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SUMMARY:SICK: A Year In Our Bodies – Fundraiser Showcase
LOCATION:Dante's\, 350 W Burnside St\, Portland\, OR
DESCRIPTION:Our bodies may be sick. Our lives are not over. Our stories de
 serve to be seen.\nSICK: A Year in Our Bodies is a fundraising showcase ce
 ntering Portland-area sex workers living with chronic illness and disabili
 ty—and the ways we have learned to survive in a world that wasn’t buil
 t in our favor.\nFor many disabled and chronically ill people\, traditiona
 l employment demands something our bodies cannot always promise: the same 
 energy every day\, rigid schedules\, eight-hour shifts\, limited rest\, an
 d the ability to simply push through. Sex work can offer something differe
 nt—the ability to build work around our bodies instead of constantly pun
 ishing our bodies to fit the expectations of work.\nWe are dancers. Perfor
 mers. Artists. Providers. Mothers. Hustlers. Creators. Disabled people. Ch
 ronically ill people. Survivors.\nThis night brings our community together
  for performances\, vendors\, entertainment\, and unapologetic visibility 
 while raising funds for Rose and Pistolita to create SICK: A Year in Our B
 odies—a calendar featuring 12 iconic Portland-area sex workers living wi
 th chronic conditions.\nEach month will put a real body and a real story b
 ehind invisible illness. Not as tragedy. Not as inspiration porn. Not as b
 odies to pity.\nAs bodies that adapted. Bodies that worked. Bodies that su
 rvived. Bodies that are still fucking here.\nThis project is about what su
 rvival actually looks like when your body refuses to cooperate with the ru
 les of an able-bodied world. It is about the ingenuity of people who found
  another way when conventional systems failed them. And it is about refusi
 ng the shame that so often surrounds both disability and sex work.\nWe are
  taking the bodies society tells us to hide—and putting them on the fuck
 ing calendar.\nTwelve workers. Twelve bodies. Twelve stories of adaptation
 \, resistance\, sexuality\, illness\, labor and survival.\nCome celebrate 
 the people who learned how to make a living on their own terms. Come suppo
 rt chronically ill and disabled sex workers telling their own stories.\nSi
 ck people are strong people.\nDisabled bodies are worthy bodies.\nSex work
 ers are workers.\nAnd survival deserves to be seen.\n\nhttps://www.dantesl
 ive.com/tm-event/sick-a-year-in-our-bodies-fundraiser-showcase/
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 s-fundraiser-showcase/
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