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• Sea Slug Is Oozing With the Good Kind of Weird

  04-03-2025 23:15 via thestranger.com
  The Sea Slug Animation Festival runs March 7–8 at SIFF Cinema Uptown.by Chase HutchinsonThe Sea Slug Animation Festival, the newest Seattle film festival whose adorably named “larval edition” runs from March 7–8 at the SIFF Cinema Uptown, is building itself around community—specifically, the vast community of talented independent local animators who call the Pacific Northwest home. In the words of Sea Slug co-founder Hannah Baek, it’s about sending up a &
  
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• Put the Pieces Where You May

  04-03-2025 23:00 via thestranger.com
  An interview with author Lidia Yuknavitch about the inner workings of her life as artist and human, the inner workings of her books, and her process in making them.by Katie Lee EllisonWho Should Read This: Queers, first and foremost. Anyone with a complex or complicated relationship with drugs and/or alcohol. Those who know death. Fans of Gertrude Stein. Fans of Virginia Woolf. Anarchists. Punks and sluts and baby rebels. Swimmers. Frog lovers.
  Pairings: Phone dismantled, broken, or at leas
  
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• Who Raised Tariqa Waters?

  04-03-2025 21:30 via thestranger.com
  
  Venus Is Missing opens at Seattle Art Museum May 7.by Meg van HuygenTariqa Waters doesn’t want to ruin the surprise.
  I’m asking for details about her upcoming solo Seattle Art Museum installation, Venus Is Missing, but I can only get hints. “Another key element, without giving too much away, is those hair baubles that we wore as kids. Where you could mess up your knuckles on them, you know?”
  We’re in the upstairs nook at Charlie’s Queer Books in Fremont, in th
  
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• HUMP! Quickies

  04-03-2025 20:30 via thestranger.com
  Got problems? Yes, you do! Email your question for the column to [email protected]!by Dan SavageDear Readers: The twentieth anniversary HUMP! Film Festival — the world’s biggest and best festival of short porn films — kicked off in Seattle, Portland, and San Francisco over the last two weeks. Our amazing new collection will be touring to more than forty cities over the next few months. (Go to humpfilmfest.com to find out when HUMP! is coming to you!) We had a big party i
  
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• Slog AM: More Details Emerge in Harrell's 1996 Gun Drama, Trump Pulls Aid from Ukraine and Takes Aim at National Forests

  04-03-2025 17:41 via thestranger.com
  The Stranger's morning news roundup.by Nathalie GrahamThe plot thickens in Bruce Harrell's 1996 gun drama: Last week, KUOW broke the story that Bruce Harrell pulled a gun on someone in Iowa in 1996. Harrell said he was packing heat because he'd received death threats as a candidate for the housing board and that this incident was loosely related to those threats and a symptom of racial profiling. KUOW interviewed the people Harrell pulled the gun on—Rose Sanchez, who was eight months
  
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• Everything You Need to Know About Trump’s Attacks on Abortion

  04-03-2025 00:27 via thestranger.com
  This list may depress you, but here’s the thing: We can’t resist what’s happening if we don’t know what’s happening. So here’s a rundown on everything the current administration has done in its first six weeks on abortion alone—and what you can do if you want to fight back.by Kendall TurnerI am bereft of metaphors to describe Trump’s war on abortion access. It is just very, very bad. Women have died because of anti-abortion policies and attitu
  
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