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tional breaking of the silence in which the com
munity is invited to speak out about the need for
safe schools for all students. The celebration will
take place from 5 to 8 p.m. in the Park Blocks
across from Portland Art Museum, 1126 S.W.
Park Ave.
For more information visit www.glsenoregon.
org or www.dayofsilence.org.
Kirk Snyder, author of The Lavender Road to
Success, will be speaking at PSU's Queer
Career Conference.
PSU C onvenes
Q ueer C areer C onference
Portland State University will play host to
the city’s first-ever Queer Career Conference on
April 19 in Room 327 of Smith Memorial Cen
ter, 1825 S.W. Broadway. This is a free confer
ence for PSU and community college students
and alumni.
The event will feature national speaker Kirk
Snyder, author of The Lavender Road to Success
(Ten Speed Press). His book has been hailed by
critics and readers alike as the definitive r-
career b<x>k for the sexual minorities commu
nity. As the foremost authority on rhe subject
of queer career success, Snyder’s groundbreak
ing research at University of Southern Cali
fornia has focused national attention on the •
tremendous value and strength of the sexual
minorities community in the world of work.
Also speaking will be ubiquitous queer
City Commissioner Sam Adams, Basic Rights
Orégon executive director Roey Thorpe, Just
Out publisher Marty Davis, Nike executive
Jackie Thomas and Portland General Electric
executive Brian Craig. The featured panels will
include “It’s a Queer Life: Finding Work Serv
ing the Queer Community,” “Queer Career
Basics: Résumés and Job Search Strategies,”
“Networking and Mentoring: Growing Yourself
and Your Career,” “Transitioning and Work:
Transgender Job Search and Employment
Issues.” The day will round out with a workshop
by Act for Action: Theater for All.
The event is sponsored in part by the PSU
Diversity Action Council, the Student Activi
ties and Leadership Programs Speaker’s Board
and the Division of Student Affairs.
To register visit www.career.pdx.edu. For
more information call 503-725-4613.
G uerrilla G irls
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Portland Community College Sylvania
Women’s Resource Center will play host to
Guerrilla Girls on Tour, an internationally
acclaimed anonymous theater collective,
April 19.
Guerrilla Girls on Tour will bring to the
campus a focus on rhe disenfranchisement expe
rienced by women and artists of color. They will
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sure to challenge feminists of
all stripes with their new
production about the history of
women in world theater.
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end with a lively discussion with
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state of sexism and at the same
time prove that feminists can,
in fact, be funny.
perform Feminists Are Funny, a 70-minute ener
Guerrilla Girls on Tour is an activist theater
getic romp through their herstory; an up-to-date collective founded in 2001 by Lorraine Hans-
account of their latest actions in politics, the berry, Aphra Behn and Hallie Flanagan, former
performing arts and the media; a sneak peak at members of the Guerrilla Girls. Guerrilla Girls
scenes from the brand new Guerrilla Girls on on Tour is now a separate organization focused
Tour Show, a history of women in world theater;
and the history of some of the funniest female
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