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That's Group Living

An excerpt from "Group Living and Other Recipes" by Lola Milholland

Beyond the Margins | July 26, 2024

Our Encampments

An excerpt from Jessica E. Johnson's memoir, "Mettlework: A Mining Daughter on Making Home"

Beyond the Margins | May 9, 2024

Rainwater Soup

Patti Moss on the echoes of family, memory, and home.

Beyond the Margins | March 14, 2024

Treasures

Sam Mowe on Buddhism, heritage, and his family home

Beyond the Margins | January 12, 2024

Losing the Forest for the Trees

Juliet Grable writes about how a massive die-off of white fir has unsettled the mountain community in Southern Oregon where she lives.

Magazine | December 15, 2023

Conversation Project: Housing and Belonging

Housing and homelessness is a visible and divisive issue in local media, in politics, and across different communities within our state. Many of us were experiencing housing instability and economic uncertainty even during the “boom” times before the current crisis. This conversation will explore common assumptions and perspectives about the experience of houselessness/homelessness and seek to answer the question, How do we decide who “belongs” in our community?

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Event | June 28, 2023

Conversation Project: Moving through Our Communities: How We Experience Safety and Vulnerability

Our sense of safety and vulnerability moving through our communities may be different if we are walking, biking, rolling, taking public transit, or driving. Join facilitator LeeAnn O’Neill in a conversation that asks, How does the way you move through your community affect your sense of safety and vulnerability? What else affects your sense of safety and vulnerability? How might you change the way you interact with others as you move through your community to create a greater sense of safety for everyone? This conversation is a chance to reflect on our personal roles in creating greater safety for all as we move through our communities.

RSVP for this program here.

Event | March 6, 2023

Conversation Project: Moving through Our Communities: How We Experience Safety and Vulnerability

Our sense of safety and vulnerability moving through our communities may be different if we are walking, biking, rolling, taking public transit, or driving. Join facilitator LeeAnn O’Neill in a conversation that asks, How does the way you move through your community affect your sense of safety and vulnerability? What else affects your sense of safety and vulnerability? How might you change the way you interact with others as you move through your community to create a greater sense of safety for everyone? This conversation is a chance to reflect on our personal roles in creating greater safety for all as we move through our communities.

RSVP for this program here.

Event | March 13, 2023

How to Build a Kite

Daniela Naomi Molnar on ecology, grief, and the illusion of closure

Magazine | December 15, 2021

Housing and Belonging

Housing and homelessness is a visible and divisive issue in local media, in politics, and across different communities within our state. Many of us were experiencing housing instability and economic uncertainty even during the “boom” times before the current crisis. This conversation will explore common assumptions and perspectives about the experience of houselessness/homelessness and seek to answer the question, How do we decide who “belongs” in our community?

Event | July 9, 2021

The Things We Carry

Vanessa Houk and her family escaped the wildfires, but lost their home and all of their possessions. Here, she describes what remains.

Magazine | April 27, 2021

“We All Have to Be Committed and Help Each Other”​

Four leaders working on homelessness in Oregon share perspectives on how to address the state's ongoing crisis in this article by Olivia Wolf.

Beyond the Margins | April 12, 2021

Connect in Place: Emerging from Our Homes

Join facilitator LeeAnn O’Neill in this conversation that asks, How does the way you move through your community affect your sense of safety and vulnerability? What else affects your sense of safety and vulnerability? How might you change the way you interact with others as you move through your community to create a greater sense of safety for everyone?

Event | June 1, 2021

Pandemic Flowers

Illustrator Mia Nolting reflects on a year of isolation through the dead flowers that have been in her house since the start of the pandemic.

Beyond the Margins | March 18, 2021

Preserving Food, Cheating Death

A compulsive canner considers what it is about this pandemic year that has so many people feeling the urge to preserve.

Magazine | December 17, 2020

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.

Magazine | August 25, 2020

A Community of Recovery

Shadow Silvers writes about finding stability in a sober living house.

Beyond the Margins | June 29, 2020

The Case for Group Living

Lola Milholland writes about finding joy in the intimacy and solidarity of a crowded house.

Beyond the Margins | May 15, 2020

This Place Is Beautiful, This Place Is Gross

Sarah Cook writes about learning to see beauty and perseverance while living in The Dalles.

Beyond the Margins | September 16, 2019

Bridge City

Anna Vo writes on the dark side of local pride and the changes in our attitude toward place required to make Portland a welcoming home for all.

Beyond the Margins | July 29, 2019

Letters from Home

Letters from four Oregonians about the places where they live, from our 2018 Dear Stranger project.

Beyond the Margins | December 10, 2018

Albina Rising

Deonna Anderson writes about how a group in Portland is working to undo the harm of urban renewal and heal the wounds of a community.

Magazine | April 27, 2018

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

In this conversation, Manuel Padilla, who has worked with refugees in Haiti, Chad, and Washington, DC, asks participants to consider questions of uprootedness, hospitality, identity, perception, and integration and how we might build more informed, responsive, resilient, and vibrant communities.

Event | June 8, 2018

Finding Our Way Amidst the Unhoused

A community conversation on homelessness, transiency, the housed and unhoused in Southern Oregon. Facilitated by Adam Davis of Oregon Humanities and Ryan Stroud of CommuniTalks.

Event | April 27, 2018

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | April 23, 2018

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | April 14, 2018

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | April 22, 2018

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | June 23, 2018

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | February 26, 2018

Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home

Exploring Housing in Oregon

Event | April 13, 2018

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | March 17, 2018

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | April 8, 2018

Conversation Project: The World to Come

How Our Fear about the Future Affects Our Actions

Event | January 25, 2018

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | February 28, 2018

Conversation Project: The World to Come

How Our Fear about the Future Affects Our Actions

Event | February 28, 2018

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | March 15, 2018

Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home

Exploring Housing in Oregon

Event | November 18, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | February 24, 2018

Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home

Exploring Housing in Oregon

Event | January 20, 2018

Conversation Project: The World to Come

How Our Fear about the Future Affects Our Actions

Event | February 21, 2018

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | December 6, 2017

Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home

Exploring Housing in Oregon

Event | November 30, 2017

"The Numbers" Screening and Discussion

Join filmmakers Sika Stanton and Donovan Smith for a screening of "The Numbers," a short film produced as part of Oregon Humanities' This Land project, followed by a community conversation with participants in the film.

Event | September 28, 2017

Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home

Exploring Housing in Oregon

Event | March 12, 2018

Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home

Exploring Housing in Oregon

Event | November 5, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | October 10, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | November 16, 2017

Finding Home at the Mims

From the 1940s to '60s, the Mims House was a safe place to stay for African Americans traveling through Oregon. Now it’s a gathering place for the Black community in Eugene. Video by Nisha Burton.

This Land | September 11, 2017

My Brother's Keeper: "Homeless in America"

This fall, Four Rivers Cultural Center in Ontario will present "My Brother's Keeper," a series of eight documentary film screenings exploring the lives of marginalized peoples and issues such as mental health, addiction, and mass incarceration. Each screening will be followed by a presentation and Q&A session by a local nonprofit or government agency.

Event | October 25, 2017

My Brother's Keeper: "Kicked Out"

This fall, Four Rivers Cultural Center in Ontario will present "My Brother's Keeper," a series of eight documentary film screenings exploring the lives of marginalized peoples and issues such as mental health, addiction, and mass incarceration. Each screening will be followed by a presentation and Q&A session by a local nonprofit or government agency.

Event | October 18, 2017

Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home

Exploring Housing in Oregon

Event | October 10, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | October 25, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | October 24, 2017

Conversation Project: A Place to Call Home

Exploring Housing in Oregon

Event | December 17, 2017

Reaching Back for Truth

Gwen Trice has spent the last fifteen years uncovering her father’s legacy and the history of Oregon’s Black loggers, who lived and worked in Wallowa County at a time when Oregon law excluded Blacks from the state.

This Land | August 24, 2017

S'so's Tamales

Sal Sahme writes about finding his spiritual path as a boy on First Mesa.

Magazine | August 22, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | August 6, 2017

Conversation Project: Homeless in the Land of Plenty

How does homelessness affect the lives of all people within a community? What does it mean for there to be masses of people who are not adequately housed? Join storyteller Ryan Stroud to share your stories and learn about the experiences of others.

Event | July 19, 2017

Hearing the Houseless

This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.

Event | June 10, 2017

Who is Not at the Table?

Filmmaker Ifanyi Bell reflects on the making of “Future: Portland 2”

This Land | May 18, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | May 18, 2017

Vanport Mosaic Festival

Theater, documentaries, historic exhibits, lectures, and tours will explore will explore the history and legacy of Vanport. Oregon Humanities is a cosponsor of this event.

Event | May 26, 2017

"Priced Out" Screening and Dialogue

Watch an excerpt from the film and then join the discussion about how rising housing prices are displacing Portland's black community. Oregon Humanities is a cosponsor of this event.

Event | May 28, 2017

Conversation Project: Life after War

Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home

Event | May 31, 2017

The Opposite of What We Know

Writer Putsata Reang reflects on the project "Bitter Harvest"

This Land | April 24, 2017

Conversation Project: Life after War

Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home

Event | April 15, 2017

Conversation Project: Homeless in the Land of Plenty

How does homelessness affect the lives of all people within a community? What does it mean for there to be masses of people who are not adequately housed? Join storyteller Ryan Stroud to share your stories and learn about the experiences of others.

Event | May 18, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | May 25, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | August 16, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | April 5, 2017

Shouldering Homelessness

In Southern Oregon, the lack of affordable housing edges out a growing number of people. An essay by Vanessa Houk

Magazine | April 5, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | April 20, 2017

Conversation Project: What We Want from the Wild

In this conversation, Oregon Humanities Executive Director Adam Davis will help participants step back from policy decisions and consider more basic questions about our relationship to the mountains, air, trees, animals, and streams around us. What do we want from nature? What do we understand nature to be, and how do we see ourselves fitting in?

Event | May 3, 2017

Race & Place: Old Town's Chinatown and Japantown through Chinese American and Nikkei Eyes

Chinese and Japanese American elders explore Old Town's multiethnic and multiracial past. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.

Event | May 3, 2017

Conversation Project: Life after War

Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home

Event | May 4, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | May 4, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | May 8, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | May 9, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | June 11, 2017

Conversation Project: What We Want from the Wild

Oregonians across the political spectrum place a high value on the diverse natural resources of our state, but we are divided about how these resources should be used and talked about. In this conversation, Oregon Humanities Executive Director Adam Davis will help participants step back from policy decisions and consider more basic questions about our relationship to the mountains, air, trees, animals, and streams around us.

Event | June 13, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | August 8, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | May 20, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | May 24, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | May 17, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | May 18, 2017

Conversation Project: Homeless in the Land of Plenty

How does homelessness affect the lives of all people within a community? What does it mean for there to be masses of people who are not adequately housed? Join storyteller Ryan Stroud to share your stories and learn about the experiences of others.

Event | July 29, 2017

Race & Place: Old Town's Chinatown and Japantown through Chinese American and Nikkei Eyes

Chinese and Japanese American elders explore Old Town's multiethnic and multiracial past. This is an Oregon Humanities grant-funded event.

Event | March 22, 2017

Conversation Project: Homeless in the Land of Plenty

How does homelessness affect the lives of all people within a community? What does it mean for there to be masses of people who are not adequately housed? Join storyteller Ryan Stroud to share your stories and learn about the experiences of others.

Event | July 16, 2017

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.

Event | March 15, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | March 15, 2017

Conversation Project: What We Want from the Wild

Oregonians across the political spectrum place a high value on the diverse natural resources of our state, but we are divided about how these resources should be used and talked about. In this conversation, Oregon Humanities Executive Director Adam Davis will help participants step back from policy decisions and consider more basic questions about our relationship to the mountains, air, trees, animals, and streams around us.

Event | June 7, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | March 11, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | March 8, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | March 4, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

How Recipes Can Preserve History and Nourish Community

Event | March 3, 2017

Conversation Project: Life after War

Photography and Oral Histories of Coming Home

Event | February 19, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Immigrants, Refugees, and Oregon

Event | February 16, 2017

Conversation Project: The Space Between Us

Event | February 10, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

Event | February 11, 2017

Conversation Project: Stone Soup

Event | February 9, 2017

Portland Expo Center: A Hidden History

This film produced by Jodi Darby for Oregon Humanities shares the experiences of Japanese Americans who were imprisoned in the Portland Expo Center during World War II.

Beyond the Margins | February 9, 2017

An Oregon Canyon

Produced by Sika Stanton and Donnell Alexander for Oregon Humanities, this film reveals the story of a canyon in Jefferson County, Oregon that was renamed for John A. Brown in 2014, one of the first Black homesteaders in Oregon.

Beyond the Margins | January 10, 2017

"I'm Not Staying Here Another Day"

A conversation about the Great Migration with Isabel Wilkerson and Rukaiyah Adams

Beyond the Margins | June 28, 2016

The Gift of a Known World

Oregon Humanities magazine editor Kathleen Holt on the power--and privilege--of rooting oneself to places

Magazine | April 11, 2016

A Tremendous Force of Will

A conversation about the Great Migration's and the civil right movement with Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Isabel Wilkerson

Magazine | April 11, 2016

Not Built for Ghosts

Writer Helen Hill on consequences she faced after leaving her beloved home in the hands of others

Magazine | April 11, 2016

Stolen Land and Borrowed Dollars

Creative resistance bloomed in the lead up to the Vancouver Olympics. An excerpt from Power Games: A Political History of the Olympics by Jules Boykoff

Magazine | April 11, 2016

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Readers write about Root

Magazine | April 7, 2016

Rootedness

An essay by Brian Doyle

Beyond the Margins | January 28, 2016

Whose State Is This?

Journalist Brent Walth on how legal measures targeting Latino Oregonians reflect fears of change.

Magazine | December 18, 2015

Community in Flux

The long-persecuted Roma people begin to speak out. By Lisa Loving

Magazine | December 18, 2015

Getting Out

Loretta Stinson on deciding to leave an abusive marriage for good

Magazine | December 18, 2015

All the Same Ocean

Finding the horizon in a life rocked with waves. An essay by Jason Arias

Magazine | December 18, 2015

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Readers write about Move

Magazine | December 18, 2015

Resume Usual Activity

Jamie Passaro writes about parenting—and being parented—through mental illness.

Magazine | April 7, 2015

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Magazine | April 7, 2015

Starting Over

The bumpy repair of a family after a sudden loss. An essay by Melissa Madenski

Beyond the Margins | March 24, 2015

A Temporary Insanity

Torn between the pull of family and the pull of home. An essay by Gail Wells

Beyond the Margins | January 22, 2015

Another Life

I think often of the taste of my grandfather's grapes and of the meat from my father's knife. An essay by Hanna Neuschwander

Beyond the Margins | November 18, 2014

This Land Planned for You and Me

J. David Santen Jr. on what Oregon's communities look like forty years after the passage of Senate Bill 100

Magazine | December 5, 2013

Imaginary Metropolis

What do the cities of science fiction books and films say about the way we perceive the cities we live in? An essay by Dan DeWeese

Magazine | December 5, 2013

Design for a Crowded Planet

Cynthia E. Smith, the curator of socially responsible design at the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewett design museum, talks about innovative solutions by and for city dwellers.

Magazine | December 5, 2013

In-Between Place

Brian Doyle argues that life in the suburbs is far from the bland prison it is made out to be.

Magazine | December 5, 2013

On the River

Debra Gwartney on learning to love the isolation of her adopted home on the McKenzie River.

Magazine | December 5, 2013

Why We Stay

Monica Drake on raising a family in an urban neighborhood instead of a more serene but less vibrant rural place.

Magazine | December 5, 2013

Immobile Dreams

How did the trailer come to be a symbol of failure? An essay by Rebecca Hartman

Magazine | December 10, 2011

Home Economics

Using the house to bridge the public/private divide.

Magazine | December 10, 2011

Love Thy Neighbor (Sometimes)

A close-knit neighborhood can make us happy, but it can also add to the busy-ness of daily life. An essay by Jamie Passaro

Magazine | December 5, 2010

Far from Home

The history and future of Slavic refugees in Oregon. By Susan W. Hardwick

Magazine | November 23, 2009