‘I was trying not to be the subject of someone else’s poetry and not to get killed.’

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Becoming Rebecca Solnit: a room and a life of her own

How the acclaimed writer and investigative journalist saw it coming

Lawrence Wright looks for America through the lens of Covid-19

On suffering and surviving the slings and arrows of a woman leader’s fortune

Seattle leaders talk gender inequality, and the ‘glass cliff’ problem

White women explore epistemic injustice and healing wisdom

Essays on life, lineage, and the inheritance of whiteness

‘America doesn’t have a race problem. It has a racism problem.’

White advantage. Racialized trauma. Paths forward

‘Class blindness is the tendency for people with social class privilege to be unaware or blind to their advantages.’ -Professor Jennifer Sherman

Re: Building Democracy explores ways to mend our political, social, and cultural divides

Poet Yona Harvey on arrivals, departures, and renewals

Lyric World: You Don’t Have to Go to Mars for Love

‘I think both of us realize that you don’t get anywhere by staying in your corners and being completely polarized. We just know that the more we communicate and talk about things the better it will be, even if we’re not on the same page.’

Re: Building Democracy explores the state of civic discourse, east of the mountains

‘Some speak of the nobility of the law. Stern has not always found that to be true. Too much of the grubby bone shop, the odor of the abattoir, emanates from every criminal courtroom.’

Scott Turow reflects on his dual roles as a best-selling fiction author and practicing attorney

White Freedom: ‘The belief (and practice) that freedom is central to white racial identity, and that only white people can or should be free.’

Liberty’s white roots and the racial history of that idea

An exploration of unsettling shifts and signs of hope in word and song

Bridging the American divide: A search for civic responsibility

“How far are we willing to go? Are we prepared to sacrifice tradition and convention for genuine transformation?”

Race, reckoning, and redemption: Michael Eric Dyson’s message to White America

Reflections on 2020 help point to bridges forward

How a UW course captured the impact of an unprecedented year

Poets and essayists conjure post-holiday light

2020 Hugo House Fellows share works of ‘Luminosity’ for the new year

If you’ve ever found yourself wishing you could better understand how the human brain works, then this talk is just for you.

Neuroscientist Lisa Feldman Barrett discusses ‘that big grey blob’ between your ears

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