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 | 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...
by FORGE Intern | Nov 20, 2012 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
Speech by Markie Anne Wenzel at the 2012 Milwaukee Transgender Day of Remembrance. Her themes are healing, forgiveness, faith, and fear. Resilience, Healing, and Hope by Markie Anna Wenzel As One who has been down the path of Transgender Transition, and Making my way...
by FORGE Intern | Nov 20, 2012 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
Poem with the theme of who calls out the names of the living…living with trauma’s leftovers. Written in 2006 and ready by michael munson at the 2012 Milwaukee Transgender Day of Remembrance. who calls out the names of the living? michael munson who calls out the...
by FORGE Intern | Nov 20, 2012 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
Speech by Syd Michael Robinson at the 2012 Milwaukee Transgender Day of Remembrance. In it he discusses his transition. Dearest Friends, Today, all over the world, there are programs and vigils being held for Transgender Day of Remembrance. As, I’m saying this, the...
by FORGE Intern | Nov 20, 2012 | Anti-Violence, Providers, Trans Community / Survivors
Opening speech by Rev. Wendy Woodruff at the 2012 Transgender Day of Remembrance. We gather this evening to mourn. We also gather to celebrate the lives that have been lost and to dedicate ourselves to making a better world for those who see themselves or are seen by...
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