Fusion

Learn about other communities and how you can become an ally. Discover new Web sites or add one you don't see. This non-exhaustive reference list fosters the fusion of marginalized people.

SEXUAL FREEDOM
BODY IMAGE
LGBT
DISABILITY
RACIAL DIVERSITY

Body Image

About-Face (combats distorted imagery of women in media)

www.about-face.org

Airbrushing in Catalogs

http://www.catalogs.com/resource/airbrushing-in-catalogs.html

BBW City!

www.bbwcity.com

The Council on Size and Weight Discrimination
www.cswd.org

Fabulous World of FAT!SO?
www.fatso.com

International Size Acceptance Association

www.size-acceptance.org

Largely Positive, Inc.
www.largelypositive.com

National Association to Advance Fat Acceptance

www.naafa.org

National Organization for Lesbians of Size
www.nolose.org

Potbelly Cycling Association
http://hometown.aol.com/Potbellyc/index.html

Sizenet
www.sizenet.com

LGBT

Affirmations
www.goaffirmations.org

American Civil Liberties Union
www.aclu.org

Bisexual Foundation
www.bisexual.org/en/index.php

Bisexual Resource Center
www.biresource.org

Center for Gender Sanity
www.gendersanity.com

Dramanomymous
www.dramanonymous.com

Detroit Black Gay Pride
www.hotterthanjuly.com

Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network
www.glsen.org/cgi-bin/iowa/all/home/index.html

Human Rights Campaign
www.hrc.org

The Intersex Society of North America
www.isna.org

Michigan Equality
www.michiganequality.org

Michigan Pride
www.michiganpride.org

Midwest AIDS Prevention Project
www.aidsprevention.org

National Gay and Lesbian Taskforce
www.thetaskforce.org

Queer Zine Archive Project
www.qzap.org

San Francisco Gay Wedding Video

www.sanfranciscogayweddingvideo.com

Transgender Michigan
www.transgendermichigan.homestead.com

Triangle Foundation
www.tri.org

Disability

ADAPT
www.freeourpeople.org

American Association of People with Disabilities
www.aapd-dc.org

Citizens to Uphold Special Education (CAUSE)
www.causeonline.org

Communication Access Center, Michigan School for the Deaf in Flint
www.cacdhh.org

Connections for Deaf Citizens
connections_for_deaf_citizens@yahoo.com

Crip Commentary
www.cripcommentary.com

DeafCAN!

www.deafcan.org

Deaf, Hearing and Sign Language Center, Detroit
www.dhsc.org

Developmental Disabilities Institute, Wayne State University
www.ddi.wayne.edu

Disabled and Proud
www.disabledandproud.com

Disabled Women
www.disabledwomen.net

Great Lakes ADA and IT Center, Chicago
www.gldbtac.org

ICan
www.ican.com

Institute on Disability Culture
www.dimenet.com/disculture

Michigan Association of Centers for Independent Living

www.macil.net

Michigan Association for Deaf, Hearing & Speech Services
www.madhs.org

Michigan Commission on Disability Concerns – Division on Deafness
www.mfia.state.mi.us/mcdc/dod.htm

Michigan Disability Rights Coalition
www.copower.org

Michigan Protection & Advocacy Service, Inc. (MPAS)
www.mpas.org

Mouth
www.mouthmag.com

National Center for Law and the Deaf/National Association for the Deaf
www.nad.org

National Organization on Disabilities
www.nod.org

Women with Disabilities Australia
www.wwda.org.au

World Institute on Disability
www.wid.org

The Ragged Edge
www.ragged-edge-mag.com

United Cerebral Palsy
www.ucpmichigan.org

LGBT/DISABILITY

American Friends Service Committee/Michigan Program
www.afsc.org/lgbt/programs/michigan.htm

Bent Voices
www.bentvoices.org

Eli Clare, genderqueer disability activism
eliclare.com

Deaf Queer Resource Center
www.deafqueer.org

National Organization of Disabled Lesbians, Gay Men, Bisexuals and Transgender People
www.regard.dircon.co.uk

Passing Twice
http://passingtwice.com

Queer Disability Resources/Links
www.gayscape.com/gayscape/dis.html

Racial Diversity

AFRICAN AMERICAN:

African-Americans in Media:
http://www.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/african.html

African American Media:
http://www.ethnicprintmedia.com/

The African-American Mosaic
http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/african/intro.html

African American Web Connection
http://www.aawc.com/aawc.html

The Blacklist: Inspired by "The Out List" on AOL's Queer Resources Directory, the Blacklist takes a walk through black history with thumbnail biographies of famous lesbian, gay, and transgendered folks of African descent. http://www.blackstripe.com/blacklist/

Census Bureau African-American Population http://www.census.gov/pubinfo/www/afamhot1.html

Know Your African Culture
http://www.datehookup.com/content-know-your-african-culture.htm

MelaNet: The UnCut Black Experience
http://www.melanet.com

National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) http://www.naacp.org

ASIAN AMERICAN:

Asian American Action Fund, a bi-partisan political action committee with the goal to increase the voice of Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders on every level of local, state and federal government in America.
http://www.aaa-fund.org/

The Asian Nation

http://www.asian-nation.org/index.html

The Chinese Historical Society of America
http://www.chsa.org/

Japanese American Internment Camps http://www.lib.utah.edu/spc/photo/9066/9066.htm

The Organization of Chinese Americans, Inc. (OCA)
http://www.ocanatl.org

HISPANIC:

LatinoWeb
http://www.latinoweb.com

The Mexican American Legal Defense Fund
http://www.maldef.org

The Mexican Migration Project http://www.pop.upenn.edu/mexmig/expressions/prologue.htm

National Hispanic Media Coalition
http://www.nhmc.org

NATIVE AMERICAN:

Index of Native American Resources on the Internet http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/

Native American Journalists Association

http://www.naja.com/

Native Culture.com
http://www.nativeculture.com/home/default.asp

NCAI: The National Congress of American Indians was founded in 1944 and is the oldest and largest tribal government organization in the United States. http://www.ncai.org

Ojibway Migisi Bineshii: Earth Medicine Womyn Lifting Up The Consciousness
http://ojibwaymigisibineshii.blogspot.com/

United Native America: UNA was formed in 1993 as a nation wide grassroots movement to bring about a federal national holiday for Native Americans. http://www.unitednativeamerica.com/main.html

WHITE ETHNIC GROUPS:

Anti-Defamation League: This Jewish American group maintains a homepage devoted to issues of anti-Semitism and antiracist activism.
http://www.adl.org

Center for the Study of White American Culture

http://www.euroamerican.org/

Irish America Net

http://www.irishamericanet.com/

One Stop Italian America

http://www.osia.org/

The Simon Wiesenthal Center is an international center for Holocaust remembrance and the defense of human rights and the Jewish people. http://www.wiesenthal.com

GENERAL:

The Center for World Indigenous Studies

www.cwis.org/fwdp.html

Gender,Race and Ethnicity in Media http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/~commstud/resources/GenderMedia/

Interracial Voice
http://www.webcom.com/%7Eintvoice/