Join us on December 16th! Safe to Be, Safe to Pee is a new tooklit from FORGE designed to help organizations and businesses prevent sexual violence in shared private spaces, such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing areas. Get a sneak peek of the toolkit content! forge.tips/safe-to-be

Safe to Be, Safe to Pee is a new tooklit from FORGE designed to help organizations and businesses prevent sexual violence in shared private spaces, such as bathrooms, locker rooms, and changing areas. Join us to learn about the toolkit and get a sneak peak at its content: forge.tips/safe-to-be

Join FORGE and these incredible speakers on Dec 2nd to travel through time! With M.E. O’Brien, Amir, and Matthew Armstead, we'll explore the past, present, and future of trans lives. Bring a notebook, an object to connect you to the present, and yourself! forge.tips/healing-transmissions

"To go in the dark with a light is to know the light. / To know the dark, go dark. Go without sight, and find that the dark, too, blooms and sings, and is traveled by dark feet and dark wings." To Know the Dark by Wendell Berry.

Today marks the National Day of Mourning. Around this time of year, our days are shorter, we spend a lot of our time inside, and we're often reminded of loss and grief. Today offers an occasion to explore this darkness with the first part of Wendell Berry's poem, "To Know the Dark."

It's difficult to feel joy when the national leadership has targeted trans communities with outrageous lies. The FORGE team brainstormed a list of things that help us care for ourselves, our loved ones, and have a little bit more joy or peace: forge.tips/small-things

What does it look like to make a safety plan, for yourself or those you work with? Here are some examples of things you might consider when safety planning around your workplace. Read more in the safety planning guide at forge.tips/safety-planning-tool

Trans folks deserve to thrive now and always. Time travel with us! At this interactive event, we’ll explore how trans folks have navigated this world in the past, and how we imagine liberatory trans futures. Sign up at forge.tips/healing-transmissions

Many of us are sitting with the weight of TDOR today. Whether we attended events or scrolled through posts on social media, reminders of loss and grief ouch us all in different ways. What is one thing you're doing to today to take care of yourself (or your loved ones)?

Many trans survivors are navigating the effects of multiple forms of trauma, disability, and isolation, while trying to care for ourselves and others. Watch the webinar on COVID and traum: forge.tips/covid-and-trauma #TransSurvivors #StillMasking

Join us in two weeks! Using time travel, we’ll explore how trans folks, ourselves included, have navigated this world – and found healing and connection. We’ll zoom to the future to imagine liberatory possibilities for ourselves and our communities. Sign up at forge.tips/healing-transmissions

We can help keep each other safer. In this recorded webinar, presenters and participants look at tools for assessing risk in different situations, how to ask for support from others, and what might be included in a safety plan. Watch the recording at forge.tips/safety-planning

Around this time of year, many of us are thinking about grief - for the people and connections we have lost. At last year's TDOR event, speakers shared about different ways to approach grief, including grief as an expression of love. forge.tips/grief-love-liberation

This #TransAwarenessWeek, check out this resource from the National Indigenous Women's Resource Center. This webinar is designed for tribal communities and provides culturally based responses to the needs of Native LGBT/2S survivors. forge.tips/niwrc #TransSurvivors

We don't need to wait for awareness days or weeks to celebrate trans people and our communities. Let's celebrate today and every day. #TransSurvivors #TransAwarenessWeek #TDOR

Our last contributor highlight for the Aging and Growth issue of the Trans Survivors zine is Toshiya Kamei's "Late Bloom." Toshiya weaves together threads of aging and transition, grief and joy, regret and growth. Read the full piece in Issue #3 at forge.tips/zine

"Imagining the future... creates a little bit more possibility for my existence to exceed my life expectancy." From last year's TDOR, Matthew Armstead shares about the power of imagining trans and nonbinary futures. forge.tips/grief-love-liberation #TransAwarenessWeek #TDOR

If you've downloaded the Trans Survivors Zine, you've seen this incredible cover artwork by Amir Patros! "I started taking testosterone in October 2024, 3 months later, I had made this piece, inspired by the application of the gel I had put on every morning on my shoulder." forge.tips/zine

Today is the first day of #TransAwarenessWeek! One way to celebrate this week as a service provider is to prepare yourself to support trans and nonbinary survivors of violence. Watch the webinar recording for practice scenarios: forge.tips/survivor-scenarios

For many young trans people, aging may feel like a distant possibility. "An Old Thing Like Me" by Maddie Jaffe explores this feeling of time being cut short and struggling to imagine trans futures - and how we can do it anyway! forge.tips/zine

The holidays can be a time of excitement and connection, but they’re also often a time of heightened stress. Read the blog post on coping strategies: forge.tips/holiday-tips #TransSurvivor #TransSurvivors #Transgender #NonBinary

Fatima Noor Al Sahar: "My friends know I'm genderfluid, and my family ends the call. My friends tell me I'm beautiful, and true to myself, and radiating authenticity and my family changes the topic... I'm my own creation... I just want to serve my friends and my lovers." forge.tips/zine

Receiving a note from a friend, loved one, or community member can mean so much. Even a short text message letting someone know you care, a silly video, or a picture of your pet, can brighten someone's day. It's easy to share the love! forge.tips/love-letters

Many of the pieces in Issue #3 of the Trans Survivors Zine explore intersections of transness and parenthood. R. Haven's "I'm Her Dad" touches on what it feels like to be seen as ourselves by those closest to us. Read the full poem at forge.tips/zine. Connect with R. Haven at theirritablequeer.com!

Join artists, activists, and healers for an evening of imagination and connection. Using time travel, we’ll explore how trans folks have navigated this world, we'll imagine liberatory futures, connect with our current selves. forge.tips/healing-tran...

FORGE hosted a panel on authoritarianism and intimate partner violence in trans communities. In this short preview, Emil talks about the ways that people in power engage in abuse and violence, while spreading misinformation about trans folks as perpetrators of violence.

Our next contributor highlight is an excerpt from Kairos Looney's "liturgies"! #33 captures hope in the face of a tumultuous world. "yes I know how to heal myself / the world has not shaken this big ole transsexual away." forge.tips/zine

The National LGBTQ IPV Institute and FORGE would like to invite you to join our LGBTQ+ Survivor Advocacy Network meeting space. We are inviting LGBTQ+ people, organizations, and allies to come together and build a stronger movement. forge.tips/survivor-advocacy-network

Sometimes imagining our futures helps us find a path through the present. Judy Thorn's "Future Tense" explores this imagining and connection with others through personal narrative. Read the full piece in Issue #3 of the Trans Survivors Zine: Aging and Growth, at forge.tips/zine

Trans and nonbinary people use a variety of strategies to stay safer from hate-motivated violence. On a 2024 FORGE survey, participants shared some of the strategies they used for avoiding hate violence. Learn more in the reportback on our initial findings at forge.tips/surviving-hate

Eric writes: "This piece is about what it means to age with someone you love. It shows how your love changes shape as you grow older together." Find the full poem in the Aging and Growth issue of the Trans Survivors Zine, at forge.tips/zine

At a recent panel discussion, Nadia spoke about the ways that individuals and organizations can resist fascism by refusing to comply before we have to. Resistance doesn't always look like disruption - sometimes it looks like maintaining the information or services we already offer!

About "Growth," Asher shared: "I wrote this poem as I was beginning to process and work through some trauma from an abusive relationship. I wrote it as I reflected on growth and love while listening to Bell Hooks 'All About Love: New Visions.'" forge.tips/zine

November is Trans Awareness Month! While this is a great time to bring awareness toward trans communities and the challenges we are facing, we also center and celebrate trans folks all year round. How are you celebrating or bringing awareness to trans communities this month?

The physical landscapes of our communities change with time. Sharon Moss's "San Francisco is Full of Ghosts" explores both this loss of physical queer spaces, along with the ways that we still connect and find one another. forge.tips/zine

Every survivor deserves safety, care, and respect. People of all genders experience domestic and sexual violence. Support services should center those who are most marginalized to create safer and more affirming services for everyone. Learn more: forge.tips/DVAM24

Intersex health, dignity and consent are not and have never been optional. Every person, including those with variations in their sex traits, deserves affirming and knowledgeable healthcare rooted in the right to make decisions for their own bodies. #WhyWeShowUp #IntersexAwarenessWeek

Alana Storm's "Frontier Discovery" explores the way our understandings of ourselves shift with age - ways that our perspectives can become more expansive. Read the full poem in Issue #3 of the Trans Survivors Zine: Aging and Growth, at forge.tips/zine @alanastorm.bsky.social

Intersex people are often denied the ability to make informed decisions about their own reproductive futures. Intersex people, and all people, deserve the freedom to control their own reproductive health. #WhyWeShowUp #IntersexAwarenessWeek

There is limited information on the experiences of LGBTQ+ people and their relationships. If you are part of the community, the National LGBTQ IPV Institute would like to hear from you! Please take less than 15 minutes to complete this brief survey. forge.tips/ipv-survey

Transand intersex people are united in the right to make decisions about our own bodies. Every attack on trans people’s healthcare also promotes harm towards intersex people. Our liberation is tied together. 🏳️⚧️💜💛 #WhyWeShowUp #IntersexAwarenessWeek #TransIntersexSolidarity

Trans men and transmasculine survivors experience high rates of domestic and sexual violence, but are often left out of services or organizations that only serve women. We recognize that sexual violence impacts people of all genders - and that men and masculine people should have access to support.

"This is a part of a series! three collages about trans history and how I feel like I see myself in trans people of the past, then there is who I currently am, and this piece... represents what I hope to be in the future further into my transition." - Lane Stephens. forge.tips/zine

"I wrote this poem in the glow of a love that, with time, revealed itself to be less than what I thought... It also positions love as my favorite trans survival method, and that is something I will always see as invaluable." - Kelsey L. Smoot. Read more: forge.tips/zine

There is limited information on the experiences of LGBTQ+ people and their relationships. If you are part of the community, the National LGBTQ IPV Institute would like to hear from you! Please take less than 15 minutes to complete this brief survey. forge.tips/ipv-survey

One tactic commonly used against trans communities is technology-facilitated abuse. When so many trans and nonbinary people connect with community and support online, losing access to these resources becase of technology-facilitated abuse can be particularly dangerous. forge.tips/cyber-abuse

What does it mean to be seen? How do our relationships allow us to envision our futures as trans and nonbinary folks? In "Birthday Sex at Buffalo Bayou Park," Farrah Fang explores desire, connection, and aging. Read the full poem in Issue #3 of the zine, at forge.tips/zine

Our next contributor highlight from Trans Survivors Zine is Jovana (Jo) Babovic's "Michelle." This issue of the zine celebrates trans elders and the many ways that aging and growth can look in our communities. Find the full issue: forge.tips/zine

We know that hate violence and intimate partner violence are connected. When we see increasing cultures of hate, interpersonal harm, domestic violence, and stalking increase - particularly directed toward marginalized communities. Learn more: forge.tips/stalking-and-harassment

Cordelia Casey's "Kind Mother" explores growing into parenthood as our own relationships with our parents change. Read the full story in issue #3 of the Trans Survivors Zine at forge.tips/zine