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Heaux Stories: Portland’s First All PoC Femme Storytelling Show

November 11, 2019 @ 8:00 pm - 10:00 pm

$35
View Venue Website, 128 NW 11th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209 + Google Map

Join us for the debut of Heaux Stories, Portland’s first all poc femme storytelling showcase. Created by renowned journalist and storyteller Jagger Blaec, this event aims to provide a sex-positive safe space that will foster intimacy and community by centering femmes of color through the empowering act of authentic storytelling.

Doors at 7:00 PM. Event begins at 8:00 PM.

ABOUT STORY TELLERS:

ELINA LIM:
She tells stories all across Portland and Asia. She has a pet snake. She is a heaux. Pronouns: She/Her/Hers/They/Them

MONEL CHANG:
Monel Chang is a sex-positive LGBTQIA+ advocate and in/discreet weirdo. Raised in Los Angeles and groomed by hippies in various intentional communes, Monel has come to Portland to enmesh social justice with somatics and medicine in a naturopathic graduate program minoring in integrative mental health. Pronouns: She/They

CLOUD:
Cloud is a performer that combines baby softness with hot intenisty. Embracing gender fuckery and magical ambiguity makes Cloud the silly and mysterious Bae-Next-Door you never knew you needed. Pronouns: he/she/they

CAMILA:
Camila is a transplant from nueva York, currently residing in Portland OR with three silly dogs. When she isn’t telling heaux stories on stage she is working in labor rights and employee advocacy, specifically for the speciality coffee industry. You can check out her project @baristabehindthebar. She is an Aries, left-handed, and thoroughly enjoys dark chocolate with sea salt and almonds.

MIA BONILLA:
Mia is a first-generation latinx and a queer nonbinary femme who takes no shit. In anything they do, be it art or education, they refuse to engage in respectability politics and elitism. A social media maven, they have spent the past four years creating an online platform to teach others about the complex and extensive framework of various oppressive systems, such as white supremacy and patriarchy, and the ways in which those systems affect every aspect of our lives.

They are primarily interested in intersectionality and upholding dark-skinned/fat/disabled/trans/poor femmes, who embody all or some of those identities, through their politics and their work. As an artist, Mia translates the same principles and values of their social justice work into multimedia and interdisciplinary pieces that reimagine the world by centering nonwhite people and their stories.
Pronouns: they/them / Multiracial Latinx. @miamonchichi on IG

D MARTIN AUSTIN:
They are a writer, comedian, and accidental activist living in Portland, OR. They have been a finalist in Queerspace Magazine’s OUTSTANDING Queer Comedy Competition, a featured performer in the NW Black Comedy Festival, All Jane Comedy Festival, and Associate Producer for Portland Queer Comedy Festival. Besides being a frequent contributor to The Portland Mercury, they have volunteered their talents in support of various nonprofits such as SPEEC, Wild Diversity, Lower Columbia Estuary Partnership, Planned Parenthood, and The Portland Q Center. She/Her They/Them

SPONORS:
Gemini 11 Jewelry
Meals 4 Heels
Canapa CBD
QUILL CBD
Happy Camper Tattoo
Charcuterie Me

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Venue

128 NW 11th Avenue
Portland, OR 97209
+ Google Map
Phone
503-445-3700
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Organizer

Heaux Stories