This month has stirred up some very mixed emotions within me, and I have found myself spending an inordinate amount of time trying to sift through and make sense of them. I am a Queer Person of Color who is also an essential worker, so I have been feeling some…
Posts published in June 2020
The words “tear gas” have been thrown around innumerable times since the beginning of the popular uprising in response to the police killing of George Floyd. It has become one of the most prevalent and controversial police tactics for dispersing crowds of protestors. What tear gas is is not entirely…
Starting at 1 pm, on June 14, 2020, Black, Indigenous, and Asian Pacific Islander drummers, singers and dancers came together at the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (sometimes called CHAZ or CHOP, Capitol Hill Occupied Protest) for Culture Day, a cultural festival “to ground the space in tradition, culture and community.”…
On Friday June 12 the Capitol Hill Trader Joe’s #130 on Madison St. closed its doors early. That afternoon, a sign posted on the store’s front door stated that the store was closed “indefinitely”. According to an anonymous group of the store’s employees, this was a direct result of the…
Amid active civil unrest in Capitol Hill, Seattle Central has been a witness to routine rallies at the 11th and Pine intersection near the Seattle Police Department’s East Precinct. Located within a multicultural urban environment, Central has organized efforts to support students and faculty, alongside the Seattle community who are…
On Sunday, June 7th, Seattle Gay News publisher and editor-in-chief George Bakan was found dead at his work desk. He was 78 years old. George was a much-beloved trailblazer, activist and leader in the LGBTQ+ community, spearheading many of the LGBTQ+ social movements we take for granted today. George was…
On June 5th an anonymous call appeared on various media sites calling for the creation of vigils across the country memorializing the “dozen more lives (that) have been taken by state and vigilante violence in the struggle for Black freedom.” The next day on June 6th, a similar post specific…
