What We Owe Each Other
A conversation about chronic illness, care, and interdependence with Amy Irvine
Beyond the Margins | December 20, 2024
A Basket is a Love Song
Sylvia Friday on returning to traditional crafts a time of cultural transitions.
Beyond the Margins | December 12, 2024
This Is the Moment
Andrew DeVigal on how civic dialogue helps build healthier communities.
Beyond the Margins | November 26, 2024
A Debt of Gratitude
Joon Ae Haworth-Kaufka writes about grief, empathy, and bubble tea.
Beyond the Margins | November 21, 2024
Super Blue Moon Yoga
Nancy Knowles on the connection between public and private.
Beyond the Margins | October 4, 2024
Metronome
An excerpt from "Live Through This," a memoir in progress by Astra Lincoln
Beyond the Margins | September 20, 2024
Beyond the Margins
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What We Owe Each Other
December 20, 2024
A Basket is a Love Song
December 12, 2024
This Is the Moment
November 26, 2024
A Debt of Gratitude
November 21, 2024
Super Blue Moon Yoga
October 4, 2024
Metronome
September 20, 2024
Every September in Pendleton
August 22, 2024
Harping On
August 9, 2024
Sleepless Nights
July 30, 2024
That's Group Living
July 26, 2024
Balancing Acts
July 12, 2024
Please Don't Be Dead
June 21, 2024
The Tale of the Teacher's Daughter
June 13, 2024
A Father's Dance
May 16, 2024
Our Encampments
May 9, 2024
Mount Doom
April 30, 2024
Beyond Plunder
April 18, 2024
Unwritten
March 21, 2024
Rainwater Soup
March 14, 2024
Fertile Ground
February 23, 2024
Ponderosas and Junipers
February 16, 2024
Rural Places
February 9, 2024
Séma
January 19, 2024
Treasures
January 12, 2024
Corazón de Fuego / Heart of Fire
January 5, 2024
Reclaiming Our Language
December 14, 2023
Mushrooms as Medicine
December 11, 2023
Entrevista: Rafael Romero Vejar habla de la vida del campo y sus sueños por su familia
December 7, 2023
Interview: Rafael Romero Vejar on Field Work and Family
December 7, 2023
Room 5
November 24, 2023
History and Presence
November 9, 2023
Who Determines Shelter?
November 3, 2023
How to Build a Snow Cave
October 20, 2023
Safety Search
October 13, 2023
Some People Eat Fish
September 26, 2023
Vanishing Words
September 20, 2023
Sacred Instructions
September 8, 2023
Interview: Carlos on Migration, Danger, and His American Dream
August 25, 2023
Entrevista: Carlos habla de migración, peligro, y su sueño americano
August 25, 2023
A Reluctant Receiver: Summer, Love, and a Bicycle
August 24, 2023
Collecting Sunrises
August 11, 2023
The Pains and Joys of Aging
July 26, 2023
Turkeys
July 20, 2023
Notes from Peace Shelter
July 6, 2023
Full Catastrophe Eating, from Soil to Soul
June 23, 2023
The Distance Between Us
June 16, 2023
The Beautiful Underground
June 2, 2023
Drop Out and Disappear
May 18, 2023
A Portland Gospel
May 5, 2023
Unapologetically Afghan American
April 17, 2023
Trip to Richland
April 3, 2023
In Praise of No Other Options
March 17, 2023
Cascadian Gothic
March 10, 2023
Pack Matters
February 17, 2023
Boarding School Inheritance
February 3, 2023
Blood Money
January 10, 2023
Girlish
December 23, 2022
Cars: A Love Language
November 22, 2022
Gray Matters
November 9, 2022
Día de los Muertos
November 1, 2022
Woksemi
October 13, 2022
The Middle of Nowhere
October 6, 2022
The Not-So-Simple Past
September 30, 2022
Adventures on the Turtle's Back
September 23, 2022
"Just Go Do It"
September 9, 2022
Lines for the Dead
August 26, 2022
We Know What We've Experienced
August 19, 2022
Here Lies
August 9, 2022
A Bridge Between
July 29, 2022
Proper Care
July 14, 2022
We're Here for Each Other
July 8, 2022
To Be Loved
June 30, 2022
Finding a Voice as an Advocate for Others
June 10, 2022
The Father I Remember
May 27, 2022
A Monstrosity Beyond Reason
May 20, 2022
The Caregiver Strain Index
April 1, 2022
Three Proposals, Two Weddings, and One Cow
March 25, 2022
Oregon in the Machine Age
March 4, 2022
Beyond Horses
February 25, 2022
Re-Beavering a Monument
January 28, 2022
Preserving the Future
January 21, 2022
“We Have to Create Alternative Habitats for Writers”
December 23, 2021
Climate and Fire
November 19, 2021
“Let’s Give Oregonians a Chance to Shape the Future of the State”
November 4, 2021
Who Gets to Fight Climate Change?
October 15, 2021
A Remedy for Disruption
October 1, 2021
"Farming Is So Much More than Food"
September 24, 2021
Dear Pepe Siesta
September 15, 2021
Earth and Motherhood
September 10, 2021
The Rebirth of Wonder
August 20, 2021
They Belong to Themself
August 13, 2021
The Eternal Fire: Standing Rock and the (re)Awaking of Dreams
August 5, 2021
Bringing Otters Back to Otter Rock
July 29, 2021
The Value of Your Story
July 22, 2021
Art and Activism in Modoc Point
July 15, 2021
Creating Joy, Art, and Social Change
July 9, 2021
"We Are All Existing in an Opportunity Gap"
July 2, 2021
Mad
June 18, 2021
Five Cemeteries
May 20, 2021
The New Americans
April 30, 2021
Charter Review
April 29, 2021
Putting in the Work
April 29, 2021
“We All Have to Be Committed and Help Each Other”
April 12, 2021
Flowers for Block 14
March 31, 2021
Saved by the Bell
March 24, 2021
Pandemic Flowers
March 18, 2021
Love and Noodles
March 3, 2021
"Children Are Born Curious"
February 18, 2021
“We Know Who’s Got Our Six Now”
February 5, 2021
Fermenting My Asian American Identity
January 19, 2021
Glassed In
December 17, 2020
Into the Woods
December 10, 2020
Solace
November 25, 2020
Without a Towel
November 13, 2020
Heavy and Hiking
October 27, 2020
Tutoring the Kingpin
October 22, 2020
Heavy
October 16, 2020
I Dream an Oregon
September 30, 2020
The Family You Choose
August 25, 2020
The Other Side of What We Know
August 21, 2020
Black Opera: Singing over Ourselves
July 24, 2020
A Community of Recovery
June 29, 2020
My Left Thumb
June 18, 2020
The Case for Group Living
May 15, 2020
Full Membership
April 27, 2020
The View from Council Crest
April 20, 2020
Talking about Independent Labor and Systemic Inequality
April 10, 2020
Mask Makers
April 1, 2020
Indian Enough
February 28, 2020
Talking about Retirement
February 21, 2020
Talking about Wages and Pay Equity
January 22, 2020
Stories from the Diaspora: A Sense of Home
January 17, 2020
Stories from the Diaspora: “Art is My Freedom”
January 17, 2020
Stories from the Diaspora: The World is Full of Lessons
January 17, 2020
Our Most-read Stories of 2019
December 18, 2019
Challenging Questions for Oregonians
November 22, 2019
If You've Made It This Far
October 17, 2019
The Summer Games
September 30, 2019
This Place Is Beautiful, This Place Is Gross
September 16, 2019
Neither Here nor There
August 30, 2019
Bridge City
July 29, 2019
A Body in Motion
July 19, 2019
Across the Divide
June 27, 2019
Cover Songs of Myself
June 14, 2019
Black Mark, Black Legend
April 25, 2019
Intisar Abioto and Kimberly A. C. Wilson on the Stories of Black Artists in Oregon
April 25, 2019
Emilly Prado and Inara Verzemnieks on Journalism and Representation
April 25, 2019
Les Zaitz and Caitlyn May on Journalism in Rural Communities
April 25, 2019
What I Do
March 28, 2019
What You Make of It
March 22, 2019
More Similar than Different
February 28, 2019
The Quiet and In-between Moments
February 15, 2019
Returned
January 31, 2019
Talking about Place, Race, and Family
January 14, 2019
More than Words
December 20, 2018
Our Most-read Stories of 2018
December 13, 2018
Letters from Home
December 10, 2018
My Name
November 29, 2018
Talking about Sex
November 19, 2018
Looking Forward, Looking Past
October 30, 2018
Acceptance
September 25, 2018
What Work Does a Street Sign Do?
July 2, 2018
On Tinnitus
June 15, 2018
Black. Muslim. Woman.
May 29, 2018
Making Good
March 22, 2018
Unclaiming the Land
February 26, 2018
Sixteen in America
February 1, 2018
Our Most-Read Stories of 2017
December 18, 2017
On Bearing Bad News
November 21, 2017
Finding Home at the Mims
September 11, 2017
Reaching Back for Truth
August 24, 2017
Remembering Peter Sears
July 25, 2017
Stake Your Place
July 2, 2017
To Live More Free
May 23, 2017
The Numbers
May 10, 2017
Bitter Harvest
April 17, 2017
Earth on Fire
March 23, 2017
Future: Portland 2
March 7, 2017
Portland Expo Center: A Hidden History
February 9, 2017
About This Land
February 8, 2017
An Oregon Canyon
February 8, 2017
Taking the Lead
November 2, 2016
Also Fire
October 26, 2016
Bum Count
July 25, 2016
"I'm Not Staying Here Another Day"
June 28, 2016
In the Land of the New
March 29, 2016
Mothers to Daughters
March 7, 2016
You'll See Me Tomorrow Because
February 20, 2016
Rootedness
January 28, 2016
Subscribe to Beyond the Margins
January 19, 2016
The Long Boat
December 2, 2015
My North Star
November 24, 2015
Finding Land
October 29, 2015
David and Goliath
September 23, 2015
Magazine Podcast: Fix
August 6, 2015
A Return Passage
August 5, 2015
Life's Winter
July 27, 2015
Stepping Backward
June 30, 2015
Wild Blue Sea
May 27, 2015
Starting Over
March 24, 2015
Future: Portland
March 9, 2015
Damaged
February 26, 2015
A Temporary Insanity
January 22, 2015
Magazine Podcast: Quandary
December 17, 2014
Another Life
November 18, 2014
Magazine Podcast: Start
November 5, 2014
What's the Use?
October 16, 2014
Epigenetics and Equity
October 7, 2014
The Bamboo Ceiling
September 15, 2014