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A Seattle writer on girlhood, 'queer sadness' and speculative fiction
As Hugo House's new writer in residence, Ruth Joffre is exploring empathy and being Latinx.
Agueda Pacheco Flores
Agueda Pacheco Flores is a former reporter at Crosscut, where she focused on arts and culture. Before Crosscut, she worked for The Seattle Times, where she was a general assignment reporter covering b
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With social distancing, Seattle ballroom dancers have to go it alone
Local dance teachers and studios search for ways to keep the movement flowing.
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The political power of graffiti: Erased from CHOP, on display in Everett
A new exhibit gives graffiti the stamp of artistic approval. But is graffiti still graffiti when it’s made with permission?
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Meet the citizen journalists inside Seattle’s CHOP
An iPhone correspondent, comics illustrator and photographer talk about documenting history in the making.
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Seattle’s Black women activists have been marching for decades
Quin’Nita Cobbins-Modica, the historian now leading BlackPast.org, talks about this pivotal moment and the women who helped get us here.