LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.

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Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma

Online N/A, Portland

Co-Dependencies: On Healing, Remembering, Breathing & Writing Trauma 4-Week Online Workshop starting April 25, 2021 “What really exists is not things made but things in the making.” –William James “How other kinds of beings see us matters. That other kinds of beings see us changes things.” –Eduardo Kohn On han: “A feeling of unresolved resentment against injustices suffered, a sense of helplessness because of the overwhelming odds against one, a feeling of acute pain in one's guts and bowels, making the whole body writhe and squirm, and an obstinate urge to take revenge and to right the wrong—all these combined.” –Suh Nam-dong How are the frames of reference and relationships between and of living beings activated? That is, how do different bodies and worlds articulate…

$350

Poetry Workshop with Risa Mykland

Online N/A, Portland

Join us for a Poetry workshop lead by Risa Mykland! This is a free workshop with an opportunity to tip Risa for their time. Workshop info: Risa Mykland (she/they) will be leading a workshop theming around writing about a simple personal experience and using it to illustrate a much larger story from your life. There will be an opportunity in the workshop to individually listen to a song (preferably one you know really well), so if you want to decide on that song before the workshop feel free to. You will also have time to choose it during the workshop. Come prepared with some way to take words down (ex. notebook + pen, phone notes app, laptop document), optionally a song, and your wonderful self.…

Free