Readings, debates, lectures from around Seattle, and so much more. Hear fascinating talks by authors, intellectuals, officials and regular folks with important stories recorded live.
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Local journalists reflect on racist media legacies, and paths forward
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‘I got an email being called the N-word just last week as a matter of fact for some of our coverage. I think at the end of the day what we can do is just truly speak the truth.’ -Marcus Harrison GreenPor John O'Brien
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A wild literary ride from rural Vancouver Island to Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility
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‘All anybody wanted to talk about was the pandemic, which I resisted for about a week, and then I realized we all need to talk about the pandemic. It's not even like it was the elephant in the room. It's like it was the room. It was unavoidable.’Por John O'Brien
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‘What will I carry forward?’ A journey through wilderness, dementia, and memory
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‘It took her some time to find her voice, but when she did she said three careful words, it’s so beautiful.’Por John O'Brien
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One man’s story of the scourge of child sexual abuse
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‘In the equation of institutional sexual abuse, the constant is the abuser. There's always going to be a certain percentage of child sex abusers in the population.’Por John O'Brien
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Poet reflects on the intersection of Black art and a new generation of racial trauma
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‘If black children belong to us, and we need not be mothers or fathers or even black for black children to belong to us, a part of us is always vigilant, and always exhausted.’Por John O'Brien
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Mayor Bruce Harrell looks back on his first 100 days and details his plans moving forward
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‘When I talk about public safety, when I talk about I need more officers, I always lead with, but not in a racialized or militarized fashion.’Por John O'Brien
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In honor of women: poetry and music of struggle and joy
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One poet asks, ‘Will you not open this door for me? My hand is exhausted from knocking at your door.’Por John O'Brien
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DEI ’R’ US: Setbacks and progress on the road to belonging at work
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‘It’s not going to happen in my lifetime. We are working to a future that we will not live to see. That’s what this work is about, and the healing is knowing that we’re doing it together.’Por John O'Brien
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Can INTOIT moments bridge our partisan divide? Perhaps, if we seek them out
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‘It's a different kind of approach and different kind of exchange that I know that we can do because I've seen it, and it's growing. It begins with a different definition of listening. Listening is about showing people they matter.’Por John O'Brien
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Telling modern world history with Africa at the center
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'This, I argue, is the beginning of the Age of Exploration, the Age of Discovery, and thereby, the start of the modern world.’Por Kendra Hanna
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New book narrates lessons for organizing across borders and generations
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‘Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation’Por Kendra Hanna
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New book traces Black women’s innovative advances across the history of human rights
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‘Black women have been deeply engaged in trying to figure out how to get this country to accept, to understand, to learn about human rights.’Por Kendra Hanna
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An environmental scientist points to Indigenous knowledge for sustainability solutions
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‘That's why we lose a lot of our own community members who are not interested in western sciences because they don't see themselves being reflected. I think with Indigenous science we have to reflect ourselves because, otherwise, we are ignoring part of our kinships and also teachings that we have been passed down.’…
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The highs and lows of a prized and vulnerable freedom
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‘Free speech has been perhaps one of the most powerful engines of human equality that we've ever stumbled upon as a species.’Por John O'Brien
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New book explores advances in immune system science
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‘We are having exponential growth in our understanding of the immune system. There’s just so much to learn, and our baseline has just been established.’Por John O'Brien
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From prison chain gang to art world notoriety, the life and work of Winfred Rembert
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‘We had been married over five years before he decided that he would even mention to me what had happened. I just knew he was having trouble sleeping. And this is the kind of torture that followed him until he died.’Por John O'Brien
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Authors reckon with the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse
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‘It’s Tim who stands out in my memory, who was always by my side. Until he wasn’t.’Por Kendra Hanna
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Defining disability justice and celebrating ‘crip-centric liberated zones’
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‘Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid’Por John O'Brien
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Paul Auster celebrates the precocious, abbreviated life and work of Stephen Crane
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'Crane is now in the hands of the specialists, while the invisible army of so-called general readers, the same people who still take pleasure in reading old standbys such as Melville and Whitman, are no longer reading Crane.’Por John O'Brien
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What are we willing to do to protect Southern Resident orcas?
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What it will take to share this region with Qw'e lh'ol mechen, ‘the people that live under the sea’Por John O'Brien
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Trans history and one man’s struggle to correct ‘a ghastly mistake’
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‘Dr E. Forbes-Sempill henceforth wishes to be known as Dr Ewan Forbes-Sempill’Por John O'Brien
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Anita Hill on her mission to end gender violence and harassment
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‘We know it’s a cultural problem. We know it’s a behavioral problem. But it’s not a problem of a few bad apples.’ – Professor Anita HillPor John O'Brien
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Called to investigate, three authors reflect on the body
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‘I’m still surprised when I’m noticed. I came to believe I was invisible.’Por Kendra Hanna
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Gather ‘round for a roguish, timeless Christmas tale
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A Christmas Carol: A Ghost Story of ChristmasPor John O'Brien
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Claudia Rankine on the unbearable lightness of whiteness in America
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‘The indifference is impenetrable and reliable and distributed across centuries, and I am stupidly hurt when my friends can’t see that.’Por John O'Brien
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