FORGE seeks to offer some hope and space to breathe for our community of survivors in this time of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Check out our main Facebook page or Instagram account for grounding messages. If you live in Milwaukee, WI, we are connecting people through...
There are some stories, some ways of explaining the world that I keep coming back to. When I worked at a hippie preschool, I learned that children process the world in all its pain and newnesses through play, re-enacting and transforming...
Note: This article discusses mental health, suicide, and psychiatric care in ways that may be triggering for some readers. Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were trans femmes of color and lifelong dear friends who fought in the Stonewall riots...
In intimate relationships, practicing consent means communicating about touching and boundaries. Consent is essential for a wide range of activities—holding hands, cuddling, oral sex. (As an aside, consent is also important in non-intimate contexts, like disclosing...
By Anole Halper Survivors of sexual violence sometimes blame themselves because in the moment of violence, they did something they don’t understand: rather than run away or fight back, they stayed still; they did nothing. Image description: Image is a blue pie...
