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 GreenJohn 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.’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.’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.’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.’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.’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.’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.’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.’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.’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’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.’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.’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.’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.’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.’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’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.’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’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’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 HillJohn 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.’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 ChristmasJohn 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.’John O'Brien
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