Vendor Profiles
Street Roots vendor profile | Building confidence through education
I’m pretty easy to read,” Johnny Rottin said. “Art is my life. Anything to do with art – music, painting, writing, cooking. Art gives me a happy feeling inside.” Johnny is fairly new to Street Roots; his ex-wife, a Street Roots vendor, encouraged him to apply early in 2019. “Working with Street Roots is a great opportunity,” he…
Opinion
20 years without complexity: The legacy of 9/11 for American Muslims
What is it like to hold a crossroads within your body? For many American Muslims, our identities have become a crossroads between familiar and foreign. Between safety and danger. Between belonging and othering. In the years prior to 9/11, people were ignorant of Islam. There were opportunities to inform and people would listen. There were…
Kaia Sand | Creating additive solutions to homelessness
The humanitarian crisis of homelessness rightfully ignites a sense of urgency in many people. Some rhetoric around urgency, though, is about other things: jockeying for political position, impatience with the fact that systemic poverty is so much more massive than the speed and scale of public actions, a desire for a spectacle of a solution,…
News
Union Gospel Mission hosted expanded distribution event
Two major lines formed in downtown Portland on Sept. 24. The first, south of West Burnside Street at the Apple store, formed behind brutalist fencing for the latest iPhone drop. The second, just north of Burnside Street at Union Gospel Mission. More than 100 people gathered at the church for Operation Overcoat, an annual distribution…
Lack of placement stability for Oregon foster youth causes traumatic disruptions
In response to Oregon’s high number of moves and disruptions for young people in foster care, Street Roots, with funding and collaboration from the Solutions Journalism Network, is investigating unique solutions to problems associated with placement instability for youth in care. This is the first of a five-part series exploring innovative, data-driven solutions which can…
Poetry & Art
Sloane Leong’s newest work explores horror and obsession
Local comic creator and writer Sloane Leong, known for her graphic novel “A Map to the Sun” and her comic “Prism Stalker,” releases a new graphic novel next month titled “Graveneye.” Illustrated by Anna Bowles, “Graveneye” is a horror comic exploring obsession and infatuation between two women, Marie and Ilsa, in a house that serves…
