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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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Episodes
Local journalists reflect on racist media legacies, and paths forward
5/26/2022
‘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
Duration:00:54:13
A wild literary ride from rural Vancouver Island to Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility
5/18/2022
‘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.’
Duration:00:53:26
‘What will I carry forward?’ A journey through wilderness, dementia, and memory
5/12/2022
‘It took her some time to find her voice, but when she did she said three careful words, it’s so beautiful.’
Duration:00:58:08
One man’s story of the scourge of child sexual abuse
5/4/2022
‘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.’
Duration:01:10:32
Poet reflects on the intersection of Black art and a new generation of racial trauma
4/20/2022
‘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.’
Duration:00:57:27
Mayor Bruce Harrell looks back on his first 100 days and details his plans moving forward
4/18/2022
‘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.’
Duration:00:59:51
In honor of women: poetry and music of struggle and joy
4/14/2022
One poet asks, ‘Will you not open this door for me? My hand is exhausted from knocking at your door.’
Duration:01:15:06
DEI ’R’ US: Setbacks and progress on the road to belonging at work
4/6/2022
‘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.’
Duration:01:20:53
Can INTOIT moments bridge our partisan divide? Perhaps, if we seek them out
3/30/2022
‘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.’
Duration:01:04:19
Telling modern world history with Africa at the center
3/23/2022
'This, I argue, is the beginning of the Age of Exploration, the Age of Discovery, and thereby, the start of the modern world.’
Duration:00:56:24
New book narrates lessons for organizing across borders and generations
3/16/2022
‘Contemporary Asian American Activism: Building Movements for Liberation’
Duration:00:58:50
New book traces Black women’s innovative advances across the history of human rights
3/9/2022
‘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.’
Duration:00:51:59
An environmental scientist points to Indigenous knowledge for sustainability solutions
3/2/2022
‘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.’
Duration:00:58:39
The highs and lows of a prized and vulnerable freedom
2/25/2022
‘Free speech has been perhaps one of the most powerful engines of human equality that we've ever stumbled upon as a species.’
Duration:00:56:54
New book explores advances in immune system science
2/17/2022
‘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.’
Duration:00:59:59
From prison chain gang to art world notoriety, the life and work of Winfred Rembert
2/9/2022
‘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.’
Duration:01:16:13
Authors reckon with the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse
2/2/2022
‘It’s Tim who stands out in my memory, who was always by my side. Until he wasn’t.’
Duration:01:03:36
Defining disability justice and celebrating ‘crip-centric liberated zones’
1/26/2022
‘Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid’
Duration:01:00:57
Paul Auster celebrates the precocious, abbreviated life and work of Stephen Crane
1/19/2022
'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.’
Duration:00:55:29
What are we willing to do to protect Southern Resident orcas?
1/12/2022
What it will take to share this region with Qw'e lh'ol mechen, ‘the people that live under the sea’
Duration:00:59:49