Resources for Disability and Chronic Illness
Lyme Life
Bring healing into everyday life.
Living with Lyme Disease, Mold Illness, or chronic illness can change the shape of your days. Lyme Life offers education, practical tools, workshops, and conversations to help you navigate those changes with more clarity and support.History of Disability Justice by Project LETS
Resources including suggested readings, videos, and more.
10 Principles of Disability Justice by Sins Invalid
The 10 Principles of Disability Justice was developed by Sins Invalid, a disability justice-based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and LGBTQ / gender-variant artists as communities who have been historically marginalized.
The Spoon Theory was developed by Christine Miserandino to explain living with chronic illness.
Mask Buying Guide by Mask Bloc Seattle
A Guide For Cleaner Indoor Air by The Sick Times
Chronic Illness Mental Health Professionals List
Intro To At-Home Acupressure by Zoë Luh
This zine is a brief introduction to using acupressure, a form of Traditional Chinese Medicine, at home. You can download a printable version for distribution here.
Plant medicine for resilience (!) and herbal first aid for all who have experienced police violence. This document was compiled by herbalists, street medics, first aid specialists and educators: Dixie Pauline, Grassroots Apothecary, MASHH; Greta Montagne, Gentle Strength Botanicals, MASHH; Dana Aronson, Wild Kin Botanicals; Ingrid Bauer, MD, Five Flavors Herbs; Jocelyn Laurel Pena, Paramedic, Blackcap Medical Collective, MASHH. Spring 2020
Event Accessibility Checklist by s.e. smith, Rooted in Rights
Direct Action Planning Resource For (and by!) Sick and Disabled Comrades by This Autonomia
Pacing and Management Guide by #ME Action
Lying Down Anyhow: Disbility and the Rebel Body by Liz Crow
How to Have a Great, Disabled Life by How To Get On
A self-advocacy guide with practical information on resources such as social security, medical equipment, and more.
A Patient's Guide to the SSA Disability Application Process by UW Medicine
Home Remedies for Common Maladies by Rosehip Medic Collective
Plant medicine for resilience (!) and herbal first aid for all who have experienced police violence. This document was compiled by herbalists, street medics, first aid specialists and educators: Dixie Pauline, Grassroots Apothecary, MASHH; Greta Montagne, Gentle Strength Botanicals, MASHH; Dana Aronson, Wild Kin Botanicals; Ingrid Bauer, MD, Five Flavors Herbs; Jocelyn Laurel Pena, Paramedic, Blackcap Medical Collective, MASHH. Spring 2020
Accessing Care and Healing by Project LETS
Resources including resources on finding care in community, finding mental health providers, and other tools.
The Future of Mental Health is Mutual Aid zine by @embracing.ambiguity
Lyme Disease
Mold Illness (Chronic Inflammatory Response Syndrome/CIRS)
Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome (EDS)
EDS Classification for Non-Experts by The Ehlers-Danlos Society
What are the Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes? by The Ehlers-Danlos Society
Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS)
Fibromyalgia
COVID-19