Portland, Oregon Oregon Queer Youth Summit Portland State University May 12, 2012 A Queer Undocumented Reflection Queer, undocumented, women, disabled, youth, community-we must always work to not forget that our collective and individual duty is to love and protect each other. I was invited to speak at the OQYS 2012 on my activism [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Oregon’
Queer Undocumented Bodies – A reflection from the Oregon Queer Youth Summit
Posted: May 25, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Youth, Sexuality, Queer, Oregon, Undocument, unafraid, summit, OQYS, immigration
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What does the Asian Pacific Islander National HIV/AIDS Awareness Day mean to me?
Posted: April 6, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: AIDS, ally, Cascade AIDS Project, CHATpdx, Educational, Ernesto, Facebook, HIV, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, Latex, NLAAD, Oregon, Sex, STD, STDs, Stigma, Testing, Youth
What does the Asian Pacific Islander National HIV/AIDS Awareness Day mean to me? I have never heard of the Banyan Tree Project nor National Asian & Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness Day, which falls next month on May 19. Each year A&PI Awareness day is sponsored by Banyan Tree Project. National Asian Pacific Islander HIV/AIDS Awareness [...]
The role of “men” in preventing HPV related cervical cancer!
Posted: January 11, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: Boys, CDC, Centers for Disease Control, Family, Females, Gardasil, Genital Warts, Girls, HPV, hpv types, hpv vaccines, Human Papillomavirus, human papillomavirus hpv, infertility in women, kids, kits, Latino, Males, Mothers, National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health, Oregon, Sex, sexual health services, Sisters, STD, STI, Stigma, Testing, Vaccine, vaginal cancer, Youth
(Photo Credit Gardasil) This blog was originally posted on CHATpdx.org as a program of CHATpdx For more information check out: Our Facebook Page In the US, it’s estimated that a majority (75%-80%) of men and women will be infected with the Human Papillomavirus (HPV). With about 6 million new cases of genital HPV every year [...]
Race, Poverty, Gender, OH MY!
Posted: January 18, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: African American, Black, CAP, Gender, HIV, Latina, Money, Oregon, Positive Women's Network, poverty, PSU, PTA, Race, Women
I recently started an internship at CAP and get to participate in some interesting dialogues and trainings. One project that I was happy to be a part of was a teleconference discussing the intersections of race, gender, and poverty. This is fascinating to me since I’m majoring in Social Work at PSU. Here is a [...]
Save A Life, It May Be Your Own: An NLAAD Blog
Posted: November 13, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Activism, AIDS, Ariel Cerrud, Education, LGBTQ, NLAAD, Oregon, Portland, Prevention, Ryan White, Stigma, Support, Testing
By Ariel Cerrud, youth blogger for Amplifyyourvoice.org On October 15th, the last day of Hispanic Heritage Month, I alongside my many peer activists, educators and friends recognized the National Latino AIDS Awareness Day (NLAAD). Organized by the Latino AIDS Commission in 2003, “NLAAD has been established as a national community mobilization and social marketing campaign [...]
Introducing Tessara
Posted: October 13, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: AIDS, Bigots, CHATmosphere, Fan-fiction, Gender Queer, HIV, Introducing, Mayhem, Oregon, Pansexual, Portland, Privilege, Sex, Sexuality, SMYRC, Stigma, Tessara
Name: Tessara/Mayhem Age: 21 Gender Identity: Genderqueer Preferred Pronoun: “they/them/their” Sexual Orientation: Pansexual Location: Portland, Oregon Likes: Reading, writing poetry & fan-fiction, knitting, educating around youth sexuality Dislikes: Street harassment, unearned privilege, bigots, politicians who prevaricate, stigma I have some poetry coming up on the blog- keep an eye out for it! Some of it’s [...]
