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 ‘Youth’
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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Male Birth Control that may also kill HIV?
Posted: April 27, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: AIDS, Birth Control, Cascade AIDS Project, CHATmosphere, CHATpdx, Educational, Ernesto Dominguez, Fight, HIV, Kills HIV, Penis, Pregnancy, STD, STDs, Testing, Youth
Male Birth Control that can also kill HIV? More often than not, the responsibility of preventing pregnancy falls on female-bodied individuals – birth control pills, the patch, IUDs, insertive condoms, etc. But what about guys who want to take responsibility too? Or women for whom a lot of the standard options don’t work? Enter a [...]
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 [...]
World AIDS Day 2011!
Posted: November 24, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: 33.3 million, AIDS, CHAT, CHAT room, CHATpdx, Condom, DEC 1st, Ernesto, Facebook, Growing, HIV, Lube, Sex, Super Bowl Sunday, WE, World AIDS Day, Youth
World AIDS Day, observed December 1 each year, is dedicated to raising awareness of the AIDS pandemic caused by the spread of HIV infection. HIV/AIDS has been a global epidemic for more than 27 years. Most of today’s youth have never known a world without it. As CHATpdx (a coalition of organizations that are working [...]
Film Friday- Questions (not) to ask a Trans person
Posted: September 25, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Ernesto, Film Friday, Justin Bieber, Lady Gaga, LGBT, Questions, Reproductive Rights, Tranny, Transgender, Youth, Youtube
Greetings CHATmosphere! This week I am in Washington DC with a group of about 120 activists talking about sexual and reproductive rights. While here we had a great conversation about some of the questions LGBT folks are asked and how inappropriate they can be. At the extreme level of these horrible questions are the ones [...]
Film Friday
Posted: September 10, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Altoids, anilingus, CHATpdx, Condoms, Fellatio, Irrumatio, Latex, Oral sex, Sex, Youth
Every Friday I will be posting an educational, entertaining or just plain weird video on our site. Hopefully it will prompt discussion from you or at least get you thinking differently about an issue. This week, Oral Sex Pop quiz Define the following words: Oral sex- Fellatio- Cunnilingus- Irrumatio- Anilingus- Don’t read on until you’ve [...]
Introducing Darwin, the Faerie
Posted: September 2, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: ally, darwin, faeries, Gender, identity, pronoun, Sexuality, unicorns, Youth
Name: Darwin Age: 20 Gender Identity: Faerie Sexual Orientation: Pansexual Hometown: Portland, Oregon Likes: People, Chocolate Chip Cookies, Myself, Pink Dislikes: Grits, Busses being late, The way peanut butter gets stuck in your teeth, bigotry. Hello folks! My name is Darwin. I am a femme identified gender queer currently residing in Portland, OR. I use [...]
Masturbation Doesn’t Break Hearts!
Posted: August 19, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: Adults, CHATpdx, epilepsy, HIV, Lube, Masturbation, Men, Myths, National Masturbation Month, Parents, Penis, Sex, STDs, Sterile, Vagina, Women, Youth
“90% of people admit to masturbating, the other 10 percent are liars.” -unknown May 1st marked the first day of National Masturbation Month. Yes I said it, Masturbation. If you didn’t know about this, well, you’re not alone. I’ll even admit that I didn’t know this national day existed or that it has been [...]
