Each February, young people nationwide raise awareness about teen dating violence through Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month (TDVAM). This annual month-long push focuses on advocacy and education to stop dating abuse before it starts. Join us by using the hashtag #RealLoveRespects

“Our bodies, which home and carry us, deserve the same love we give to our physical homes," writes Jamie, in 'One man’s trash is a trans masc’s treasure: How the local charity shops helped me find my identity' on @transactualuk.bsky.social! Find the article at forge.tips/charity-shops.

DEADLINE EXTENDED! We're looking for submissions from trans/nonbinary youth for the Trans Survivors Zine. We welcome your grief and rage at the state of our current world; we welcome your stories of healing, hope, and resilience; we welcome a range of expressions and experiences. forge.tips/submit

Get the facts! LGBTQ+ people are more likely to experience stalking compared to cisgender, heterosexual people. This quick fact sheet from SPARC covers some stats on trans and LGB peoples’ experiences with stalking, along with resources for getting help. Read more: forge.tips/stalking-facts

There's still time to submit to Trans Survivors! We welcome submissions of art and writing on unique experiences in the current world as a young trans person; around a range of topics on growth, imagining the future, healing, trauma, and resilience. forge.tips/submit

We have a new guest post up on the Trans Survivors blog! "Love Letters" by Dean Robert Holmes explores ways that we communicate and experience connection and desire. Read the full blog post at forge.tips/love-letters-blog!

Today is the first day of Creating Change! Come find FORGE in the exhibit area and presenting on IPV and Authoritarianism on Thursday, January 22nd. Find out more at forge.tips/cc26!

Trans Survivors issue #5 is open for submissions! We welcome submissions of art and writing from trans and nonbinary youth under 25. Submissions might focus on experiences as a young trans person, growth, imagining the future, healing, or resilience. forge.tips/submit

“No one is a burden; everyone deserves to love and be loved” - Eli Fitzgerald, Youth and LGBTQ+ Project Coordinator at Positively UK (@positivelyuk.bsky.social) #TransSurvivors #TransCommunity

From the WA Immigrant Solidarity Network: "Human trafficking risks are often heightened by poverty, unstable housing, language, cultural barriers, discrimination, and vulnerabilities tied to immigration status — conditions that traffickers exploit to manipulate, control, and coerce victims.

Will you be at Creating Change this January 21st-25th? Join Caleb and Emil from FORGE for a presentation on Intimate Partner Violence and Authoritarianism in trans communities. Learn more about creating change at forge.tips/cc26!

Did you know that 9 out of 10 trans/nonbinary people have experienced technology-facilitated abuse? Often, technology-facilitated abuse is a part of stalking victimization. Learn more at forge.tips/cyber-abuse

Trans and nonbinary youth: we want to hear from you! For this issue of the Trans Survivors Zine, we invite submissions from trans and nonbinary youth age 24 and younger. Find full submission guidelines at forge.tips/submit! #TransSurvivors #TransWriters #TransArtists #TransYouth

Come find FORGE at Creating Change this year, Jan 21st-25th! We'll be tabling in the exhibit area and presenting on IPV and Authoritarianism. Find out more at forge.tips/cc26!

If you're wondering how your agency can become more welcoming to trans survivors, check out this webinar! There are free and easy steps that every agency can take to show trans and nonbinary survivors that they belong. Find out more at forge.tips/becoming-a-trans-welcoming-agency

"Community is the cure. They’re trying to divide and conquer, but we’re stronger together." - Bo #TransSurvivors #Transgender #NonBinary #TransJoy

How can you support LGBTQ+ stalking victims? FORGE and SPARC have collaborated to create an in-depth publication for victim advocates, service providers, survivors, and loved ones. forge.tips/stalking-guide

As we start the new year, we are reminded of all the strength, advocacy, and support shared within trans communities. "I wake up everyday with unending gratitude for being trans. Unending gratitude for my queer and trans communities." - Chase Strangio (@chasestrangio.bsky.social)

New relationships can reshape our understandings of our pasts. For our last contributor highlight from Issue #4 of the Trans Survivors Zine, we're excited to share Naina's "i walk back through your past to hold your hand in the dark and kiss your bruises." Read the full poem at forge.tips/zine!

For so many trans folks, it's important that we see the possibilities ahead of us for healthy and loving relationships. Samuel-Michael's "Prince on Ice" considers how and what we reveal about our histories, and the vulnerability of being seen and received. Read the full piece: forge.tips/zine

From all of us at FORGE, we're wishing you a restful start to the new year. Not all of us have choice in how we spend the holidays. Visiting family, or being in unsupportive environments, can take a toll on us. Wishing ease and healing for all of us who need it in the new year!

Sometimes the connections we form with our community are less visible to others - underground, carefully-held, and built through and in spite of traumatic experiences. Find Caz Shegogue's "communing" in the relationships issue of the Trans Survivors Zine, at forge.tips/zine!

Trans Survivors Issue #4 explores relationships of all kinds, including ways that intimacy becomes complicated by identity and our experiences of our bodies. We love the way Dex's "Dick Under Duct Tape" captures the boundaries we create to protect ourselves. Read the full poem: forge.tips/zine

"I love how our community finds ways to protect each other." Find Kipp at @sharks-treasures.bsky.social and the full zine at forge.tips/zine! #TransSurvivors #TransArtists #TransPoets #T4T

Imagining is a powerful tool for creating the spaces and communities we want to live in. niko's poem "i want" makes desires for interpersonal and larger-scale change simple. Read the full poem in Issue #4 of the Trans Survivors Zine at forge.tips/zine!

Lambda Legal (@lambdalegal.org) collected and shared messages of hope for trans youth. Margaret from California says, "Trans existence is a beautiful thing." Find the other messages at www.instagram.com/p/DRKrpIPikU...

We love the way Blue Midnight Canis's poem, "Skinner Box," makes the trajectory of a relationship into something tangible, the way that seeking connection and care slowly returns abuse. Read the full poem at forge.tips/zine and connect with Blue Midnight Canis at @azurebitch.bsky.social!

About his piece, "Mementos From Our Last Night," Noah shares: "This painting is an expression of pain, created shortly after Noah got out of xyr abusive relationship. Despite the reminders of trauma there is light coming through the storm clouds." forge.tips/zine #TransSurvivors #TransArtists

Jackson Fortner Hill's "Damn The Roses" explores the complexity of remembering in the aftermath of a relationship. Find the full poem in Issue #4 of the Trans Survivors Zine, at forge.tips/zine #TransSurvivors #TransPoets

Issue #4 of the Trans Survivors Zine explores relationships in all their forms. Oliver Chapman's "Wedding Bells" captures the depth of emotion when queer love and connection are expressed and honored. Read the zine: forge.tips/zine #TransSurvivors #TransArtists

In this recorded webinar, join FORGE and our two guest speakers, Nia and Nadia, for a thoughtful discussion on the intersections of authoritarianism and state-sanctioned violence on trans communities and relationships. Find the recording at forge.tips/IPV-trans-lives.

In Maya Williams's poem, unexpected means lead us back to connection. Read the full poem in the Relationships issue of the Trans Survivors Zine, at forge.tips/zine and connect with Maya at @emmdubb16.bsky.social and mayawilliamspoet.com! #TransSurvivors #TransPoets

In relationships where we are anticipating someone else's emotions and crises, how can we care for our own? M. Lopes da Silva's "the fireman" follows this metaphor: the labor of putting out fires while our own burn too. forge.tips/zine Connect with M. at @mlopesdasilva.bsky.social!

Check out the amazing cover art from Issue #4 of the Trans Survivors Zine! Marlowe Olsen's "Home With You" captures themes of rebirth and connection with nature - a different kind of relationship than many of those depicted in the zine! forge.tips/zine #TransSurvivors #TransArtists

"As a survivor of IPV, I’ve found that nature and its processes have had a profound impact on both the narratives I have about who I am post trauma as well as my experience of learning to exist in the world again with others and move away from isolation." - Quill. forge.tips/zine

Kale Bolton's "Third Infusion" explores intersections of relationships and illness - ways that our connections support us through hardship and also complicate our experiences with trauma. Read the full piece at forge.tips/zine Find Kale at cancerqueers.com.

Nasta Martyn's "Blue Girl" is our next contributor highlight from the Trans Survivors zine! We love the mix of collage and illustration, and the way three dimensional threads connect each piece of the artwork. Find Nasta's piece in the zine at forge.tips/zine!

"Ending violence against sex workers isn’t only about what happens in the streets. It’s about dismantling the structures that make that violence possible. It’s about building a world where safety is not a privilege, but a right." From the Sex Worker Outreach Project: Behind Bars.

Issue #4 of the Trans Survivors Zine focuses on relationships in many forms. Gemma Bastian's "T4T" explores ways that trans folks may uniquely connect in relationship with one another - through the mutual "jerry rigging / of each other’s bodies." Read the full poem at forge.tips/zine

International Day to End Violence Against Sex Workers is coming up on December 17th. Today, the Sex Worker Outreach Project invites us to "imagine a world where safety is not conditional, where dignity is not negotiable, and where justice does not come with caveats." forge.tips/swop-end-violence

"My piece is about surviving emotional and sexual abuse that started in my childhood at the hands of trans adults. It's unfortunately been necessary to untangle my gender/sexual identity from my abuse, and justify the reality of my identity." - Aspen forge.tips/zine #TransSurvivors #TransArtists

elle's "potato soup" left us feeling the warmth of connection through small acts of care. elle's poem explores the complexity of mental health, connection with our bodies, and relationships to others. Read the full poem in Issue #4 of the Trans Survivors zine: forge.tips/zine

Asher-Reid Martinez's "Silly Goose" is the first poem in Trans Survivors Issue #4! "I wanted to keep my piece light and hopeful because a lot of my work is pretty dark/angry and I've been trying to lean into being soft in a world set out to harden us." Read the full poem: forge.tips/zine

We're so excited to announce the launch of Issue #4 of the Trans Survivors Zine! Our first highlighted artist is August Webber and their piece, "we can make it." Find the full zine at forge.tips/zine! #TransSurvivors #T4T #TransArtists

Check out our new blog post from @writingknighting.bsky.social! "Facing the Fog" is "a brief memoir and rumination on realising that I am actually going to grow old, what that might mean as someone who has transitioned, and how I came to terms with that." forge.tips/facing-the-fog

There's one week left to sign up for the Safe to Be, Safe to Pee toolkit launch event! The toolkit covers strategies for preventing sexual violence in bathrooms, locker rooms, changing areas, and other shared private spaces. Join us on December 16th: forge.tips/safe-to-be

Gaslighting, lies, and misinformation are not just used in abusive relationships, though; they are also used by institutions, governments, and people in positions of power to gain and maintain control over communities and individuals. Read our new guide on gaslighting: forge.tips/gaslighting

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