New Trans training models presented at conference

Offered on Saturday, February 28 to conference attendees:

Why I Am Done With "Trans* 101": How To Push Past the Standard Model of Training

Minerva M, UC Santa Cruz

The widely accepted model of "basic trans training" for schools, workplaces, and pop feminism internet essays does a disservice to the vast majority of trans people. Too often, those facilitating these workshops sacrifice complexity and social context in the name of "meeting people where they are at." This workshop will examine what the standard model is lacking, and explore how we could make our teaching models more effective and more inclusive. It will suggest ways in which we could  ask more of our audience, while also enabling them to make safer spaces wherever they go. We will conclude by collaboratively developing a conceptual framework that will allow us to better teach the multiplicity of experiences lived by trans individuals in our society.

TRANSForming Eating Disorder Recovery workshop offered

Offered on Saturday, February 28 to conference attendees:

TRANSForming Eating Disorder Recovery: Education, Empowerment, Advocacy

Dagan VanDemark, T-FFED: Trans Folx Fighting Eating Disorders, www.transfolxfightingeds.org

Dan Maldonado & Rajah Jones, CSUN

This interactive workshop deconstructs the overrepresentation of eating disorders in our trans and gender-diverse communities, focusing on risk factors (personal and intersectional structural factors, trauma, internalized transphobia, the ways in which gender dysphoria and body dysmorphia inform each other, etc.), accessing care, and engendering representation in media and research. Participants will undermine eating disorder myths, discuss healthy coping skills, increase their capacity to advocate for gender-literate care and learn about community-focused healing initiatives.

Working to improve the lives of trans women of color

Offered on Saturday, February 28 to conference attendees:

Have You Got Your T?: Working on Improving the Lives of TWOC
Lexi Adsit, International Trans Women of Color Network Gathering
Luna Merbruja, International Trans Women of Color Network Gathering

This workshop will be a space for community to learn about the International Transgender Women of Color Network Gathering that took place at the Allied Media Conference in June 2014. We aspire to use this space as a tool for community engagement and planning to improve the lives of Transgender Women of Color. We will be providing and brainstorming concrete actions and strategies to be in solidarity with TWOC.

Workshop offered on Navigating the Kink Community While Being Trans

Offered on Saturday, February 28 to conference attendees:

Navigating the Kink Community While Being Transgender

Ash Preston, UC Riverside

This workshop provides an introductory understanding of the intersectionality of being transgender and kinky. While gaining a basic understanding of the kink community, participants will learn about the conversation skills and safety tips needed for either entering or continuing in the kink community with confidence.

Closed Space: This workshop space is for people who self-identity as trans or gender questioning.

Name & Gender Marker Change Clinic offered at Asterisk Trans* Conference

Offered on Saturday, February 28 to conference attendees:

Name and Gender Marker Change Clinic

Félix Vargas, Transgender Health Program Patient Advocate 

Queen Victoria Ortega, Trans* Empower Program Case Manager

Transgender Health Program, St. John's Well Child and Family Center

Come meet with the St. John's Well Child and Family Center's Transgender Health Program team to complete your name and/or gender marker change paperwork. The team will provide you with the necessary forms, walk you through the court filing process and provide you with helpful tips and updates. We will also be sharing information about the St. John's Well Child and Family Center Transgender Health Program and Trans* Empower Program.

Closed Space: The clinic is only open to Trans and GNC folks seeking assistance with completing their paperwork, or learning more about the process. This space is not open to allies.

Miss Major on Role Models

Miss Major speaks out on trans role models back in the day and today. She'll be speaking at the Asterisk Trans* Conference on Saturday, February 28 at UC Riverside. Register online now!

UCR Registration Fee of $10 Includes T-Shirt

The back of the conference T-shirt.

The registration rate for UC Riverside students, staff, and faculty to attend the Asterisk Trans* Conference is only $10 and includes a conference T-shirt. The form to accompany check payments has been updated to reflect this rate.

The deadline for online registration and payment is February 6, 2015. This is a hard deadline, so that we may order the correct amount of food and T-shirts.

Regular (non-UCR) registration is $20 (with T-shirt). Reduced registration is $10 (without T-shirt). Fee waivers are also available for those unable to afford to pay a fee.

People from campuses who have paid the Group Registration rate do not need to send in a check payment. You only need to register online by the February 6, 2015 deadline.

Learn more about registration, including which campuses are doing a Group Registration, here.