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In-Visible Disabilities Open Mic (presented by Bigfoot Regional)

Multnomah County Library - Central Library 801 SW 10th Avenue, Portland, OR, United States

The Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam, in partnership with the Multnomah County Library, presents the (In)Visible Disabilities Mic - a poetry open mic for Disabled and Chronically Ill/in pain poets to come share their experiences. All are welcome to come watch. Event hosted by Doc Luben. This event is free and open to the public as part of the Bigfoot Regional Poetry Slam, a two-day poetry festival and competition happening in Downtown Portland.

Free

Caren Beilin in Conversation With Maya Dusenbery

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

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.

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