Emily Hamilton

Lee was the first Chinese American woman to fly for the U.S. military. This is the story of how she lived up to her name.

Esther Godoy’s project “Butch is Not a Dirty Word” is the “world’s largest media resource dedicated to Butch identity, visibility and voice.”

Produce Row, located along an unassuming stretch of industrial district in the Central Eastside, is home to a tight-knit network of Italian American families who have been serving Portland farm-to-table for generations.

This year, Colegio Cesar Chavez celebrates its 50th anniversary. What happened to the first ever accredited, 4-year Chicana/o college in the country?

As a high school kid in 1986, Asia DeWeese joined a cohort of women who pioneered the acceptance of women in wrestling in the United States.

The Portland-founded team is made up of skaters from the Pacific Northwest and beyond. They travel all over the United States, and sometimes across the world, to compete and find power in their community.

The Carlton Observatory in Yamhill County is working to raise funds to build a new community science center complete with a planetarium, observatory and maker-space at McMinnville’s Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum.

Sincere Studio opened this month in Northeast Portland. Founder Frances Andonopoulos said they find inspiration in projects like the AIDS Memorial Quilt, and they hope to provide “textile arts education with a focus on sewing as a tool of social change and empowerment.”

Sincere Studio founder, Frances Andonopoulos, center, at the first ever Sincere Studio quilting bee on December 4.

“Holiday Out,” a new Christmas musical presented by Metropolitan Performing Arts in Vancouver, seeks to raise awareness about queer youth houselessness and give young LGBTQ+ people a story to tell at Christmas.