Posted on February 16, 2012 by: Kris Gowen, originally posted on Kris Gowens Blog I was going to try to come up with a fancier more accessible title, but I can’t right now. But I sure better by May! I’ve been invited to speak at an bullying awareness event in Austin Texas this May. [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Portland’
What the Planned Parenthood Stings don’t show
Posted: February 18, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: Activism, Angela Carkner, Anti-Abortion, Expose, Fight, Fremont, Funding, Live Action, Love, Martin Luther King, Planned Parenthood, Portland, Protest, Sting
In Portland we’ve seen a little of the anti-abortion activism that goes on in this country, but only a small amount. I remember driving by the empty space on Martin Luther King Boulevard where a Planned Parenthood was going to be put in and seeing a small group of people protesting with their picket signs. [...]
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 [...]
Femme Identity
Posted: October 6, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Comic, darwin, Faerie, Femme, Gender, Gender non-conforming, Patriarchy, Portland, Queer, Straight, Woman
As a femme identified person and someone perceived as female I have encountered a great struggle to find voice and place for myself in my queer community here in Portland. I have had friends who were more androgynous or masculine identified express to me that they dislike being around femme identified people because of negative [...]
What is CHATpdx?
Posted: August 2, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: AIDS, CHATpdx, Condoms, Facebook, HIV, PDX, Portland, Sex, STDs, Testing, Twitter, Youth
Curbing HIV/AIDS Transmission (CHAT) is a collaboration between organizations and individuals working to curb HIV and AIDS transmission among young people through peer education and outreach, HIV testing, youth services and social media. Funded through the Department of Health and Human Service – Office of Minority Health (OMH). Our work is carried out by a number of [...]
