Welcome back readers.
This week we’re taking a one-week break from our usual practice of highlighting the most important critical writing on games from the past seven days. The writing will still be there when we come back to it.
Instead, we’ve decided to use our visibility and reach to promote a variety of organizations, support networks, advocacy groups, and relief funds dedicated providing material resources, legal counsel, essential serivces, representation, and other forms of support to vulnerable and marginalized communities and demographics both in the US and the Middle East. It is abundantly clear that governments and politicans in the US and elsewhere are broadly indifferent to the needs and dignity of these groups at best and actively hostile to their existence at worst.
We invite you to share this post widely and peruse these links and make your own informed choices about where best to make donations and lend support. Many of these links are flat-out copied from Kaile’s site No Escape/Fugue Plague and the rest were solicited from members of our Discord server. You are very welcome to join the server and share any other resources like this–we can always update this list and continue to link back to it in future issues.
Reproductive Justice
US-based resources for abortion access, women’s reproductive health, and political action for reproductive justice.
- In Our Own Voice | National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda
- Sister Song | Women of Color Reproductive Justice Collective
- Center for Reproductive Rights
- Reproductive Freedom for All
- Yellowhammer Fund
Trans Rights
These resources include legal and political advocacy as well as fundraising for transgender communities and trans youth.
- Advocates for Trans Equality | Fighting for legal and political rights of transgender people in America
- Transgender Law Center
- Trans Justice Funding Project
- Trans Lifeline
Palestine/Lebanon
These organizations provide on-the-ground aid and relief for internally displaced victims of genocide in Gaza and Lebanon.
- Anera
- The Sameer Project
- Palestinian Children’s Relief Fund
- Donate to support Gaza emergency response | American Friends Service Committee
- Chuffed | Non-profit charity and social enterprise fundraising
- Meals of Hope: Hot Meals Distribution | UMMA
- United Nations Relief and Works Agency | UNRWA
- Connecting Humanity
Immigrants and Refugees
These groups connect immigrants and refugees in the US with resources, support, legal assistance, and education.
- Refugee and Immigrant Centre for Education and Legal Services | RAICES
- Welcoming America | Building a Nation of Neighbors
Mutual Aid/Bail Funds
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