cool sites hosted on neocities
get involved/stay safe
Aid
General Activism & Activist Safety (USA-focused)
- ACLU Protesters' Rights (EN / ES)
- Activist Checklists for digital security
- De-Arrest Primer
- Directory of Community Bail Funds
- A Field Guide to Wheatpasting
- Protesting as a Wheelchair User
- Protest Safety Tips a good general overview
- Security Culture: A Handbook for Activists
- Some Actions That Are Not Protesting or Voting
- Street Medic Handbook
Immigrant Rights in the USA
- Bystander and Observer Guidelines/Las Directrices de Testigos y Observadores
- Family Preparedness Plan/Plan de Preparacion Familiar
- Immigration Advocates Network Legal Services Directory find legal resources in all 50 states/encuentre recursos legales en todos 50 estados
- Know Your Rights With ICE/Conozca Sus Derechos con ICE
- Online Detainee Locator System for finding where a person is being detained/para encontrar dónde la persona haya detenido
- Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition
- Rapid Response Hotlines to Report ICE Activity/Líneas Directas de Respuesta Rápida para Reportar Actividad del ICE
- Red Cards/Tarjetas Rojas printable know-your-rights cards in 30+ languages
Free Palestine
- BDS Movement
- Connecting Humanity (eSims for Gaza)
- Ele Elna Elak (group that provides food & water to Gazans)
- Institute for Palestine Studies
- Librarians and Archivists With Palestine
- Operation Olive Branch
- Refaat Alareer Mobile Library
- The Sameer Project
Queer Rights in the USA
- DIY HRT Archive (if this site is taken down at any point, send me an e-mail, I have some of the webpages saved locally).
- Trans Continental Pipeline: this organization helps trans people relocate to Colorado.
AI Refusal & Resistance
Freedom to Read
Environmental Activism
- Wildfire Messaging Guide (Pacific Northwest)
- Pacific Northwest Forest Climate Alliance
Misc.
Look at art!
- A Guide to Slow Looking
- Heikki's Garden of Flowers
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Osterreichische Galerie Belvedere
- WikiArt
- WikiMedia Commons
Zines
- Anchor Archive Zine Library's Zine Subject Thesaurus
- a comprehensive list of subject headings & keywords that can be used for cataloguing zines.
- The Book of Zines
- huge collection of links & resources about making, collecting, perusing, and learning about zines and zine culture.
- Electric Zine Maker
- a nifty resource to help with formatting zines.
- zinelibraries.info
- a blog run by and for those interested in zine librarianship/archiving.
- Zine Map
- a crowdsourced map showing places around the world where you can find and/or share zines.
Tumblr Blogs
- Enchanted Book, rare book illustrations.
- Having a Poem With You, poems.
- Historical Book Images, illustrations found in the Biodiversity Heritage Library's collection.
- Radical Graffiti, anti-capitalist/anti-fascist graffiti from around the world.
- Daily Sea Slug
- Unteriors, interesting, often desolate or kitsch, interiors from real estate listings.
- Vintage Wildlife, wildlife photography from before the 21st century.
Other fun stuff & interesting Internet finds
- 19th Century Medical Glossary
- 32-Bit Cafe
- Are.na, a good place to store & organize boards of images & ideas that isn't the ad-filled hellscape of Pinterest.
- Dracula Daily
- Every Noise at Once, a music genre map that is unfortunately no longer able to be updated but is still really fun to peruse
- Gardenate
- Hydrogenaudio Knowledgebase
- KWSX Radio
- Line of Action
- Media Bias/Fact Check
- Melondy
- The Phrontistery, obscure words and vocabulary resources
- Pub Meeple Ranking Engine
- Radio Nudista
- Storied Colors
- Wildflower Search
Reading
Read Stuff for Free!
- Anarchist Library
- Anna's Archive
- Biodiversity Heritage Library
- Cornell University Library
- HathiTrust Digital Library
- Internet Archive
- Internet Sacred Text Archive
- JSTOR
- Poetry Foundation
- Project Gutenberg
- Queer Liberation Library
- Refaat Alareer Memorial Library Online
- SLUM: The Shadow Library Uptime Monitor
- World of Tales
Book Lists & Databases
- LibraryThing
- Older LGBT Science Fiction Database
- StoryGraph (my preferred alternative to GoodReads)
Digital Magazines & Journals
- ACR Log
- blog created by academic and research librarians to discuss aspects of their work.
- Burial Magazine
- literary journal hosted on neocities!
- Clarkesworld Magazine
- monthly sci-fi & fantasy stories.
- First Monday
- open-access, peer-reviewed journal about the Internet.
- Literary Hub
- all things books and publishing; features articles, reviews, interviews, reading lists, etc.
- Low-Tech Magazine
- magazine which celebrates and informs about older & diy technology - includes guides on how to do things like build solar-powered devices or weather-proofing structures.
- Nowhere Girl Collective
- literary journal which accepts monthly prose, poetry, essay, and art submissions according to a one-word theme.
- Panther Milk
- literary magazine hosted on neocities with a focus on anti-imperialist and/or experimental work.
- Parapraxis Magazine
- magazine focused on psychoanalysis.
- Pigeons and Planes
- music journalism, most often focusing on hip-hop & rap.
- Protean Magazine
- leftist magazine publishing journalism, literature, and art.
- RealityStudio
- a website for works by and about the author William Burroughs.
- We Will Free Us
- a Portland, OR-based independent journalist's reporting on activism and social justice issues in the Pacific Northwest.
Personal Sites & Blogs
Reference Materials/Educational
- The American Archivist. All of their issues past a certain age are free to read on the site.
- American Library Association Resource Guides
- Bibliographies in Gender and Women's Studies
- Folklinks, an index of resources helpful for folklore studies & related pursuits.
- Horrorlex, a searchable database of scholarly writings about horror.
- Purdue Owl
- Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Collections & Archives
- Anarchist Zine Library
- Chapman University Feminist Zine Archive
- Dig Archive
- Disability Action Research Kollective
- Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics, Complete Archive
- Kansas Memory
- The Muriel Rukeyser Living Archive
- The National Indian Boarding School Digital Archive
- Norman V. Lamb Gothic Fantasy Collection
- Queer Zine Archive
- Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Digital Collections
Small Presses, Zine Distros, & Other Grassroots Publishing Efforts
- Brown Recluse Zine Distro
- volunteer-run group which distributes zines made by creators of color.
- Decolonization Coven
- community-run zine distro focused on zines informing/educating on anti-imperial and decolonial topics.
- Exmilitary Press
- political theory & cultural critique.
- Microcosm Publishing
- Portland, OR and Cleveland, OH independent publisher focused on alternative and leftist themes.
- Pile Press
- Oregon-based alternative press focusing on journals featuring poetry, prose, essays, and artwork.
- Sojourners for Justice Press
- micro press specializing in DIY Black Feminist and Abolitionist zines, pamphlets, and booklets.