The players have had enough. After enduring a season chock-full of injuries and toxic discourse, those who keep the WNBA’s engine running are mostly in agreement that they aren’t paid enough. Caitlin Clark, the league’s biggest superstar, made just $78,066...
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Isabel Mata is a Queer Jewish woman who, over the course of her career, has worn many professional hats: cosmetics marketer, creative consultant, mindfulness teacher, photographer, writer, and even (former) SGN staff writer, known for the column “Ask...
I first met Montana state Rep. Zooey Zephyr in September 2024, when she was the featured speaker at the Victory Fund’s “Victory in Pacific Northwest” event in Seattle, long after she rose to national prominence. And while I take no credit for her success and...
On Saturday, October 18, in front of the Space Needle, Rep. Pramila Jayapal addressed a crowd extending for nearly a mile. She began her speech with a quote by a well-known Founding Father: “At the 1787 Constitutional Convention, Benjamin Franklin was asked...
As the number of Lime bikes and scooters grows, so do concerns about their speed and safety on Capitol Hill sidewalks, according to discussion at this month’s LGBTQ+ Advisory Council meeting with Seattle Department of Transportation representatives on...
The White House’s recent memorandum, “Countering Domestic Terrorism and Organized Political Violence,” represents a dangerous expansion of state power that threatens Trans people and organizations. The memo frames “extremism” as views or actions that conflict...
The intersections between queerness and other identities, such as race and immigration status, have long been left out public conversations, until very recently. But in the 1990s, a group of local LGBTQIA+ Latin activists, seeing the need for culturally...
When Chinese medical student Li Shiu Tong met Magnus Hirschfeld in Shanghai during Hirschfeld’s 1931 world tour, their relationship — in which Li accompanied and cared for the famed sexologist across continents and the final years of his life — fell quickly...
Bruce Harrell was irritated when we asked if he was a moderate. Not one of those quiet irritations born of our pet peeves though, like when your friend corrects your grammar or your roommate forgets their weekly chores. No, this felt like it had something to...
They say that it’s better to have loved someone dearly, accepting the heartbreak of inevitably losing them, than to have never loved at all. Our close connections to each other and the world around us, no matter how much they’ll hurt in the future, make us...