~ Early Web Links ~

Queering Herbalism is a blog by a queer person of color exploring herbalism, plant medicine, and healing through a justice-centered lens. It features posts about the BIPOC Herbal Freedom School and Communiversity, a scholarship-supported program helping chronically ill and low-income medicine makers of color reclaim indigenous healing traditions.

A carefully curated directory of free and substantially free mental health resources, filterable by platform, type, and symptom category including anxiety, mood disorders, trauma, and suicidality. The site brings together apps, workbooks, online therapy tools, and social support communities to help people improve their mental health without the barrier of cost.

Moftasa's long-running personal blog by Mostafa Hussein Omar covers psychiatry resources, mental health for professionals, cycling events, and political commentary, with no ads or AI content. The site features curated podcast recommendations for mental health practitioners, personal updates about life in Egypt, and posts in both English and Arabic spanning two decades.

Rachel Tan's unapologetically Autistic blog challenges neuronormativity with a punk attitude, offering personal reflections on forging your own path outside neurotypical expectations. Based in Singapore, Rachel writes for Autistic punks, rebels, and misfits who refuse to mask or conform.

Hudson's FTM Resource Guide is a comprehensive reference site created for female-to-male transgender men, covering everything from testosterone therapy and surgery options to grooming, clothing, and bathroom tips. Viewed over 20 million times across 180 countries since 2004, this long-running guide is one of the most thorough FTM transition resources on the early web.

A mirror of the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, founded by the late herbalist Michael Moore, this site is a massive archive of medicinal plant knowledge including photographs, illustrations, materia medica, herb manuals, folios, and digitized historical texts like the complete US Dispensatory 20th Edition. Visitors will find an extraordinary depth of botanical reference material spanning decades of Moore's teaching, with genus-indexed plant photos, video clips, color illustrations, and extensive lecture notes on clinical and constitutional herbalism.