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It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist People’s History

book // published by PM Press // 2023
coauthors: Moe Bowstern, Mic Crenshaw, Alec Dunn, Celena Flores, Julie Perini, Erin Yanke


It Did Happen Here: An Antifascist Peoples’ History is an oral history book, based on the independently produced podcast of the same name. Co-authored by a team of longtime Portland artist-activists Moe Bowstern, Mic Crenshaw, Alec Dunn, Celena Flores, Julie Perini, and Erin Yanke. 

My contribution to the project was been visual research and collective editing with the other authors.
Building on work I had begun during the podcast production, I reached out to people who had been interviewed for the podcast to request images from their personal archives. Producer Erin Yanke and I conducted research into the collections at the Oregon Historical Society; Portland City Archives; The Oregonian; the Elinor Langer Research Collection on White Supremacy in America, housed at the University of Oregon in Eugene; Portland State University’s Special Collections, and the Rural Organizing Project in Cottage Grove, Oregon. 

Order your copy of It Did Happen Here or the It Did Happen Here e-book from PM Press. Or look for it at your local library.


selected public events
2023: Holiday Cheer 54th Annual Celebration of Oregon Authors, with Julie Perini & Erin Yanke, Oregon Historical Society
Julie Perini is a filmmaker and artist in Portland, Oregon.