It is no secret that in the startlingly recent past, the entire North American continent underwent an incomprehensibly massive and brutal cultural reconfiguring. According to the scholarship of Erin…
Fashion in skateboarding
Are skate shoes now more valued for their aesthetic appeal, or are they still primarily valued for their function? It’s complex—fashion in skateboard culture varies within a spectrum. Skateboarding is…
The disease plaguing this country
The hopeful and dismissive thinking that fascism isn’t spreading—or is being exaggerated—is both ignorant and dangerous. Looking at what is happening politically throughout the country right now, we only need…
The great unmasking
State officials made the decision to lift the mask mandate in Oregon on March 12, just as the Omicron variant of COVID-19 is in decline. We’ve been here before. …
A hop and a skip into Jumptown
Many Portlanders do not realize that there were vibrant Black cultural and artistic movements here not too long ago. Part of the shameful and barbaric historical legacy of settler-colonialism and…
We are sick and tired of police violence
Minneapolis police shot and killed Amir Locke, a 22-year-old Black man, on Feb. 2 at about 6:48 a.m. while serving a no-knock warrant for the apartment where he was staying….
Ted Wheeler’s recent emergency order is inhumane
A recent emergency order by Ted Wheeler was put in motion this week. The objective was to remove houseless camps along high-crash corridors and freeways, but some Portlanders and advocacy…
Welcome to Portland, we have crime
Over 90 homicides were recorded in Portland last year, surpassing the previous record high of 66 in 1987. Although much smaller in size than its neighboring cities, Portland recorded more…
Demanding empathy through art
BANG! POW! BOOM! Comics in the United States are full of onomatopoeias that emphasize action. In addition, our comics encourage the reader’s participation with fun but unrealistic hero stories that…
We need to talk about antisemitism
Various iterations of white nationalism—the belief that white people are a singular race that this race is superior to all others, and that they must develop and maintain a white,…
Satire: Conservatives protest that news is primarily left-leaning
Fake news is responsible for our country’s increasing loss of reality and is a growing issue of significance due to our society’s increasing levels of inequality and corruption. Thanks…