PINQ-queer café and bar

11/18/2022

too bad, ain’t it?

11/17/2022

Cancelled
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We’ll be open special hours on Sunday, Nov 20 from 6-9 pm for a public vigil for . This event is during our all ages hours.

There will be free community dinner, tea, indoor and outdoor expressive art, a memorial table, a reading of names (please message to submit a memorial name), and an open mic for sharing, limited to people with lived trans experiences or personal ties to the memorializations.

Please be mindful of our trans, nonbinary, and gender nonconforming worker owners, time donors, artists, community members, and neighbors. Please be respectful of different needs and capacities during this event. Masks welcomed & provided.

If you would like to contribute, dm. Contributions can include art, memorial support, supplies, etc. This is a low pressure, co-creative, supportive space.

Portland has lost too many trans lives. The world is losing too many trans lives. Let’s revisit space for community.

*pic shows blue and pink flowers on an altar with warmly glowing candles and golden glowing butterflies with purple text reading Trans Day of Remembrance to mirror the trans flag and nonbinary flag, and appreciation for multiple cultures of celebration and grief after loss*

11/12/2022

We’ll be open this weekend 11/11 & 11/12
9pm for nights, 21+, and 12-4 during , and back at it again Monday & Tuesday evenings at 5

Excited to be hosting our first private party on Sunday night with —hopefully a taste of whats to come as we find our new pathway 💜

News dropping in the morning about the progress and trajectory here at the space, we’ve been cooking up solutions and scheming for success so we can get back to being radical stewards of the space!

11/08/2022

FOOD-homestyle qu€€r comfort & diner food with afrofusion twists

Now available on Doordash while we revisit how we can best serve this community, especially during rainy, slow, cold seasons. We strive each day to make things creative and sustainable—in this case warm, affordable food can bring us there.

Pictured but not limited to:

Berbere Chicken Sandwich in spiced red sauce with choice of side (pictured: Black Fried Rice)

Wild Style Hot Dogs with tasty red, green, and chili dog options! (And Vegan options for each, too)

Rice Bowls with various protein options

Pumpkin Okra Etoufee (Vegan or with Mussels) over rice

And Oxtails plate 😍

🌶 order a side of chili: so tasty & perfect for soup season 🌶

10/31/2022

Come to Sleepover! It might be your best chance at checking out our space, as we continue to find out if we will make it through til November 💖

10/31/2022

It’s hard to write about the realities of going completely off the map and trying to revolutionize your small corner, and seize the means for your community.

We TRULY hope y’all get to see the fruits of all the work we put in, and how amazing things can become. We’re talking augmented reality, ice cream, digital crossovers, afrofusion, pop-ups, poles, sober spaces, year round marketplace, new co-op and board members, all ages outreach, and SO much more!! But we might not make it.

Hard to say how terrified we are to be teetering on the edge of decisions that determine whether we will be able to continue our work, to know we’ll find out in the midst of a heart wrenching week, as we lay Astrid’s grandmother to rest.

How we are afraid to lose any more than we have, to this project that we put literally everything into. To lose Black and Trans ownership in a city smattered with sloganized versions of our existences. To wait and see the gentrification continue.

We’ll keep doing our best to keep y’all in the loop. Send donations and or good energy—P¡NQ 💖

10/27/2022

Entitlement is not more important than our safety. We will not stand for this harassment. We will not alter our standards or put on our “customer is always right” voice, this is not a corporate chain, it is a workers cooperative.

Big decisions coming soon about how we wish to continue to serve the Portland community, after months of this happening behind the scenes—but in the meantime, is this the community y’all claim?

No, we aren’t editing out names posted on a public forum. This is shameful, toxic behavior. We don’t owe kindness to people who could care less about what we lose, and actively seek to harm us. We are TIRED of the oppressive behavior people seem to think is normal and acceptable.

If we fail because we have boundaries, then we fail with the dignity this world so often tries to take away from us.

10/25/2022

our feature for tomorrow’s open mic
is easily one of the most talented poets we’ve had through our space

don’t miss!

10/24/2022