Oregon Humanities

Last week, a federal court ruled that the cancellation of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities led by DOGE in 2025 was unlawful. This decision doesn't directly affect Oregon Humanities or the other members of the Federation of State Humanities Councils. We are plaintiffs in a separate lawsuit against the NEH and DOGE, which is still ongoing.

The DOGE-ing of the Humanities Is Being Reversed The Trump administration hastily canceled research grants last year—but just hit a roadblock in court.

"Most of the details of this time are lost to me. Did my brain bury them because the emotional weight was too much to bear? Or maybe, once our baby was born, a kind of blissful postpartum amnesia took hold, the elation of finally having a child sanding off the most jagged edges of the pain."

In this moving photo essay for our "Labor" issue, Lindsay Trapnell reflects on the fifteen-year process of trying to have a child with her wife, Melissa.

https://oregonhumanities.org/rll/magazine/labor-spring-2026/trying/

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