Unchaste Readers Series--Women Reading Their Minds LIVE on Bread and Roses

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Fri, 10/17/2014 - 6:00pm to 7:00pm
Unchaste Readers Series--Women Reading Their Minds LIVE!

Bread and Roses welcomes Unchaste Readers Series--Women Reading Their Minds, for a LIVE Reading Event.

The Unchaste Readers series provides a space for women and women-identified people to share their stories. The theme Unchaste refers to how it is to be and feel female in a patriarchal system where our autonomy, identity, and survival are threatened in large and small ways.

The Unchaste Readers are women aged 21 to 71 who have read at Unchaste Readers Series between April 2012 and now.  They have been all kinds of sexual-preference-spectrum/womyn-gender-spectrum/race/ethnicity/social-economic-politic status-in-the-hierarchy-patriarchy/experience/survivor/not-survivor/wrting-reading-speaking-singing-playing-music forms. 
 
Unchaste Readers creates and recreates itself every other month on the 3rd Tuesday in Portland, Oregon, currently at The Knock Back on Alberta.


Featured Readers:
 
Nikki Schulak:  With the chemical formula for Prozac tattooed on her wrist, Nikki Schulak writes and performs personal stories about bodies.  Her essay “On Not Seeing Whales” (about having brain aneurysms) was a notable selection in Best American Essays 2013.  
 
KMA co-founded Vinyl Poetry in 2010 and founded YesYes Books in 2011 as she was completing her MFA in poetry at Virginia Tech. Her poetry and essays have been published or are forthcoming in Southern Humanities Review, The Rumpus, Forklift, Ohio, The Good Men Project, HerKind, diode, Cream City Review and elsewhere.
 
Nadia Martinez Chantry:  Mujer, madre, maestra. Nadia Martínez Chantry lives in each of these roles, moment by moment, day by day. She is a survivor with a simple daily goal; to find, amplify, and honor her own strength as a woman, a mother, and a teacher.
 
Intisar Abioto is an explorer, photographer, dancer, writer, and performer.  She is currently working on The Black Portlanders, a photo essay and exploratory project documenting the presence people of African descent in Portland, OR. Find her at intisarabioto.com
 
Carrie Seitzinger is the author of the book, Fall Ill Medicine, which was named a 2013 Finalist for the Stafford/Hall Award for Poetry. She is the Co-Publisher of Small Doggies Press. She is also the co-founder and Editor-in-Chief of the online arts and culture magazine NAILED
 
Laura Green is a half-Mexican tattooed bastard child of a renegade nun who's never caused a traffic accident and is currently working on a book about all of it.
 
Jenny Forrester's most recent work will appear in the Listen to Your Mother Anthology published by Putnam in 2015. She curates Portland’s Unchaste Readers Series.

Domi J Shoemaker is a gender-flexing feminist who worked in social services for nearly 25 years, then stopped, and started writing seriously in Dangerous Writers in 2010. Domi is the founder the Burnt Tongue Quarterly reading series and has been published in a few places, most recently in the Forest Avenue Press Anthology, The Night and The Rain and The River.

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Leigh Anne Kranz hosts.
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