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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 →: Tlingit Raven Stories: A Conversation with Sealaska Heritage InstituteYéil Kundayaayí, Adventures of Raven, edited by Nora Marks Dauenhauer, Richard Dauenhauer, Will Geiger, and Jeff Lee, brings together fifty stories that reveal Raven’s wit and world-shaping power. Known in Tlingit as Yéil, Raven is a legendary cultural hero, world-maker, and trickster figure among the Tlingit of Southeast Alaska. Stories…
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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.…
