Trans Media Convening Registration
We're excited you're interested in attending The Objective's first Trans Media Convening!
When is this event? What is the registration deadline?
The convening is on Nov. 14, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. PT // 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. CT // 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. ET. Registration forms must be submitted by Nov. 12, 2025, by 11:59 p.m. ET.
What is this event?
This is a free, virtual-only event on Zoom hosted by The Objective. It will be two panels and a social hour, all centered around trans journalists and trans people working in adjacent fields to journalism discussing how to build a safer media ecosystem and holding newsrooms accountable for contributing to a transphobic climate. Cis allies are welcome to attend! Once you submit a registration form, we will be in touch with the secure Zoom link for the event. We will be screening registrants carefully to keep trolls away and make this a safer space.
What happens to my information?
Each form submission is encrypted. Your information will be stored locally in Jotform and only accessible to a team of vetted volunteers helping The Objective organizing the event, as well as The Objective's two co-directors. It will be deleted after the event and we will only keep your email if you request notes for panels or if you consent to being updated for The Objective's newsletter/future events.
About the Narrative Change panel
The Narrative Change panel will feature panelists involved with Interrupting Criminalization, TransLash Media, the Trans Journalists Association, and OutSports. It is graciously sponsored by Press On, a Southern media and movement journalism collective. Some of the questions the panel will grapple with: How has journalism impacted trans people’s safety both positively and negatively? What are actionable ways journalism can do better? What do we as trans journalists want our media ecosystem to look like?
About the Workplace Solidarity panel
The Narrative Change panel will feature panelists involved with The Flytrap, TransLatin@, and TransFuturist Collective and contributors to Teen Vogue and Scalawag. The panel asks: What does it look like to build coalitions that support trans journalists and people in and outside of the workplace? What kind of material solidarity do trans people need from cis allies in the newsroom and in narrative not just in the current moment, but beyond?
About The Objective
The Objective is a media reporting and criticism newsroom that examines systems of power and inequity in journalism: how newsrooms treat their employees, how journalists interact with their community, and what new forms of journalism can look like.
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We are prohibiting AI notetakers to join the Zoom convening for both the panels and socializing hour for safety and attendee comfort. We will have a notetaker present to take notes at the panels. By submitting this registration form, you consent to acknowledging and respecting this policy.
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Sessions you plan to attend
Do you plan to attend the Narrative Change panel, from 10:15-11:30 a.m. CT? This panel is graciously sponsored by Press On, a Southern movement journalism collective.
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Do you plan to attend the Workplace Solidarity panel, from 11:35 a.m.-12:50 p.m. CT?
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Would you like to attend the open socializing hour on Zoom, from 2-3 p.m. CT? This is meant to be a space to connect with other attendees.
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What is your interest in attending this convening?
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Meet other trans journalists and media makers
Learn how other trans journalists have built alternative media and structures of support
Find hope despite the current political climate
Learn strategies for materially supporting trans coworkers
Learn how journalists can utilize organizing and movement strategies in their work
Push back against anti-trans narratives in my newsroom
Better understand how legacy journalism has contributed to the current anti-trans climate
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What is your current relation to journalism? If you work in and/or organize within a movement adjacent to journalism, let us know as well (e.g. climate justice, disability justice, etc.).
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Please list any questions you have for our panelists and specify which panel you'd like them to be asked in.
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With which of these do you identify?
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Are you currently a university student and/or student journalist?
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