archival visual research & social media assets by Julie Perini
It Did Happen Here website // audio available on all podcast platforms


It Did Happen Here is a historical short-form podcast about the community’s pushback to neonazi skinheads in Portland, Oregon in the late 1980s and early 1990s. The November 1988 murder of Ethiopian college student Mulugeta Seraw by neonazi skinheads brought the issue to mainstream attention. The podcast tells the story of the organizing that happened sub-culturally within the punk scene and cross-culturally throughout the entire city from 1987 - 1997, taking a close look at a few organizations that pre-date the current Antifascist (“Antifa”) movement: Anti-Racist Action (ARA), Skinheads Against Racial Prejudice (SHARP), and the Coalition for Human Dignity (CHD). The podcast includes eleven featured episodes and nine bonus episodes. The first episode was released in November 2020 and continued weekly into 2021. I worked with producer Erin Yanke to produce social media assets for the instagram account, pictured here, and worked with Design as Protest to produce panels for public displays during the COVID-19 pandemic.