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Between high school and homelessness

Oregon author Connie King Leonard’s YA novel draws from her own experience as a teacher with homeless students During the 2018-19 school year, more than 22,000 Oregon students, grades K-12, were homeless. They slept on couches with extended family or frie ...

28 Feb 2020 - Pat Zimmer
The art and activism of Dana Lynn Louis

A new exhibit by the founder of Gather:Make:Shelter reflects a life of sharing her craft among those without Whirling strands of lace or DNA are painted onto large squares of muslin. The fragile filaments touch at tender points and eddy around a core. Del ...

14 Feb 2020 - Helen Hill
A twisted tale of authoritarianism, Orwell, Ukraine, fake news and Trump

‘Mr. Jones’ screenwriter Andrea Chalupa has family ties to Ukraine stretching from the 1930s famine to the Trump impeachment — with ‘Animal Farm’ and Soviet propaganda sprinkled in Ukraine being used as a pawn between super states will come as no surprise ...

7 Feb 2020 - Steven MacKenzie
Gregor Gog – anarchist, first street paper editor, and King of the Vagabonds

The German World War I veteran's life story is now a comic Gregor Gog’s life was one that spanned a time of social transformations, revolutions and human catastrophes in Europe. Born in Schwerin an der Wartke (now Skwierzyna, Western Poland) in 1891 ...

27 Dec 2019 - Bastian Pütter
With book and new album, Tegan and Sara get nostalgic

In dedicating time to their memoir, “High School,” the musical twins are surprised to find they’re ‘so different and also so similar’ Imagine spending more than half your life working professionally with your twin sister – being so intertwined in every as ...

29 Nov 2019 - Giselle Au-Nhie...
How an elite group conspired against the American dream

BOOK REVIEW | “Homewreckers: How a Gang of Wall Street Kingpins, Hedge Fund Magnates, Crooked Banks and Vulture Capitalists Suckered Millions Out of Their Homes and Demolished the American Dream” by Aaron Glantz What’s your favorite token in Monopoly: the ...

8 Nov 2019 - Helen Hill
The wild ride of foster parenting: Portland mother has advice for prospective foster parents

Jillana Goble set out to write about her family’s experiences with foster care and adoption. What resulted was a guidebook. “Signing up for foster care is an invitation to raise your hand and invite heartbreak and suffering into your life.” Hardly the sen ...

1 Nov 2019 - Libby Dowsett
Ricardo Levins Morales marks 50 years at the crossroads of art and social justice

The activist uses art to tell stories – something he says is essential to organizing Ricardo Levins Morales describes himself as a “healer and trickster organizer disguised as an artist.” The social justice artist is celebrating 50 years of artistry and a ...

25 Oct 2019 - Casey Miller
Margaret Atwood looks back at her teenage self

‘If I met the 16-year-old me now I’d think, what planet did you come from?’ On the heels of releasing “The Testaments,” her sequel to “The Handmaid’s Tale,” author Margaret Atwood sequel reflects on her introduction to writing, teenage anxieties and the m ...

20 Sep 2019 - Jane Graham
Stumptown creator Greg Rucka never imagined his comic on TV

The Portland comic book author talks to Street Roots about the Timbers, social media, white supremacy and the new ABC adaptation of his private-eye series If you’re not familiar with Greg Rucka’s comic “Stumptown,” you’ve probably seen commercials for the ...

20 Sep 2019 - Jason Cohen