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Keep abortion safe, legal and affordable for all

COMMENTARY | Rights don’t matter if you can’t access them and afford them “There’s a sorry situation in the United States, which is essentially that poor women don’t have choice. Women of means do. They will, always.” Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg made thes ...

21 Sep 2018 - Emily McLain
We must overcome tokenism to achieve real equity

COMMENTARY | If we don't begin with an understanding while taking it seriously, we undermine the prospects for real and lasting change Tokenism seems to be a topic that folks want to avoid, but the argument against addressing it usually looks somethi ...

3 Aug 2018 - Darleen Ortega
Family planning is a basic human right

COMMENTARY | This is also 'central to women’s empowerment, reducing poverty and achieving sustainable development' It has been five decades since the international community affirmed the right to family planning, but many women still remain unab ...

27 Jul 2018 - Tharanga Yakupi...
Roe v. Wade is at risk: what that means for Oregon

A conversation with NARAL Pro-Choice Oregon’s Grayson Dempsey After a recent string of right-wing rulings from the U.S. Supreme Court was followed by swing-voter Justice Anthony Kennedy’s retirement announcement, the stability of Roe v. Wade and the futur ...

6 Jul 2018 - Emily Green
These Buddhist nuns empower girls – with kung fu

In addition to their humanitarian work, they teach women and girls self-defense and that 'they can be as strong and as powerful as a man' Nuns from the Himalayan Drukpa lineage of Tibetan Buddhism go into communities to teach women and girls how ...

9 Mar 2018 - Tony Inglis
Meet Tarana Burke, the woman behind 'Me Too'

She launched the movement more than 10 years ago to support black girls. Today, she fears the hashtag could alienate marginalized groups. A recurring question Tarana Burke is asked by men is: “Can you teach me how I can do better?” “‘Do I have to teach yo ...

9 Feb 2018 - Sandra Pandevski
Education, not condemnation, say women who survived violence

A U.N. campaign to raise awareness and combat gender-based violence will culminate Dec. 10, Human Rights Day Sally Mboumien remembers the day she pressed a steaming hot stone against her chest. In Bawock, the rural community of western Cameroon where she ...

1 Dec 2017 - Stella Paul
Vulva Art Project aims to end body shame

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
What will it take to achieve economic gender equality?

COMMENTARY | 65 other countries do better at paying women equally with men doing similar work The first International Women’s Day, March 8, pushed for women’s right to vote, as well as rights to work, vocational training and discrimination-free workplaces ...

2 Mar 2017 - Mary King
Gretchen Kafoury’s legacy one of action, change

Gretchen Kafoury passed away of natural causes on Friday, March 13 at the age of 72. Like others, Street Roots was sad to hear the news, and overcome with emotion to not only honor, but to carry on her work. To say that Oregon lost a great leader seems in ...

19 Mar 2015 - SR editorial board