Join us for FREE rapid HIV testing, full-spectrum STD testing, community and healthcare workshops and panels, and peer support & solidarity spaces for sex workers and BIPOC. We'll have many organizations available to tell you about community-specific services, and help you find resources. Come get tested, spend some time with family, and enjoy some food!
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Workshop schedule:
3-3:30pm: Negotiating Safer Sex for Sex Workers
3:30-4pm: Safer Injection Practices
4-4:30pm Connecting...
Join us for FREE rapid HIV testing, full-spectrum STD testing, community and healthcare workshops and panels, and peer support & solidarity spaces for sex workers and BIPOC. We'll have many organizations available to tell you about community-specific services, and help you find resources. Come get tested, spend some time with family, and enjoy some food!
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Workshop schedule:
3-3:30pm: Negotiating Safer Sex for Sex Workers
3:30-4pm: Safer Injection Practices
4-4:30pm Connecting HIV/AIDS with Intimate Partner Violence
4:30-5pm: Negotiating Sex and PrEP for Transmen/masculine Folks who have Sex with Men (open to all)
Keynote Panel:
5-6:30pm: HIV/AIDS in Our Communities: A Panel and Q&A with Community Members and Providers
Moderator: Bianca Estrella.
Panelists:
Carlos Negrete - Latinx
Maurice Evans - Sankofa NW Collective
Phoenix Edenshaw - Two-Spirit Community Member
Kailani Stegehuis- Former Sex Worker
Bianca Miscoi- U.T.O.P.I.O.(United Territories of Pacific Islanders Alliances LGBTQIA+)
Xander Hayden- Mental Health Provider
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Accessibility:
We want National Trans HIV Testing Day to be safe and accessible for all trans, intersex, nonbinary, and two spirit people. Along with general spaces for workshops, panels, and tabling, this event will include a scent-free zone for rapid, full-spectrum HIV/STD testing and peer support & solidarity spaces for sex workers and BIPOC. Please email Boone Kizer (bkizer@cascadeaids.org) to inquire about ADA and other disability accommodations.
Q Center is ADA accessible and has armless chairs and gender-neutral bathrooms.
ASL interpretation will be provided upon request. *Please email Boone Kizer by April 14 if you need interpretation: bkizer@cascadeaids.org.
Please be mindful of scents and chemical fragrances in this space. Some people depend on scents, while others physically get ill from them. If you can avoid using scented products, perfumes, or colognes, please do.
We encourage all people to come as they are and to be mindful of their fellow community members. We need ALL of us for any of us to get our needs met.
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This event is co-hosted by Q Center, The Equi Institute, Cascade AIDS Project, Quest Center for Integrative Health, Greater Portland Trans Unity, OHSU/Partnership Project, and many independent community organizers.
