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Conversation Overview
Conversation Overview
In the face of increased discrimination against the trans community, from anti-trans legislation attacking healthcare and rights to the physical violence and death that transgender people face on a daily basis, it is more important than ever that we discuss the importance of uplifting and supporting trans community members and what it takes to be an ally in today’s age. Join Victoria Rubio and Vivian Rubio as they speak on their experiences and share their wisdom while celebrating transgender visibility.
Guest Bios
Guest Bios
Victoria Rubio is a certified drug and alcohol counselor who has worked in the field of addiction for four years. Currently, she attends Antioch for her Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts with an emphasis in Psychology. Victoria is an openly transgender woman who came out at the age of sixteen on The Montel Williams Show as an avenue to educate the world on the transgender experience in the early nineties. She is an LGBTQ advocate, having lectured at Pitzer College and Claremont Mckenna College, as well as various mental health facilities, on affirming trans individuals in educational spaces and beyond.
Vivian Rubio is a certified drug and alcohol counselor as well as an intervention specialist. She is an openly transgender woman who came out at the age of nineteen. At present, she is in pursuit of her Bachelor’s in Liberal Arts with an emphasis in Psychology and plans to attain her Master’s at Antioch in the future. Vivian has worked in the field of addiction for six years at one of the only LGBTQ-specific facilities in the country. She has lectured at different facilities on how to affirm transgender individuals in various mental health settings.
Additional Resources
Additional Resources
Trans Sex by Lucie Fielding
ISBN: 9780367331764
Publication Date: 2021-04-01
Finalist, 2022 Lambda Literary Awards (Trans-Non-fiction Category) Winner, of the 2022 AASECT Book Awards (Book for Sexuality Professionals) Despite the increasing visibility of trans and non-binary folx in media, political representation, and popular culture, their sexual lives and erotic embodiments are woefully under-attended-to in both scholarship and clinical practice. The aim of this book is to equip providers with both conceptual frameworks and concrete tools for better engaging their trans, non-binary, and gender expansive clients in pleasure-centered discussions of sexual health. Challenging the dominant images of trans sexualities that appear in the existing literature, such as an emphasis on avoiding gender dysphoria, the preservation of sexual function, or on sexual losses that may arise as a result of transition pathways, Trans Sex offers a pleasure-positive approach to working with trans clients. Providing concrete clinical practices and practical activities that utilize social justice, intersectional trans feminism, and radical queer theory as key conceptual frameworks, this groundbreaking text is designed to be accessible to a wide range of providers. This book draws on Fielding's experiences as both a trans client/patient and as a therapist to shift and expand the conversation and includes contributions from other trans and non-binary providers working at the intersection of gender-affirmative care and sexuality. Trans Sex seeks to move trans sexualities from the margins of gender-affirmative clinical practice, to center pleasure, and to spark creativity and empathic attunement within the client-provider relationship. Whether they be mental health or medical providers, trainees, or seasoned practitioners in gender-affirmative work or sexualities, readers will be able harness creative strategies to enhance their practice and become more imaginative providers.
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