This Summer, PUGS is offering multiple ways for Portlanders to learn about, recognize, and challenge their place in our white supremacist culture. Two courses - Interrogating Whiteness and White Supremacy in Oregon will give participants a place to start.
Read MoreInterrogating Whiteness is designed help participants—particularly, but not exclusively, white participants—begin or continue to process and unpack their own racial conditioning.
Read MoreIn this Q&A with PUGS, instructor Lyndal Frazier-Cairns explains what her course is about and why the ability to explain big ideas is a world-changing skill.
Read MoreInterrogating whiteness is concerned with questions of reconciliation and healing. How do we heal ourselves? How do we make space for and support others in their healing? How do we—individually, collectively—heal from the traumatic, ongoing legacies and effects of white supremacy? Instructor Sarah DeYoreo explains.
Read MoreFrom weddings and rental agreements to eating at a restaurant, contracts govern our lives. Attorney Michael Jonas takes us through what people need to know ahead of his PUGS course, which begins May 21.
Read MoreFor more than a decade, young people have been told they will never get a good job without a university degree. But the student debt crisis is saddling our young people with an impossible choice: Take on a massive, 10+ year debt at the very start of your independent lives, or risk getting stuck in low-paid, insecure employment.
Read MoreStarting out as an independent contractor is exhilarating but it can also be terrifying. In this Q&A, we catch up with freelance writer Chelsea Schuyler, who is bringing her course Setting Up as an Independent Contractor to PUGS in March.
Read MoreRacial profiling in policing is at a flashpoint and communities are asking how we can demand change while protecting vulnerable community members. We asked Brandon Lee, instructor for Best Practices in Community Conscious Policing, to talk with us about police reform and bias training in Oregon.
Read MoreThis April at PUGS, we’re exploring genealogy, DNA, and lore - and examining our beliefs about how our lives are shaped by the people who have come before. In this Q&A, instructor Maddie Cole tells us a bit about her course and why our thirst for understanding ourselves sometimes takes us to unexpected places!
Read MoreIn February, Black History Month, the Portland Underground Graduate School is hosting a course called Interrogating Whiteness: An American Unstory. In this Q&A with instructor Sarah DeYoreo, we explore the idea of whiteness, why and how we are unpacking it, and what happens next.
Read MorePortland Underground Grad School (PUGS) is a school for people who want to keep learning + growing without disrupting their daily lives or paying $10,000s for grad school.
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