Adam Morello Reyes Art Featured at Conference Resource Fair

We are excited that local artist Adam Morello Reyes will be joining our resource/vendor fair to sell prints of their awesome and amazing art!

Adam can be reached at: arullfitness@gmail.com for commissions and on instagram @pinche.queer

Pronouns: He/They

If images are shared please credit Adam as the artist.

Ethan Patron To Present On Accessing Trans Health Coverage

Ethan Patron

Ethan Patron, Patient Advocate from St. John’s Transgender Health Program will be presenting on “Getting it Covered, Access to Health Coverage in Uncertain Times.”

Transgender and gender-expansive adults face many difficult questions as they map out their transition and determine what types of transition-related care to seek, if any. At no time is this more clear than when it comes to medical decisions about physical transition. Once tough decisions have been made, another challenge becomes apparent: paying for the medical services being sought. This session will explore the intricate and evolving landscape of insurance coverage for gender-related medical services. With the Affordable Care Act on the chopping block, growing awareness of the needs of transgender and gender-expansive patients, and multiple treatment options, providers must be knowledgeable about what their clients and patients can expect to encounter as they seek to cover the costs of their transition-related care.

Marcos Zamora Sanchez To Present on Trauma & Mental Health

Marcos Zamora Sanchez

Marcos Zamora Sanchez, LCSW, will be presenting the workshop “Is Trauma Affecting My Mental Health?”

Trauma impacts everyone and it can develop adverse and resilient traits in you. In the best intention to set a brave space, join us in a conversation about how it is to be a transgender/gender non-conforming individual today. Whether you have experienced a disturbing event, witnessed violence, or live in a toxic environment, symptoms of trauma are expressed in various forms of strengths and weaknesses. How do you take care of yourself in vulnerable situations? Is a therapist even an option? Explore self-awareness and ways to re-learn, as well as unlearn safety, fear, self-esteem, rejection, shame, and guilt.

Pronouns: They/Them/Theirs

Chance Ward To Present on Black Queer Femininity

Chance Ward

Chance Ward, a student at Occidental College will be presenting a workshop titled: “Bare Life: A Recentering of Black Queer Femininity”

Join Chance in their workshop that explores a collection of poetry, prose, and short stories that constitute an active queering of previously exalted conventions of art concerning sovereignty and freedom. This collection interrogates the merits of cisheteropatriarchy and demands it's beneficiaries to deconstruct its marginalizing so much of the world’s magnificence. This collection also converses with narratives of intersecting privilege to prompt empathy and engage an intertextuality that reconciles the resistance and existence of the Black Queer Femme. Lastly, the collection sublates current canons of socially provocative art in favor of conventions that create revolutionary space for the many fragmented Black Queer souls suffering in this world.

Pronouns: they/them/theirs

Joaquin Caro from Strength United To Present on Trans Survivors of Color

Joaquin Caro

We are thrilled to have Joaquin Caro from Strength United presenting an afternoon workshop!

Please join Joaquin in their workshop titled: “#MeToo: Trans Survivors of Color.”

What happens when trans people experience sexual assault? Sexual violence, abuse, and harassment affect our community in many different ways. Almost every survivor is silenced, vilified, and left without resources or justice. I hope to confront this topic in a safe space by discussing what accountability, justice, and healing looks like for our community and start to imagine beyond what systems are set up for survivors.

Pronouns: they/them/theirs

Name & Gender Change Workshops at the 4th Asterisk Trans* Conference

Luna

Curious what the process is to legally change your name or your gender marker? 

Join The LGBT Center staffLuna, Manager: TEEP Legal Services, in this workshop.
•Become familiar with the necessary forms.
•Understand which courts are available to you.
•Apply for fee waivers.
•Know your rights for undocumented/ID-less folks.
•Decide whether to file as a youth under 18 or not.
•Begin the expungement process for tickets, warrants and other misdemeanors/felonies.
•Outline your physician’s affidavit.
•Learn updates for non-binary gender marker changes in California.

Resources will be provided to partner organizations such as Bet Tzedek Legal Services.

Luna will be presenting two amazing and useful presentations at the conference (see previous post for info on their other workshop). We hope you will check out one of their workshops!

Pronouns: they/them/theirs

Typewriter Troubadour Jeremy M. Brownlove To Write Poetry for Conference Attendees

Typewriter Troubadour Jeremy M. Brownlove

We are excited to have the Typewriter Troubadour, Jeremy M. Brownlove, join us at the conference to write attendees (free!) short poems about a topic of their choice, on the spot, during breakfast and lunch!

Jeremy is a trans American poet. In 2015 he founded the improv-typewriter poetry project, Typewriter Troubadour, while traveling across America creating and performing original pieces of poetry for curious pedestrians. His first book of poetry, Angels Of The Underground, will be released in May 2018. When he is not writing, Jeremy enjoys cooking, adventures in nature, taking photographs, and playing drums. A full time traveler, he calls the open road his home.

You can see his work, and follow his travels on Instagram, (@typewritertroubadour) and of course at the conference!