Basic information

In addition to the conference, which begins the evening of Friday, March 30, 2007, FORGE (For Ourselves: Reworking Gender Expression) will sponsor two days of Intensives on Thursday, March 29 and Friday, March 30.

An Intensive is a full day of interrelated training and discussions devoted to one topic, designed and run by one or a small group of well-qualified presenters. People who don’t necessarily want to attend the whole conference may want to attend one Intensive, particularly if the Intensive is relevant to their work or to an issue in their own or a loved one’s life. (That is why Intensives are separately priced.) Potential Intensive attendees are strongly encouraged to plan on attending the full day, to permit richer conversations and relationships to develop over the course of the day.

Each full day intensive is only $130 (prior to March 1, 2007), which includes continental breakfast, an afternoon snack, highly skilled training.

We have scheduled nine dynamite topics:

Thursday, March 29, 2007

1. Supporting Gender-Variant Children, Youth and Their Families

Reid Vanderburgh, MA, LMFT
Andrew Forshee, Ph.D.

2. HIV Prevention/Safer Sex for FTMs+ and Mental Health Providers

Brenda Coley
Laura Gutnecht
Molly Herrmann
Gary Hollander, Ph.D.
Hector Torres, Ph.D.

3. Survivor Centered Advocacy for Trans Survivors of Violence

Diana Courvant

4. Creative Spirituality for the Third Gender Tribe

Raven Kaldera

Friday, March 30, 2007

5. Building Anti-Racist Organizations, Coalitions and Movements

Dean Spade and others from Sylvia Rivera Law Project

6. Beyond the Binary: Language, Longing, and Legitimacy

Shane Whalley, LMSW
Heather Davies, LMSW

7. Understanding the FTM Experience: 101 for Providers

Reid Vanderburgh, MA, LMFT
lore m. dickey, MA. PhD Student

8. All This And Cute Shoes Too: Femme Beyond Binaries

Hanne Blank

Jessica Eve Humphrey

9. Breaking Isolation, Building Community: A Gathering for Disabled  and Deaf Trans People and Our Allies

Eli Clare

Sebastian Margaret