The Latest Posts
The LGBTQ Immigrant - A Familiar, Yet Unique Narrative
The blog highlights that LGBTQ refugees often flee their home countries due to persecution, discrimination, and violence based on their sexual orientation or gender identity. It covers the challenges these individuals face while seeking asylum and what we can do to help.
Retaliation And LGBTQ Mental Health
How does fear of retaliation impact LGBTQIA+ people and their mental health? What can we do to overcome this challenge? Read to find out!
LGBT People and Bipolar: An Environment Issue
Environmental factors like discrimination increase one’s chance of having bipolar disorder. Read why and learn how LGBTQ are at greater risk.
Does Transphobia Contribute to Poor Mental Health in Trans Youth?
Transphobia is similar to bullying. It causes severe impacts on the lives of its victims. We discuss those impacts in depth and reveal what we can do to prevent or treat them.
Inclusive But Not Actually
The LGBTQIA+ community faces bigotry from outside forces constantly. Many organizations and groups, such as CALM, fight to address the issue. But what we do not see often are people standing up to push back against the bigotry from inside forces. Let’s talk about it.
How poverty impacts the mental health of LGBTQIA+ people
Do you know the implications of financial inequality and poverty on the mental health of the LGBTQIA+ community? How about why these issues impact LGBTQIA+ people more harshly than they do cisgender and heterosexual people? Read to find out!
How the Workplace Impacts LGBTQ+ Mental Health
Whether you’re working from home or the office, your workplace environment still impacts you. This is too true for LGBTQIA+ employees, who face mental health issues from toxic work cultures. Learn why and how you can help.
The Foster System VS LGBTQIA+ Youth Mental Health
Explore how the mental health of LGBTQ+ foster youth is affected by the system, why that impact is disproportionate compared to non-LGBTQ+ foster youth, and how we can take action.
The Community’s Blindspot: Indigenous LGBTQ+ People
Understand why the Indigenous LGBTQIA+ community is often left out of the discussion of equality, how their mental health is impacted, and what we can do to help!
A Lifetime on Alert: How LGBTQ+ people must exist.
What does it mean to exist as an LGBTQIA+ person? Why and how do we start each day in survival mode? Read to find out.