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  Speakers Forum

  ‘Weep. Scream. Hate. Disbelieve. Go numb. Breathe.’ Hard-earned lessons about loss and grief

  ‘A Little Book of Self-Care for Those Who Grieve began as notes scratched out over many midnights; thoughts formed as I lay sleepless, or in the aftermath of painful dreams.’
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  Speakers Forum

  Lies, the First Amendment, and the limits of free speech

  ‘If people hear something that’s false, and they’re immediately told it’s false, then they will remember it in some sense or in some part of their mind as true for the long-term. That’s insidious!’
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  RadioActive

  Fantasy books are my escape, but I wish the genre was more inclusive

  Adar Abdi is a White Center teenager with a passion for fantasy. She gravitated to fantasy novels as an escape from reality, into worlds without racism or sexism. But as she continued to read, she found more messages — subtle and overt — that brought the same issues she tried to avoid to the forefront. This piece is an imagined confrontation between Adar and a fantasy writer.
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  KUOW Newsroom

  Arts and culture picks for the rest of your Seattle summer

  Activities include a gallery fair, a secret walking tour, and a waterfront art installation.
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  Speakers Forum

  Sasha Issenberg tells the surprising story of how marriage equality was won

  It has been just over six years since the Obergefell v. Hodges ruling. In his new, exhaustively researched book The Engagement: America’s Quarter-Century Struggle Over Same-Sex Marriage, author Sasha Issenberg shares many of the stories and successful strategies that led to marriage equality.
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  Speakers Forum

  Ecologist Suzanne Simard’s life work is highlighted in ‘The Mother Tree’

  ‘Nothing should be lost. Everything has a purpose. Everything is in need of care.’
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  Speakers Forum

  Liberty’s white roots and the racial history of that idea

  White Freedom: ‘The belief (and practice) that freedom is central to white racial identity, and that only white people can or should be free.’
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  Speakers Forum

  It takes (escaping) a village: Sebastian Junger on the search for freedom, and community

  ‘Most nights we were the only people in the world who knew where we were. There are many definitions of freedom, but surely that is one of them.’
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  The Record

  June 22 | Summer’s here – let’s talk music, food and books.

  Musician and KEXP radio host Eva Walker joins Café Racer owner Jeff Ramsey to talk about what they’re listening to and what might be on playlists this summer. And Jack Timmons, owner of Jack’s BBQ, gives tips and tricks for the grill. You’ll also hear from Tracy Taylor of Elliott Bay Books on how independent bookstores managed the pandemic along with some titles for summer reading.
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  Speakers Forum

  In 'On Juneteenth' Annette Gordon-Reed chronicles hardship and joy on the path to Black freedom

  ‘Origin stories matter, for individuals, groups of people, and for nations. They inform our sense of self, telling us what kind of people we believe we are, what kind of nation we believe we live in.’

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