The King County Library System (KCLS) and the South Seattle Emerald are teaming up to bring you the “South End Scoop.” Dig into this community-centered column each month for great book, music, movie, and event recommendations from your local librarians.
Continue reading South End Scoop: Books & More From KCLS — October 2023by Luna Reyna
The Port of Seattle Commission voted last month to admonish fellow Commissioner Fred Felleman for using his commission post to secure special privileges in an effort to influence a nonprofit environmental group.
Continue reading Port of Seattle Commissioner Fred Felleman Admonished for Seeking Special Privilege and Treatmentby Vee Hua 華婷婷
by Jenn Ngeth
Seattle is known worldwide for coffee (no shocker there) and is almost synonymous with Starbucks. But in the last decade, we’ve seen an increase in BIPOC-owned specialty cafes proudly reclaiming their unique, intimate ties to the beverage. Coffee culture isn’t just the stereotypical “tattooed hipster white guy who drinks a breve” anymore.
Continue reading The Emerald’s Guide to South End Coffee Shopsby Michelle Hurtubise
(This article was originally published on Nia Tero and has been reprinted under an agreement.)
We were gathered outside the Seattle City Center on a beautiful, sunny day in May having an invigorating discussion with acclaimed Two Spirit musician Jeremy Dutcher (Wolastoqiyik member of the Tobique First Nation, and a classically trained composer and ethnomusicologist), when the crows joined us. Making space for their cawing reverberations, Dutcher paused, then said, “I want to acknowledge that my clan just showed up.” How true. We laughed, then dove back into conversation, speaking over the airplanes and nearby construction, but pausing when necessary for the birds, for our Kin, making space for the many relations creating this thriving Indigenous soundscape.
Continue reading Indigenous Language Is Land, Is Sovereignty
Pongo Poetry Project’s mission is to engage youth in writing poetry to inspire healing and growth. For over 20 years, Pongo has mentored poetry with children at the Child Study and Treatment Center (CSTC), the only state-run psychiatric hospital for youth in Washington State. Many CSTC youth are coping with severe emotional, behavioral, and mental health challenges. Approximately 40% of youth arrive at CSTC having been court ordered to get treatment; however, by the end of their stay, most youth residents become voluntary participants.
Pongo believes there is power in creative expression and articulating one’s pain to an empathetic audience. Through this special monthly column in partnership with the South Seattle Emerald, Pongo invites readers to bear witness to the pain, resilience, and creative capacity of youth whose voices and perspectives are too often relegated to the periphery. To partner with Pongo in inspiring healing and relief among youth coping with mental and emotional turmoil, register for the autumn edition of its Ignite Pongo training series today!
Content Warning: Some of these poems discuss self-harm.
by a young person at CSTC
I’ve been thinking about
being at past facilities and CSTC
and how it is a sign of growth
because when I was younger
I never wanted to get
treatment or help
because I always thought
I could do everything by myself
by Brett Hamil
DOOM LOOP is a serialized fictional cartoon from South End author and comic Brett Hamil.
Check in every Sunday for a new installment!
Follow Hamil on Instagram at @bretthamilcomix and order collections of his comics at BrettHamil.BigCartel.com.
by NEVE
Seattle was beautiful when I returned home from Los Angeles.
I had been on a dance tour with one of my besties, my housemate, my art wife, Saira Barbaric. During this summer tour, we built a kind of friend language unlike any I have ever experienced, as well as deepening what we had already been doing: centering our interactions around direct communication, access intimacy, truth-telling, Disability Justice, and being our sweetest, baddest, queerest, Blackest selves all over the West Coast.
Continue reading OPINION | Pink Slipped: How a Black, Queer, Disabled Writer Got Cut Out of Seeing ‘Barbie’by Kevin Schofield
There was a time in the early to mid-20th century when the United States was the worldwide leader in manufacturing: American factories churned out automobiles, airplanes, televisions, farm equipment, and a wide variety of goods that were best-of-breed and fueled the post-World War II economic boom. But then the rest of the world started to catch up with us, through a combination of cheaper raw goods, cheaper labor, and, in some cases, simply out-innovating (such as Japan with automobiles and electronics in the 1980s).
Continue reading Weekend Reads | Has U.S. Industrial Policy Been Successful?by Megan Burbank
In 2014, a 16-year-old girl named Rennie Gibbs was indicted for “depraved heart murder” by a Mississippi grand jury after giving birth to a baby who died. As ProPublica’s Nina Martin reported contemporaneously, the baby’s likely cause of death was a nuchal cord, when the umbilical cord wraps around an infant’s neck. But because Gibbs had a history of drug use, an overzealous medical examiner blamed the baby’s death on Gibbs herself.
Continue reading OPINION | Pregnancy and Poverty Have Always Been Criminalized
