The Capital United Land Trust is protecting land and empowering communities in Lansing, Michigan.

Their mission to preserve vacant land under community management, support sustainable urban agriculture, encourage ecological restoration and redistribute land stewardship to historically marginalized groups.

Contact: CapitalUnitedLandTrust.com or capitalunitedlandtrust@gmail.com

Helping Women Period provides free menstrual health management products and education to homeless and low income people in Mid-Michigan.

HWP has been providing menstrual health products to homeless and low income people in the Lansing area since 2015. HWP partners with over 145 other local organizations to distribute these products. Currently HWP is working on ways to provide reusable products, as well as disposable products.

HWP distributes every 2nd Saturday at Olivet Baptist Church in Holt, every 3rd Saturday with the City of Lansing Mobile Food Bank, and every 4th Saturday with Loads of Love at All Washed Up Laundromat.

Contact: helpingwomenperiod@gmail.com

HWP hosted a webinar class that taught how to make reusable menstrual pads. Watch on YouTube.

LGBTQ Abilities is a non-profit organized to provide support and advocacy for LGBTQIA+ individuals with disabilities and to raise awareness for the intersectionality found in the LGBTQIA+ and disability communities.

Contact: Luna Brown & Kammie Mead, lgbtqabilities@gmail.com

The Lansing Nonbinary Support Group is for anyone who identifies outside the gender binary (nonbinary, genderqueer, genderfluid, agender, etc.) or is questioning whether they might, and is at least 18 years old. Their meetings are a great place to get together with other nonbinary folx to chat, share, vent, and get and give advice and support. The Nonbinary Support Group formed at the Salus Center in the summer of 2019.

The Nonbinary Support group meets the 2nd Wednesday of every month at 6:30pm.

Contact: Grey Pierce (they/them), nonbinarylansing@gmail.com

The group is currently meeting via Zoom, but hopes to resume in-person meetings in late 2021.

Hosted at the Salus Center, a selection of poems from contemporary queer/trans poets of color are selected and discussed in a safe, intimate, sober space. No poetry experience needed, we approach the work from a feelings-centered place!

Contact: Izze Copeland (she/hers), contact@thethoughtclub.com

Queering Medicine is a grassroots advocacy organization made up of queer people working to improve health outcomes for LGBTQ+ people in the Greater Lansing area using science-informed knowledge and practice. They build coalitions and partnerships, generate new knowledge, disseminate information, and help address barriers to healthcare access. Queering Medicine is an inclusive group that is open to any members of LGBTQ+ communities who share our values and goals and want to be actively involved in our work.

Contact: queeringmedicinelansing@gmail.com

Queering Medicine is still meeting regularly and continues with its weekly updates focusing on the public health crisis racism and COVID-19.

The MSU Psychological Clinic strives to meet two equally important missions. The first is to provide state-of-the-art evidence based treatments to the community in such a way that permits underserved populations to receive mental health care. The second is to provide high quality training to advanced doctoral and postdoctoral students. The MSU Psychological Clinic embraces the diversity embodied within individual and group differences. We offer culturally competent services in a safe and affirming space. Fees are set based on family income level and/or specific provider level.

Housed within the MSU Psychological Clinic, we offer Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) services for LGBTQIA+ individuals. Therapists in our clinic are trained in how to provide the best quality care to LGBTQIA+ people. Therapists in the clinic can help if you would like to talk about experiences related to being LGBTQIA+, such as coming out, gender affirmation, holding multiple marginalized identities, or other topics. The clinic is also a good fit for LGBTQIA+ people who would like to discuss topics unrelated to being LGBTQIA+.

Contact: clinic@msu.edu or (517)-355-9564

Trans support and advocacy. Monthly support group meetings are hosted through Zoom on the 4th Monday of every month from 6:00-8:00pm.

Contact: Nicole Hope (she/hers), nicole@transgendermichigan.org

Transmasc+ Support Group is a confidential Salus Peer Support Group focusing on the needs and concerns of transmasculine-identifying community members in Lansing and surrounding areas. We hope to build a sense of safety, community, and confidence within a space created by and for transmasculine-identified people.

Contact: Samuel Rhoades (he/his), samuel@saluscenter.org

Monthly meetings are being hosted online via HIPAA compliant Zoom.

Sometimes writing in a vacuum is too isolating; sometimes writing can only been done alone. For some, writing has been a long cherished and subsequently over-weighted expectation and the writing self continues to go neglected and unaddressed. Sitting together in a safe space cast for the purpose of opening the writing vein, among others also facing this terrain, is one way to approach the calling we know as writing. Sitting with others makes it safer to enter the wild unknown territory of our imaginations and creativity while lending support and kinship, community in a word. The mission is expression through the vision of writing in community.

Contact: mimigonzalez223@gmail.com