A digital reading to celebrate the latest Portland WOC Zine Collective Issue: Unmasked and Revealed!

As Central Americans in the US become a focus of anti-immigrant rhetoric and queer and trans people seek refuge from hate and violence on both sides of the border, it is more urgent than ever to combat one-dimensional stereotypes while resisting the urge to only represent ourselves as the perfect sexless minority in our narratives in order to garner respect for our humanity. Acclaimed and emergent queer Central American authors tackle these themes from multiple genres, mediums, and languages.

In this session, writers and teachers of ecological literature will use theories of ecofeminism and environmental justice to consider how built urban and suburban spaces exclude or erase “others”—nonwhite, non-cisgendered, poor, disabled bodies. They will also address how female, nonwhite, disabled, queer, underprivileged bodies are stereotypically associated with wildness and discuss strategies for disrupting such traditional binaries as human/natural and civilized/wild.

In this two-hour generative writing workshop led by Olivia Olivia, author of No One Remembered Your Name But I Wrote It Down, writers will bring their work to the edge of life and consequence. Explore who you are at the end of the day, and what you want your words to say about you when you’re gone. Open to beginners and seasoned writers alike, this experience will allow writers to go home with a renewed sense of purpose and a list of demands from their words and lives.

$25/Members*
$40/Nonmembers

*Email hquinn@iprc.org for discount codes, and for more information about becoming a member, visit the IPRC’s membership page here.

Experience a night of dark moon magic and poetry at Mother Foucault’s Bookshop this Thursday.

Celebrate the launch of the Nat Turner Project's first book, featuring scores of artists of color from Portland.

Dimsummer Book Club invites you to celebrate the publication of The Pink Light by Ines Falcö at the Independent Publishing Resource Center in Portland, OR on Friday, April 27 at 7pm. Hosted by Rob Gray with performances by Manuel Arturo Abreu, Olivia Olivia, and Ines Falco. The Pink Light will be available alongside new zines, prints, and art by members of the Dimsummer Book Club.

For the first time in history, Artificial Intelligence has moved from the pages of science fiction to a reality in our everyday lives. From how we cure diseases to what we see on our social media feeds to how we drive our cars, AI will define more and more of how we think, feel and act. What does this mean for us as a civilization? Where is AI going? And what is our role in designing that future?

Join Particle Design for a lively evening of talks by industry experts from Google, Amazon and others on the topic of AI. Talks will be interspersed with artists performances. 

Drinks and light food will be provided. All proceeds will be donated to the artists.