LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
For details regarding specific events please contact the organizers or venues. If you are an organizer or venue and would like to reach out to us please feel free to contact us or submit an event using our submission form. We’d love to hear from you!
- This event has passed.
The Witnesses the Wayward & the Way with Dr. Alexis Pauline Gumbs
April 26, 2019 @ 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
FreeThe Witnesses the Wayward and the Way Workshop with Alexis Pauline Gumbs!
April 26th, 2019- 10am-12pm Portland Community College-Southeast in Mt. Tabor Hall (room 146).
The Witnesses the Wayward and the Way is an interactive writing workshop accountable to survivors of sexual violence and those seeking to create a world free from sexual violence.
***Priority registration is working to give space for student survivors from, historically oppressed, underrepresented communities, and holding marginalized identities (QTIBPOC) to be at the front.
Drawing from Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity Alexis Pauline Gumbs will prompt participants to write individually and in pairs about survival, speaking out and supporting each other.
Participants should be prepared to listen to each other deeply, engage their own and others writing and to hold space for what Audre Lorde calls “the transformation of silence into language and power.”
Space limited & will close once capacity is reached.