This live streamed and networking conference for transgender people, allies, advocates, and accomplices offers an opportunity to explore, learn and grow through educational, and experiential workshops.
The keynote is Logan Grendel, a Multi-Hyphenate Artist, Urban Gardener, Small Business Owner, Revolutionary Organizer, and Black, Nonbinary Witch who believes magic is praxis and vice versa. An NYC lifer, they have lived many lives from freelance photographer to dog care professional to event producer to content creator, approaching all things from a standpoint of creating our own worlds and never accepting what has been placed in front of us as the only option. Follow Logan on instagram @focusedoninfinity
There will be workshops from and for trans and non-binary people, and for cisgender people who are ready to learn more and be in solidarity with trans and non-binary people.
Registration is recommended. Please click here.
Below is the list of workshop. A printable schedule with full descriptions can be found here.
Morning workshop session 1 – 9:00-10:00am ET (8:00am CT | 7:00am MT | 6:00am PT | 4:00am HT | 5:00pm AKST)
- Origin of (Queer) Love: Exploring Your Story Thru Creative Writing: Led by queer singer-songwriters, this creative writing workshop will help you explore authentic sensory and poetic storytelling. Participants will respond to writing prompts centered on exploring our queer origins in a celebratory and cathartic way. You may end up writing a poem, a story, or lyrics for a song. Bring a journal or laptop.
- Trans History: Trans Trailblazers from Christine Jorgensen to Lavern Cox: This presentation will be about transgender history through the lens of transgender trailblazers, some more widely known than others. We will trace our trans history through the lens of the people who have created it from more known trailblazers like Marsha P. Johnson, Sylvia Rivera through lesser known trailblazers like Christine Jorgensen, Charley Parkhurst, and Dora Richter.
Morning workshop session 2 — 10:15am-11:15am ET (9:15am CT | 8:15am MT | 7:15am PT | 5:15am HT | 6:15pm AKST)
- Nature is Non-Binary (and queer): This workshop will provide an introduction to some of the diversity of gender and sexuality within the animal and plant kingdoms, including dimorphism in birds and butterflies, sex-changing fish, intersex snails, and gay sheep. This workshop asks workshop attendees to consider new ways of connecting with and understanding human diversity alongside Nature.
- Trans Elders; A Panel: A panel of 3-5 elders will answer questions about life, transitioning, and share about their experience aging as a trans/non-binary person.
Welcome and Keynote — 12:30pm -1:15pm ET (11:30am CT | 10:30 am PT | 9:30am PT | 7:30am HT | 8:30am AKST)
Afternoon workshop workshop session 3 — 1:30pm-2:15pm ET (12:30pm CT | 11:30am MT | 10:30am PT | 8:30am HT | 9:15am AKST)
- Being Out as Trans*, Then and Now: This workshop is a 30 year retrospective of what it’s been like being out as transgender / non-binary, comparing what it was like in the mid 1990s through the decades to modern day. Reflecting on what has helped individual and community survival and thriving, this workshop will leave room for Q&A.
- Deeper Keynote with Logan Grendel: We are living in a world with a lot of stress and trauma for all of us. Trans people, BIPoC people, immigrants, people with disabilities are being targeted now in many ways. Some people are going to love what Logan offers and want more. Want more going deeper into being real about what is facing us and what it means to create our own worlds in a time like this.Other people will have had enough. Our bodies can only take so much stress and we are all inundated already. It isn’t healthy for us to force ourselves to be open to more when we’ve had enough. This goes for turning off the news as well as what workshops to engage with in a conference like this one! We want to give participants the choice about whether they want more Logan or whether their body/mind/spirit needs something else.Want more? Stay for the keynote. Need something else? That’s what the workshop parallel to the Deeper Keynote is for.
Afternoon workshop workshop session 4 — 2:30pm-3:30pm ET (1:30pm CT | 12:30pm MT | 11:30am PT | 9:30am HT | 10:30am AKST)
- Power, Consent & Gender: Reclaiming the Self: This interactive workshop & discussion will explore the relationship between gender, consent, and personal agency. We will look at how our power can be disturbed through negative self talk, gatekeeping, microaggressions, and everyday interactions. We will discuss how we can build power through clear boundaries, negotiated agreements, and community accountability. Attendees will leave with language, insights, and some practices to help find personal power, firm boundaries and an embodied self sovereignty.
- Embracing Neopronouns: Ze, thon, fae, xym, eir, kye… Ever seen pronouns you’ve never heard of before? In this workshop we’ll learn about neopronouns’ history, positive impact, and most importantly: how to use them!
Afternoon workshop workshop session 5 — 3:45pm — 4:30pm ET (2:45pm CT | 1:45pm MT | 12:45pm PT | 10:45am HT | 11:45am AKST)
- Play For Resilience & Resistance: Play For Resilience & Resistance is an intergenerationally welcoming workshop designed to evoke our innate resources & embodied wisdom in all the uncertainties, terror, anxiety, anger, anguish, numbness, depression, & despair of these polycrisis times. Using the creative toolkit of InterPlay, participants will be given consent-rooted & open-ended invitations to explore physical or imagined movement, short-form storytelling, vocalizing, silliness, witnessing, & observing as a group. No experience of any kind is necessary to participate, just willingness to honor your own needs & inclinations in the space.
- Beyond Fear: TransVersal Theology and the Sacred Journey of Loving Gender Beautiful Youth: Many parents of transgender and gender diverse children find themselves caught between their love for their child, the religious teachings they were raised with, and the current world and political climate. Christian theology was built on rigid binaries that shape how many understand gender, body, and belonging. This workshop focuses on how families heal when introduced to TransVersal Theology, a relational and healing-centered approach to spirituality that moves beyond harmful binaries and toward sacred connections. Participants will explore how stories, memory, and lived experiences can help families reclaim a spiritual framework rooted in love, dignity, and curiosity about their child instead of judgement or fear. Centered in UU values and indigenous practices, this session will offer practical language, reframing, and space for hope in the midst of the political rhetoric.