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The power of storytelling
Storytelling has the power to heal. In these clips, FORGE and MenHealing discuss how the Voice of Healing: Trans and Nonbinary Survivors SPEAK OUT project will empower survivors to share their...

New LGBT Elder Abuse Materials Available
Link to two articles on LGBT elder abuse. FORGE’s Transgender Aging Network, in partnership with the National Resource Center on LGBT Aging (NRCLA),...

T-shirt design winner
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...

“Walk a Mile. . .”
Are "Walk a Mile in Her Shoes" sexual assault awareness events transphobic? This FORGE essay explores the question. FORGE has received questions...

Trans Black History Month
2013 Trans Black History Month collection of organizations, blogs, videos, and films. February is Black History month. We honor and recognize the...

Visible Kindness
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...

TDOR Speech – Annie
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...

TDOR closing comments
Speech by Loree Cook-Daniels at the 2012 Milwaukee Transgender Day of Remembrance. Theme: how trans people provoke fear in others because we show...

TDOR speech – Markie
Speech by Markie Anne Wenzel at the 2012 Milwaukee Transgender Day of Remembrance. Her themes are healing, forgiveness, faith, and fear. Resilience,...

TDOR speech – michael
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...

TDOR speech – Syd
Speech by Syd Michael Robinson at the 2012 Milwaukee Transgender Day of Remembrance. In it he discusses his transition. Dearest Friends, Today, all...