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Pr0n 4 Freakz

by Globalist Staff

In April and June, come celebrate the sensual, the sexual, the beautiful and the bizarre with Scumtrust Productions’ Pr0n 4 Freakz. Scumtrust is a local genderqueer production company centering former and current sex workers both in front of and behind camera. Each event jumps off with a mini-market and social. Next, we gather in one of […]

Puyallup Watershed Initiative connects sense of place, identity in environmental work

by Puget Sound Future-Makers

In the following interview, PWI acting director Jennifer Chang and community board member Kathryn Mahan talk about the ways that environment and identity coalesce in both their own lives as well as the work they do with PWI.

Courtesy of Caramelo's Facebook

QTPOC parties are necessary (here are five coming up this month!)

by DJ Martinez

In case there was any doubt before Orlando, safe spaces for queer and trans people of color are vital. Fortunately, Seattle has some a poppin QTPOC dance parties.

#GreaterSeattle: Latino teen turned superhero drag queen

by Randy Salgado

Luis Aguilar didn’t know he was gay growing up in West Texas. Now he's Seattle's top Latino drag queen, Klaudya Markos.

Moni Tep explores hardships of queer youth in Jamaica

by Reagan Jackson

Seattle musician Moni Tep traveled to Jamaica to explore ways to help LGBTQ youth, who are often homeless and ostracized there.

Artist Zanele Muholi brings the African lesbian experience to UW

by alma khasawnih

What’s more incredible than visual, activist art about black lesbian life in South Africa? Only that the artist, Zanele Muholi, is in Seattle this week showing off her new documentary, Difficult Love.

OuterSpaces tour unites voices from the margins at Washington Hall

by Luzviminda Uruzi "Lulu" Carpenter

As a mixed race, Filipina, 2nd generation immigrant, Black, round, queer, 1st generation college student, daughter of farm workers from a military family, it was pretty hard to find my reflection in mainstream media growing up. But I found another world of people who, just like me, did not “fit” with the mainstream, but were […]