Bullying UK Helpline: confidential and free helpline service (Phone: 0808-800-2222). Information, advices and resources at http://www.bullying.co.uk
Anti-Bullying Alliances: Resources and advices at http://www.anti-bullyingalliance.org.uk/resources
Australia
Bullying. No Way! https://bullyingnoway.gov.au
Books:
The Bullying Workbook for Teens: Activities to Help You Deal with Social Aggression and Cyberbullying (by Raychelle Cassada Lohmann and Julia V. Taylor)—Instant Help; Workbook edition —ISBN: 978-1608824502
Violence against Queer People: Race, Class, Gender, and the Persistence of Anti-LGBT Discrimination (by Doug Meyer)—Rutgers University Press—ISBN: 978-0813573151
The Mindfulness Workbook for Addiction: A Guide to Coping with the Grief, Stress and Anger that Trigger Addictive Behaviors (by Rebecca E. Williams and Julie S. Kraft)—New Harbinger Publications; Csm Wkb edition—ISBN: 978-1608823406
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Strangers Among Us
Tales of the Underdogs and Outcasts
Edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
“. . . stories do a masterful job of knitting legitimate and painful mental illnesses to characters who still retain agency and power.”
—Kirkus Reviews
“Mental illness is an exciting theme for an anthology, leaving plenty of room for variety.”
—Library Journal
“The writers of these stories address such varied subjects as agoraphobia, depression, schizophrenia, autism, anxiety, and addiction . . . readers who have mental illnesses may find themselves somewhere in these pages and as a result may no longer feel so alone or isolated.”
—School Library Journal
“The stories in Strangers Among Us are as varied in tone and approach as their authors. The power of the collection derives from this variety; while each story can be read in isolation, the assemblage of outsiders feels, on a whole, exultant.”
—Quill & Quire
Benefit: Canadian Mental Health Association
Paperback: 978-0-9939696-0-7
Hardcover: 978-0-9939696-4-5
eBook: 978-0-9939696-1-4
THE SUM OF US
Tales of the Bonded and Bound
Edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
Children giving care. Dogs and cats giving care. Sidekicks, military, monks, ghosts, robots. Even aliens. Care given by lovers, family, professionals. Caregivers who can no longer give. Caregivers who make the decision not to give, and the costs and the consequences that follow. Bound to us by invisible bonds, but with lives, dreams, and passions of their own.
If we believe that we are the protagonists of our lives, then caregivers—our pillars—are ghosts, the bit players, the stock characters, the secondary supports, living lives of quiet trust and toil in the shadows. Summoned to us by the profound magic of great emotional, physical, or psychological need, they play their roles and, when our need diminishes . . . The caregivers fade. These are their stories.
Twenty-three science fiction and fantasy authors explore the depth and breadth of caring and of giving. They find insight, joy, devastation, and heroism in grand sweeps and in tiny niches. And, like wasps made of stinging words, there is pain in giving, and in working one’s way through to the light. Our lives and relationships are complex. But in the end, there is hope, and there is love.
Benefit: Canadian Mental Health Association
Paperback: 978-0-9939696-9-0
Hardcover: 978-1-988140-03-2
eBook: 978-1-988140-00-1
SHADES WITHIN US
Tales of Global Migration and Fractured Borders
Edited by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
Enter the complex world of migrations, where the newcomers confront unyielding or fractured borders, both physical and psychological, seeking adventure, triumph, a new life—or fleeing a tainted past or retaining status quo.
Shades Within Us is a speculative fiction anthology exploring the world of physical, emotional, and mental displacements due to migrations.
Benefit:
Mood Disorders Association and Alex Community Food Centre
Paperback: 978-1-988140-05-6
Hardcover: 978-1-988140-08-7
ePub: 978-1-988140-06-3
PDF: 978-1-988140-09-4
Kindle: 978-1-988140-07-0
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