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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 [...]

  • “Walk a Mile. . .”

    • Date: April 7th, 2013
    • Subjects: News
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    FORGE has received questions from a number of DV/SA organizations and community organizers asking whether the “Walk A Mile in Her Shoes” events are transphobic or otherwise offensive to transgender and gender non-conforming people. Some trans people may, indeed, see these events as transphobic. However, FORGE is far more concerned about the larger implications and [...]