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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"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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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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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.
