2024 Magazine Reader Survey: Results
In August 2024, we asked all Oregon Humanities magazine subscribers to answer a few questions about themselves and the publication. Here's what they had to say.
Oregon Humanities Live
Join the editors of Oregon Humanities magazine for an evening featuring recent contributors Saeeda Wright, Leanne Grabel, Brian Benson, Jennifer Perrine, and Judy Jiang reading essays and poems.
Making Pre-K Possible
This comic by Sarah Mirk explores how universal preschool went from an idea to the ballot to law in 2020.
Discussion Questions & Further Reading: Beyond
Prompts for conversation about this issue and links to learn more about the stories and ideas explored herein.
Climate
Editor Ben Waterhouse writes about choosing the theme "Climate" amid a summer of heat waves and fires.
Editor's Note: Possession
Editor Ben Waterhouse on the issue's theme.
Editor's Note: Feed
An introductory note from Editor Ben Waterhouse
Discussion Questions and Further Reading
Prompts for conversation and links for further exploration of the stories in this issue.
From the Director: Trench
Adam Davis on the power of listening
Editor's Note: Eighteen Years
Kathleen Holt reflects on her eighteen-year tenure at Oregon Humanities in her final editor's note for the magazine.
Consider the Wedding—2004
Jamie Passaro considers why women who know better still buy into the Big Bucks White Wedding industry in the 2004 “Marriage” issue.
On Paper Wings—2008
Brett Campbell writes about how an Oregon filmmaker set out to tell the story of six Oregonians killed by Japanese balloon bombs during World War II in the 2008 “Strangers” issue.
Resume of Failures—2011
Kim Stafford writes about the stories of struggle, insecurity, and loss behind his accomplishments in the 2011 “Fail” issue.
The Air I Breathe—2014
Ifanyi Bell writes about growing up tolerated and underestimated in Portland in the 2014 “Quandary” issue.
Making Men—2016
Bobbie Willis Soeby writes about raising her sons to not rape in the 2016 “Edge” issue.
Good Hair—2017
Kimberly Melton writes about the meaning of hair and going natural despite family and society expectations in the 2017 “Carry” issue.
Senior Dance Night
Josephine Cooper writes about finding her way back to the dance floor later in life.
Dropping In
Jordan Hernandez talks with three female skateboarders in communities around Oregon about overcoming fear and stereotypes and loving the sport.
Castles Made of Sand
Geologist Ruby McConnell writes about how coastal homeowners' efforts to save their properties from rising sea levels put their neighbors at risk—and how she became responsible for the riprapping of Rockaway Beach.
“Our Story on Our Territory”
Leslie Ann McMillan, an enrolled Chinook member, writes about how her people's lands were stolen and how they are starting to reclaim them.
Saturdays Inside
Madeline Baars Brandt writes about her experience of driving girls to visit their incarcerated mothers.
Boxing Lessons
In an excerpt from his new memoir, The Eclipse I Call Father, poet David Axelrod writes about his grandfather's effort to teach him to defend himself from bullies.