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Cascadia shines for the World Cup

As World Cup soccer fans have flooded Seattle and Vancouver for matches, it's brought an energy an excitement to Cascadia's two largest cities.

A person stands next to a bookcase shaped like the prow up and upended canoe. A paddle has the inscription: poetry helps navigate the waters of life

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Coast Salish Indigenous canoes inspire little poetry bookcases in Auburn & Muckleshoot land

Mateo Quispe, the poet laureate of Auburn, led the creation of little libraries of Indigenous poetry and placed them in community spaces across Auburn and Muckleshoot lands.

Stacks of books, including one calle Imperialism as Sweet As Insult by Nadine Maestas.

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Join me in playing Cascadia summer book bingo!

Good morning! Summer is just around the corner, and that means it's time to grab some books to read on the beach, out on the porch, or in a campsite. Shamelessly stealing an idea from Seattle Public Library, Cascadia Journal and Cascadia Democratic Action are hosting a summer

People march in a parade with colorful costumes and carrying a banner that reads: polyamory

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Polyamory rights bills on the horizon in Olympia, Portland & Seattle💘

Cascadia has always been at the forefront of protecting the rights of individuals to live their sexuality authentically. Seattle was one of the first cities in the US to expand protections for employment discrimination to sexual orientation in 1973 and for housing discrimination in 1975. Washington state was one of

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Best Cascadia albums of 2025

Hope you have a happy new year! I'll be taking the next few days off, but before I go here's a selection five albums from Cascadia-based musical artists I enjoyed this year... Support Cascadia Journal Deep Sea Diver, Billboard Heart The Seattle indie rock group

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My best of Summer Book Bingo

As the United States today continues its depressing descent into political violence and fascism, perhaps it's time to review some of the best books I read this summer. Each year, I play Seattle Public Library's Summer Book Bingo, trying to fill in spaces in all sorts

Carrie Brownstein play electric guitar on stage.

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The best bands in Cascadia

In the past four decades, the Pacific Northwest has been a hotbed of musical creativity. Most of us know the trajectory of Nirvana and Seattle grunge in the 1990s, which produced memorable, noisy music from Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Mudhoney, and Screaming Trees. And a lot of us can point