Queer Safety Compass

[alexis pauline gumbs]

Greetings loved ones,
      I wanted to pass on a resource that my brother-comrade visionary change agent beloved friend Yolo Akili is creating.  Please feel free to share, benefit from and add to this resource.
Infinite love,
   Lex

I want to introduce to each of you: the Queer Safety Compass

The Queer Safety Compass, Or "QSC" is an interactive, "always in progress" map of LGBTQ DV Victim service agencies or LGBTQ competent agencies across the United states.


You can View Here: http://Www.Yoloakili.com (Click Queer Safety Compass)


I created the map out of my own frustration with recieving calls from LGBTQ individuals fleeing violence across the country and having no comprehensive resource to look to.

Now by simply scrolling over the circles on the map, you can get hotlines and organizations names quickly, as well as links to their respective websites by clicking on the circle.

Please let others know about the QSC, especially those in rural areas who need to know there are folks out there they can reach out too.

It is most important to me that each regional area have a resource, as opposed to listing the multiple resources that one metropolis has ( for instance, NYC has several, while i will list them, my goal is to Identify as many rural area organizations as possible, as those are the places i find that the most difficulty in finding support becomes apparent.)

My desire is for the agencies to be "victim service" agencies. Places where people can call safely for support, however, other anti-violence resources are welcome and will be considered.

Its in the BEGINNING STAGES! So please send me your links, info, knowledge as I would like to add more to this list! Inevitably I also plan for the QSC to have its own Url. But for now it will be linked to my website:

http://Www.Yoloakili.com (Click Queer Safety Compass)

Please send agencies you know of to Yo...@yoloakili.com. I will add listings promptly. Love, peace & safety to you- Yolo

And also, you were tagged because I know you do good work. Thank you for you and all that you do!!!



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I am writing these words as a route map
an artifact for survival...

History is not kind to us
we restitch it with living
past memory   forward
into desire
into the panic    articulation
of want   without having
or even the promise of getting.

And I dream of our coming together
encircled   driven
not only by love
but by lust for a working tomorrow
the flights of this journey
mapless   uncertain
and necessary as water.

-Audre Lorde