Resources

These resources are meant to provide some context, reflection, inspiration, and jumping off points. But it is not necessary for applicants to use them in any way. They are here to help, if needed.

News Articles Relating to the 2021 Prompt

Clean Water Crises

Reservations in Oregon have experienced a water crisis during the pandemic, with little assistance from governmental resources.

BIPOC Children & COVID-19

BIPOC children have been severely and disproportionately impacted by COVID-19.

COVID-19, Wildfires, & Oregon Prisons

Concerns about the spread of COVID-19 amongst incarcerated people increase.

Black Lives Matter & Street Art

Art is an important form of communication, as Oregon has witnessed during the BLM protests.

Agricultural Workers & the Wildfires

Agricultural workers still had to work in the terrible, smoky conditions created by the recent wildfires.

Forced Sterilizations in ICE Medical Facilities

Dawn Wooten bravely spoke out and made allegations against ICE medical practices.

Further Reading & Resources

An Open Letter to the Union of Concerned Scientists: On Black Death, Black Silencing, and Black Fugitivity

An Affirmation of Black Life From a Concerned Black Human

Ruth Tyson

An Open Letter to UCS: On Black Death, Black Silencing, and Black Fugitivity

A Litany for Survival

Audre Lorde

The God of Small Things

Arundhati Roy

“Perhaps it’s true that things can change in a day. That a few dozen hours can affect the outcome of whole lifetimes. And that when they do, those few dozen hours, like the salvaged remains of a burned house—the charred clock, the singed photograph, the scorched furniture—must be resurrected from the ruins and examined. Preserved. Accounted for. Little events, ordinary things, smashed and reconstituted. Imbued with new meaning. Suddenly they become the bleached bones of a story.”