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Devotion as an Orienting Strategy is a deeply reflective guest post from Portland-based artist and organizer Liam Whitworth, exploring devotion as a guiding force for queer life, identity, and community care. Drawing from rural roots, neurodivergence, lesbian history, and transmasculine experience, Liam reflects on the tensions shaping Portland’s queer community—and offers devotion, shared responsibility, and embodied gathering as paths forward. Through personal storytelling, political clarity, and spiritual grounding, the piece centers Lesbian Culture Club as a space for participatory care, honest conversation, and collective healing in complicated times.

Emily is a Portland-based erotic wellness practitioner, educator, and community organizer specializing in trauma-aware, consent-centered approaches to sexual empowerment. Through workshops, coaching, and facilitation, she helps individuals explore desire, communication, and intimacy with clarity, confidence, and care. Grounded in emotional intelligence and psychological safety, Emily creates identity-affirming spaces for queer communities to deepen self-understanding, heal sexual trauma, and build more connected, pleasure-forward lives.

Lesbian and queer fashion has always been more than style — it’s a language.From the suit to the soft butch, the high femme to the gender-expansive, our fashion choices have long been a way to signal identity, desire, belonging, and self-recognition. This piece explores the wide spectrum of lesbian and queer fashion archetypes, tracing how personal style becomes both self-expression and community flagging — especially in a moment when queer aesthetics are increasingly visible in the mainstream. At Lesbian Culture Club, we’re honoring that lineage by bringing these archetypes to life through The Lesbian Lookbook, Live — a fashion show...

A spotlight on LCC member Carrie Engle, owner of The Sapphire Hotel and The Box Social, sharing what inspires her, the projects she’s excited about, and the small joys that shape her world.