by FORGE Intern | Sep 17, 2014 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
Review of a Williams Institute report on voter identification laws affecting trans voters. Is voting a violence-prevention issue? Citizens of Ferguson, MO – which has been embroiled in a very public controversy over police violence – may decide it is: it turns...
by FORGE Intern | Apr 9, 2014 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Sexual Violence, Trans Community / Survivors
Link to Huffington Post article on transgender sexual violence survivors FORGE’s Executive Director michael munson was published by the Huffington Post on April 8, as part of a Sexual Assault Awareness Month series coordinated by the National Sexual Violence Resource...
by FORGE Intern | Feb 8, 2014 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
On its 20th anniversary, FORGE issued an annual report. Includes data, partnerships, and quotes. FORGE’s 2013 Annual Report… highlights how far we’ve come over the past 20 years, reviews our partnerships and national policy work, shares some of our efforts and...
by FORGE Intern | Jun 26, 2013 | Aging, Anti-Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, Providers, Sexual Violence, Trans Community / Survivors
Link to two articles on LGBT elder abuse. 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...
by FORGE Intern | Jun 5, 2013 | Anti-Violence, Intimate Partner Violence, Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
2013’s t-shirt design winner: Do Your Hugs Come with Strings Attached? Congratulations to Chelsea O’Neil, the winner of the 2013 FORGE T-Shirt contest! Chelsea’s design captures the FORGE PrideFest booth theme of “Do your hugs come with strings attached?” This...
by FORGE Intern | Apr 7, 2013 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Sexual Violence
Are “Walk a Mile in Her Shoes” sexual assault awareness events transphobic? This FORGE essay explores the question. FORGE has received questions from a number of DV/SA organizations and community organizers asking whether the “Walk A Mile in Her Shoes”...
by FORGE Intern | Feb 16, 2013 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
2013 Trans Black History Month collection of organizations, blogs, videos, and films. 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...
by FORGE Intern | Dec 14, 2012 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
This 2006 essay was reprinted in 2012 after the Sandy Hooks school shooting. It weaves together earlier school shootings, a loved one’s suicide and the neighbors’ response, mustaches, and the Amish response to violence. Today, on December 14, 2012, there...
by FORGE Intern | Nov 20, 2012 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
Speech by Annie, parent of a trans daughter, at the 2012 Milwaukee Transgender Day of Remembrance. First of all I wish to commend and tell all of the transgender community how courageous you all are for living your lives for who you truly are on the inside. You are...
by FORGE Intern | Nov 20, 2012 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
Speech by Loree Cook-Daniels at the 2012 Milwaukee Transgender Day of Remembrance. Theme: how trans people provoke fear in others because we show them the boxes they were told to fit in do not have to be prisons for life. Tonight we’ve gathered, as we’ve had so many...
Recent Comments