Local Resources
Crisis Centre - Having thoughts of suicide? Call or text 9-8-8
Experiencing a mental health crisis? Call 310-6789
If you are in immediate risk, please call 911.
QMUNITY: BC’s Queer, Trans, and Two Spirit Resource Center
BWSS - crisis and intake: 1-855-687-1868
Salal - Survivor Support 24/7 Crisis Line: 1-877-392-7583
Books for Decolonizing
Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer
A Mind Spread Out On The Ground - Alicia Elliott
The Inconvenient Indian - Thomas King
21 Things You May Not Know About the Indian Act - Bob Joseph
Seven Fallen Feathers - Tanya Talaga
The Break - Katherena Vermette
As We Have Always Done - Leanne Betasamosake Simpson
Heart Berries - Therese Marie Mailhot
Books for Death and Grief
The Wild Edge of Sorrow - Francis Weller
From Here to Eternity - Caitlin Doughty
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - Caitlin Doughty
Being with Dying - Joan Halifax
Books about Neurodiversity
A Radical Guide for Women with ADHD - Sari Solden
Scattered Minds - Dr. Gabor Mate
Unmasking Autism - Dr. Devon Price
Divergent Mind - Jenara Nerenberg
How to Keep House While Drowning - K. C. Davis
Books about Sex and Relationships
Come As You Are - Emily Nagoski
Rewriting the Rules - Meg Jon Barker
Love in a F*cked Up World - Dean Spade
The Anxious Person’s Guide to Non-Monogamy - Lola Phoenix
What Love is and What it Could Be - Carrie Jenkins
Books about Harm Reduction and Substance Use
How to Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
Drug Use for Grown Ups - Carl L. Hart
Undoing Drugs: The Untold Story of Harm Reduction and the Future of Addiction - Maia Szalavitz
