Adwoa Gyimah-Brempong
Stories
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Who owes the greater debt: immigrants, or America?
Author Dina Nayeri discusses her book, The Ungrateful Refugee.
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X may be a gender option on driver’s licenses soon. But why is gender being tracked at all?
Take a look at your Washington state driver’s license. There are several numbered fields – and soon, one of them might change.
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Arts & Life
"Have you eaten yet?" Poet Jane Wong prepares her ancestors a feast
If your ancestors were here - what would they eat?
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Do media images of dead bodies make it harder for you to care?
Interrogating our media consumption of images of the dead – whose bodies are shown, whose aren’t, and what (if anything) that will change.
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July 16th | Seattle’s flag: maybe it has a great personality?
Don’t let your freakish flag fly. Tax the rich! (Well, not in Seattle.) Moving homelessness out of your entire city’s backyard. And how to keep a searing photo from becoming just another image of suffering.
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Arts & Life
Why don't longtime Seattleites jaywalk?
Yes, it's illegal. But that doesn't stop residents of other cities from doing it. SoundQs host Deborah Wang teamed up with Record producer Adwoa Gymiah-Brempong and sidewalk artist Peregrine Church to answer this listener question about jaywalking.
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July 3rd | Answering your questions about crows, jaywalking, and the bus
Deborah Wang answers listener questions like, who would win in a fight, a crow, or an eagle? Why don't longtime Seattleites jaywalk? And who rides the bus in King County?
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Politics
Seattle pops open new controversy with soda tax
Seattle’s tax on sweetened beverages – commonly known as the soda tax – has raised about $22 million in the year and a half it has been on the shelves. That’s about 50% more than predicted.
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Poet Ocean Vuong's new novel is more than Briefly Gorgeous
"To be queer is to fail into your pleasure." The book, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, is a letter from a son to his mother, who can't read. The poet says it's a monument to failure, to violence, to labor, to silence, to America.
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Going beyond guilt trips
Reflections on mindful travel in an unequal world.