Sara Kay and Sierra Hartman talk about Grit City Magazine, the independent magazine that “believes Tacoma has good stories.” Sarah and Sierra have been behind the magazine since it was founded in 2017. The produce a quarterly beautiful printed magazine that is a work of art on its own.

You can find Sara and Sierra this December at the Holiday Haul Crawl and the December 21 Tacoma Night Market.

Links

• Grit City Magazine
• Sierra’s photos and story inside Old City Hall
• Facebook post about Tami Trinkle
• Channel 253 membership

Tim Eyman. Who is he? Anti-tax crusader? Cynical initiative manipulator? Media attention addict? Maybe all of that, and now a candidate for Governor too!

Crosscut’s Melissa Santos (formerly reporting for the Seattle Times and The News Tribune) recently spent several hours interviewing Eyman and putting together a comprehensive look at his past, his rise to initiative fame/infamy, and the various pickles he finds himself in as he enters the Governor race. It’s a fascinating story, and we thought it provided a great platform to do a joint Crossing Division/Citizen Tacoma episode on Eyman and his activities and impacts on our state.

Here’s a link to Melissa’s story: https://crosscut.com/2019/11/who-tim-eyman-and-why-do-so-many-people-hate-him   Read it, and then give this podcast a listen, and let us know what you think!

Evelyn Lopez   @True_Tacoma

Candice Ruud  @candiceruud

Melissa Santos  @MelissaSantos1

Jason Wilson is an Australian-born academic turned journalist residing in Portland. He is currently on the far-right, white-supremacist, and right-wing street brawler beat as a correspondent for the Guardian. Jason has a myriad of articles you can check out on The Guardian. Wilson is a classy, really thoughtful gent who is covering an important and frankly dangerous beat.

The Rundown

4:00 Jason’s background and how he got here, in his own words

8:00 Why should we, as listeners, pay attention to this beat?

20:00 Who are the faction that we’re talking about?

30:00 Cider Riot! Riot… and the aftermath.

“Rep. Shea thinks the Civil War went the wrong way… amongst other things.”

The Wind Down

55:00 What to read? What to listen to? And the infamous Katie Downs Question…

Going Further

Matt Shea Exchanges Messages with Far-Right Figures

Jason Wilson’s Guardian Work

OregonLive videos of Cider Riot!

The Socials

@jason_a_w 

The Guardian Page 

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Please consider supporting the podcast by joining Channel 253 as a member.

Who gets to say the N Word? The sister discuss.

Links

• Channel 253 membership

EQ: Why are women, specifically women of color, underrepresented in media and media production and what can be done to elevate their voices and experiences?

Guest: June Nho Ivers. June is a documentary filmmaker and previously joined us for Episode 55: Understanding Gentrification, Displacement, and Mass Incarceration with the incredible Tonya Wilson. 

Every aspect of this conversation felt like it should be longer. We’ve tried to include links to all the things mentioned in this episode in hopes that you will #belessbasic and learn more about the challenges of representation in media and the way it is changing. 

Movies Mentioned: 

• Cannes Jury led by first Latin American Filmmaker to lead Jury Inarritu

• Parasite by Bong Joon-Ho (spoilers in this review)

• Atlantics by Mati Diop (first African Woman Director)

Shows with a Female Lens:

• Outlander

• Fleabag

• Orange is the New Black

Horror as a sociological genre:

• Midsommar

• Us

• Get out

LGBTQ lens:

• Ryan Murphy

• Glee

• American Horror Story

• Pose

 Asian Diaspora Representation:

• Always be my maybe

• To all the boys I loved article on Jenny Han/ Whitewashing Casting

• Kim’s Convenience

Music Conversation

• BTS

• Halsey on Being White Presenting

• 88 Rising – Asian Rappers

Seattle Talent

• Sarah Porkalob

• Diana Huey as Ariel

 Theater

• Jonathan Pryce / Miss Saigon

• Noma Dumezweni as Hermione 

Other Related Links:

• Roger Ebert defending the filmmakers of Better Luck Tomorrow

• Footwork Documentary

• Joji Hopscotch

• It G Ma

Champagne & Real Pain:

• Champagne: Elle Magazine just released their 2019 Women in Hollywood Power List and 6 of the 12 finalists are women of color. 

• Real Pain: NBC – yes, the television network – for attempting to derail Ronan Farrow’s story exposing Harvey Weinstein. 

Do Your Fudging Homework:

• Hope: Maureen Goo

• Annie: Go read the Elle Magazine 2019 Women in Hollywood Power List. Women and Hollywood, specifically their resources on Women of Color in media and the importance of representation. 

• June: Free the Work , Harlot, Kingdom

After graduating Foss High School, Umi went to the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising in Los Angeles. When he returned to Tacoma, he co-founded the store ETC Tacoma and the etcetera line of streetwear.

Umi talks about his interest in fashion, how the store came to be, and where it’s going. (We also preview ETC’s Black Friday sales and December promotions, so listen soon!)

Happy Thanksgiving.

Links

• ETC Tacoma, 116 S 9th St., Tacoma WA 98402
• ETC on Instagram
• Channel 253 membership

John Falskow, music professor at Tacoma Community College, joins the show to talk about a series of holiday (and not-holiday) shows around Tacoma, including the free TCC Orchestra concert and a fun event called “Tuba Christmas.”

We also dig into what’s happening with arts and music education in Tacoma and we get his tips on how folks of any age can pick up an instrument and start playing.

Links

• 11/22 TCC Orchestra Concert
• 12/14 Tuba Christmas – Tacoma
• Channel 253 Membership

The sisters talk about the Tacoma Peace Prize and the Nobel Peace Prize.

Links

• Tacoma Peace Queen goes to the Nobel Peace Prize Ceremony
• Channel 253 membership

Our state’s plan to resurrect affirmative action programs for public hiring, contracting, and admissions to state colleges and universities appears to be failing as R-88/I-1000 is voted down. But there are other paths to more equitable, inclusive, healthy and successful communities and government.

Host Evelyn Lopez talks with Clifford Armstrong, who has been working on a plan to expand the City of Tacoma’s contracts to include specific, mandated, work for women and minority owned businesses. The City spends over a hundred million dollars on contracts every year. Imagine the good in our community if everyone, in every neighborhood, was participating in that commerce. Imagine the good in our community if everyone, in every neighborhood, had a chance to get a great job with the City. Imagine, and then listen as Clifford outlines the path to use a formal, legal process to reach that goal.

Here’s the press release on the City’s plans: https://www.cityoftacoma.org/cms/one.aspx?portalId=169&pageId=181118

We’d love to hear from you! Send us feedback on episodes, ideas for future podcasts, or questions.

Evelyn Lopez    @truetacoma

EQ: Why is equity an issue in science education and what can be done to promote access and opportunity for women, students of color, and young people living in poverty?

Guests: Natalie Reszka and Jen Holm, Masters in Science Education both educators at Lincoln High School in Tacoma. 

Natalie and Jen share their journey into the sciences, including barriers they face as women in this field. They unpack systemic issues current facing low-income high schools and the lack of funding to support well-rounded science programs. They elaborate on concrete ways they help students see themselves as scientists, and why we need to speak up and advocate for our students, calling out disparities in science education.

Related Links:

• Students of Color Face Persistent Disparities in Access to Advanced STEM Courses

• Latinos, African-Americans have less access to math, science classes, new data show

• More black and Hispanic science teachers could mean more scientists of color

• Murdoch Charitable Trust Grant program

Donate to Jen and Natalie’s classrooms!

• Send a check to Lincoln High School addressed to Patrick Eriwn with a note for Natalie Rezka (nrezka@tacoma.k12.wa.us) or Jen Holm (jholm@tacoma.k12.wa.us)

Champagne & Real Pain:

• Champagne: first all female space walk!

• Real Pain: For the DB who think that only men can be scientists or enter scientific fields; those denying climate change

Do Your Fudging Homework:

• Hope: How Islamic Scientists changed the world 

• Annie: read the research about gatekeeping in science and continue to educate yourself about educational disparities. There’s a ton of great research and we need to revive science education to literally save the planet. 

• Natalie: Watch Before the Flood