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Gender-Affirming Intimacy
Gender dysphoria is when someone has an emotional or physical feeling that is misaligned with their gender identity. This class is geared towards helping ourselves, partners, or other loved ones experience the opposite of dysphoria: gender euphoria! Lady V will explore how positive, gender-affirming physical, emotional, and mental intimacy can make people feel…
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Gender Rebels Community Night (FREE in-person event)
Come celebrate Portland's non-binary, trans, gender fluid, and genderqueer communities at She Bop! This is a FREE, private event by and for Portland's gender rebels! We will have refreshing drinks, games, and gifts to take home! Guests will have the opportunity to mingle, ask questions, and enter to win some vibrators and goodies…
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Exploring Gender Identity: How Sex & Sensuality Affirms and Expands Gender Identity
Saturday, April 4th — 3:30 p.m. PST — $15-25 This class will be held online via Zoom — you will receive an email prior to class with a link. How does gender identity inform our sex lives? And how can we bring more pleasure into gender transitions? In this class, queer, non-binary sex educator Tuck…
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Exploring Gender Identity: How Sex & Sensuality Affirms and Expands Gender Identity
Wednesday, February 5th — 7:30 p.m. — $25 How does gender identity inform our sex lives? And how can we bring more pleasure into gender transitions? In this class, queer, non-binary sex educator Tuck Malloy invites you to ask some big questions and offers some potential pathways for how to explore gender as…
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Your Gender is Awesome: A Class for Trans Youth
Sunday, July 2nd — 7:30 p.m. — $10 Please note: This class is for people UNDER 18 years old. You must have a parent or guardian accompany you to this class to sign a consent form. They do not have to stay throughout the entire class, but may do so. Please leave a note…
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Guide to STP (stand-to-pee) devices
Summer is here and during such an outdoorsy season, stand-to-pee devices (STPs) are more sought after than ever! STPs make it possible for any person with a vulva to pee standing up — no more hovering awkwardly over porta potties at concerts or leaving your butt bug-vulnerable when camping. STPs can also be essential to a trans…
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Watching Trans Grrrls, her armor melts away
Amy Dentata is a writer, game designer, and performer who touches on topics including trauma recovery, mental illness, sexuality, and transgender issues on her website and elsewhere. Recently she wrote something amazing on PinkLabel.tv: “Fumbling Towards Humanity: How Trans Grrrls Helped Me Open Up to My Partner.” We knew Courtney Trouble’s Trans Grrrls was a very…
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New product round-up for April
April showers bring May… books? 50 Shades of Kink, Tristan Taormino’s latest guidebook, is here and it’s everything you’d expect from her: snappy, smart, and accessible. We also added Smut Peddler, a collection of 24 dirty comics featuring Portland’s own Erika Moen (of Oh Joy Sex Toy fame), and The Jealousy Workbook: Exercises and Insights for…
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Local victories: gender-neutral bathrooms, more accessible birth certificates
The biggest news of the month, that the Supreme Court has overturned DOMA and dismissed Prop 8, has certainly been reason to celebrate. And hopefully it will pave the way for marriage equality in Oregon come 2014 (fingers seriously crossed!). But there have been a couple smaller, more local victories recently that we appreciated.…
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Trans rights victories in Ontario and Argentina
Rest of the world, take note. Both Ontario and Argentina have recently taken some big leaps forward for trans rights, allowing for gender self-determination on birth certificates without proof of medical, judicial, or psychiatric procedures first. Ontario’s change came in the form of an April decision that struck down a previous rule in the Vital…
