SUPPORTING TRANS COMMUNITIES SINCE 1994
Empowering.
Healing.
Connecting.
Description: Trans and Queer Zines Workshop. Come explore trans* zines and DIY print media and learn to make your own. This hands-on workshop will focus on self-publishing our lives and experiences and making our own media as both artifact and resistance. Speaker/facilitator: Milo, co-founder of the Queer Zine Archive Project, PGP: ze/they/he
MKE Parents of Trans Kids is a group of parents and caregivers supporting each other on our individual journeys of love, acceptance, and advocacy for our school-aged gender non-binary, transgender and non-conforming children. We meet monthly on the 3rd Sunday from 2:00pm to 3:30pm. Supportive, gently facilitated meetings offer parents and adult family members the opportunity to share their successes, concerns, and stories of challenges and resilience. This space also provides a forum to learn from others, ask questions, seek feedback, or just listen. Childcare can be provided upon request. Please contact us 10 days prior to the meeting so we can arrange for a sitter. For additional information, email us at parents@forge-forward.org.
The February 28, 2015 monthly meeting has been postponed due to a room conflict at the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center. Please join us the following week, on March 7, 2015 for a panel of Black Trans community members in honor of Black History Month (February). More details will be confirmed soon.
In honor of Black History Month, FORGE will host a panel discussion with Black Trans*/Gender Non-Conforming community leaders to speak on their experiences, activism and vision. Panelists come from a variety of experience, age, and organizations. Questions may include: What does Black TGNC activism look like and how have you experienced change over the course of your involvement? What does a Black TGNC just world look like? What is the one thing you would tell Black TGNC young people/peers? Elders? How do intersections of race and gender and age and other identities you hold impact your activist work and dreams? Panelists: Jesse White, Lee Jonathan Williams, and others TBA; moderated by FORGE Fellow Syd Robbie Let us know you are coming by joining the Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/456721254476471
MKE Parents of Trans Kids is a group of parents and caregivers supporting each other on our individual journeys of love, acceptance, and advocacy for our school-aged gender non-binary, transgender and non-conforming children. We meet monthly on the 3rd Sunday from 2:00pm to 3:30pm. Supportive, gently facilitated meetings offer parents and adult family members the opportunity to share their successes, concerns, and stories of challenges and resilience. This space also provides a forum to learn from others, ask questions, seek feedback, or just listen. Childcare can be provided upon request. Please contact us 10 days prior to the meeting so we can arrange for a sitter. For additional information, email us at parents@forge-forward.org.
Federal, state and local laws and policies affecting trans* people are changing nearly daily. This workshop will review a dozen areas where we’ve seen improvements in the past four years. Presenter: michael munson For SHEBA, a program of Diverse and Resilient in Milwaukee, WI
Join us for a lively discussion with founder of Transgress Press, Trystan Cotten. Author and Publisher, Trystan Cotten, will talk about the origins of Transgress Press, its book productions and commitment to LGBT and feminist communities. A panel of authors will also read from books they've published with the press: Brice Smith, Helen Boyd, Loree Cook-Daniels. Would you like a free copy of Manning Up? Fill out the form and attend the March 28, 2015 meeting. https://twitter.com/FORGEforward/status/581633132790677504
Improving Aging Services for LGBT Older Adults Level 1 (4 hours, Intermediate) Learn about the culture, needs, and concerns of LGBT older adults Consider why LGBT older adults are less likely to access health and social services Learn practices for helping LGBT older adults to feel more included in aging network organizations Facilitator: Loree Cook-Daniels, a National Resource Center on LGBT Aging training staff member For more information on LGBT Aging Trainings (in person and virtual), visit: http://www.lgbtagingcenter.org/training/index.cfm
MKE Parents of Trans Kids is a group of parents and caregivers supporting each other on our individual journeys of love, acceptance, and advocacy for our school-aged gender non-binary, transgender and non-conforming children. We meet monthly on the 3rd Sunday from 2:00pm to 3:30pm. Supportive, gently facilitated meetings offer parents and adult family members the opportunity to share their successes, concerns, and stories of challenges and resilience. This space also provides a forum to learn from others, ask questions, seek feedback, or just listen. Childcare can be provided upon request. Please contact us 10 days prior to the meeting so we can arrange for a sitter. For additional information, email us at parents@forge-forward.org.
... through words, images, and action. April 25, 2015's meeting will be a dynamic, interactive, experiential, and reflective space that encourages and allows participants to transform feelings about personal or global loss, trauma, or life-hardships into empowered hope. Attendees – in a structured, safe, creative setting – will use writing, art, and movement exercises to address topics that impact us all. Participants will leave with a renewed sense of hope, community, and connection with themselves and with others. All materials provided, but feel free to bring your favorite healing journals and tools. No experience necessary. April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month. This interactive meeting/workshop recognizes that many people are sexual abuse or assault survivors, and most all of us know someone who is a survivor. Content in the meeting will not be focused directly on sexual assault, but will allow people to explore new creative methods to think about issues, process feelings, and use different […]