Founded in 2007, Clean Greens Farm and Market is a small nonprofit organization established by Black Dollar Days Task Force to provide education around food justice and healthy eating and to grow and supply fresh produce at affordable prices to low-income families. They also organize a youth program that gives… [ Keep reading ]
Over the past two years, topics like infection rates and disease virality have dominated more casual conversations than most of us could have ever imagined possible. However, something else has swept through our communities that we think deserves some widespread attention: generosity. Throughout the hardships and heartaches, we have witnessed… [ Keep reading ]
How to Tell if Someone Is Really From Seattle by Cleopatra Cutler When I was growing up in West Seattle in the 90s, the topic of “from here” was on the tip of everyone’s tongue. “Are you really from Seattle?” Six-year-olds would narrow their eyes and carefully weigh the evidence…. [ Keep reading ]
Español // Tiếng Việt // Tagalog // 繁體中文 // af Soomali Seattle Department of Neighborhoods is looking to commission individual community members to participate in a storytelling project called Seattle Histories. This series features the stories of people and places that have shaped Seattle’s past and led us to the… [ Keep reading ]
prayer as a walk through Ravenna in the Winter by Brian Dang this city is notorious for the dark it’s true winter is a funeral for color we’ve all seen the chart:the grey. … [ Keep reading ]
If I had to reimagine Seattle, I would have to think about the land first. I would have to think about the first nation people who have protected and taken care of the land. Below all the pavement, below all the construction and tall buildings, there are all these stories…. [ Keep reading ]
Breaths for Seattle after Tiana Nobile by Ching-In Chen in spite of gray days where sun gone missing in spite of burning-down rage and lonely ashes which haven’t yet re-constituted lives pushed out and spread thin I stay even though I’m hiding from cold wind breath even though your cross-day… [ Keep reading ]
My Fearless Imagination or How Re-imagining Seattle is a Question Better Asked of Fire by Roberto Ascalon again, a question of fire Reading books to my son before bedtime taught me to cry well. For the first few years of my son’s life, I cried a lot. I mean really… [ Keep reading ]
by Chelsey Richardson Dear Seattle, It is difficult to write to you as if I am not saying goodbye. I am trying to conceptualize a future with you, but one cannot see tomorrow without first examining today. You are named after a Chief who was known as a warrior. A name… [ Keep reading ]
What Does It Sound Like Between Us? by Allison Masangkay Seattle seems to have collectively perfected the awkward silence. Many have ended their 2020 community conversations about dismantling white supremacy (in all its forms) by reading books or stabbing their front yard with some variation of a “WE BELIEVE BLACK… [ Keep reading ]
