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Continue reading →: From “Heartbreak City”: The Story of Seattle’s All-Black Women’s Softball TeamFor Black History Month, we’re sharing an excerpt from Heartbreak City: Seattle Sports and the Unmet Promise of Urban Progress by Shaun Scott on the Seattle Owls. Long before A League of Their Own, this all-Black women’s softball team broke new ground on the diamond as Black Seattleites reshaped the…
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Continue reading →: On the Japanese American Day of Remembrance: Miné Okubo’s Witness of Incarceration in “Citizen 13660”First published in 1946, Citizen 13660 remains one of the earliest and arguably best-known autobiographical accounts of the incarceration of Japanese Americans during World War II. Through spare prose and more than 200 drawings, Nisei artist Miné Okubo documented daily life inside the camps. An accomplished artist before the war,…
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Continue reading →: Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual Possibilities: A Conversation with Kristina Gupta on “Acing Science”Sexual desire is often treated as a given—something everyone has and should have. Compulsory sexuality operates as a largely unexamined premise, shaping not only popular culture but scientific research. In Acing Science: Compulsory Sexuality and Asexual Possibilities, author Kristina Gupta reveals the limits and exclusions of defining desire as universal.…
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Continue reading →: “Wrecked” by Coll Thrush Wins 2026 Pacific Northwest Book AwardWe are thrilled to share that Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific by Coll Thrush is a 2026 Pacific Northwest Book Awards winner! Sponsored by the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association (PNBA) and selected by a committee of independent booksellers, the awards recognize literary excellence from writers in…
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