{"id":3814,"date":"2023-11-01T10:42:03","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T10:42:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/2023\/11\/01\/how-to-rid-the-woods-of-racism\/"},"modified":"2025-07-04T21:03:18","modified_gmt":"2025-07-04T21:03:18","slug":"how-to-rid-the-woods-of-racism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/2023\/11\/01\/how-to-rid-the-woods-of-racism\/","title":{"rendered":"How to rid the woods of racism"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8626\" src=\"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kuow.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"389\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kuow.png 389w, https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kuow-300x100.png 300w, https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/kuow-370x124.png 370w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 389px) 100vw, 389px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.kuow.org\/stories\/how-to-rid-the-woods-of-racism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">This article is reposted from kuow.org<\/a>)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u23ef\ufe0f Click on the link above to listen to the interview!<\/p>\n<p>For many people, getting outside can be a chance to relax and unwind. For people of color, it can also mean having to deal with racism.<\/p>\n<p>People of color and their allies gathered outside Seattle last weekend at a festival aimed at changing that.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>At the Tolt-Macdonald Park in Carnation, a DJ played music while attendees of the second annual Refuge Outdoors Festival line up for pancakes.<\/p>\n<p>Chevon Powell founded the festival after an incident when a policeman pulled her over in Vermont and wouldn\u2019t believe she was there to go hiking.<\/p>\n<p>She said she wanted to create a safe space and also build community.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s not just a fun weekend. It\u2019s about learning the skills, sharing the skills. People can get connected in the local area so that they can continue to do outdoor activities and so they can feel comfortable doing those beyond this weekend,&#8221; Powell said.<\/p>\n<p>Powell has plans to grow the festival.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div readability=\"38\">\n<p>For many people, getting outside can be a chance to relax and unwind. For people of color, it can also mean having to deal with racism.<\/p>\n<p>People of color and their allies gathered outside Seattle last weekend at a festival aimed at changing that.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div readability=\"47\">\n<p>At the Tolt-Macdonald Park in Carnation, a deejee played music while attendees of the second annual Refuge Outdoors Festival line up for pancakes. <\/p>\n<p>Chevon Powell founded the festival after an incident when a policeman pulled her over in Vermont and wouldn\u2019t believe she was there to go hiking. <\/p>\n<p>She said she wanted to create a safe space and also build community. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s not just a fun weekend. It\u2019s about learning the skills, sharing the skills. People can get connected in the local area so that they can continue to do outdoor activities and so they can feel comfortable doing those beyond this weekend,&#8221; Powell said.<\/p>\n<p>Powell has plans to grow the festival.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,86,25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3814","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","category-refuge-fest","category-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3814"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3814"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goldenbricksevents.com\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}