Sometimes one of the challenges with asking for help is that we don’t know what will happen or what a place offers. Calling a crisis hotline can be overwhelming. Who will answer? Can they help me? What do I even need? Read more: forge.tips/hotlines

Are you planning on attending Community Love Letters on Oct 19th? Come prepared with some basic writing materials! Regular paper and a pen or pencil will work just fine, but feel free to get creative with stationary, colorful pens/markers, or stickers/stamps! forge.tips/love-letters

This #DVAM, learn how you can support trans survivors with safety planning. This webinar covers 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

How do domestic violence and intimate partner violence impact trans communities? This #DVAM, we're sharing both general and trans-specific tactics that are used against trans folks. These are just a few ways that trans/nonbinary folks may experience DV/IPV. forge.tips/DVAM24

Sign up for our upcoming panel on IPV, authoritarianism, and trans lives. Panelists will examine the intersections of intimate partner violence and authoritarianism and explore how trans survivors are impacted by rising and existing fascism forge.tips/IPV-trans-lives

Share a little love! On Sun, October 19th, we're hosting a calm hangout space on Zoom to gather and write letters to community members who are needing some positivity and support. Bring some writing materials or stationary for this relaxed one-hour event! More info at forge.tips/love-letters

October is Domestic Violence Awareness Month. Check out this collection of resources for DVAM at forge.tips/DVAM24, and keep an eye out for posts on strategies for responding to and preventing DV throughout the month. #DVAM2025 #WithSurvivors #CallForUnity

Join us on October 9th! This panel discussion examines the intersections of IPV and authoritarianism, exploring how trans survivors are impacted by rising and existing fascism and ways that communities can take action to support safety and democracy. forge.tips/IPV-trans-lives

This guide has been created to assist anti-violence organizations, especially sexual and domestic violence agencies, in understanding and responding to the current crises in the United States. Find out more at forge.tips/responding-to-fascism

In this recorded webinar, Jess Stohlmann-Rainey discusses the history of carceral responses to suicide and crisis. She explores the ways queer and trans people have been targeted by carceral “interventions" and imagines liberatory ways to respond to suicide. forge.tips/liberatory-responses

How do we know when we're starting to experience burnout, especially if we don't notice subtle changes in the moment? In this blog post, our guest contributor shares personal experiences with having a rhythm that doesn’t work in the rules of the standard clock. forge.tips/navigating-burnout

”Even in the darkest of days, it feels so empowering to speak up for the other transgender youth who may not have the kind of support that I have in my life," says Libby Gonzales, 15-year-old activist, in a video with @hrc.org

A @trevorproject.bsky.social study found that access to gender-affirming care reduced suicide ideation and attempts in transgender individuals. With ongoing attacks on gender-affirming care, it's important to uplift the science: gender-affirming care saves lives. forge.tips/GAC-study

As service providers, advocates, and community members working with trans and nonbinary folks, it's important to recognize possible signs of a mental health crisis. This recorded webinar covers common indicators of crisis and ways to respond to them. forge.tips/mental-health-support

There's still time to submit to issue #4 of the Trans Survivors Zine! This issue is focused on relationships of all kinds. Find full submission guidelines at forge.tips/submit #TransSurvivors #Transgender #Trans #Healing #TransJoy #Poetry #Fiction #FlashFiction #Nonfiction

For Suicide Prevention Month, we're thinking about the little things that keep us going. A hot cup of coffee or a warm washcloth on your face. Cuddles with a pet, sending a postcard to a friend. What small (or big) things keep you going when you're struggling? Let us know in the comments!

Sometimes change comes slowly when we're the most eager for it. j.c. captures that gradual growth into hope and self-love. Read the full poem at forge.tips/zine. Connect with j.c. at www.instagram.com/jcbennettzin...

Daniel Rivera Stahlschmidt's "Sense of Self" touches on "the feeling of how you look being at odds," contrasting traditional and digital elements. Connect with Daniel at @gre3nie.bsky.social! forge.tips/zine

Irina Vérène's poem, "shape[SHIFT]" explores changing understandiings of our bodies through phases of life and transition. Read the full poem in Issue #2 of the Trans Survivors Zine, available at forge.tips/zine. Find Irina at substack.com/@queenofgore

Pod-mapping is a dynamic, visual strategy for increasing circles of connection, heightening individual and community safety, and incorporating multiple avenues for support and solutions. Learn more about this FORGE workshop at NSAC at forge.tips/NSAC2025

Location update! For folks attending NSAC, the the caucus strategy session will be held in the room Platinum 3-4. Join us to strategize tonight! Learn more at forge.tips/NSAC2025

If you're at NSAC this year, join FORGE at the caucus strategy session for queer, trans, immigrant, disabled communities, and more. Join us to strategize how anti-violence organizations can respond to fascism and build a future for all of us to thrive. forge.tips/NSAC2025

VCA's poem, "Plant in October," uses the visual format of a seed packet to represent growth and change. Find poetry and art from 21 different trans and nonbinary creators in the Trans Survivors Zine, at forge.tips/zine! #TransSurvivors

FORGE is excited to be at the National Sexual Assault Conference again this year in Anaheim, CA! If you are also at the conference, please stop by our table in the vendor area or one of the workshops we’re facilitating. forge.tips/NSAC2025

Morten Feindt's "Burnt" explores relationships between intimacy, scars, and how or with whom we share our histories. Read the full piece in Issue #2 of the Trans Survivors Zine, available at forge.tips/zine Find Morten at instagram.com/mortenmfeindt

Jackson Bailey's "Untitled" (from the series Neither/Nor) "holds space for the contradiction of feeling too much and not enough." Find this art piece in Issue #2 of the Trans Survivors Zine, available at forge.tips/zine Connect with Jackson at jacksonbailey.ca!

Sometimes change is painful or even violent. That's how Donnie Dallas describes it in "Transition": "I wrote this around the time I was coming out to a few close friends and family that I was trans. It felt violent but also cathartic to begin my life again." forge.tips/zine

In "Gurl/Boy," Cee Onley writes about an experience of transition that is not clear-cut or one-directional, reminding us of the ways we connect to our past and present selves. Read the full poem in Issue #2 of the Trans Survivors Zine at forge.tips/zine

Thiago Porraz shared about his art piece: "This acrylic painting is both a representation of the internal feeling of gender dysphoria, as well as the external experience of existing as a visibly trans or gender non-conforming person..." forge.tips/zine

About her poem "Third Harvest," Vivid "Viv" Young writes: "In the poem, I imagine the speaker's ghost as a growing, gnarled and neglected fruit tree, which she ultimately invites to reunite with her physical body." Read the full Trans Survivors Zine at forge.tips/zine

Submissions for issue #4 of the Trans Survivors Zine are open! This issue focuses on relationships in all their many forms. Find full submission guidelines at forge.tips/submit #TransSurvivors #Healing #TransWriters #TransPoets #WritingCommunity

In "Through-and-through," N. Abram explores the ways that we get our scars - some by choice, and many not. Read the full poem in the Trans Survivors Zine Issue #2: forge.tips/zine Find N. Abram at forge.tips/3JC2XWQ #TransSurvivors

About their art piece, "life sized markers", Myrfei writes: "We are made of earth. Just like nature, our lives and selves undergo transformation with every wind, every light, every creature that passes through or touches us." Find the full zine at forge.tips/zine

Our next contributor highlight from Issue #2 of the Trans Survivors Zine is Finnley Stirling's "anatomy of a feather." Finnley approaches the theme of transformation with gentleness and curiosity in the full poem, which you can read at forge.tips/zine

Finn Mullen's "To Meet With, to Converse With" explores the ways that we find our identities through others, shaping these different pieces into a whole. Read the full piece in the Trans Survivors Zine, at forge.tips/zine

Our next contributor highlight from the second issue of the Trans Survivors Zine is Hannah Rae's art piece and poem, "The Rebirth of Venus." Find the full zine at forge.tips/zine and connect with Hannah Rae on Instagram at www.instagram.com/hannahraenbo...

The Equal Access Rule (EAR) provides clear, detailed guidance and requirements to ensure that housing programs through the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development are available to all eligible individuals and families. Find out more at forge.tips/EAR

Nicole Ginter's "When 'My Scars' Gets A New Meaning" is the opening poem in Issue #2 of the Trans Survivors Zine, highlighting the core theme of the issue: scars, rebirth, and transformation. Read the full poem and at forge.tips/zine. Find Nicole at hellopoetry.com/Nicol-g/

The submission window for issue #3 of the Trans Survivors Zine opens in one week! This third issue will focus on relationships in many forms: those that help us grow, those that hurt us, those that shape our lives and connections with others. Find out more at forge.tips/submit

“Trans people deserve to rest. Trans people deserve to feel freedom and feel safety, feel loved and feel appreciated, and also be housed affordably and safely," says Ciora Thomas, Founder/Executive Director of Sisters PGH in a video with the Human Rights Campaign.

Our next contributor highlight from the Trans Survivors Zine is Eden Chicken's "Bite-Size." This is only one small section from Eden's poem, which you can read in full alongside work from 20 other contributors at forge.tips/zine

This incredible collage, made from recycled materials, including HRT supplies (needle wrappers, T info/"warnings," prescriptions, etc.), comes from salvation burnette in our newest issue of the Trans Survivors Zine! Check out artwork from 21 different contributors at forge.tips/zine

"The Wolf" by RS Weldon captures complex feelings about transition and seeing our bodies and selves change in the mirror. What does it mean to be monstrous? Read the full poem in the Trans Survivors Zine at forge.tips/zine

If you've downloaded the Trans Survivors Zine, you've seen this incredible cover art by Nell Kerr! We're thrilled to be able to highlight artwork and writing from 21 different trans and nonbinary creators in the zine, which you can find at forge.tips/zine to download or print.

For our next contributor highlight, we're excited to share this excerpt from "And to those we lost," by Will Denis! Read the full poem (and the rest of the zine) at forge.tips/zine. Connect with Will on instagram at www.instagram.com/1000_beetles/ #TransSurvivors #TransPoets #WritingCommunity

We are so excited to share our first contributor highlight from the second issue of the Trans Survivors Zine: Transformation. Connect with Lennox on Instagram at instagram.com/clown.da.clo... and find the full digital zine at forge.tips/zine!

There is an amazing array of laws, regulations, and policies that impact transgender people and their families at the federal, state, and local level. These policies are constantly being changed. Find out more in July's TA question at forge.tips/july-TA

While some trans/nonbinary survivors do seek help from law enforcement, many do not. If we only focus on providing documentation to law enforcement, we miss many of the ways that documentation can be helpful to people experiencing violence. Learn more: forge.tips/documenting-abuse

Share your experiences with locker rooms! FORGE is creating a guide on preventing sexual violence in bathrooms, locker rooms, and other private/public spaces. Sign up at forge.tips/locker-room-focus-group #TransSurvivors #TransAthletes #ViolencePrevention #Healing

On a recent FORGE survey, 71% of participants shared that they had a disability. Service work that centers trans communities must also center the needs of people with disabilities. Keep an eye out for more resource highlights coming this month! #TransSurvivors #DisabilityPrideMonth