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Building a home away from home.

Spend half an hour chatting about feminism with the young womxn of color who run the CENTER Youth Collective, and a lot will come up. The CENTER—it stands for “Create. Engage. Notice. Teach. Empower. Remember.”—is a social justice-oriented youth outreach center in North Portland. Its Youth Collective is made up largely of teenage womxn of […]

The Portland Raging Grannies seek justice through street theater.

The TransActive Gender Project expands the scope of its advocacy for trans and gender-diverse youth.

With Side Yard Farm, Stacey Givens invites her community to the table.

If you’ve never heard of the sexy, smart podcast Strange Bedfellows, you can thank the government.

The country’s 2018 election cycle saw a glorious rise in womxn running for and winning political seats that have long been held by men. But the victory for womxn politicians—seen by many as a response to the Trump administration’s blatant sexism—wasn’t anything new for the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners, a five-member body that hasn’t […]

Green Hop co-owner Nicole Kennedy is on a mission to diversify the cannabis industry.

A new professional database is providing an easy solution to your office’s diversity problem.

It’s no surprise that Portland is filled with creative, powerful, and inspiring womxn. From rabble-rousing grannies to narrative-flipping feminist teens to pioneering entrepreneurs to seasoned politicians, Portland’s womxn embody the values and grit that make this city run. It’d be impossible to pack the diverse stories of all Portland’s noteworthy womxn and girls into a […]