POSTCARDS from PORTLAND
Upon travelling to the ‘Land of the Free’ for the first time, the diet of American pop culture that I grew up on had very much shaped my expectations of a typical neighbourhood in the USA: lined with picturesque houses, manicured gardens and an American flag blowing in the breeze outside each door. The neighbourhoods of Portland, Oregon certainly live up to these aesthetic expectations, bar one – there’s a distinct lack of flags flying in the streets. Instead, front yards are filled with signs of protest, supporting movements like Black Lives Matter. Shop fronts display posters that welcome ALL races, religions, genders and sexual orientations. Within a day of touching down in this Pacific Northwest city, we are quick to learn that Trump is a
