You may think you love women (yes, yes, your tongue technique is quite impressive. So Turkish!), but no one knows how to love ladies quite like Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest. At least eight states in the country have defunded Planned Parenthood this year. Here in Washington, let’s toast them. Join PP tonight at the dark and boozy BalMar bar in Ballard, where a $10 cover gets you happy-hour prices all night long—$5 appetizers, $7 sandwiches, $2 PBRs, and a $6 fancy-ass, fresh-squeezed cocktail of the month—while raising money to help uninsured women access preventive reproductive health care services, like birth control and STI screenings. (BalMar, 5449 Ballard Ave NW, www.thebalmar.com, 7 pm–close, $10, 21+)
Former Stranger news writer Cienna Madrid has been a writer in residence for Richard Hugo House, a local literary nonprofit. There, she taught fiction classes and wrote 4/5 of a book about a death-row... More by Cienna Madrid

In a tragic case of reproductive health-related demographic-splitting, it seems that NARAL’s fundraiser, featuring plenty of top-shelf Seattle burlesque is being held at at exact same time at Theater Off Jackson.
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In a tragic case of reproductive health-related demographic-splitting, it seems that NARAL’s fundraiser, featuring plenty of top-shelf Seattle burlesque, is being held at at exact same time at Theater Off Jackson.
FB: http://facebook.com/event.php?eid=252700…
BTP: http://brownpapertickets.com/event/19001…