Welcome to Miscellaneous, a blog about mental health, social justice, and sharing resources related to the health and wellbeing of people with diverse sexes, genders, and sexualities.
Why does this blog exist?
We need a range of coordinated initiatives to challenge and address homophobia, transphobia, queerphobia, biphobia, and the related intersections with racism, sexism, poverty, and other structural inequalities. We want to address and remove health disparities experienced by rainbow populations, and to create environments where diversity and identity is valued and celebrated.*
*Compared to other New Zealanders, rainbow populations are at significantly higher risk of distress, mental health problems and suicide due to experiences of social exclusion and discrimination. Discrimination and exclusion is complex , and occurs differently across a range of settings and population groups.
What can we offer you?
Resources! Check out our Resources tab for links to organisations and groups, and use the tags to find resources by topic. We are curating resources about rainbow mental heath and keeping them here to be accessed by anyone at any time for free.
For example, if you are supporting someone who is transitioning (changing/affirming their gender) then you could search for “transitioning” among the tags on our posts and find all the resources that we’ve got related to that topic.
Who is this blog for?
Anyone who is working in health sectors (general health, mental health, addictions, disability, emergency services, clinical teams and so on) who wants to learn more or share their learning about rainbow populations and how we can challenge homophobia/transphobia/etc.
We also invite anyone doing community work, or supporting friends or family members, to check out our resources and consider how you can effect change in your area of influence, whether that be in a professional or personal capacity.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]