Affirmation or Conversion Therapy? [Monthly Community Meeting]

FORGE / MKE LGBT CC 1110 N Market Street, 2nd Floor, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Join FORGE on Saturday, March 17, 2018 @ 2:00pm for a panel discussion on the emotional and physical health risks associated with conversion therapy. Nearly all medical and mental health professional associations have deemed conversion therapy as both ineffective and an attempt to "cure" something -- gender identity or sexual orientation -- that is NOT a disorder. Wisconsin is one of 41 states that do not have laws banning conversion therapy. An ordinance is before the Milwaukee Common Council on March 27, 2018 to ban conversion therapy. Come learn more and leave with some action steps to help ensure the ordinance passes. Panelists: Kim Skerven, Ph.D. Tony Snell Rodriguez Shelley Gregory

Parents of trans kids support group

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.

Parents of trans kids support group

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.

April [Monthly Community Meeting]

FORGE / MKE LGBT CC 1110 N Market Street, 2nd Floor, Milwaukee, WI, United States

NO FORGE MONTHLY MEETING! Instead, we encourage everyone to consider attending the Victory Institute’s LGBTQ Leadership Summit. This day-long, intensive training is designed to grow LGBTQ public service leaders. Summit trainees will participate in discussions on how LGBTQ leaders can successfully and effectively advocate for equality in today’s political climate. Speakers include Rep. JoCasta Zamarripa, former Houston Mayor Annise Parker, Sen. Timothy Carpenter, and other local leaders.  FREE, but RSVP deadline is April 20. Get more information and sign up here: https://victoryinstitute.org/event/milwaukee-lgbtq-leadership-summit/

Don’t Let Your Health Go Up in Smoke [May Monthly Community Meeting]

FORGE / MKE LGBT CC 1110 N Market Street, 2nd Floor, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Smokin' Hot: Tobacco, Pride, McBride Let us know you're attending!  https://www.facebook.com/events/1823029301333796/ 1. Tobacco After finding his passion for community service in AmeriCorps, Anthony Harris, has worked on many different public health issues such as; Financial Awareness, HIV prevention, AODA prevention with Teens, and Smoking Cessation within the LGBT Community.  He is committed to helping people make decisions that will help them live happy healthy lives As one of the coordinators for the City of Milwaukee Tobacco-Free Alliance, Anthony Harris will join us to talk about what smoking looks like in the LGBTQ+ community, where we are as community to address it, and the many projects the City of Milwaukee Tobacco-Free Alliance is doing to improve LGBTQ health.   2. PrideFest But that’s not all!  We will also be discussing FORGE’s PrideFest Health and Wellness activities at this meeting.  Volunteers will be signed up and given t-shirts and passes (if they’re ready by then!). Come help […]

Parents of trans kids support group

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.

Sarah McBride’s Book Discussion [June Monthly Community Meeting]

FORGE / MKE LGBT CC 1110 N Market Street, 2nd Floor, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Book discussion: Sarah McBride’s Tomorrow Will Be Different: Love, Loss, and the Fight for Trans Equality Can you be in your early 20s, transgender, in love, in grief, and still change the world? Sarah McBride’s answer is an emphatic YES! Read this inspirational memoir and then come join us to talk about whether and how it is inspiring you. We’ll even have a special surprise guest!  (Ok, it’ll be a special short video Sarah is making just for us.)   Sarah McBride recorded a special reading and personal narrative prior to the in-person meeting on June 16, 2018.

Parents of trans kids support group

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.

Parents of trans kids support group

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.

Trans Health & Wellness: Linda Wesp, FNP-C [Monthly Community Meeting]

FORGE / MKE LGBT CC 1110 N Market Street, 2nd Floor, Milwaukee, WI, United States

...A Conversation with Linda Wesp, FNP-C, APNP, AAHIVS   Please join us for a conversation with Linda Wesp, family nurse practitioner from the Greater Milwaukee Center for Health and Wellness, Inc (gmchealth.org) on Sat. July 21st from 2-4PM at the Milwaukee LGBT Community Center (1110 North Market Street, Second Floor, Milwaukee, WI 53202). Linda will share some general info about health and wellness and the latest research about gender affirming hormones, as well as talk about various national and international protocols and guidelines that currently inform trans health care. Linda Wesp FNP-C, APNP is a family nurse practitioner who has worked in community-based health care settings with LGBTQ populations for over 15 years, with a focus on trans health. She currently works at the Greater Milwaukee Center for Health and Wellness, where she provides gender affirming hormones, HIV management, PrEP, and general primary care. Prior to returning to Milwaukee in 2015, she worked at Howard […]

Parents of trans kids support group

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.

Balancing Yin and Yang: Chinese Medicine for Trans People [Sept Monthly Community Meeting]

FORGE / MKE LGBT CC 1110 N Market Street, 2nd Floor, Milwaukee, WI, United States

This talk will focus on how the body is viewed through the lens of Chinese medicine. Kellen will explain the concepts of yin, yang, qi and blood, and will describe how those aspects of the body change during different parts of the transition process. Acupuncture and herbal medicine help the body adjust more smoothly to hormones and surgeries, and learning the basics of the foundational theories behind Chinese medicine can increase self-awareness and self-care. Bio: Kellen is a non-binary trans acupuncturist at North Node Clinic - a holistic health clinic they co-own with Ellice Plant. In addition to acupuncture and herbal medicine, they use techniques including moxibustion, cupping, and gua sha. They are passionate about LGBTQI competent health care and are committed to maintaining a practice that is affordable and accessible with a mission of creating anti-racist and anti-classist space.

Parents of trans kids support group

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.

October [Monthly Community Meeting] — Inclusion Clinic

FORGE / MKE LGBT CC 1110 N Market Street, 2nd Floor, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Froedtert’s LGBTQ Inclusion Clinic Comes to FORGE You’ve been asking for it, and now it’s here! The Inclusion Health Clinic – an LGBTQ-specific health center through Froedtert & The Medical College of Wisconsin – is now open. Three providers from the Inclusion Health Clinic will be the speakers at the FORGE monthly meeting on October 20, 2018, sharing the unique opportunities the Inclusion Health Clinic offers the LGBTQ community by providing LGBTQ-affirming and -knowledgeable health care. In addition to providing comprehensive primary and preventive care for the LGBTQ community, the Inclusion Health Clinic offers OB/GYN care, HIV services and prevention, psychiatric care, and transgender-specific services, including hormone therapy. Attend and learn more about the Clinic, as well as have ample opportunity to ask questions. Our guests will be: Andrew Petroll, MS, MD – Medical Director of the Inclusion Health Clinic. Dr. Petroll is an Internal Medicine and Infectious Disease specialist offering HIV care, HIV Pre-exposure […]

Parents of trans kids support group

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.

November [Monthly Community Meeting]

FORGE / MKE LGBT CC 1110 N Market Street, 2nd Floor, Milwaukee, WI, United States

Save the date!  More information posted soon! Partnering with Milwaukee Pride, November 17, 2018's event will be a Stonewall Stage Talk, featuring conversations with Monica Roberts. Monica Ris an African-American blogger, writer, and transgender rights advocate. She is the founding editor of TransGriot, a blog focusing on issues pertaining to transgender women of color.

Parents of trans kids support group

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.

Transgender Day of Remembrance 2018

UWM-Bolton Hall 3210 N Maryland Ave, Bolton Hall Room 150, Milwuakee, WI, United States

Please join FORGE and our community partners in an evening of remembering, honoring, connecting & healing with special guest speaker Monica Roberts. Monica Roberts, AKA the TransGriot (Gree-oh), is a native Houstonian, GLAAD award winning blogger, writer, and award winning trans human rights advocate. She’s the founding editor of TransGriot, and her writing has appeared at the Bilerico Project, Ebony.com, The Hungton Post and the Advocate. She works to foster understanding and acceptance of trans people inside and outside communities of color. Among her many honors are the Virginia Prince Transgender Pioneer Award, and the Robert Coles Call of Service Award.   Sun, November 18, 2018 • 7:00 PM University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee | Bolton Hall | Room 150 3210 N Maryland Ave | Milwaukee, WI 53211   RSVP on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/events/185368462348096/   Community Partners • ACLU - Wisconsin • Alverno College • City of Milwaukee Equal Rights Commission • Milwaukee County Behavioral Health Division - Community Access to Recovery […]

Karaoke For the Cause – BOUNCE!

Bounce 2801 S 5th Ct, Milwaukee, WI, United States

The first Friday of every month, Bounce Milwaukee, Milwaukee's premiere place for bounce castles, laser tag, indoor rock climbing, and arcade fun, hosts karaoke to benefit a different local, progressive charity. For December they've chosen FORGE! There's no cover to enter, and kids (and those under 21) are welcome from 8-9. After 9pm, things switch into 21+ mode. At least $1 from every drink (including mocktails!) sold at the bar from 8pm until the music stops will benefit the FORGE! FORGE staff will be on hand to let you know how you can assist or volunteer to support their work. FORGE is a national transgender anti-violence organization, founded in 1994. Since 2009, we have been federally funded to provide direct services to transgender, gender non-conforming and gender non-binary survivors of sexual assault. Since 2011, FORGE has served as the only transgender-focused organization federally funded to provide training and technical assistance to providers around the country who […]

December [Monthly Community Meeting] – Happy/Helpful/Healing Party

FORGE / MKE LGBT CC 1110 N Market Street, 2nd Floor, Milwaukee, WI, United States

You’re invited! Please join FORGE at our last meeting of the year for a community gathering to connect, network, socialize, and just be you. Transgender and non-binary individuals, friends and family, and supportive community members are welcome to join in creating a reflective and restorative space for our community to close out 2018 – a year of notable challenges and remarkable highs (like recent court decisions in Wisconsin making trans-specific healthcare accessible to state employees and BadgerCare enrollees!). We’ll also reserve time to hear from you. What would you like to see from FORGE in 2019 for support, connection, community events, or in response to social/political developments? What ideas do you have to help FORGE reach more people to strengthen our rich and diverse communities? We’ll bring games and music – you bring yourself, your family, your friends, and, if you’re able, a treat to share!

Parents of trans kids support group

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.

January [Monthly Community Meeting] – Tooling Up for 2019: Mindfulness, Meditation, Music, and More!

IndependenceFirst 540 S 1st Street, Milwaukee, WI, United States

  2018 was a rocky road, and at least politically, and many of us are concerned about what might happen as we move into 2019.  So let’s tool up! FORGE is devoting its first meeting of 2019 to sharing practical skills for getting through the day – even the hard days. We’ll help participants experience and learn to repeat calming coping skills using music, art, meditation, movement, and other modalities.  All of us can use more ways to restore a sense of calmness amidst the chaos and challenges of our lives. Come join us for a participatory and revelatory experience!   New Meeting Location! The January 2019 FORGE meeting will not be held in our usual place. Instead, we will be meeting at: Independence First 540 S 1st Street Milwaukee, WI Our new location is one result of an emerging partnership with IndependenceFirst. Plenty of free parking is available, and we hope the new site […]

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