PrideScape

Listen to Pridescape's final episode of the year. This extended episode features Iden Campbell, founder of Twelve6, which focuses on suicide prevention, especially among BIPOC LGBTQIA2S+ folks. Suicide prevention is about more than just treating the person, it requires a robust response which responds and treats the underlying issues, in addition to after care. Learn more about how Iden and Twelve6 address these issues and their upcoming suicide prevention tool coming in 2022. Content Warning, this episode discusses suicide.

https://www.twelve6.org/

Learn about the original vision for the mural, the community effort that went into making it become a reality, and what the goals and hopes are for this project going forward. Hear from two of the Co-Producers Zoe Piliafas and Ruban Lawrence

Patricia J. Gallegos is a new author.  Her debut novel, The View from My Window, is a LGBTQIA Young Adult Fantasy. The book follows Willow on her journey through violence, wisdom, and love. After all, the fate of her people rests squarely on her shoulders.

As a published illustrator, her pen and ink illustrations capture the wildlife and the landscape of the Four Corners in Under the Indian Turquoise Sky, Ye Galleon Press. This collection of Native American fables was shared, in the oral tradition, by respected Native-elder storytellers with young Native American students, who put these treasured fables into writing for the very first time. This treasury was compiled by Dr. Grace Nutley and Rosemary R. Davey.

As a Nationally Certified Sign Language Interpreter, Gallegos is a student of human nature and the language of what is unsaid but clearly stated. As a Doctor of Acupuncture and Oriental Medicine, she has the reputation of being the Shen whisperer, She-Who-Sees-Inside-the-Spirit. She teaches and practices Traditional Chinese Medicine in Portland, Oregon. Following her own native roots, she treads softly in the footsteps of her ancestral matriarch, who was an Apache warrior and practitioner of curanderismo.

Support local bookstores and buy her book on Indie Bound (direct link to book)

Catch up with the new Executive Director of the Q Center in downtown Portland, Ian Daniel Morton. Ian fills us in on some of the programs that are taking place at the Q Center, how it has been taking on this new role in the middle of the pandemic, and what is on the horizon for Q Center. 

Catch up on what is happening with Portland Pride this year. Kari Anne, the Program Assistant and Debra Porta, the Executive Director of Pride Northwest give us the low down on the official events of Portland Pride this year. This episode features one of the organizations Pride Northwest partnered with for Portland Pride this year. Katherine FitzGibbon and Elizabeth Bacon Brownson with Resonance Ensemble fill us in on how they have been using music to address the many issues that COVID19 and the pandemic have brought up for LGBTQ+ and Black, Indigenous and Communities of Color. Learn about the piece they are premiering at Pride with music by Mari Esabel Valverde and words by Dane Figuero Edidi.

Debra speaks with Maria Peters Lake and Kimberlee Van Patten, founders of Peacock Productions, Inc. and administrators of the Audria M. Edwards Scholarship Fund. Learn how Peacock in the Park and the scholarship fund began, the history of Peacock in the Park, and how the culture of these large events has changed over the years. They also touch on how COVID19 and the pandemic will affect our community and LGBTQ+ events going forward. 

Rick fills us in on what has been happening with the Portland Gay Men's Chorus, how COVID has affected the choir and how they perform, and what's coming up this season!

This episode examines the needs of older LGBTQ+ individuals, specifically focusing on folks who are 50+. Building across generational communities and the effect the pandemic has had on older LGBTQ+ folks and where we go from here. 

Debra Porta and the new Executive Director of the Equi Institute, Katie Cox discuss a new project Pride Northwest and Equi Institute will be partnering on in 2021.

Debra Porta is your host and the Executive Director of Pride Northwest. She is joined this episode by Kari Anne Horton who is the Program Assistant. Learn more about Pride Northwest programs and events, how COVID-19 upended the annual Portland Pride Waterfront Festival and Parade, and what is coming in 2021.