The Disability Pride Art and Culture Festival 5 is coming to Portland April 20-28!

Don’t miss two nights of Performances and a Dance Intensive with 2012 guest artist Antoine D. Hunter, a panel discussion on The Power of Art to Cultivate Social Change, and a Theater of the Oppressed workshop on the Intersection of Race and Disability.

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Disability Art & Culture Project presents Love, Sex and Disability II, a fundraiser for the fifth Disability Pride Art and Culture Festival.

A night of film, music and spoken word (Adult content)
Facebook Event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/36195788
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This is a fantastic article: http://www.bilerico.com/2011/11/why_you_shouldnt_donate_to_the_salvation_army_bell.php#more

One of the reasons I am still around on LJ (even though I don't post much in my own journal) is because of the fun stuff I learn about via the damnportlanders community. This project is being spearheaded by one of the cool people on damnportlanders, drjeff, and I wanted to circulate it as widely as possible. Take a look at Jeff's blog at Read more... )

Come celebrate the start of the 2011 season of the Interstate Farmer's Market.

Wednesday May 18, 3-7pm, at N. Fremont and N. Interstate (right across from Kaiser and the Overlook Yellow Line Max Station).
(and every Wednesday after that, through September 24)

Music: The Shook Twins

Cooking Demo: Green Smoothies from The Green Lady Cafe

Kids Tent

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Last year around this time someone on the damnportlanders community page asked about swapping Chinook Book coupons and that was a totally winning idea that worked out for a few of us. I'd like to try it again this year. If you're interested, comment with what you want to exchange - we could meet up to exchange coupons or mail them to one ( Read more... )

i haven't posted in forever - i wish i was more into writing something on lj, but i can't think of much to say here. so a list of recent food creations - by both me and s.: 

• apricot fruit leather with free dehydrator and $1/ lb. local apricots - took longer that i'd have liked, but delicious
• mushroom risotto with homemade veg stock made by s.
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Michaela Null, a fantastic fat activist and academic in Sociology at Purdue, is doing her dissertation research on fat women involved in size-acceptance. If you are interested in helping her, click on this link: http://web.ics.purdue.edu/~mnull/

NOLOSE '10 June 4-6, 2010 Econolodge Oakland, CA

Fat Panic!

Call for Workshops, Hands-on Activities, You Name It

Only you can help make NOLOSE a fabulous conference!
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