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Kamil Saad

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  • caption: RadioActive youth producers Kamil Saad (left) and Jadenne Radoc Cabahug (right) identify as Lebanese American and Filipino American respectively. They started wondering why they feel the need to identify with countries at all.

    Why does it matter where I'm 'really' from?

    People often find ways to identify with and exclude others. We categorize ourselves by using gender, class, race and even age to connect with people like ourselves or separate ourselves from others. As a society, why are we more comfortable questioning our sexuality than our nationality and ethnicity?

  • caption: Eric Hong's assortment of orchids lit by his LED grow light.

    Your houseplant might know how you’re feeling

    While we might think plants are not sentient, they are constantly communicating with each other. Some even think that plants communicate with us. Perhaps even more startling: some theorize that plants have actually domesticated us.

  • caption: A sneak peek into the closet of DonnaTella Howe, who tells us what it's like to be a drag queen in this podcast.

    Gender norms? What a drag!

    What happens to men who want to defy the system? To find out, we talk to Seattle drag queens.