Since the election, the primary emotion of LGBT people and other marginalized groups has been despair.

Queer teens are reporting higher rates of anxiety and calls to LGBT suicide hotlines spiked following Trump's win. Feminists, people of color, religious minorities, immigrants, and disabled Americans have all voiced serious fears about their rights under the coming administration.

With so much to worry about, it can be difficult to find sources of hope, inspiration, and strength—or even to motivate ourselves to seek them out. But that's exactly what we'll need to sustain us through the battles to come. That's why a new initiative called "Letters to the Revolution" aims to make hope more accessible.

The intersectional online platform, which launched on January 2, features messages of survival, strength, and hope from leading artists, activists, and allies from communities under threat by the incoming administration. Participants include Jewelle Gomez, Bill McKibben, Kate Bornstein, and Chase Strangio, the ACLU attorney representing Chelsea Manning.

"For me, the real battle (for now) is within myself," writes Trevor Project co-founder James Lecesne in his letter. "A part of me wants to give up, to cave, to crawl into a hole, to admit defeat—but then another part of me is fired up and ready to prove that though the electorate has gone ahead and done something irrevocably wrongheaded, I will not be swayed in my belief that we are a decent people with huge hearts and unlimited potential."

Trans performer Shakina Nayfack (Difficult People) offers some words of wisdom in hers: "A commitment to nonviolence is not the same as passivity or niceness. Get over being nice."

The campaign was started by mental-health activist and cabaret performer Sabrina Chap, who edited the Lambda-nominated collection Live Through This: On Creativity and Self Destruction.

"Online, the only reactions I saw were fear, anger, or desperation, as the media reported each of the inane cabinet postings," she says. "All of my Facebook friends’ posts were of hate, anger, and reactionary towards the upcoming administration. I felt exhausted and hadn’t even begun to fight. I realized then, that in reacting to the upcoming administration, we had lost sight of who we were."

The site will be updated with up to 20 letters a week from activists, artists, and community leaders for the month of January. But anyone can submit a letter (get info here) or you can nominate someone else to write a letter on social media.

"I wanted to focus our communities. I needed to hear from our leaders," says Chap.

"Who are we, how will we fight, how will we protest and how will we survive these next four years? 'Letters to the Revolution' hopes to convert these feelings of anger and confusion into powerful tools, creating a road map for everyone to be an activist.”