When’s the last time you saw an interview under the needle? Musician Eva Walker of The Blacktones got some new ink from tattoo artist Kenji Hamai Stoll while she and Tariqa Waters talk about nearly-nude performances, 🩲🎸 a changing Seattle, and, of course, her childhood lunchbox. Nostalgia and pop art abound on this new installment of Thank You, MS PAM.

“’No-No Boy’ is the great Japanese American novel.” 📖 The book, written by John Okada in 1957 and rediscovered and republished in the 1970s, speaks to the complex and painful experiences of Japanese Americans returning to Seattle after years of incarceration during World War II. It references locations and landmarks Seattleites walk through, around, and past every single day. 

2SLGBTQ+ parents gathered recently at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation's Discovery Center to explore the evolving definitions of family. They got into issues of visibility, obstacles, parent-child relationships, and more.