Note: This page is now a repository of background info, useful tips, etc. rather than updated with the latest news as there is too much news. A lot of these are focused on disability and health care as those are the circles I receive the most news from.
Last updated April 16, 2017
Sections
- General info
- Health care
- Housing
- Hate crimes and discrimination
- Anything else
- Tools for Taking Action
- Sharing stories, resistance through writing, and pledge projects
- Civic engagement
- Media, journalism, and spotting fake news
- Direct action and responding to non-media bigotry and attacks
- Organizations to support
- Local and community advocacy
- Blogs and websites to follow
- Advocacy and activism while disabled
- Accessibility Reminders and Tips
- Other Articles of Note
- Other things that might be helpful
- Processing and self-care
- Fighting through pain and reminders/messages
- Activist burnout and tips on self-care/avoiding it
Background information
- The GOP’s Strategies to Repeal the ACA explained
- How Medicaid Cuts Would Hurt Each State
- Medicaid Expansion Tied to Increased Employment of People with Disabilities
- What Happens if Trump Decides to Remake Medicare and Medicaid
- Defending Health Care: What’s at Stake in Each State
- How the Affordable Care Act Benefits People with Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities [PDF]
- State Level Data on Impact of ACA
- Get health insurance through your employer? The ACA repeal will affect that, too
- Signs that a GOP Health Plan Will Leave Millions Uninsured
- NCD 2015 impact of ACA for people with disabilities status report
- Medicaid Pocket Primer
- Healthcare Reform and its Impact on the Disabled Community: Restructuring Medicaid
- Why Trump Can’t Repeal Just Part of Obamacare
- What Happens to Long Term Care if Trump Remakes Medicare and Medicaid?
- Congressional Budget Office report on insurance death spiral if ACA repealed [PDF]
- Storify of Reverse Twitter Chat on Possible ACA Repeal
- Info on Block Grants and Medicaid
- Medicaid Cuts are Real Threat to Home and Community Based Services
- Compare Key Elements of ACA Repeal and Replace Proposals with New Interactive Tool
Housing
- Preparing for an Emergency: Protecting Homeless LGBT Youth During the Trump Presidency
- On Gutting the Fair Housing Act and Potential Housing Crises
Hate crimes, discrimination, etc. that didn’t fit under the above
- What Must be Done in the Wake of Escalating Hate Crimes
- Lambda Legal Post-Election FAQ
- I’m a disabled American. Trump’s policies will be a disaster for people like me
- Disabled People Will Die under Trump: an Emergency Plea to Allies
- The Significance of Overt Racism
- As a disabled person, I’m terrified of the Trump administration (and not because he mocked a disabled reporter)
- Updating your ID while Trans
- Don’t Underestimate the Catastrophic Impact Trump Administration’s Policies Will Have on People With Disabilities
Other Things
- Don’t let 2016 become the new normal
- Trump is a great storyteller. We need to be better.
- Disability history and using it for change today
- Protect the most vulnerable, and protect the Internet
- Trump’s real war isn’t with the media. It’s with facts.
- Strange Horizons’ On Resistance issue (creative writing)
- Protest Works. Trump’s Meltdown Proves It.
- Distraction
- Trump Has Turned the GOP into the Party of Eugenics
- The Shallow State
Taking Action
Sharing stories and resistance through writing
- #CripLit chat: resistance through writing
- Let’s Get to Work: Practical Ways for Writers and Teachers to Get Involved Right Now
- Share your story with the Modern Medicaid Alliance about Medicaid and health care
- Share your ACA Story with the Disability Advocacy Network (the Arc)
Policy and legislative advocacy tips
- ASAN’s Affordable Care Act Toolkit
- ASAN’s Civic Engagement Toolkit
- A simple guide to how you can throw sand in the Trump administration’s gears (commenting on federal regs)
- Kelsey explains what happens when you call a Congressperson
- How to set up a meeting with your member of Congress
- The Voting Rights Manifesto: a state-by-state plan
- Intro to policy (easy read)
- State level advocacy (easy read)
- State level advocacy (captioned webinar)
- Federal/national level advocacy (easy read)
- Federal level advocacy (captioned webinar)
- Which Republican senators are most likely to fight Trump
- Legislative Advocacy 101 (easy read)
- Legislative Advocacy (captioned webinar)
- Countable app (read about bills and contact officials)
- US Politicians’ responses on Immigration Executive Order spreadsheet (note: bright colors, was hard for me to read)
- How To Use the Internet to Contact your Reps (even when the phone lines are jammed)
- Resistance roundup: how to track pending legislation, rules, and executive orders
Media, journalism, and spotting fake news
- Trump Tweet Fact-Checker (Chrome Extension) from the Washington Post; article about it here, there’s also a Firefox extension
- How Did We Get Into this Mess? Secure Contact (David Perry, disability rights journalist)
- Tips for spotting fake news
- Beware of fake news (easy-read)
- A call for cooperation against fake news and things you can do
- Strategies for Combating Media Misrepresentation (easy read)
- Strategies for Combating Media Misrepresentation (captioned webinar)
- Making a plan to win (easy read) – section Writing for the Press
- How to leak to ProPublica
- How to leak information to the New York Times
- How to leak information to the Washington Post
- How to leak information to the Intercept
- Disabled? Sign up to be on Disability March’s list of people for reporters to talk to
- Media Matters for America
- Facts Reporters Should Include in Stories about Efforts to Repeal Obamacare
- A shitposter’s guide to political bias in major news outlets
Direct action and responding to non-media bigotry and attacks
- How To Support A Scholar Who Has Come under Attack
- Responding to Everyday Bigotry Guide (Southern Poverty Law Center)
- How to run an advocacy campaign (easy-read) – includes power analysis, strategies, action plans, and putting the action plan in place
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- Companion toolbox (easy-read) – blank worksheets, section protests & rallies
- What trans people face and what cis allies can do
- Advice for rallies
- Protest Works. Trump’s Meltdown Proves It.
- Resources for Lawyers Working to Address the Immigration Crisis
- Infographic on protesting safely from Amnesty International, with added transcription of image text
Organizations to support
- A List of Pro-Women, Pro-Immigrant, Pro-Earth, Anti-Bigotry Organizations to Support
- Feminist, LGBTQIA, Race/Gender Inclusive, Progressive Volunteer Opportunities and Organizations, State by State
- Progressive Organizations That Need Your Support, Now More Than Ever, in Trump’s America
- Disability Rights Groups to Support [PDF]
- Casa Ruby Center for the LGBT Community (D.C. local)
- Southerners on New Ground
Local and community advocacy
- Librarians must resist Trump
- Let’s Get to Work: Practical Ways for Writers and Teachers to Get Involved Right Now
- Tips for community organizing
Blogs, articles, websites to follow for info, staying up to date, action items and more
- The Anxious Activist
- Oh crap! What now?
- Reckoning of Joy
- Modern Medicaid Alliance
- Indivisible: A Practical Guide for Resisting Trump
- Call Your Representatives (daily action items)
- The Resistance Manual
- Media Matters for America
- 5 Calls
- Town Hall Project
- The 65: We’re His Problem
- Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
- The Sanctuary Project
- Never Again: a tech pledge
- Flippable | Commit to Flip
- Swing Left
- Running list of racist incidents since Trump’s victory
- Sabotage Watch: tracking efforts to undermine the Affordable Care Act
- Compare Key Elements of ACA Repeal and Replace Proposals with New Interactive Tool
Activism and Advocacy While Disabled
- For people who have a hard time hearing on the phone
- Resisting Fascism While Autistic, Disabled, Housebound, or Otherwise Human
- Accessible Political Activism for Autistic People (Autchat – an Autistic Twitter chat)
- Volunteering while Autistic/Disabled
- I’ll Call For You – can’t call reps? This person will call for you
- How To Use the Internet to Contact your Reps (even when the phone lines are jammed)
- Tips for phone anxiety
- Calling your reps for people who hate the phone
- Helpful Twitter thread on calling reps (like how to avoid actually talking to a person)
- ASAN’s Civic Engagement Toolkit
- ASAN’s Affordable Care Act Toolkit
- Shy Person’s Guide to Calling Representatives
Accessibility Reminders and Tips
- Don’t Forget Those “Inspirational” Crips: A Guide to Disability Ally-ship in the Age of Trump
- Accessible Event Planning (easy read) – make your events accessible to disabled people!) Related:
- Conflicting Access Needs (easy-read)
- Best Practices for the Inclusion of AAC Users (easy read) – including people who use assistive technology to communicate)
- Event accessibility (captioned webinar)
- 5 Tips for Creating Introvert-Friendly Workshops
- Beyond the ADA: Accessibility and Neurodiversity in our Movements (powerpoint available at Pacific Alliance website here)
- Resistance: Your social justice events should be accessible
- Don’t thank me for marching because I’m disabled. Join me.
- The Non-Politics of Disability
Other Advocacy Articles
- Our cynicism will not build a movement. Collaboration will.
- The big lesson of Trump’s first 2 weeks: resistance works
- Everything a Government Employee Needs to Know about Defying Illegal Presidential Orders
- Are there things I can do politically?
Other Things that Might Be Helpful In These Times
- These Online Services Offer Birth Control without a Doctor’s Visit
- Everything You Need to Know on How to Change Gender Markers on IDs
- RxAssist – helps find programs by pharmaceutical companies for affording medication
- Healthcare Resources for Disabled, Low-Income, and Multiply-Marginalized Individuals
Processing and self-care
Fighting through pain (and reminders/messages)
- You can only fight evil as the person you really are
- Struggling more with disability in the aftermath of the election
- Appreciation can create hope
- This is how to be your own light in the age of Trump
- Love and Solidarity
- We Will Meet What Comes
- I wanted to believe + mental health resources
- We are worth fighting for
- Progress comes in fits and bursts
- I See You I Welcome You, All Peoples Standing Together
- In this Darkest of Times We Fight On
- Reminder: your personal life still exists
- Reminder to those people who can’t take action for whatever reason that you are not a bad person
- When they go low, we go high: we can take our country back
- On Hope and Voices
- Hope isn’t always a feeling
- Love is not enough, but it is necessary (I used to play the Anne Frank game)
- Anything worth dying for is worth living for
- Making Light and Taking it Back
- Strange Horizons’ On Resistance issue (creative writing)
- How to stay outraged without losing your mind
- How to stay afloat in all this
- If reading the news is dragging you down into despair
- Resistance Roundup: Good things can still happen
- Tens of thousands of protest calls didn’t stop DeVos. But they’re not in vain.
Activist Burnout (and tips on avoiding it/self-care)
- Healthier Advocates
- Burn Brighter, Faster, Do More, and Don’t Stop: On Activist Culture
- Burnout in Social Justice and Human Rights Activists: Symptoms, Causes and Implications
- Activist Burnout is Real
- Dealing with Activist Burnout and Self-Care
- Survival Strategies for Activists
- My Self-Care Kit
- Self Care for People of Color after Emotional and Psychological Trauma
- Doing Social Justice Work and OCD
- QTPOC Art as Self-Care
- The Work that Kills Us
- Recognizing When We Get It Wrong and Forgiving Ourselves Afterward
- Self-Care and Social Justice Work
- Being Tired isn’t a Badge of Honor
- When Activist Burnout Meets Anxiety and Depression
- Confessions of an Activist with Social Anxiety
- Keep Fighting, But Take Care of Yourself
Paginated Thoughts 