Start
• 13 Struggles for Native People Beyond Mascots and Casinos
• A Love Letter to Two Spirit and Native LGBTQIA+ Survivors of Corrective Assault
• #Lemonade: A Black Feminist Resource List
• 5 Barriers Making It Harder to Get Mental Health Care If You’re Not White
• 10 Ways the Beauty Industry Tells You Being Beautiful Means Being White

LGBTQ Resources

• 5 ways Trans People Can Support Other Trans People
• 5 Totally Normal Questions Transgender People May Be Afraid to Ask, Answered
• On Non-Binary Issues: Conversations Inside vs. Outside the Trans Community
• The Conversations Project
• Telling Trans Stories Beyond "Born in the Wrong Body"
• These 5 Myths Might Be Holding You Back From Non-Binary Transition
• Laverne Cox Challenges Passing Privilege and Lifts Up Trans Beauty
• 3 Reasons Why Folks Who Don’t ‘Look’ Non-Binary Can Still Be Non-Binary​

Mental & Physical Health Resources

• 5 Examples of How Privilege Lists Often Ignore the Intersection of Dis/Ability
• Stop the Stigma: The Realities of Mental Health
• These Haunting Posters Break the Silence on Disabled Women with Abusive Partners
• 3 Ways You Might Be Marginalizing Disabled Asexual People (And What to Do About It)
• How Hearing Aids Changed My Life at the Age of 27
• 10 Harmful Myths About People with Bipolar Disorder

Islamic & Muslim Resources

• I Am a Muslim Woman and This Is What Life With a Hijab is Really Like
• Why the Idea That Islam Promotes Intolerance of the LGBTQIA+ Community Is a Lie
• Growing Up Brown: Desexualized and Hyper-sexualized
• What Society’s Violent Hypermasculinity Meant for Me as a Muslim Boy in the US

Local & National Support Organizations

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Resources for People of Color

• Southern Poverty Law Center
• Black Lives Matter
• American Indian Business Leaders
• Asian-American Resource Workshop
• Asian American Civic Association

LGBTQ Resources

• FORGE
• National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE)
• Trans Women of Color Collective (TWOCC)
• Trans Latina Coalition

Mental & Physical Health Resources

• ACB (American Council of the Blind)
• Disability Rights Advocates
• Partners For Youth With Disabilities
• Mental Health America

Islamic & Muslim Resources

• Muslim Students' Association National
• Islamic Society of North America
• Islamic Circle of North America
• Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR)