Portland’s LGBTQ and feminist hot spot
Katie and Amber welcome you!
Portland’s LGBTQ community is always growing. Karen Petersen, Pride Foundation’s Regional Development Organizer in Oregon, pays a visit to one of the community institutions that has helped ensure that the community is vibrant and strong for almost 20 years…
I’m very fond of Portland’s In Other Words feminist community center for a variety of reasons – one is that I met one of my heroes, author and sex-advice columnist Dan Savage, there for the first time.
And it was at In Other Words earlier this month that I experienced yet another first – attending a launch party for a new queer, feminist sex magazine, “SALACIOUS.” The latest creation of Maine activist-artist Katie Diamond, SALACIOUS is dedicated to erotic art and literature, viewed through a queer, feminist, anti-racist lens. Offering porn with high art, comics with erotica, titillation with stunning visuals, SALACIOUS offers a smorgasbord of delights!
Two highlights of the launch party included Amy White (Pride Foundation’s Director of Strategies and Engagement) winning the best raffle prize ever – a hand painted, ceramic dildo – and reuniting with Katie Carter, In Other Word’s Program Coordinator. Katie and I served on Pride Foundation’s community grant review community last year. And speaking of volunteering with Pride Foundation, I’ll be looking for people to review scholarships and grants this year, so if you’re interested in taking part, please email me at [email protected].
Where else would a queer, feminist, anti-racist magazine celebrate its creation but at In Other Words. Located at 14 NE Killingsworth and founded in 1993, In Other Words enriches the community through literature, art, and educational and cultural events. In their bookstore and lending library, people can find books on feminism, queer and transgender studies, activism/politics, as well as alternative children’s books.
In Other Words also operates a market place where local artists and craftspeople sell their creations, and where musicians, performers, and writers share their amazing talents with the rest of us. In Other Words also provides tangible resources for health and wellness, therapy and counseling, sexual and reproductive help, transgender issues, LGBTQ support and advocacy, birth and parenting, education, housing, activism and social change, and places to contact in crisis situations.
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