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...
The Weight of Shame and How it Moves Us
Defining Shame A possibly shameful confession: I chose to write a blog post about shame because I wanted to understand it and have an excuse to explore it fully. Like a distant lover, I know it well but don’t feel like I understand it at all. Yet when I searched for...
When Hard Feelings Sweep You Out to Sea
By Ana Lee Case I knew someone who said she had big feelings. She said they would wash over her like a wave and she’d feel like she was being swept out to sea. I could relate. I’ve had big feelings too, and I know what it’s like to be dragged away from the shore. When...Find us on Facebook!
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)