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A Frayed Knot / AFRAID NOT – JACQUELINE KEELER: READING + PRESENTATION

C3:Initiative 412 NW 8th Ave, Portland

Join us for a presentation of a new essay by writer Jacqueline Keeler, created in response to Cannupa Hanska Luger's exhibition, A Frayed Knot / AFRAID NOT. This is a free, open to the public event. ABOUT THE WRITER Jacqueline Keeler is a Diné/Ihanktonwan Dakota writer. Her book The Edge of Morning: Native Voices Speak for the Bears Ears is available from Torrey House Press and the forthcoming Standing Rock to the Bundy Standoff: Occupation, Native Sovereignty, and the Fight for Sacred Landscapes will be released next year. ABOUT THE EXHIBITION A Frayed Knot There is a line, that spans across time in a continuum. This line is the record of our existence and is woven into the very fabric of being. But this line, through…

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Kristen J. Sollée in Conversation With Ev’Yan Whitney

Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside Street, Portland

By combining historical research, pop culture, art analyses, and original interviews, Kristen J. Sollée’s Cat Call (Weiser) explores the cat and its indivisible connection to femininity – and teases out how this connection can help us better understand the relationship between myth, history, magic, womanhood in the digital age, and our beloved, clawed companions. Sollée will be joined in conversation by Ev’Yan Whitney, sex educator and host of The Sexually Liberated Woman podcast.

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