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  • Disability and Trans Survivors Webinar Registration Open

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    Registration is now open for the May 23, 2013 webinar Disability and Transgender Survivors: Empowering providers who work with multiply-marginalized populations.  Learn more about this free webinar — and register today — by going to: http://forge-forward.org/event/disability-trans-survivors/

  • T-shirt Design Contest!

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    FORGE is a co-sponsor of PrideFest 2013’s Health and Wellness Area — June 7-9, 2013. Every year, we supply booth volunteers with free FORGE-branded T-shirts specific to the booth’s theme.  We need your help! FORGE’s 2013 booth theme is… “Do your hugs come with strings attached?” This phrase is part of a multi-faceted campaign to [...]

  • Espavo Project

    Espavo: Thank you for taking your power back FORGE encourages trans, gender non-conforming and loved ones who have experienced sexual violence to take part in this photographic and narrative project, with the goal of increasing personal healing and empowerment, and offering strength and hope to the community. Although the project is in its infancy, we [...]

  • Webinar Archive: Power and Control

    Archived Recording… …of April 11, 2013′s Power and Control webinar is now available.  This 90 minute webinar reviews the the commonly used framework of power and control within intimate partner violence.  Content highlights detailed trans-specific power and control tactics both used against transgender/gender non-conforming individuals, as well as those that trans* people use against their [...]

  • Boys and Men Healing (Free Film)

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    Watch …this riveting documentary about the impact sexual abuse of boys has on both the individual and society Reflect …on how the lives of boys and men are deeply changed by childhood sexual abuse, and the importance of healing and speaking out for male survivors to end the devastating effects. Share …how sexual abuse of [...]

  • Webinar: Power and Control

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    Free monthly webinars to help victim service providers better serve transgender and gender non-conforming clients/survivors. Have you registered for the April 11, 2013 webinar on Power and Control Tactics Specific to Transgender people? (noon-1:30 Pacific, 1-2:30pm Mountain, 2-3:30pm Central, 3-4:30pm Eastern) It’s free and easy. Go to https://www4.gotomeeting.com/register/603914671 Description: Power and control tactics are often [...]

  • #Trans101 Twitter Chat

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    It’s time… to tweet about it! Join us for #Trans101 Twitter Chat Thursday, March 14, 2013 2:00 – 3:00pm Central (noon-1:00 Pacific, 1-2:00pm Mountain, 2-3:00pm Central, 3-4:00pm Eastern) Description: Trans101 webinars are great, but so are opportunities to ask any and all the questions you have about transgender and gender non-conforming individuals and issues. Join [...]

  • Violence Against Women Act Becomes Trans-Inclusive

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    Today history was made by succeeding in protecting transgender and gender non-conforming (as well as lesbian, gay, and bisexual) victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, dating violence and stalking from discrimination by services funded by the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA). The LGBT non-discrimination amendment to the VAWA reauthorization, passed today by the U.S. House [...]

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  • New LGBT Elder Abuse Materials Available

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    FORGE’s Transgender Aging Network, in partnership with the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging (NRCLA), is very pleased to announce the publication of new materials on LGBT elder abuse, available at http://www.lgbtagingcenter.org/resources/resources.cfm?s=5 One of the new publications, “A Self-Help Guide for LGBT Older Adults and their Caregivers and Loved Ones: Preventing, Recognizing, and Addressing Elder [...]

  • Trans Black History Month

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    February is Black History month. We honor and recognize the African-American trans individuals and loved ones who boldly step forward to acknowledge the intersections of race and gender, and so much more.  The organizations, blogs, individuals, and films listed below are just a few of the great leaders and activists in our community. This newsletter [...]