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Izzy Rowland | Life After the Bubble
About Life After the Bubble: This series seeks to spotlight the experiences of alumni and former students of color from Lake Oswego schools. “Life After the Bubble” will feature interviews from various students, each sharing distinct cultural experiences and reflections from their time in LO. The objective is not just to provoke thought, but to … Read more
Camryn Leland | Life After the Bubble
Check out the latest episode of Life After the Bubble featuring Lake Oswego High School alum, one of the founding members of the Lake Oswego Black Student Union. Check out the latest episode of Life After the Bubble featuring Lake Oswego High School alum
YEC Launches new podcast!
We have some exciting news on the media and youth organizing front! Over the summer, the Youth Empowerment Coalition (formerly the Youth Empowerment Committee) underwent a revamp. With a new vision and more core organizers, they have a number of projects underway, including the Youth Empowerment Coalition: Tell Your Story podcast. In their first episode, … Read more
Announcing the Winners of this Year’s Gloria Brown Memorial Scholarship
Respond to Racism is pleased to announce the winners of this year’s Gloria Brown Memorial Scholarship: The scholarship honors Gloria Brown, the first African American woman forest supervisor at the US Forest Service and a champion for social and racial justice. Learn more about the Gloria Brown Scholarship. The scholarships are made possible by donations. … Read more
Bearing Witness from Bed: A Disabled Person’s Perspective on College Encampments for Gaza
“I realized that regardless of the tragedy, regardless of the grief, regardless of the monstrous challenge, Some of Us Have Not Died. Some of us did not die… and what shall We do, We Who Did Not Die?” June Jordan, during her keynote lecture at Barnard College for the 30th anniversary conference for the Barnard … Read more
Ismatu Gwendolyn: Educator, Activist, and Empathetic Lovely
In lieu of an essay to share with you all this week, I thought to share resources through to someone who’s been my guiding compass these past few months. I’ve been following Ismatu (all pronouns, with respect) for the greater part of two years on Tiktok, but only recently with the events of October 7th … Read more
Letter to A Past Life: On the Inhumanity of Academia and “Speaking in Tongues”
These places of possibility within ourselves are dark because they are ancient and hidden; they have survived and grown strong through that darkness. Within these deep places, each one of us holds an incredible reserve of creativity and power, of unexamined and unrecorded emotion and feeling. The woman’s place of power within each of us … Read more
Breaking Free From Semantics: Saving Face & Saving Our Souls
The function, the very serious function of racism is distraction. It keeps you from doing your work. It keeps you explaining, over and over again, your reason for being. Somebody says you have no language and you spend twenty years proving that you do. Somebody says your head isn’t shaped properly so you have scientists … Read more
Anthony Parrish | Life After the Bubble
Check out the latest episode of Life After the Bubble featuring Lake Oswego High School alum Anthony Parrish! You can also learn more about his multidisciplinary arts practices here. About Life After the Bubble: This series seeks to spotlight the experiences of alumni and former students of color from Lake Oswego schools. “Life After the … Read more