The Invisible Trans Masculine Intimate Partner Abuse Survivor and the Flexagon They’re Facing
Contrary to widespread beliefs, transgender men experience higher rates of intimate partner violence (IPV)* than transgender and cisgender women. This was FORGE’s groundbreaking finding from a 2011 survey of over one thousand transgender people. In the past few...
Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera Were The Mothers of the Movement, but How Do We Tell the Story of their Struggles with their Minds?
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...
Of Containers and Consciousness: KonMari-ing the Intangible
"Put it in a box" said my therapist. It was not the first time she'd said it. She wanted me to imagine containing the thing that was distressing me so it wouldn't accompany me to work after our appointment. But it would. My anxieties followed me everywhere,...
Trans Folks, Survivors, and Partners Practicing Sexual Consent
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...
FORGE welcomes Anole Halper to our Team
FORGE welcomes Anole Halper to our Team May 21, 2019 FORGE is pleased to announce the addition of Anole Halper, MSW, MPH to our staff as Creative Content Coordinator, increasing our capacity to educate and engage the public. Anole (pronouns: they/them/theirs) will...
Coping with Traumatic Anniversaries: A Toolkit
In the last blog post, we talked about ways to think about and use traumatic anniversaries. Here we offer a toolkit of other useful coping strategies. Create new seasonal associations: Much of what the brain does is create associations between one experience/memory...
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Transgender youth are more likely than non-trans youth to have an eating disorder because of discrimination, stigma, and trauma.
Survivors are particularly at risk.
For #NEDAwareness, this is another reminder that trans youth deserve not only the best care, but a just, safe world in which to live. 💖 #ComeAsYouAre
[Image: On the diagonal, the image is divided between yellow (most of the image) and purple (the bottom right corner). On the dividing line is a photograph of a fork. Large text in the yellow, resting on the fork, says “trans youth are much more likely to have an eating disorder” and smaller text in the purple says “than non-trans youth.” The FORGE logo is in the bottom right corner.]
![Transgender youth are more likely than non-trans youth to have an eating disorder because of discrimination, stigma, and trauma.
Survivors are particularly at risk.
For #NEDAwareness, this is another reminder that trans youth deserve not only the best care, but a just, safe world in which to live. 💖 #ComeAsYouAre
[Image: On the diagonal, the image is divided between yellow (most of the image) and purple (the bottom right corner). On the dividing line is a photograph of a fork. Large text in the yellow, resting on the fork, says “trans youth are much more likely to have an eating disorder” and smaller text in the purple says “than non-trans youth.” The FORGE logo is in the bottom right corner.]](https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/s720x720/87313319_10157124166738597_7929243878845054976_n.png?_nc_cat=110&_nc_sid=a61e81&_nc_ohc=lO5Oya0y2DYAX8-lClQ&_nc_ht=scontent.xx&oh=683c2ab7c920d5b9404bd2ae7cfe084a&oe=5EFE1E88)