Tag: police
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Corruption, Queer Fear, and ‘The Red Feather’: A Story of Vice and Family
My hometown of Seattle marked its modern debut in 1962, when a World’s Fair gave it the iconic Space Needle. It was also a city of corruption and secrets, when cops took bribes to tolerate vice, and people then called “queer” feared for their lives.
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Review: Augments of Change salient in a time of racial tension
In a time of racial tensions and national reckoning with uncomfortable pieces of our history, Augments of Change attempts to satirize race, noting that it’s mostly an illusion. America is going through another paroxysm of racially tinged violence, reminding everyone of our failure to reconcile our history with our ideals. In my own lifetime, the…