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One Size Doesn’t Fit All
Whether at the national, state or local level, in-person or online, serious or funny, I’m all over it! Let me know your audience and I’ll deliver a book reading, signing, or workshop that is just right for your audience! Here’s a smattering of past events. Reach out and we can brainstorm.
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/
National Sex Ed Conference
Wednesday, December 6, 2023
4:15 PM 5:15 PM
Tropicana Atlantic City, NJ
Overhauling the Explanation of Human Reproduction.
In this lively, interactive workshop, educator Rachel Ginocchio is going to ditch the age-old narrative about how humans reproduce and form family, and unleash a fresh new framework that includes every human being in every family structure. Participants will leave with the resources, knowledge, skills, and confidence they need to rock their student’s lessons.
For more information: https://sexedconference.com/
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/
Book Reading, Signing and Launch Party
Sunday, April 23, 2023
4-7pm
CellarDOG
Author Rachel HS Ginocchio, celebrates the launch of her debut book for teens, families and classrooms —Roads to Family: All the Ways We Come to Be. The book explains modern human reproduction and explores what it means to create, find and shape family. 10% of all wine/beer sales goes to COLAGE, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting kids with LGBTQ+ parent(s). Books will be on sale at Wallace Books (Portland) before, during, and after the event; and wherever else books are sold.