A symposium on supporting LGBTQ survivors of domestic violence,
particularly outside state institutions.

Or click on Session Titles below to watch individual sessions on YouTube.

2-Day Symposium Schedule with Session Zoom Links

Day 1 – Monday, September 13

9:00-10:15am Getting to know the NC LGBTQ DV Response Initiative: A panel of LGBTQ advocates ▶️

10:25-11:55 Abolitionism and Alternatives to Police in Service Provision Settings, Skylar Ashton Kantola/Yeni Bencomo-Suarez ▶️

11:55-12:55 Lunch

12:55-2:10 Safety in Housing, Kayla Gore

2:20-3:35 Reimagining Mental Health Crisis Response ▶️

3:45-4:45 Holding Space for Pandemic Grief and Collective Care, Cindy Milstein

3:45-4:45 Discussion groups

A) Organizational Strategies for Self-Care
B) Networking for LGBTQ-identified advocates
C) LGBTQ DV and SA advocacy on college campuses

Day 2 – Tuesday, September 14

9:00-10:15am Keynote: Justice is NOT Healing: How The State Fails The Most Marginalized Survivors, Ignacio G Hutía Xeiti Rivera ▶️

10:25-11:40 Disability Justice and IPV: Building Abolitionist Tools for Interrupting Violence against Disabled, Mad, and Neurodivergent LGBTQ+ Folks, Stefanie Lyn Kaufman-Mthimkhulu ▶️

11:40-12:40 Lunch

12:40-1:55 Choosing Both/And: The limitations of Binary Thinking in Anti-Violence Work, Dolores Chandler ▶️

2:05-3:20 A Model for Responding to Houselessness in the Black Trans Community during the Global Pandemic without the use of State apparatuses, Ash Williams ▶️

3:30-4:30 Improvisation For Self-Care, Anoo Tree Brod

Slow Flow and Stretch, Tucker Shelton

Discussion groups

D) QTPOC Autonomous Space
E) LGBTQ Advocacy in Rural Communities

4:30-5:15 Advocacy in Action: Inform the State’s Plan on Addressing Domestic Violence in Queer Communities (Strategizing / Feedback session / Closing Remarks)