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Chris Buck’s photo series “Let’s Talk About Race” sends a powerful message about race and women

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Nikkita Oliver is running for mayor

After rumors swirled that she was considering taking on Ed Murray, attorney and activist Nikkita Oliver has finally announced that she is, in fact, running for mayor. 

Oliver, an outspoken critic of the new youth detention center and an integral part of Seattle’s Black Lives Matter movement, told the South Seattle Emerald that she’s “running to win.” She also says she was invited to run by community members, who wanted to ensure someone was in the race against Murray that represented their platform. 

[Image via the Peoples Party, showing their support for Nikkita Oliver for Mayor] 

Oliver hasn’t filed with the SEEC yet (or at least, her filing information isn’t on the website), but she says she’s well aware of the costs associated. 

…After literally months of arguing with each other, drafting platforms, and researching election law we came to the conclusion that only wealthy people can afford to run in our current system.  We started to think about what that meant for those of us who aren’t wealthy or groomed for political office. We needed people to begin running as public servants on this idea of a participatory governance system, doing so in a way that was really transformative.

It’s not just about getting elected. The process of how you get there matters. How we develop our platform matters. How we talk about the person running matters. Most campaigns are built on a single person.  But really what’s going to effectively change politicians back to public servants is their connection and relation with community.  We’ve become too corporatized in our politics.

Indeed, fundraising could post a problem; Murray already has cash in the bank and endorsements from every major labor union, and democracy vouchers, which would be a boon for Oliver, aren’t eligible for use in this year’ s mayoral race. 

She joins urbanist guy Andres Salomon, wingnut nazi and Council staple Alex Tsimerman, perpetual candidate Mary Martin, and musician (I guess?) Keith Whitehead, and a guy named Jason who has okay-ish talking points in the race.

There’s still plenty of time left to file, too, so we expect we’ll be seeing even more folks getting involved, but Oliver is certainly an exciting addition to the field; the debates (watching Ed try not to yell at a young woman of color) are going to be fascinating. 

Read her interview with the Emerald here. 

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“roses are red, gender is performative, mass market media is heteronormative”

found in Dubai, UAE

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 international women’s day is today!!

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It won’t get better for LGBT youth of color until we identify and dismantle the ways we’ve normalized racism. Gabe hits it on the head:

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Check it out!

#nonbinary #champagneofqueers

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Yay!!!!!

As the Crow Flies page 280 is up!

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“In her kiss I taste the revolution” #kisstherevolution

“Study normal subjects, find a normal job. Fall in love normally, get married normally, have a normal family and have a normal life. But being normal has nothing to do with us!”

aesthetic boards: Revolutionary Girl Utena

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I finished our homework…

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Juliet Takes a Breath by Gabby Rivera (Contemp)

More Happy Than Not by Adam Silvera (Light Sci-Fi)

When the Moon was Ours by Anna-Marie McLemore (Magical Realism)

Down to the Bone by Mayra Lazara Dole (Contemp)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe (and presumably its future companion, There Will Be Other Summers) by Benjamin Alire Saenz  (Contemp)

Fave Five: LGBTQ YA by Latinx Authors with Latinx Main Characters @ LGBTQ Reads

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Phoenix (Jean Grey) / by Aud Koch

This was a really fun pre-show commission I got for ECCC!  It was the first time I’ve drawn Phoenix; I googled her for image references and was utterly horrified by how male gaze-y all of the typical images of her are, so this was me trying to do the exact opposite, basically.  (As I was working on it, someone commented that it reminded them of those mermaid tattoos that sailors get, so … haha, I dunno if I succeeded!)

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the only upside to living in this town is all the queer graffiti (at Thessaloníki, Greece)

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the bury your gays trope actually originated with the relaxing of film censorship codes in the late 1950s which allowed depictions of homosexuality but only within a “proper moral context,” i.e., by illustrating that homosexuality is immoral and anti-social, and punishing gay characters with death, depression, illness, etc. was the most simple and effective way of providing that illustration

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Love this blog! #seattlequeers #queerfeelings

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Love this blog! #seattlequeers #queerfeelings 

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