Events

All events will be taped and available on demand unless otherwise noted. Transcripts will be available in English and Spanish. Events may be led in English, Spanish, or mixed. 

  • Awesomely Awkward Dungeons & Dragons

    Get your nerd on! Come venture into a faraway land with other neurodifferent/spicy/divergent folks. No experience? Need accommodations for stimulation, speed, or other things that have sidelined you before? No problem.

    Please head over to the Contact Us page to let us know that you’re ready to quest. This group is NOT recorded but a summary of the quest will be available.

    Schedule to be determined by the group but the adventure begins October, 2026.

  • Elder’s Circle

    Think queer think-tank! A quarterly in-person gathering of queer and trans people over age 50 to reflect, produce & refine scholarship, and deeply consider issues relevant to queer & trans people in Oregon’s Mid-Willamette Valley.

    If you long for cultural pioneering in your legacy years, head over to the Contact Us page to let us know that this work group sounds right for you.

  • Good Grief with T. Aisha Edwards, LMHC

    This five-part series for those new to collective grieving was designed by T. Aisha Edwards and ridhi d’cruz as a culmination of 20 years of xer professional and spiritual labor as a somatic trauma therapist, healing justice organizer, spiritual healer, ritual keeper and friend. Influenced by the work of Elder Malidoma Patrice Som‏‏é, Elder Theresa Brittany Sykes, the Dagara peoples of Burkina Faso, adrienne maree brown, Prentis Hemphill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, the freedom fighters of xer own Jamaican heritage, grandfather Kenneth Stanley Jones, and Nanny of the Maroons. 

    While the sessions can be viewed individually, they are cumulative and are best in order. The curriculum is adapted for those from all faith backgrounds and those who decline or are unsure of their spiritual affiliation. While the sessions are on-demand, we encourage people to register so that we can send you the training materials, preparation guides, and offer optional, closed story-telling circles quarterly.

    Session 1: History of Grief and Rituals

    Session 2: Ritual Technologies

    Session 3: Building an Altar

    Session 4: Journeying with Music

    Session 5: Telling Our Stories

    Sessions to be recorded and made available starting in October. Please head over to the Contact Us page to request materials or to join the next storytelling circle.

  • Recording now: The WAR (White Anti-Racist) Room, Season 1

    We’re queering the closed, secret room where people plan violence and making it a public, vulnerable space to move into right relationship. Also, we have better lighting, awesome snacks, and are less murder-y. Three ordinary white people get painfully (and sometimes hilariously) real about their journey to become anti-racist in white supremacy culture on stolen land repurposed to be a white supremacist refuge. Season 1 uses Tema Okun’s 15 Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture as the basis for discussion. 

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The 10 Principles of Disability Justice from Sins Invalid

Values

  • “We do not live single issue lives” –Audre Lorde. Ableism, coupled with white supremacy, supported by capitalism, underscored by heteropatriarchy, has rendered the vast majority of the world “invalid.”

  • “We are led by those who most know these systems.” –Aurora Levins Morales

  • In an economy that sees land and humans as components of profit, we are anti-capitalist by the nature of having non-conforming body/minds.

  • Shifting how social justice movements understand disability and contextualize ableism, disability justice lends itself to politics of alliance.

  • People have inherent worth outside of commodity relations and capitalist notions of productivity. Each person is full of history and life experience.

  • We pace ourselves, individually and collectively, to be sustained long term. Our embodied experiences guide us toward ongoing justice and liberation.

  • We honor the insights and participation of all  our community members, knowing that isolation undermines collective liberation.

  • We meet each others’ needs as we build toward liberation, knowing that state solutions inevitably extend into further control over lives.

  • As brown, black and queer-bodied disabled people we bring flexibility and creative nuance that go beyond able-bodied/minded normativity, to be in community with each other.

  • No body or mind can be left behind – only moving together can we accomplish the revolution we require.