So Much Together: Getting to the Root of It: Growing Movements from the Ground Up
No matter who we are or where we live, we all have the capacity to move the needle of change in our communities. This is a So Much Together workshop about taking action for people who may not yet see themselves as activists.
Blood Money
Vanessa Veselka writes about poverty, precarity, and plasma.
“We Are the Original Conservationists”
Jennifer Perrine writes about Oregonians of color working in the environmental justice movement.
Long Live the Kings
Heather Wiedenhoft on the political significance of drag king culture in the Pacific Northwest
We're Here for Each Other
Jennifer Perrine writes about how Oregonians of color are building relationships in the outdoors.
Wit, Wisdom, and Fury: Collaborative Approaches to Community Wellness
In this So Much Together workshop, community activist and educator Darrell Wade will share how he came to found Black Men’s Wellness, a community-based initiative that addresses health concerns commonly affecting Black and African American men. Co-presented with Christopher Scott, a facilitator with Black Men’s Wellness and creator of the Hip Hop Social Worker podcast, this workshop will offer insights and perspectives on building community-based networks for health, while identifying the ways that collaboration and imagination inform this work.
The Link Between Us: How Technology Can Create (and Impede) Opportunity
Join Caroline Gao for this So Much Together workshop, in which Caroline will share insights from her technological equity research; her journey building digital-first, youth-led organizations; and her lived experiences coming of age in a reality where access to technology means access to the world. As we consider the ways that technology serves as both a barrier to and a source of opportunity, especially for historically marginalized communities, we will look at how we might maximize technology's potential as a driver of equity and social good.
“We Have to Create Alternative Habitats for Writers”
Lidia Yuknavitch on the future of literature and art in Oregon and beyond. Interview by Alex Behr.
Unstable Connections
Caroline Gao writes about the possibilities enabled by digital communications and the challenges of making these opportunities available to all.
Editors' Note: Outside
In this issue, we’ve taken an expansive view of what it means to be outside. In addition to stories about outdoor recreation and who gets to enjoy it, you’ll find stories of living outside, on city streets and amid the woods; stories about leaving the places we feel safe for work and about making new spaces outside the mainstream.
Taking Up Space
Mareshah “MJ” Jackson writes about how the story of Blackness in the outdoors is more than a narrative of tragedy.
The Life We Pay For
Tina Ontiveros writes about the different paths her life and her sister's have taken since their shared childhood experiences of poverty and abandonment.
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Facilitators Anita Yap and Traci Price will lead participants in a conversation that looks at how Oregon’s history of racism influences our present and asks, How can understanding historic and current impacts of racism in Oregon contribute to our sense of place and vision of the future?
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: What Does it Mean to be Good?
Exploring Morality in the Midst of Structural Oppression
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home
Exploring Housing in Oregon
Conversation Project: What Does it Mean to be Good?
Exploring Morality in the Midst of Structural Oppression
Conversation Project: What Does It Mean to Be Good?
Exploring Morality in the Midst of Structural Oppression
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: What Does It Mean to Be Good?
Exploring Morality in the Midst of Structural Oppression
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How do you know if a space is inclusive and accessible for all, and is such a goal even possible? What do you do about the tension between people who have different needs to feel included? Join Rachel Bernstein to explore what it takes to make the shift from invitation to inclusion.
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Conversation Project: How Do We Create Equitable Spaces Within Our Public Lands?
Educator Gabe Sheoships leads a discussion about what a relationship with nature means, how we can provide inclusive and equitable spaces within our public lands and natural areas, and how we can begin to work toward healing relationships with our land.
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home
Exploring Housing in Oregon
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home
Exploring Housing in Oregon
Conversation Project: What Does it Mean to Be Good?
Exploring Morality in the Midst of Structural Oppression
Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home
Exploring Housing in Oregon
Place Justice: Making a Place for Everyone
City Repair presents a conversation with Portland activists and community leaders on reclaiming place in a rapidly developing and segregating city.
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home
Exploring Housing in Oregon
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home
Exploring Housing in Oregon
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home
Exploring Housing in Oregon
Conversation Project: Beyond Invitation
How Do We Create Inclusive Communities?
Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home
Exploring Housing in Oregon
Conversation Project: Race and Place
Racism and Resilience in Oregon's Past and Future
Stake Your Place
The Cully neighborhood of Portland offers a glimpse at the complex racial, ethnic, and economic factors at play in a community trying to resist the forces of gentrification, displacement, and change.
Who is Not at the Table?
Filmmaker Ifanyi Bell reflects on the making of “Future: Portland 2”
Arts & Cultural Equity: Current Examples and Relevant Strategies
Arts and cultural workers, managers, educators, and students share current insights, experiences, and practices around equity and leadership within arts and culture organizations. Oregon Humanities is a cosponsor of this event.
Shouldering Homelessness
In Southern Oregon, the lack of affordable housing edges out a growing number of people. An essay by Vanessa Houk
Think & Drink on the Future of Urban Development in Portland
A conversation about the future of housing and urban development in Portland with civic leaders and developers poised to make it happen.
History in the News: Immigration in Oregon's Past and Present
The first program of the 2017 History in the News forum series explores the history of immigration, immigration law, and immigrant rights in Oregon. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Dry Years, Wet Years, Tradition and Change: An Evening with Patricia Nelson Limerick
This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.
Future: Portland 2
Grappling with values, change, and nostalgia has shaped—and continues to shape—the largest city in Oregon. A film by Ifanyi Bell
"Mothering Inside" Screening and Panel Discussion
Free screening of the documentary Mothering Inside about the effects of incarceration on families
Words Have Life
Filmmaker Sika Stanton reflects on the making of “An Oregon Canyon”
Sometimes Break Apart
Oregon Humanities magazine editor Kathleen Holt on sexism, power, and exclusion on her son's co-ed soccer team
The Farmers of Tanner Creek
Writer Putsata Reang on the little-known history of Chinese farmers and vegetable peddlers in Portland
Uncovered
Writer Donnell Alexander and photographer Kim Nguyen on one undocumented family's long wait for adequate health care
Sunday, Laundry Day
Every quarter counts in subsidized senior housing. An essay by Josephine Cooper
In the Land of the New
Mexican immigrants find home in el nuevo South. An excerpt from Translation Nation by Héctor Tobar
My North Star
How Mumia Abu-Jamal Led Me to Activism. An essay by Walidah Imarisha
Magazine Podcast: Quandary
Talking about Ferguson, feminism, and filling out forms with Oregon Humanities magazine contributors
Feel-Good Feminism
Bitch Media cofounder Andi Zeisler wonders if feminism's pop-culture cachet has doomed the movement.
Epigenetics and Equity
Zip code may be more important than genetic code when it come's to determining a person's health. A film produced by Dan Sadowsky for Oregon Humanities.
Before You Know It
Your health may be determined by stresses experienced by your great-grandparents. How does this change how we plan for the future?
Gods and the Rest of Us
The perils and burdens of human enhancement. An essay by Mott Greene
Clinging to the Dream
Why do Americans have such a hard time talking about class? An essay by Leigh van der Werff