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LitCrawl 2019: Build Your Own Industrial-Strength Crap Detector

Literary Arts 925 SW Washington Street, Portland

HEY PORTLAND! Come out for my hilarious factchecking lecture during #LitCrawl2019! Are you ready for the 2020 Presidential campaign season? Do you know fact from fiction, fake news from real information? In this fun slideshow adapted from my new book, Street Journalist: Understand and Report the News in Your Community, I'm offering easy tools of critical analysis to help you navigate whatever the hell's gonna happen next.

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Anthologies of Women’s Rage / Burn It Down x All of Me x LitCrawl

The Corporeal Writing Center 510 SW 3rd Ave #101, Portland

Editors and contributors from two new anthologies about women’s anger—Burn It Down and All of Me—present short readings and an opportunity for audience participation to unleash our collective rage. With Lilly Dancyger, Dani Burlison, Ariel Gore, Marissa Korbel, G. Ravyn Stanfield, and Marisa Siegel. About the editors: Lilly Dancyger is a contributing editor and columnist at Catapult, and assistant editor at Barrelhouse Books. She's the editor of Burn It Down, an anthology of essays on women's anger from Seal Press, and the author of Negative Space, a reported and illustrated memoir forthcoming from Santa Fe Writers Project in 2021. Her writing has been published by Longreads, The Washington Post, Glamour, Playboy, Rolling Stone, and more. Lilly lives in New York City, and she spends way…

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Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices

Two Rivers Bookstore 8836 N Lombard Street, Portland

Join Michaela McCormick (she/her) and Sasha Strong (they/them) as they read from their chapters in the new anthology, Transcending.

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She Can Really Lay It Down: A Celebration of Women Rockers and Rebels

Kickstand Comedy 16 NW Broadway, Portland

In She Can Really Lay It Down: 50 Rebels, Rockers, and Musical Revolutionaries (Who Happen to be Women), author and illustrator Rachel Frankel tells the fascinating stories of fifty female musicians who left their indelible mark on music and culture. Each incredible musician in this book defied genre and social conventions to shape the music industry as we know it, but have been overlooked simply because they are women. From under-celebrated industry greats like Carol Kaye – the kickass bass player who we’ve all listened to but never heard of – to legends like Nina Simone – the American singer, songwriter, pianist, and civil rights activist – She Can Really Lay It Down showcases outstanding female-identified musicians from the 20th and 21st centuries. Tonight, Rachel speaks about the process,…

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