Portland-based writer Sophia Shalmiyev talks honestly about the three abortions she's had--and how in Oregon, which has some of strongest legal protections for reproductive health, much remains to be done to keep abortion legal, paid for, and free of shame.
"You don't always have to travel to explore," Portland writer Vix Gutierrez discovers in an essay about adjusting to life in her thirties. Her epiphany comes as she faces mortality in a CPR course while her partner is on vacation in New Orleans.
"Nothing spooks the horses into flight
like inertia. Not lightning, barn fire.
Not the whips we take to their sides
to drive them forward."
Two news poems, "Appaloosa," and "A Jar to Keep the Earth In" by Portland's John Sibley Williams.
Portland multimedia artist, poet, musician and photographer Dao Strom talks with Cascadia Magazine about the echoes of history in her work, returning to Vietnam, a continual sense of not-belonging, and her new book You Will Always Be Someone from Someplace Else.
Portland singer/songwriter Katherine Paul (of Black Belt Eagle Scout) talks about growing up on the Swinomish reservation, the importance of mentors, and how she dealt with painful life changes through her music.
The Balch Creek Gulch trail is one of the most fascinating routes in Portland's 5,000-acre Forest Park. In this wilderness within the city limits, you'll encounter old-growth Douglas-fir, a wooded ravine, and a historic stone house built by the WPA.
Ape Canyon Trail is one of the most popular trails in the Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument, offering views of a narrow canyon, the effects of a mile-wide mudflow created by the 1980 eruption, and spectacular views of the volcanic peak.
In an essay by Terrence Petty, it's just another strange day in Portland full of protests, counter-protests, colorful characters, police flashbang grenades, and tourists sailing by oblivious to it all.
Faced with skyrocketing housing costs, the three largest cities in the Pacific Northwest -- Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland-- are taking different approaches to reigning in costs and building more affordable units, whether it's changing zoning, increasing public-funded housing, or making deals with developers.
Portland author Leni Zumas talks about her ambitious new novel, Red Clocks, which imagines a future where abortion is illegal and witches are persecuted. In an interview with Sarah Marshall, Zumas delves into topics ranging from the #MeToo movement to Arctic exploration.
