International Women’s Day is celebrated on March 8 in commemoration of women’s roles in the fight for gender equality and reproductive rights, among other issues. In Seattle, various organizations held rallies and marches that Sunday in protest of the Trump...
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As a parent, Marie Loeb quickly learned that many institutions are not equipped to work with neurodivergent children, often due to the fact that they are run by neurotypical people who cannot understand their specific needs. Loeb is the parent of two autistic...
Capitol Hill is a neighborhood constantly in change. For decades, long-term residents have complained about gentrification, small businesses have come and gone, and generations of twentysomething Queer people have grown up, rented their first crappy...
No chief of the Seattle Police Department had stepped foot inside one of the SPD’s LGBTQ Advisory Council meetings before — until Chief Shon Barnes accepted an invitation to attend on February 11. Attendees for the first time were finally able to hold the...
On Sunday, February 15, a rally and potluck were held at Cal Anderson Park, organized by the Mutual Aid Network for Trans & Intersex Individuals in Seattle (MANTIS) in collaboration with other Trans rights groups, including TRACTION. It was mainly a speaking...
After the Mayday USA rally in Cal Anderson Park last spring, Seattle’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) attempted to piece together a comprehensive story of why things went so wrong. The OIG assembled a panel of LGBTQIA+ community members and Seattle Police...
On Thursday February 5, a rare event occurred: Several hundred young people from high schools across the city temporarily left their classrooms and teachers behind to congregate in front of Seattle City Hall in solidarity with their immigrant classmates and...
On Feb. 11, US Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-7), alongside Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey and California Reps. Mark Takano (D-49) and Sara Jacobs (D-51), reintroduced legislation that would affirm federal protections for Trans and Nonbinary people, aptly named “the...
The pews of Town Hall Seattle were full on Tuesday, January 27, as constituents filed in for an event with US Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-7). A projector displayed footage of the congresswoman’s impassioned rebuttals and fired-up speeches at recent hearings, as...
Even in a politically aware city where small-scale activism happens every day, how Seattle chose to stand in solidarity with Minneapolis over the last weekend of January was remarkable. It was an unapologetic rebuke to the deportations, arrests, and even...