“Transforming Care is so moving because it brings together so many different kinds of people, from different backgrounds, and different professions. I learn as much from the other participants as I do from the presenters. Which is A LOT!”
2020 Call for Abstracts!
We are excited to announce we are accepting abstracts for the 2020 Transforming Care Conference between April 6, 2020 and May 22, 2020. Transforming Care has come to be known as the most comprehensive conference on LGBTQ+ HIV health equity in the country. Conference participants tell us that what makes TCC so transformative is the mix of people—researchers, practitioners, activists, community members all broadening each other’s perspectives. This year’s TCC theme will be The Invisibles.
TCC 2020: The Invisibles
At the fifth annual Transforming Care Conference on LGBTQ+ and HIV Health Equity, we will focus our learning on The Invisibles—those within the LGBTQ+ and HIV communities that typically go unnoticed in public health narratives. Given its roots in the American AIDS crisis, LGBTQ+ health activism focuses almost exclusively on those members of our community impacted by HIV. Likewise, our HIV prevention and care efforts center mostly around those impacted within the LGBTQ+ communities. But the scope of LGBTQ+ health disparities is much broader than HIV, and the impacts of HIV stretch far beyond same gender loving cis men.
if we are going to address the health needs of lesbians and bisexual cis women, trans men and women, non-binary people, LGBTQ+ people living with disability or mental illness, queer people of color, asexual people, pansexual people, and other “invisibles,” we must first seek to understand all that we have invested in the patriarchy, in misogyny, in able-bodied supremacy, in maintaining the gender binary, in heterosexism, in class hierarchy, in whiteness. And we must learn how to relinquish those investments.