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Connecting with Community: Pods and Mutual Aid
Pod mapping is a useful way to identify the resources you need, where to connect to those resources, as well as what you have to offer others. Pod mapping can be useful in building community and...
Day 9: Use “I’m Here for You” Cards
Many trans and non-binary people have experienced trauma. If what you think when someone you know tells you they have experienced trauma is, “I...
Day 8: Buy trans books, read trans books, donate trans books
Remember books? “Most” trans, non-binary, and lesbian, gay, or bisexual high school students in a 2017 GLSEN national survey...
Day 7: Go with! Accompaniment has many forms
The last three years have been very hard on trans and non-binary people, who have watched as right after right has been taken away and government...
Day 6: Access (or help a trans survivor access) healing resources
People who have been the victims of a crime are more likely to experience more crimes. That fact makes healing trauma a prevention measure: healing...
Day 5: Revel in trans beauty
When FORGE first started training non-trans service professionals, we included pictures of trans people (with their overt permission!) in our...
Day 4: Make your own Blue Couch
Sometimes we need a little help from our friends (or a stranger) in order to share our emotions (and feel 100 times better). Ten years ago,...
Day 3: Creatively support people around TDOR
This weekend many communities will be holding Transgender Day of Remembrance (TDOR) events. TDOR is hard for many people. While some are comforted...
Day 2: Talk about non-binary identities
Did you know that 6-27% of youth age 12-18 identify as non-binary (Williams Institute, 2017)? Or, that in the 2015 U.S. Transgender Survey, 35% of...
Day 1: Introduce yourself!
One of the more frequent and more painful things that often happens to trans and non-binary people is “misgendering.” Misgendering is when someone...
Reaching Victims June Newsletter
The articles in this Reaching Victims newsletter include: a quote from Sarah McBride; a description of FORGE; and an article on the importance of...