How three booksellers thrived during one of the toughest years for small businesses in recent history SUMMER READS: Book recommendations from Street Roots' staff, vendors, volunteers, kids and friends. On June 20, Michelle Lewis and Charles Hannah c ...
23 Jun 2021 - Sarah Hansell
The author discusses her latest novel, a queer, Latinx dystopian fantasy with Trump-era issues On Feb. 24, Oregon author Tehlor Kay Mejia’s sophomore novel, “We Unleash the Merciless Storm,” a young adult (YA) queer Latinx fantasy set in a dystopian reali ...
21 Feb 2020 - Sarah Hansell
Stark Street was once the heart of LGBTQ+ culture, but now ‘we can go anywhere,’ says Walter Cole, better known as the legendary drag queen Darcelle XV PORTLAND, 1964 and 1965: Mayor Terry Schrunk declared war on bars frequented by gays and lesbians follo ...
11 Jan 2019 - Sarah Hansell
A storytelling event will share perspectives of an experience advocates say many can relate to When first-generation Samoan-American Justin Sipoloa went to Astor Elementary School in the early 1980s, he was one of the few brown faces in a sea of white one ...
16 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
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