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Readings, debates, lectures and so much more. Hear fascinating talks by authors, intellectuals, officials and regular folks with important stories recorded live all around Seattle.
Episodes
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Local journalists reflect on racist media legacies, and paths forward
‘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 Green
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A wild literary ride from rural Vancouver Island to Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility
‘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.’
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‘What will I carry forward?’ A journey through wilderness, dementia, and memory
‘It took her some time to find her voice, but when she did she said three careful words, it’s so beautiful.’
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One man’s story of the scourge of child sexual abuse
‘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.’
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Poet reflects on the intersection of Black art and a new generation of racial trauma
‘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.’
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Mayor Bruce Harrell looks back on his first 100 days and details his plans moving forward
‘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.’
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In honor of women: poetry and music of struggle and joy
One poet asks, ‘Will you not open this door for me? My hand is exhausted from knocking at your door.’
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DEI ’R’ US: Setbacks and progress on the road to belonging at work
‘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.’
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Can INTOIT moments bridge our partisan divide? Perhaps, if we seek them out
‘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.’
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Telling modern world history with Africa at the center
'This, I argue, is the beginning of the Age of Exploration, the Age of Discovery, and thereby, the start of the modern world.’
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New book narrates lessons for organizing across borders and generations
‘Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation’
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New book traces Black women’s innovative advances across the history of human rights
‘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.’