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@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialOct 17, 2026, 12:01 PM

How can DV service providers support trans and nonbinary survivors? Find tools and resources specific to your field in the new Trans Survivors Toolkit! Check it out at transsurvivortoolkit.com. #WithSurvivors #DVActionMonth #DVAM2026 #TransSurvivors

[Slide 1: Gray text on a crumpled paper background. Title text: "Trans Survivors Toolkit. https://transsurvivortoolkit.com." FORGE logo. Text: "What DV providers can do to support trans survivors. 1. Use a trauma-informed, empowerment-based approach. Recognize that survivors’ experiences of trauma affect how they respond to providers. Work to minimize additional harm, understand each survivor’s needs, and support their decision-making."] [Slide 2: Gray text on a crumpled paper background. Title text: "Trans Survivors Toolkit. https://transsurvivortoolkit.com." FORGE logo. Text: "2. Respect each person’s gender and self-identification. Use the name and pronouns a survivor asks you to use. Avoid making assumptions about someone’s gender based on their appearance, body, clothing, or other characteristics. Survivors have the right to define their own identities. 3. Make services equitably available. Examine whether eligibility requirements, screening practices, shelter arrangements, or other aspects of your programs create unnecessary barriers based on gender. Whenever possible, provide all-gender options and do not require identification or proof of gender simply to access services."] [Slide 3: Gray text on a crumpled paper background. Title text: "Trans Survivors Toolkit. https://transsurvivortoolkit.com." FORGE logo. Text: "4. Listen before deciding what someone needs. A survivor’s priorities may be different from what an advocate expects. One person may urgently need housing; while others may need financial assistance, safety planning, emotional support, or legal advocacy. Let survivors identify what safety and support mean for them. 5. Be transparent about services and limitations. Clearly explain what your organization can provide, what information you collect and why, and whether other systems—such as law enforcement—will be involved. When your organization cannot meet a particular need, work with the survivor to identify other options."]
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialOct 16, 2026, 12:30 PM

Sunny Hill's "Infectious Diseases" captures the feeling of dehumanization that so many of us experience while accessing care - the autonomy and sometimes even breath that we give up while trying to get better. Read the full piece in Issue 7, at forge.tips/zine! #TransSurvivors

Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. https://forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 1 text: "Infectious Diseases by Sunny Hill. 'Before the physical exam, the doctor asks me questions, questions like “Do you have a vagina?” and “How long were you in the mental hospital?” I answer them, mouth open and wide for minutes on end. Then his feet echo down the linoleum floor, and I stumble into the gown. I lay down on the table, thighs hugging the hundred cotton polka dots. They don’t measure up to the polka dots I already have between blubber. The doctor comes back and lifts my bralette, slipping his hand underneath. The stethoscope feels like a meat tenderizer. He says, “Breathe deeper,” and presses six more times. So much oxygen wasted. The carbon dioxide sits on the chair beside me and I count its eyes.'"Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. https://forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 2 text: "About the Writer: Sunny Hill. Sunny Hill (they/he/she/xe) writes poetry and plays with tarot cards on Instagram @fromsunnyhill. They were nominated for Best of the Net 2026 by Grey Coven Publishing. In 2026, they have consumed far more Sour Patch Kids and listened to far more Noah Kahan than can really be considered healthy, but hey, we all have our ways of coping."
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialOct 14, 2026, 12:30 PM

michelle's "chronic" is a piece you'll want to spend your time with! When you purchase a print copy of the zine, you'll see it across two pages in vibrant color. Find issue 7 at forge.tips/zine! Connect with michelle at griefdoula.carrd.co. #TransSurvivors #TransArtists #ChronicIllness

Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. https://forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 1 includes michelle's art piece, "chronic." a collage made of images from magazines including: a white translucent person sitting facing away to blue mountains, small green and orange leaves of a plant, a sitting doll with a striped red shirt, pink arms and legs, mouth open, and skull open with strings across it, a black and white image of a sink with 4 prescription bottles on the edges, a drawing of a bathtub with a window and curtains over it, a big tree with curving brown branches and green leaves, a drawing of a wheelchair, the head and torso of a person in shadow with smoke around them, a child laying on a spotted carpet with their legs up a wall, a white drawing of a spine with pink on the middle part, a spine and pelvis, the bottom half of a person sitting in a wheelchair with balloons attached to the back, a flamingo with spotted bandages on two feet and rings on knee joints, a red yellow green blue white black abstract drawing, and tree branches.Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. https://forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 2 text: "About the artist. michelle. michelle (any/all) is a genderfluid, intersex, multiply disabled person with DID, AuDHD, and chronic pain. they are a proud cane user and have been working on embracing being an ambulatory wheelchair user, too. they are a grief doula who calls durham north carolina home. @griefdoulanc, https://griefdoula.carrd.co."a collage made of images from magazines including: a white translucent person sitting facing away to blue mountains, small green and orange leaves of a plant, a sitting doll with a striped red shirt, pink arms and legs, mouth open, and skull open with strings across it, a black and white image of a sink with 4 prescription bottles on the edges, a drawing of a bathtub with a window and curtains over it, a big tree with curving brown branches and green leaves, a drawing of a wheelchair, the head and torso of a person in shadow with smoke around them, a child laying on a spotted carpet with their legs up a wall, a white drawing of a spine with pink on the middle part, a spine and pelvis, the bottom half of a person sitting in a wheelchair with balloons attached to the back, a flamingo with spotted bandages on two feet and rings on knee joints, a red yellow green blue white black abstract drawing, and tree branches.
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialOct 9, 2026, 12:30 PM

Some poems stick with you, and the imagery in Lucía Manzanares Prado's "i lie awake in a cold sweat..." absolutely does. Read the full poem, including Spanish lines translated into English, at forge.tips/zine. Connect with Lucía: instagram.com/luciamanzana... #TransSurvivors

Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 1 text: "i lie awake in a cold sweat after a nightmare about my grandpa’s dementia by Lucía Manzanares Prado. 'I nail a toe / to the wooden deck, / I nail toe after toe, / freshly-squeezed as they are; / And as I nail, lifeless, gray and wet, / They turn to fish / gutted and slick; / soon as I wake / I let out a sigh, / not for the fish, not for the toes, / just 'cuz you're not around. / one silly and goofy and childishest voice says / “The funk shall be within only you, former self, / for grass-mass-asking so long-ly and kindly” '"Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 2 text: "About the Writer: Lucía Manzanares Prado. Lucía Manzanares Prado (they/she) is a 25-year-old non-binary white Cuban-American poet and translator with a deep love for all things nature, neurodivergence, and disability justice. They currently live on the unceded lands of the Piscataway and Nacotchtank peoples (the Baltimore-DC metro area). Lucía has ADHD and loves writing at the intersection of anticolonial, ecological, and abolitionist frameworks. When they're not reading or writing you can find them listening to live jazz, fighting for a safe and just future with their friends, or befriending animals both wild and domesticated. @luciamanzanaresprado"
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialOct 7, 2026, 12:30 PM

Vera McLaughlin's "Doxycycline" is raw and embodied, exploring the places where illness and desire meet. Read the full piece in Issue 7 of Trans Survivors, at forge.tips/zine! Connect with Vera at instagram.com/verabop. #TransSurvivors

Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 1 text: "Doxycycline by Vera McLaughlin. 'I am sweat stains and perfect pussy. I am dancing in the rain and drenched in the downpour. I do not know what my face looks like, but I know something about being alive. I know about heartbreak and the desire to fuck it away. I know my name was once six syllables and now it’s still six syllables, though the letters have all been scrambled. I get up in the morning to pick my scabs. An open wound yawning. I am gooey, sobbing, tender. I am weepy, painful, hot. I think I have an infection again. Doxycycline. 7 days. I cycle from bedroom floor to bathroom floor to kitchen floor. I puke. I vomit. I hurl.'"Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 2 text: "About the Writer: Vera McLaughlin. Vera McLaughlin is a disabled trans artist and writer living in Seattle, Washington. @verabop"
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialOct 3, 2026, 12:01 PM

jaci penelope's "The Naysayers" feels expansive and defiant at once. Read the full poem in the Disability & Health issue of Trans Survivors, at forge.tips/zine! Connect with jaci at linktr.ee/jacipenelope. #TransSurvivors

Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 1 text: "The Naysayers by jaci penelope. 'Years and years ago / In another life / Someone told me they had gone to explore the caves / In the forest on the outskirts of town / And as soon as they went through the damp rock’s mouth / The spiders swarmed their arms, /and when the sunlight shone through / They saw there were millions of them, / Everywhere'"Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 2 text: "About the Writer: jaci penelope. trans woman in her mid 30s living in her hometown in vermont. grew up in arizona, raised on grateful dead concerts and hardcore punk. my art & writing uses found or recycled materials to explore nature & spirituality through a queer, trans & neurodivergent gaze. @jacipenelope, linktr.ee/jacipenelope"]
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialSep 27, 2026, 12:00 PM

Trans and nonbinary survivors deserve access to trans-affirming and trauma-informed care. What does trauma-informed care look like to you?#SuicidePreventionMonth #TransSurvivors #TraumaInformedCare

[Image: White text on a purple background. Text: "Trauma-informed care is suicide prevention. Suicide Prevention Month 2026." FORGE logo.]
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialSep 25, 2026, 12:30 PM

It was hard to choose only a section of Diem Okoye's "Names for Moths" to highlight here. We loved this poem, and encourage you to read the full version in Issue 7 of the Trans Survivors Zine! Find it at forge.tips/zine. #TransSurvivors #TransPoets #DisabilityAndHealth

Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 1 text: "Names for Moths by Diem Okoye. 'and of course I cried for each long night she endured, / to the long hours a day broken with pain, / and for the red chair we sit upon a late autumn evening when the moths / return with their beautiful wings folded, / the ones I catch her watching in the way we all do, / that no amount of staring at their bodies can wholly convince us / that this is normal, that a living thing flying carries this kind of grief, / like the darkened sky had dropped shadows to eye level and given them motion'"Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 2 text: "About the Writer: Diem Okoye. Diem Okoye is a writer and teacher who was highly commended for the erbacce-prize 2026. Her work has appeared in The Gay and Lesbian Review, Reckoning, Friends Journal and other literary journals. She was awarded second place in the Blue Mesa Review Spring 2025 Contest Issue and was nominated for the 2024 Dwarf Stars Award for speculative poetry. In addition to her writing, she works as a copy editor and is a reader at The Good Life Review. She lives with two German Shepherds and two neurotic cats."
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialSep 20, 2026, 12:01 PM

Being a part of a community offers protection from isolation that so many trans and nonbinary folks need! Community connection is suicide prevention. #SuicidePrevention #TransSurvivors #TransCommunity

[Image: White text on a purple background. Text: "Community connection is suicide prevention. Suicide Prevention Month 2026." FORGE logo.]
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialSep 17, 2026, 12:01 PM

Issue 7 of the Trans Survivors Zine is live! Pieces in this issue explore experiences of chronic illness, disability, and health in trans and nonbinary communities. Read Joely's full poem, and find Issue 7 at forge.tips/zine

#TransSurvivors #TransWriters

Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 1 text: "What the Waiting Room Knows About Us by Joely Williams. 'We arrive already translated- / our symptoms rendered into the clean language / they prefer, stripped of / the words we actually use, / the words that hold the texture of the thing, / the words that say it hurts the way a color hurts, / persistently and without explaining itself. / We have practiced our answers / on the walk from the car. / We have rehearsed the chronology, / anticipating the interruption, / the clipboard lowering like a verdict, / the nod that means I have already decided / before you finish the sentence. '"Text on a blue background with yellow flowers. Title text: "Trans Survivors Issue 7; Rage and Soft Desire: Disability & Health. forge.tips/zine." FORGE logo. Slide 2 text: "Joely Williams. Joely Williams is an Afro-Boricua poet, teaching artist, and letter maker from the South Bronx, now writing from South Carolina. Her speculative and literary work appears in Abyss & Apex, Penumbric, Inner Worlds, Zoetic Press, Dipity Lit Mag, and SISTORIES: Fluid By Nature. She is the author of two collections and is working on her first autofiction. She is also the founder of the Poetry Letter Club, mailing handwritten letters and poems to strangers. @poems_neverdie."
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialSep 15, 2026, 12:02 PM

Listening without judegement is suicide prevention. Offering someone a space to talk about their experience - and be believed - can make all the difference. #SuicidePrevention #TransSurvivors

[Image: White text on a purple background. Text: "Listening is suicide prevention. Suicide Prevention Month 2026." FORGE logo.]
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialSep 14, 2026, 12:02 PM

This Suicide Prevention Month, learn how service providers can respond to suicide and crisis in trans and nonbinary communities through a lens of liberation. Check out this recorded webinar at forge.tips/liberatory-responses!

#SuicidePrevention #TransSurvivors #Healing

[Image: Text on a purple background, with a photo of Jess Stohlmann-Rainey. Text: "Liberatory responses to suicide and crisis. A recorded webinar with Jess Stohlmann-Rainey. forge.tips/liberatory-responses." FORGE logo.]
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialSep 12, 2026, 12:00 PM

What words of support would you offer to trans survivors? What have You needed to hear as a survivor? Let us know in the comments. #SuicidePrevention #TransSurvivors #Healing

[Image: White text on a purple background. Text: "What words of encouragement & support would you share with trans survivors? What have you needed to hear as a survivor? Suicide Prevention Month 2026." FORGE logo.]
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialSep 10, 2026, 12:01 PM

Everyone deserves access to community and care. This means creating spaces and services that have access built in from the start - and learning how to bridge the gaps in existing services. #SuicidePrevention #TransSurvivors #DisabilityJustice

[Image: White text on a purple background. Text: "Disability access is suicide prevention. Suicide Prevention Month 2026." FORGE logo.]
@forgeforwardtrans.bsky.socialSep 9, 2026, 12:01 PM

Check out this new blog post on "practice sex" and how it can be a powerful way for survivors to explore sexuality in safer contexts. Read more at forge.tips/practice-sex! #TransSurvivors #Healing #SaferSex

Text overlaying a background photo of a person practicing shibari ties on the head of a guitar. Text: "forge.tips/practice-sex. What is "practice sex"? “Practice spaces” allow us to explore fantasies and desires in safer contexts. For example, people used to meet in AOL chatrooms for virtual sex, which really just involved sexting. For many, this was an incredible opportunity to safely explore gender and sexuality." FORGE logo.A close-up photo of two people sitting together in bed, holding hands. Text: "forge.tips/practice-sex. How does it help? Many people who have been assaulted have a difficult time having sex after violence. Practice gives control back to survivors. What if part of our healing is to have the chance to privately describe what we want, start and stop when we want, and feel emotionally what it might be like to experience what we want." FORGE logo.A background photo of a sex toy in a pink bucket. Text: "How do you "do" practice sex? Some ideas: Using hookup apps to sext anonymously; Journaling about fantasies; Reading erotica; Taking a class or attend a munch; Creating a “yes, no, maybe” list; And more... Read the blog post: forge.tips/practice-sex." FORGE logo.