OASL Fall Conference 2024

Narrative Nonfiction: The Art of Explaining Complex Science Through Deeply Personal Narratives

Saturday. October 5, 2024
10:20-11:10 AM
Grant High School, Portland

Join local sexual health author and educator Rachel Ginocchio for a discussion of how real-life narratives can turn complex science into informative, validating, bite-sized pieces for students. She’ll also share the process of turning book concepts into lessons for the classroom. Her work explores modern family formation and human reproduction (in vitro fertilization, donor conception, and surrogacy), but her ideas can be applied to any STEM concept. 

Smutty Jeopardy!

Show off your knowledge about human anatomy & The Science of reproduction

Thursday, April 11, 2024
6:30-8PM
Experiment PDX, 1421 SE Stark Street, Portland
$10 suggested donation

Plan on a rowdy evening with lots of laughs, while we adults play Jeopardy! The theme is human anatomy and reproduction - with and without help. You can show off, or learn a whole lot - it’ll be a great evening for people of all skill levels. Following jeopardy! Rachel will share some teachings and takeaways from her new book: Roads to Family: All the Ways We Come to Be. Drinks and snacks available for sale.

For more info visit ExperimentPDX

Askabale Adulting

How to talk confidently and joyfully with youth about puberty, sex, and all that great stuff!

Sunday, March 3, 2024
2-4 PM
Moreland Presbyterian Church, 1814 SE Bybee Blvd in Sellwood
$15 suggested donation

Join us for a lively, interactive workshop to develop the wisdom and courage to answer all of your kids questions about puberty, sex, reproduction, and all they want to know about their growing minds and bodies. Suggested donation: $15. Pay what you can, and contributions will help pay for the damage that Sellwood Community House sustained during the recent snow/ice storm.

For more information and to sign up, click here

Science on Tap

How Reproductive Tech Impacts Our Identity

Wednesday, February 14, 2024
7-8:30 PM
Kiggins Theatre, Vancouver WA (map)
$15-$20 tickets

As Science on Tap knows, Science + Beer = Awesome! On Valentine’s day, Rachel will be discussing human reproduction and family formation, how it impacts who we are and how we see our family, and why we need to modernize and expand our explanation of how humans make humans and form family.

For tickets, visit: https://www.scienceontaporwa.org/

Jeopardy!

Monday, May 22, 2023
7:30-9:30pm
Rose City Book Pub, Portland OR

Smutty Science: Anatomy and Reproduction

How much do you kno wabout human anatomy and how it works - with and without help - to create a new human being? Show off your knowledge in a game of Jeopardy! Portland author, Rachel Ginocchio, will facilitate the evening’s festivities and she will also share the teachings and takeaways from her dubut book: Roads to Family: All the Ways We Come to Be.

For more information: https://www.rosecitybookpub.com/

Healthy Teen Network Conference: Un/Filtered: Sexuality in the Connected Age

November 24, 2020
Virtual Conference

Donors, Surrogates and Technology: Overhauling How We Talk about Reproduction & Identity with Youth

Sexuality Education has come a long way over the last decade, but when it comes to human reproduction, we continue to provide a one-dimensional; frankly old fashioned view. It’s time to break through the walls of the old narrative and adopt an innovative, new approach to talking equitably and inclusively about all the ways that humans reproduce and create family. It’s time to introduce reproductive technology into the conversation. By the end of Rachel’s presentations, participants will be able to describe the use of technology in human reproduction and its impact on a teens’ sense of self, family and sexual relationships.

For more information: https://www.healthyteennetwork.org/