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Speakers Forum — 100 episodes
Local journalists reflect on racist media legacies, and paths forward
A wild literary ride from rural Vancouver Island to Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility
‘What will I carry forward?’ A journey through wilderness, dementia, and memory
One man’s story of the scourge of child sexual abuse
Poet reflects on the intersection of Black art and a new generation of racial trauma
Mayor Bruce Harrell looks back on his first 100 days and details his plans moving forward
In honor of women: poetry and music of struggle and joy
DEI ’R’ US: Setbacks and progress on the road to belonging at work
Can INTOIT moments bridge our partisan divide? Perhaps, if we seek them out
Telling modern world history with Africa at the center
New book narrates lessons for organizing across borders and generations
New book traces Black women’s innovative advances across the history of human rights
An environmental scientist points to Indigenous knowledge for sustainability solutions
The highs and lows of a prized and vulnerable freedom
New book explores advances in immune system science
From prison chain gang to art world notoriety, the life and work of Winfred Rembert
Authors reckon with the aftermath of childhood sexual abuse
Defining disability justice and celebrating ‘crip-centric liberated zones’
Paul Auster celebrates the precocious, abbreviated life and work of Stephen Crane
What are we willing to do to protect Southern Resident orcas?
Trans history and one man’s struggle to correct ‘a ghastly mistake’
Anita Hill on her mission to end gender violence and harassment
Called to investigate, three authors reflect on the body
Gather ‘round for a roguish, timeless Christmas tale
Claudia Rankine on the unbearable lightness of whiteness in America
‘The science isn’t complicated.’ An investigative reporter details the effects of climate change disinformation in public education
Connection and restoration in the PNW, Ampersand-style
The how and why of Elsa Sjunneson’s fight to end ableism
Where a former gun industry executive draws the line on gun culture sustainability
Reined in yet vibrant, Lit Crawl Seattle celebrates writerly spirits
Rep. Adam Schiff chronicles his search for small-d democratic sanity during the Trump presidency
A man, a plan, a sex advice column, 'Savage Love A-Z'
A search for meaning in Minoru Yamasaki's life and architecture
A Native American scientist on ‘the question of our time'
Kat Chow examines the long life of grief in 'Seeing Ghosts'
‘Weep. Scream. Hate. Disbelieve. Go numb. Breathe.’ Hard-earned lessons about loss and grief
Chinks in the armor: An investigative call to reform the Secret Service
Lies, the First Amendment, and the limits of free speech
Anna Qu’s fierce memoir grapples with child labor, immigration, and love
Civic Saturday aims to rekindle our faith in civic discourse
Sasha Issenberg tells the surprising story of how marriage equality was won
Ecologist Suzanne Simard’s life work is highlighted in ‘The Mother Tree’
A democracy worth saving: Author Ben Rhodes on the rise of global nationalism
'Shame changer': Sex tech CEO disrupts Asian stereotypes with adult films
'The ingredients for madness': Author Grace M. Cho’s memoir on colonialism, food, and love
Liberty’s white roots and the racial history of that idea
Author M. Leona Godin shares the trope-free history of 'blindness'
It takes (escaping) a village: Sebastian Junger on the search for freedom, and community
In 'On Juneteenth' Annette Gordon-Reed chronicles hardship and joy on the path to Black freedom
The power of self-deception: Why and how our brains deceive us
'Attractive for an Asian man’: Photographer reframes Asian American masculinity
On Asian America: Living in the rural NW, historical and contemporary stories
On Asian America: Not backing down
On Asian America: Sex, gender and the 'exotic other'
What’s overheating the planet? Kate Aronoff says capitalism is
Poet’s search for grace, justice amid historic and current anti-Asian hate
Jess Zimmerman subverts the dominant monster myth paradigm
Glowing bunnies and climate change denial. What could go wrong?
Raising boys the non-toxic way: a how-to manual
A visionary constellation of poetry, five decades in the making
Bill Gates is bullish on climate change mitigation, but warns ‘We don’t have time to waste’
Becoming Rebecca Solnit: a room and a life of her own
Lawrence Wright looks for America through the lens of Covid-19
Seattle leaders talk gender inequality, and the ‘glass cliff’ problem
Essays on life, lineage, and the inheritance of whiteness
White advantage. Racialized trauma. Paths forward
Re: Building Democracy explores ways to mend our political, social, and cultural divides
Lyric World: You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love
Re: Building Democracy explores the state of civic discourse, east of the mountains
Scott Turow reflects on his dual roles as a best-selling fiction author and practicing attorney
Bridging the American divide: A search for civic responsibility
Race, reckoning, and redemption: Michael Eric Dyson’s message to White America
How a UW course captured the impact of an unprecedented year
2020 Hugo House Fellows share works of ‘Luminosity’ for the new year
Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett discusses ‘that big grey blob’ between your ears
Jill Lepore on the ethically challenged birth of the computer age
Where a booming oil market meets wind and solar alternatives, geopolitics happens
The 'Seattle Process' in 2020. Are we becoming ungovernable?
Dare to Speak. Discourse amid difference
'Seismic' literature inspires and changes Seattle through story
Pandemic parenting. It gets better? A tool kit
Margaret Atwood revisits totalitarian fears in her new book ‘The Testaments'
It was an economic theory with little traction, then the pandemic hit
Erica Barnett shakes-up and stirs the conversation around alcoholism and addiction
Eve Ensler’s journey to recovery from an unconscionable abuse
How to break the ice with boys and girls on the 'birds and bees'
How’s our country's health care? Not the worst, or the best
Lyric World presents poetry of loss and collective grief
Race and justice in journalism, with Nikole Hannah-Jones
Ijeoma Oluo on Seattle: ‘We are NOT a liberal city’
Speakers Forum: Jayapal and the politics of empathy and advocacy
‘A crisis of welcome.’ Sonia Shah on The Next Great Migration
What’s in store in the coming election? NPR reporters help us look ahead
Solastalgia and you. ‘The pain was necessary to know the truth.’
A friendship today could keep the doctor away
‘I know it’s going to sound crazy:’ How one man exposed government surveillance
Barack Obama calls for action on police brutality and killings, with focus on youth and mayors
Have we reached ‘the beginning of the great change?’ This professor is hopeful we have
Author Casey Schwartz on distraction, stimulants, and her love of paying attention
What are you smoking? Clearing the air about cannabis