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Birth Without Fear

Powell's Books at Cedar Hills Crossing 3415 SW Cedar Hills Blvd, Beaverton

In Birth Without Fear (Hachette), January Harshe – founder of the global online community of the same name – delivers a positive, passionate message of empowerment surrounding everything that involves having a baby. It's a guide that fills in the considerable cracks in the information available to women and families when they're preparing to welcome a child – covering care provider choices, medical freedom, birth options, breastfeeding, intimacy, postpartum depression, and much more.

Free

Our Weather Our Sea: Samuel Ace and Marcus Lund

Mother Foucault's Bookshop 523 SE Morrison St, Portland

Join Samuel Ace and Marcus Lund on May 17 at 7 pm to celebrate two new books from Samuel: Meet Me There, a reissue of two early works from Belladonna, and Our Weather Our Sea, a new collection from Black Radish. Samuel Ace is a trans and genderqueer poet and sound artist. He is the author of several books, including Our Weather O­ur Sea (Black Radish Books, 2019) and Meet Me There: Normal Sex & Home in three days. Don’t wash. (Belladonna* Germinal Texts, 2019). He is the recipient of the Astraea Lesbian Writers Fund Award in Poetry and the Firecracker Alternative Book Award, as well as a two-time finalist for both the Lambda Literary Award and the National Poetry Series. His work has been widely anthologized and has appeared…

Free

Space Cocaine Reading

Belmont Books 3415 SE Belmont St, Portland

Four authors. One anthology. One space. Join Jessie Kwak, Grá Linnaea, Andrew McCollough, and Mark Teppo as they read from SPACE COCAINE, a new anthology of totally unrelated stories that are wrapped in a cover that has a wizard and a dragon on it. It'll be an evening of interstitial slipstreaming across the liminal fringes. You won't want to miss it because we're producing an edition of SPACE COCAINE that will only be available this evening.

Free

All Kinds of Fur

Indivisible 2544 SE 26th Ave, Portland

Come, my pretties! Join us for this year's first FUR with an amazing array of talented writers. I promise they won't bite! Join us after for extra sweet treats in honor of this month's tale, Hansel & Gretel. Featuring the talents of sweet talkers Dian Greenwood Kimberly King Parsons Bobby Bermea And a special performance by Sherry Okamura Leonard and Charles Sheffer

Free

Ibtihaj Muhammad

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

Growing up in New Jersey as the only African American Muslim at school, Ibtihaj Muhammad always had to find her own way. When she discovered fencing, a sport traditionally reserved for the wealthy, she had to defy expectations and make a place for herself in a sport she grew to love. As the only woman of color and the only religious minority on Team USA's saber fencing squad, Muhammad had to chart her own path to success and Olympic glory. Proud (Hachette) is a moving coming-of-age story from one of the nation's most influential athletes, illustrating how she rose above it all.

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