Crisis Hotlines: Of Course Queers Invented Them, Part One

Margaret talks to you about the history of suicide prevention hotlines and the complications of state intervention in emergency mental health care. Sources: https://translifeline.org/about/history/ https://translifeline.org/response-to-988-cuts/ https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2014/10/27/359434925/bernard-mayes-nprs-first-chairman-founder-of-suicide-hotline-dies https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/Bernard-Mayes-to-be-honored-as-lifeline-to-3516576.php https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11447250/Bernard-Mayes-priest-obituary.html https://web.archive.org/web/20141026134947/http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2014/10/24/bernard-mayes-kqed-fms-first-general-manager-dies-at-85 https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45106/sonnet-116-let-me-not-to-the-marriage-of-true-minds https://www.sfsuicide.org/about/ https://translifeline.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/The-Problem-With-988-Report-November-2024-Text.pdf https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC11733462/ https://www.cdc.gov/suicide/facts/data.html https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6978712/ https://www.psychiatry.org/News-room/APA-Blogs/Marking-Two-Years-of-988-The-Suicide-and-Crisis-Li https://behavioralhealthlink.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/06/988-History-Journal-Article_JohnDraper.pdf https://www.inclusivetherapists.com/blog/suicide-mental-health-crisis-resources-not-police https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/her-death-sparked-transgender-day-remembrance-22-years-later-still-n1233809 https://www.them.us/story/rita-hester-trans-remembrance-visibility-memorial https://translifeline.org/why-no-non-consensual-intervention/ https://www.them.us/story/trans-lifeline-report-988-police-interventions https://madattheinternet.substack.com/p/online-censorships-institutional https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32121226 https://glaad.org/tdor/ https://web.archive.org/web/20250107195548/https://cohost.org/lizthegrey/post/1520523-some-philanthropy-th

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