Reporters, photographers, copy editors, and others members of the Seattle Times newsroom took to downtown streets on Sept. 30, just a block from the newspaper’s new office, to demand wage increases, as well as proper protections against AI replacing them and...
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On September 26, Stone Soup Crew held a community resource fair at Cal Anderson Park. The event included food, a DJ, and booths staffed by several organizations. In addition to being about providing food, clothing, and necessities to those who are struggling,...
On September 10, in the aftermath of the Bite of Seattle shooting, over 30 major companies, business leaders, and associations in Seattle signed a letter to Mayor Katie Wilson and members of City Council, urging them to take stronger action on public safety,...
Twenty-five years ago, while much of America watched the unimaginable unfold on television, 16-year-old Joseph Fenity was sitting nearly 1,800 miles away in Texas, asking a question that would ultimately shape his career: Who is listening to the young people?...
The Washington Department of Health has required the Seattle LGBTQ+ Center’s HIV/STI testing program to ship its blood samples to a privately run facility in Texas for testing, which may raise questions about the risk of personal data collection of Trans and...
Seattle has become the next US city to recognize and protect nonmonogamous relationship structures, after the city council voted unanimously on Tuesday, Sept. 15 to pass CB 121278. Seattle will join nine other US cities (including Oakland, CA, and Cambridge,...
Walking into a frame shop with an original, irreplaceable piece of art is nerve-racking. This wasn't a print you could reorder or a canvas you could replace. It was the real thing, by a renowned artist, and I was entrusting strangers with it. Frame Central...
Drag aficionados of the macho persuasion, take notice: The biggest and longest-running convention dedicated exclusively to the talents of drag kings, drag things, and those beyond or in between is back and better than ever. Every year, the Emerald City Kings...
On Thursday, September 3, the world lost an incredible journalist, activist, and pioneering feminist, Gloria Steinem. A revolutionary in progressive activism, Steinem used grassroots organizing to advocate for issues affecting all women, from equal pay to...
For many LGBTQIA+ people, the outdoors holds a complicated history. Outdoor communities often center cisgender, heterosexual norms, while cultural narratives frame Queer identities as unnatural. Queer Nature, a Washington state–based organization, was founded...