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Oregon Humanities is committed to bringing people together across differences of background, experience, and belief. Each year, we offer hundreds of public conversations and programs across the state, train and support dozens of discussion facilitators, and award grants and fellowships that help people connect, reflect, and cultivate a stronger sense of agency in their communities. In our magazine and on our website, we publish stories that explore the thoughts, perspectives, and experiences of Oregonians. Our long-term hope is that the work of Oregon Humanities will make broad and significant contributions to a more cohesive, inclusive, and imaginative democratic culture. Source
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Search ArticlesWhat We Owe Each Other
I called writer Amy Irvine in July 2024 with the intention of interviewing her about medical gaslighting. I wanted to talk about how moving through the medical system can be as erosive as any other encounter with bureaucracy. About how, somewhere along the way, many chronically ill patients lose sense of who they are, because they have spent so much time listening to different doctors tell them contradictory stories about who they could or couldn’t be.
Life after Running
In the moments before her fall, Quinn Dannies felt weightless. She was finally strong enough to complete the climbing project she’d been working on for years. The afternoon was immaculate—the air cool, the light a soft amber. Pulling through the crux of the boulder problem, her heel wedged perfectly into position, Dannies reached for the hold above. But, as had happened hundreds of times before, she couldn’t stick it. She fell.
Consider This: Humans, Land, and Animals
Join us at 7:00 p.m. on May 22 at Pendleton Center for the Arts for a conversation with Bobby Fossek, Erica Berry, and Wendy Bingham about living in community with animals and plants. Some animals and plants are welcomed by people, and others we reject or try to eradicate. How do we decide which living things belong, and what do these decisions show about our place on the land? This live, onstage conversation is part of Oregon Humanities’ 2023–24 Consider This series, Fear and Belonging.
Fertile Ground
A childless friend of mine recalled a time at the grocery store when she locked eyes with a baby in a shopping cart. She said a sharp pain rose up inside her—that it felt like slamming her finger in a car door. I could relate. Once, after a check-up with my doctor, I nearly fell down the stairs rushing to escape the sound of a newborn baby wailing in the waiting room.
Community Storytelling Fellowship Call for Proposals
Oregon Humanities is now accepting proposals for Community Storytelling Fellowships. We’re looking for people who belong to communities that are underrepresented in Oregon media to share stories from those communities in our magazine and other publications in 2024. When we say “community,” we mean any group of people who share a common experience thanks to where they live, the language they speak, their race, their religion, their age, or some other attribute.
A Temple Between Us
Ahavah traced her finger along a line on a map of Ukraine. “On the coast here, along the Black Sea, is where my family is from,” she said. “Yours came from the north, in what’s now Belarus.” My wife had been poring over our family records, and now we were comparing the results of our DNA tests. Our collage of birth records and obituaries now had connective tissue, a tenuous claim to genetic ancestry. Her history goes back to the Black Sea Germans; mine to upper Ukraine.
Civic Love Ride 2
July 12, 2023 | 6:15 p.m. | Grant High School 2245 NE 36th Avenue, Portland OR 97212 Join Oregon Humanities on a Pedalpalooza ride that celebrates civic love, which has been described as "one’s love for society, expressed through a commitment to the common good. It is a belief in the idea that we’re all better off, when we are all better off." We will hear from Suzie Kassouf, JR Rymut of Haunt Camp, Madi Carlson of The Street Trust, and others who demonstrate a commitment to civic love.
The Beautiful Underground
I’ve always been attracted to the underground, to the subversive. I can list the projects of my youth: the student food cooperative I joined in the mid-1990s at UC Santa Cruz, located under the dorms with organic bagels and strawberries for sale. The illegal tree dwellers I befriended who lived in ramshackle forts in the redwoods above campus. The anarchist train hopper I took as my lover in college, who listened to me read poems at smoky tofu potlucks.
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The Black Gloves My mother wears black gloves that tell of sports cars from the thirties, but also black horses. The type of gloves that demand to hold a slender car wheel, or a whip. The gloves are tight but comfortable. They make my hands appear thinner, longer. Perhaps I once asked my mother to purchase the exact same gloves for me; perhaps she did, unprompted. I can’t remember when I started to wear the same gloves, although I hate driving and I am scared of horses.
Consider This with Mónica Guzmán
Join us Tuesday, April 18 for an onstage conversation on creating connection across political divides with Mónica Guzmán, author of I Never Thought of It That Way: How to Have Fearlessly Curious Conversations in Dangerously Divided Times. Guzmán is a bridge builder, journalist, and author who works to get people to talk across their perceived divides. She will be joined by Adam Davis, executive director of Oregon Humanities.