Queer Enough
Portland, OR
Queer Enough is co-creating culture and community for LGBTQIA+ folks (18+) who seek connection, affirmation, and support while digging deeper into the resilience, expansiveness, and spirit of queerness. They are making space for exploration of the integration of spirituality, mental health, sexuality, and all facets of wellbeing for us each to seek wholeness. Who you are is enough and your experiences and curiosities are welcome.
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Portland, OR
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Monthly Crafting Gatherings
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Private Queer Gym
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What is Queer Enough?
This space arose as a response to community organizing and listening to LGBTQIA+ folks in Portland, OR. The stories and data collected strongly indicated that many folks feel a sense of non-belonging, exclusion, rejection and isolation from community.
A small team began to wonder what it could look like if there was a facilitated space for folks to come, socialize, reflect, and build community based on the spirit and practice of queerness.
Queer Enough seeks to fill the gap and build community rooted in the spirit of Queerness, connection and repair, listening, acting, and being together.
This is for LGBTQIA+ folk and queer people who seek connection, affirmation, and support while digging deeper into the resilience and expansiveness of queerness. It is for folks whose experience of queerness intersects with race, gender, class, ecology, disability, and spirituality while actively practicing anti-racism and anti-colonization.
This is a place of dreaming, celebration, grieving, aid, reflection, connection, growth, ritual, storytelling and communal healing, and culture building.
Queer Enough views doubt, questioning, and unknowing as sacred.
Purpose: To build culture and community while seeking connection and repair for LGBTQIA+ folks (18+) in and around Portland, OR
Monthly Gatherings: They gather to socialize, to learn, to grow, and to build community connection, capacity, and wisdom. Gatherings can look like movie nights, craft nights, game nights and also facilitated reflective spaces.
Community Activities: They recognize not one organization exists in isolation. Queer Enough invites folks into the greater Portland community to participate in and mutually support local eco-systems.
Chaune Schafer (he/they/she) is the organizer and facilitator of Queer Enough. Chaune studied Health Science at Whitworth University and earned a Master of Theological Studies at ILIFF School of Theology.
One-on-one Connection:
One to ones allow folks to better get to know each other outside of group settings. Queer Enough encourages folks who meet in group gatherings to continue fostering relationship with each other and find commonalities to celebrate and explore together. It is a strong reminder that we are not alone and worthy of being fully seen and known.
Vision: They envision a community where LGBTQIA+ are connected, organized, and foster life in and for one another and our ecosystems.
Peer Education: The LGBTQIA+ community is rich with wisdom. They meet together over topical studies to share our questions, curiosities, personal truths, and experiences. Future topics include internalized queerphobia, inclusive sex education, spiritual (re/de)construction, and more.
Mutual Aid: Queer Enough offers opportunities to give and/or receive mutual aid for LGBTQIA+ folks who want support. Previous supports have consisted of gender affirming clothing/accessories, gas money, groceries, books, and workshops.
