Evan Benally Atwood

RAMONDA HOLIDAY (SHE/HER) (Diné/Navajo) R&B musician, Before the Rocks Cry Out founder Monument Valley, Diné Bikéyah My new album starts off telling stories of addiction, sex work, life in survival mode as a trans woman in the early 2000s. It then progresses into when I got sober and got delivered. I close with the gospel song that I wrote in jail, kind of telling God that I’m sorry.

Note: All visuals by Evan Benally Atwood. Story and voiceover by B. ‘Toastie’ Oaster. It’s mid-September, when Portland transitions from cutoff T-shirt season to cozy hoodie weather. The nights are getting cooler, and the school year’s hitting its rhythm. And at one school in particular, crowds gather on the grassy hillside overlooking the soccer field. Thousands of people, every night, all September long. Portlanders bring friends from out of town.

ANTHONY HUDSON/CARLA ROSSI (Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde, Siletz) Drag clown, artist and writer Portland, Oregon I usually get my photo taken when I’m in fresh makeup, but never after the show, when I look like garbage with a gleeful glow. This is when I feel the most alive — the most me.