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• Unstoppably Real 

  16-06-2025 21:35 via thestranger.com
  Still Mighty Real Offers the Strength of Community Rendered in Art by Nico SwensonFor the third year, Anouk Rawkson and Jordan Christianson bring you a gallery of powerful, boundless, and queer-as-fuck artwork in the form of Still Mighty Real at Vermillion Art Gallery throughout Pride month. At the opening reception on June 12 as part of Capitol Hill Art Walk, you can expect to see a wide range of queer-made pieces ranging from garments to paintings, photography, and even a vending machine
  
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• Unseen in America

  16-06-2025 19:33 via thestranger.com
  Daniel Tam-Claiborne Shows Us a New Way to Be Here in His Debut Novel, Transplantsby Katie Lee EllisonThey say an MFA in creative writing will ruin your enjoyment of a book. Instead of getting caught up in the story, in the characters you love or hate, in the world that’s built to get lost in, you think instead about timing and language, and generally devolve into a joyless obsessive consumed with how to imitate or become an original best. I’ll admit that I think this side of me took
  
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• Slog AM: 70,000 Seattleites Told Trump to Lick Rust, Tukwila PD Teargassed Anti-ICE Protesters, No One Came to Trump's Birthday Party

  16-06-2025 18:10 via thestranger.com
  by Hannah Murphy WinterGood morning! This day wasted no time getting sunny and beautiful. Clear skies, highs in the mid-70s, extremely high grass pollen. It’s summer.
  Let’s do the news.
  If the Seattle Times’ estimates are right, 70,000 people showed up to the No Kings rally on Saturday. That would mean almost 10 percent of Seattle turned out with sneakers on and handmade signs to shout down fascism this weekend. It didn’t beat the Women’s March’s 125k record,
  
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