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 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 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 Criminalizedby Lola E. Peters
Before declaring whether government should be large or small, don’t we need to determine what, exactly, is government? Most people think of the various agencies and legislative bodies as government, but are they government, or just manifestations of government?
Continue reading OPINION | The High Cost of Small Governmentby Laura Marie Rivera
As Seattle Public Schools (SPS) opens its identification process for the Advanced Learner (AL) program, families may not be aware of a major change that undercuts the district’s commitment to improve equity, at the expense of students with learning disabilities.
Continue reading OPINION | SPS Must End Discrimination Against Students With Disabilitiesby 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 Ubax Gardheere
“Leaving behind nights of terror and fear, I rise into a daybreak that’s wondrously clear. I rise, bearing the gifts that my ancestors gave, the resilience of the dream and the hope of the stolen ones.” —Inspired by Maya Angelou
Continue reading OPINION | Echoes of Exile: Navigating Generational Trauma and Unexpected Betrayalsby Ruba Ayub
On Jan. 23, along with concerned community members and activists from King County, I protested at the Tukwila City Hall to demand the defunding of the Tukwila Police Department. We collectively demanded an end to the over-policing of Black and Brown people in our neighborhood. Our demands were crystal clear: Redirect these funds towards vital community-based services, such as affordable housing, youth programs, real restorative justice initiatives, and mental health services.
As we protested, heartbreaking news emerged regarding the tragic killing of Jaahnavi Kandula, a 23-year-old student from Uttar Pradesh, India. Kandula was struck by Seattle police officer Kevin Dave as she was crossing the street in South Lake Union.
Continue reading OPINION | Not Just a Bad Apple, A Rotten Tree: Jaahnavi Kandula’s Death Calls for Defunding our Corrupt Justice Systemby Asian Pacific Americans for Civic Engagement (APACE) PAC
The Chinatown-International District is hurting. The recent vandalism of the Wing Luke Museum showed that anti-Asian hate is alive and well. The cancellation of the CID Night Market was a blow to our small businesses, still hurting after the pandemic.
Yet many in the media and positions of power — or seeking power — have been using the CID, which spans Chinatown, Filipino Town, Japantown, and Little Saigon, to advance their personal agendas and platforms while conveniently forgetting to advocate for resources and care the neighborhood so desperately needs.
Continue reading OPINION | It’s Time for a Hard Conversation: The CID Is Not Your Talking Point
