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Deepa Philips, RN, MPH, Full-spectrum Doula, WHNP/CNM candidate
UCSF School of Nursing
Jo Probert, MEPN 1st Year
UCSF School of Nursing
Co-Chairs, 2020 LGBTQIA+ Health Forum
Cole Hall
Medical Sciences Building
Moderator: Klint Jaramillo, M.Ed., M.S.W.
Director, UCSF LGBT Resource Center
Speakers: Shaun Abrams, PhD, Laura Compton, PMHNP-BC, and Manny Gonzalez, PhD
Cole Hall
Medical Sciences Building
Caring for Queer Communities
Moderator: Dulce Garcia
Health Educator & Rape Crisis Counselor
Panelists: Dolores Tejada (Disability Justice Culture Club) and Xochitlquetzal Dávila (SF Community Health Center)
Cole Hall
Medical Sciences Building
Lunch provided by Moffitt Catering
Vendors/Community Organizations:
- Brown Sista Basics
- Center for Sexual and Gender Minority Health
- Danchan
- El/la Para Translatinas
- Francis Mead
- Ivy Rose Zines
- La Botanica Azul
- Olivia E. Hernández
- San Francisco Community Health Center
- Trans Lifeline
Lobby
Medical Sciences Building
Ace Health
David Jay
Founder, Asexuality.org
Room: S-163, Medical Sciences Building
Objectives:
- An understanding of the diverse lived experiences of ace-spectrum individuals.
- An understanding of how those experiences complicate assumptions made by healthcare institutions about sexuality and emotional intimacy.
- An understanding of ace movement history, and the tactics that have been successful at advocating for change within those institutions.
Past Anger, Access and Survival: Disability Justice as Care
Dolores Tejada
Disability Justice Culture Club
Room: S-214, Medical Sciences Building
Objectives:
- Understanding ableism and it's prevalence in our society
- Disability justice 101
- Using Disability Justice to give ourselves and others care
Challenges and Resilience: Care of Underserved and Homeless Trans Patients
Leah Warner, The Street Medicine Team
San Francisco Department of Public Health
Room: S-170, Medical Sciences Building
Objectives:
- Understand the concept of homelessness
- Identify who is impacted by homelessness as it related to gender identity
- Explain system barriers to care for trans people experiencing homelessness
- Describe methods to break down barriers for trans people experiencing homelessness
- Discuss resilience for trans people experiencing homelessness
What's SGM got to do with it? An introduction to sexual orientation and gender diversity
Jen Shockey, Provider Training & Education
UCSF Alliance Health Project
Room: HSW 303, Health Sciences West Building
(2nd floor next to Medical Sciences Building)
Objectives:
- Understand how taking a Cultural Humility approach can be helpful when working across differences.
- Familiarize ourselves with terms and concepts related to Sexual Gender Minorities (SGM).
- Recognize the impact of transphobia/homophobia, and microaggressions on LGBT plus people.
- Identify best practices we can use to create a more inclusive and affirming space for LGBT plus people.
Stonewall Uprising: Impact on older LGBT Adults
Peter Ureste, M.D.
Associate Clinical Professor, UCSF
Billy Smith, M.D., 2nd year resident
UCSF Adult Psychiatry Residency Training Program
Room: N-217, School of Nursing
Objectives:
- Review early Homophile Movement and pre-Stonewall protests of 1950's and 1960's
- Discuss the context of the Stonewall Riots and demonstrate why Stonewall was more influential compared to prior riots
- Explain results of the Caring and Aging with Pride study and describe three distinct generations of LGBT older adults
- Apply life course theory to understand intergenerational differences
Speak Up: Using Your Expertise as Voice to Advocate for Policies Affecting the LGBTQIA+ Community
Thomas Pospiech, Jr., 4th Year, visiting, Chemical Biology Graduate Student
University of Michigan
Room: N-225, School of Nursing
Objectives:
You are the expert. So when a recommended policy will negatively impact patient prognosis for those in the LGBTQIA+ community, how do you effectively communicate your professional perspective to policymakers, administrators, and/or legislators?
The goals of this workshop are to:
- Teach participants how to use their expertise as a voice to support or refute arguments put forth by institutional administrators, policymakers, and legislators.
- Learn about the many ways to advocate
- Learn the essential elements of an Op-Ed
- Write an introduction to your own Op-Ed
Short Film "Festival": Happy Birthday Marsha! and Honored by the Moon
Facilitated by: Deepa Philips, RN, MPH
Full-spectrum doula, UCSF School of Nursing WHNP/CNM Candidate
Room: Cole Hall, Medical Sciences Building
About the films:
Happy Birthday Marsha!
Happy Birthday, Marsha! is a film about iconic transgender artist and activist, Marsha "Pay it No Mind" Johnson and her life in the hours before she ignited the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City. Written and directed by Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel.
Honored by the Moon
In this upbeat and empowering film, Native American lesbians and gay men speak of their unique historical and spiritual role. Within the Native American community, homosexuality was traditionally associated with the power to bridge worlds. Interviews with leading activists and personal testimony attest to the positive and painful experiences of being Native and gay. Produced by Smith (Dakota) for the Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force to raise issues of homophobia within the Indian community, this ground-breaking documentary is also an important contribution to culturally sensitive discussions of homosexuality.
Liberation through the voice: Gender Affirmative Voice and Communication
Wendy Vastine, M.A., CCC-SLP
San Francisco Voice & Swallowing, and Transformative Voice
Room: S-163, Medical Sciences Building
Objectives:
- Identify the target areas for gender affirmative voice and communication
- Differentiate between two different ways resonance is addressed
- Challenge a binary view of the voice
Health Disparities and Kink as an Unrecognized Sexual Minority: Cultural Humility in Care
Dr. Anna Randall, LCSW, Executive Director
Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance (tashr.org)
Room: HSW 303, Health Sciences West Building
(2nd floor next to Medical Sciences Building)
Objectives:
- Identify a minimum of three specific issues or concerns present in clinical interactions with kinky/BDSM identified clients.
- Identify key characteristics of interactions and relationships that distinguish consensual kink/BDSM from abuse and victimization.
- Discuss how race, sexual/gender diversity, and class intersect with alternative sexualities and relationship diversity, affecting clinical issues and cultural expressions of alternative sexualities
- Identify some of the gaps in research on alternative sexuality identities and communities and how these impact the development of clinical practice guidelines.
Write it Out: Healing Through Writing and Self Love
Evolve Benton, M.A., M.F.A. | Writer, Speaker, Healer
Equity and Inclusion Program Manager, Student Experience Team, UCSF
Room: N-217, School of Nursing
Objectives:
- Participants will write it out and learn tools to heal as healers.
- Participants will learn how to use writing a form of resistance.
- Participants will be challenged to explore parts of their stories and heal parts of their story.
- We will read the writings of others Queer Trans People of Color.
The Intersex Healthcare Chasm and What Intersex Youth Are Doing About It
Hans Lindahl, Director of Communications and Outreach
InterACT, and InterACT Advocates for Intersex Youth
Room: N-225, School of Nursing
Objectives:
- Learn about the gaps and abuses intersex people face in healthcare
- Learn about the history of intersex 'treatment' and its roots in racism and homophobia
- Identify what intersex people are doing now to self-advocate, and what providers can do to help
HIV Today: Understanding current trends in HIV infection with particular focus on factors faced by LGBTQIA young adults.
Dr. Christopher Daley, Outpatient Psychiatrist
Kaiser Permanente San Jose
Room: S-170, Medical Sciences Building
- Understand the mental health risk factors for LGBTQIA populations for HIV infection, with a focus on those faced by those aged 13-24
- Describe the issues that have made methamphetamine use particularly challenging in populations of men who have sex with men
- Take away helpful strategies for working with his population to reduce HIV transmission risk, including Pre Exposure Prophlyaxsis
Queer Institute: Speed Mentoring Edition
Presenters: Elaine Hsaing, Fion Ng, and Andrew Tam
School of Medicine, Fourth year
Room: S-214, Medical Sciences Building
This session is open to students who attended the Queer Undergraduate Institute on March 6, 2020
Short Film "Festival": Happy Birthday Marsha! and Honored by the Moon
Facilitated by:Jo Probert, MEPN 1st Year
UCSF School of Nursing
Room: Cole Hall, Medical Sciences Building
About the films:
Happy Birthday Marsha!
Happy Birthday, Marsha! is a film about iconic transgender artist and activist, Marsha "Pay it No Mind" Johnson and her life in the hours before she ignited the 1969 Stonewall Riots in New York City. Written and directed by Tourmaline and Sasha Wortzel.
Honored by the Moon
In this upbeat and empowering film, Native American lesbians and gay men speak of their unique historical and spiritual role. Within the Native American community, homosexuality was traditionally associated with the power to bridge worlds. Interviews with leading activists and personal testimony attest to the positive and painful experiences of being Native and gay. Produced by Smith (Dakota) for the Minnesota American Indian AIDS Task Force to raise issues of homophobia within the Indian community, this ground-breaking documentary is also an important contribution to culturally sensitive discussions of homosexuality.
Transference and Countertransference challenges in view of the Spectrum of Gender
Dr. Erica Anderson
UCSF Child and Adolescent Gender Clinic in Pediatric Endocrinology
sean c senechal, Speaker, author, instructor
Enhancing animals' & peoples' lives though enhanced communication
Room: S-214, Medical Sciences Building
Objectives:
- Recognize the need to re-evaluate the traditional professional patient paradigm in view of the spectrum of gender
- Explore possible models of professional interaction to promote Resilience in patients
- Challenge outmoded paradigms which fail to recognize multiple identities and marginalization, prepare for active resistance to oppression and unconscious bias
Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Fat Studies & LGBTQ Health Intersections
Dr. Natalie Ingraham, Assistant Professor of Sociology
California State University, East Bay
Caleb Luna, Performer-Scholar-Activist
Ph.D. candidate in Performance Studies at UC Berkeley
Room: S-163, Medical Sciences Building
Objectives:
- Recognize sexual and gender identities and how they intersect with body size and fatness specifically.
- Consider how trauma and violence happens in medical settings for people who live at various intersections of race, gender identity, sexual orientation, and body size.
- Challenge traditional medical understandings of body size and "obesity" and how these can cause harm to patients.
- Describe how fatphobia can negatively impact transgender and non-binary patients in particular and contribute to larger issues of medical neglect and mistreat of transgender and non-binary people in medical settings.
Bottoms Up: Anal sex and Anal health for all
Dr. Matthew Schechter, Office-based Proctologist
General Surgery Dept at Kaiser Oakland
Room: HSW 303, Health Sciences West Building
(2nd floor next to Medical Sciences Building)
Objectives:
- Counsel patients on how to comfortably bottom
- Counsel patients on how to troubleshoot common problems encountered during/after anal sex
- Recognize common anal health concerns and their basic treatment
- Counsel patients on optimizing their anal health
- Understand the role of the Digital Anal/Rectal Exam for all providers
Writing in the Storm: A Practice of Poetry and Healing
Jackie Berger
Professor of English at Notre Dame de Namur University
Room: N-217, School of Nursing
Objectives:
- Expose participants to wonderful poetry on illness and healing;
- Offer writing prompts and time to generate and share work;
- Facilitate discussion on creative expression as cultural and personal survival.
Vogue and Tone: 2020 Vibes with 2020 Vision
SirJoQ
Dancer/Choreographer/MC in San Francisco
Room: Nursing Mezzanine, School of Nursing
Objectives:
- Share the History of Vogue Culture
- Participants will learn about Formation of "Houses" /"Families"
- And the Role of Vogue Culture in the resistance and resilience to racism and homophobia
Beyond trans 101 - Centering patient needs in clinic at the structural and individual level
Dr. Madeline Deutsch, MD, MPH
Assistant Clinical Professor, UCSF Family and Community Medicine and the Clinical Lead for the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health
Room: N-225, School of Nursing
Objectives:
- Recognize how to improve transgender patient experiences in clinic
- Implement nuanced approaches to measuring, recording, and using gender identity data and chosen name and pronoun in clinical settings
- Understand the intersections of trauma, trans identity, and individual care goals
Speaker: Alicia Garza
Founder of Black Futures Lab & Co-founder of Black Lives Matter Global Network
Cole Hall
Medical Sciences Building
Deepa Philips, RN, MPH, Full-spectrum Doula, WHNP/CNM candidate
UCSF School of Nursing
Jo Probert, MEPN 1st Year
UCSF School of Nursing
Co-Chairs, 2020 LGBTQIA+ Health Forum
Cole Hall
Medical Sciences Building
