Writing Around Gender

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Writing Around Gender

By Jacob Anderson-Minshall | 5/29/2008

http://www.gaywired.com/Article.cfm?Section=73&ID=19131

Since its formation in 1999, Write Around Portland—a volunteer-facilitated series of writing workshops for Portland, Oregon's underprivileged—has become an institution, publishing 25 anthologies, facilitating 300 workshops and serving more than 1,700 individuals.

But, until this year, the organization had never held a workshop specifically for transgender participants. Usually, Write Around Portland (writearound.org) partners with community organizations or educational institutions, which fund workshops dedicated to serving their clients.

That's how Jay Elbrecht got involved with the program. A social worker who transitioned from female to male, Elbrecht works at Portland's HIV Day Center and connected his clients with Write Around Portland workshops.