'Prism Stalker,' her first solo long-form comic, boasts all female characters and touches on survival, displacement, identity and race Growing up on Maui with no comic scene to speak of, Sloane Leong started teaching herself how to create comics ...
2 Mar 2018 - Sarah Hansell
Dawn Jones Redstone’s short film about reproductive justice features women of color leading the resistance The year is 2023. Health care of any kind is highly inaccessible and in some cases outlawed. Public utilities such as water are privatized and sev ...
23 Feb 2018 - Sarah Hansell
Beaverton’s Nina Fekaris talks about the complicated overlap of housing, health care and education in Oregon’s rural communities According to Oregon Health & Science University’s Office of Rural Health, Oregon has 53 service areas in 24 counties where ...
19 Jan 2018 - Sarah Hansell
Presbyterian minister John Shuck doesn’t believe in God. His progressive Beaverton church challenges traditional ideas of Christianity. The Rev. John Shuck doesn’t believe in God. But that doesn’t mean he doesn’t consider himself a Christian. Shuck, who h ...
22 Dec 2017 - Sarah Hansell
Silent auction of portraits to benefit organizations working with undocumented immigrants Heldáy de la Cruz came to the U.S. from Jalisco, Mexico, when he was just 2 years old. He learned English at the age of 5. It wasn’t until he was 15 when his undocum ...
24 Nov 2017 - Sarah Hansell
A new Hand2Mouth play explores human experiences behind intentional communities like communes The atmosphere of Hand2Mouth Theatre’s new production “Psychic Utopia” befits its title – ethereal, intimate, experimental and brimming with flora and fauna. The ...
10 Nov 2017 - Sarah Hansell
Outside the Frame’s Annual Gala will premiere original works about leaving home The opening scene: 23-year-old Jacob Averi speaking at his mother’s memorial, his sister at his lefthand side. His mother was a drug addict throughout his life. His eulogy add ...
10 Nov 2017 - Sarah Hansell
A project gives former inmates an opportunity to share their re-entry experiences and the injustices they witnessed in the prison system Tyrone Rucker was 14 the first time he went to juvenile hall, before he “graduated” to prison, as he puts it. It was t ...
20 Oct 2017 - Sarah Hansell
Photographer Arkady Brown wants to heal, empower and break the stigma – with pictures Arkady Brown, a fine-art boudoir photographer, has set out to create a project that rejects body shame and encourages women to love and know about their bodies – especia ...
1 Sep 2017 - Sarah Hansell
State lawmakers will consider tightening a law that gives some abusers access to firearms UPDATE: On March 5, 2018, Oregon Gov. Kate Brown signed a bill to close the "Boyfriend Loophole" into law. Carsen thought she was going to visit an old fr ...
12 Apr 2017 - Sarah Hansell