A resource for the PDX literary community. Produced by Old Pal.
LitPDX seeks to amplify marginalized voices, and welcomes all, their ideas, their events, and their words.
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Sunday January 19th! Come out to @abigailhallpdx and see these great writers read original work and writing by women who have informed their craft! @radish_king @iamstillmelia @nataliegaryet @caitlin_delohery A monthly reading series in Abigail Hall honoring a lineage of women writers // Curated by @aamebel & @tyler.sowa
Blackfishing the IUD (Wolfman) is a daring memoir by Caren Beilin about reproductive health and the IUD, gendered illness, medical gaslighting, and activism in the chronic illness community. Rhapsodic and unabashedly polemical, Beilin scrutinizes the literary, artistic, and medical history of rheumatoid arthritis, as she considers the copper IUD's role in triggering her sudden onset of chronic autoimmunity. Blackfishing the IUD is an argument that the copper IUD is sickening quite a lot of women – and that we listen first and foremost to women's testimony to begin to resolve it. Beilin will be joined in conversation by Maya Dusenbery, journalist, editor, and author of Doing Harm.