2SLGBTQ+ Meaningful Care Conference

Our mission for the conference is to center the lived-experiences of those accessing care, while challenging ourselves to uplift marginalized voices. As a part of that ongoing commitment, for 2024 we have partnered with Black & Beyond the Binary Collective (B3C). Black & Beyond the Binary Collective builds the leadership, healing, and safety for transgender, queer, nonbinary, two-spirit, and intersex (TQN2SI+) Oregonians with a focus on Black & Indigenous identities. We envision a future that gives power back to our communities, celebrates self-expression, and preserves dignity, and joy; a future that can center Black queer and Trans communities living fully liberated lives.

The day-long conference seeks to:

Promote Two Spirit, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex + culturally responsive health care and social services by uplifting marginalized voices and centering lived-experience
Take an intersectional approach to addressing multi-level health disparities
Share updated promising and evidence-based applications of 2SLGBTQ+ culturally responsive health care
Develop and diversify networks of 2SLGBTQ+ culturally responsive health care and social service providers
Move past equality and equity to center lived-experience, systems-change, and justice
Be change-based, with community leading the way on challenging systems

The 2024 conference theme is…

Surviving and Thriving: Beyond Resilience.

Keynote Speakers

Three Brown Jotos

**Three Brown Jotos** Podcast is composed of 3 friends who work in public health and share their personal queer brown stories. Their keynote will focus on:
- Building programs that are built for community, by community and run by community.
- The importance of representation within our work in public health.
- The importance of storytelling.
- Censorship within public health systems.

UTOPIA Washington

**United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliance (UTOPIA) Washington** is a grassroots organization led and founded by women of color, identifying as transgender and/or fa’afafine, and was born out of the struggles, challenges, strength, and resilience of the Queer and Trans Pacific Islander community. Their keynote will focus on:
- Looking beyond the individual to care for patients’ families and communities.
- Providing gender-affirming hormone therapy through a volunteer-run clinic.
- What it looks like to feel confident in providing care for each other.
- How a community clinic can dismantle harmful systems.

Agenda

The preliminary conference agenda is now available! Please note, this agenda is not final and changes may still occur.

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Sponsor the Conference

We have many sponsorship tiers available with amazing perks! And, if none of the packages fits your needs, we will even design a custom sponsorship package for you.

We also welcome both community-based and commercial organizations to host display tables at the event.

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