PDX Queer Death Collective

PDX Queer Death Collective

Portland, Oregon

We are here to reimagine...

a world where community care is central and queer, LGBTQIA2S+, BIPOC/PGM, and other marginalized communities have access to accessible, affirming, inclusive, and holistic death care - devoid of harmful, for-profit systems.

Our Story

We are a radical group of queers who seek to build a movement to end the exclusion and exploitation of queer, LGBTQIA2S+, BIPOC/PGM, and other marginalized communities by and within the funeral industrial complex through grassroots care. We do this by challenging the belief that cis, white, able bodies are the only bodies. We believe that basic care and necessities met in life are what really ma...
We are a radical group of queers who seek to build a movement to end the exclusion and exploitation of queer, LGBTQIA2S+, BIPOC/PGM, and other marginalized communities by and within the funeral industrial complex through grassroots care. We do this by challenging the belief that cis, white, able bodies are the only bodies. We believe that basic care and necessities met in life are what really make our communities secure in death. As such, our work is part of bigger struggles against the eradication of queer people. The success of the movement requires that it reflect communities most affected by the perpetuation of the idea of a good death. Because we seek to abolish the privatization and profitability of death, we cannot support any work that extends its life or scope.

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