$490,000/1 br

Seattle, WA

— Seattle Minimum Wage Experiment is Over - The Big Picture (via dendroica)

$415,000/4 br

Seattle, WA

it looked so normal from the outside

i kind of love this

$7,500/mo/4 br

Seattle, WA

stop doing this

I moved to Seattle during the pandemic but that was after five years of saying I was going to move to Seattle and it just happened to occur during the pandemic

My experience after moving to Seattle is that no one is actually from Seattle

if you think you want to move to seattle, I need you to visit in the middle of february for a minimum of 7 days first. and then don't move to seattle.

People come in May and see how beautiful and lush and green it is. They move here and enjoy the fairly mild summers.

And then October hits and things get damp. Never a true rain, just air that is misty and damp and there's no amount of umbrella or raincoat that protects you.

November hits and now it's still damp, but it's also dark when you wake up and dark when you get home. Even on your days off, when you might get a bit of sky that isn't night, it remains a certain shade of grey that blends seamlessly into the concrete that surrounds you.

By February, you've been so damp for months now it chills you to your bones. You haven't seen actual sunlight in months. You wake in the damp cold dark, and come home in the damp cold dark, to your $2k/mo studio that is equally as damp cold and dark. It has black mold and no amount of scrubbing seems to help. You're making just enough to squeek by now, but not enough to move out. You miss the sun, even if that means snow where you're from this time of year and you miss seeing anything at all that isn't grey, isn't cold, isn't damp. You've been here months and have no friends. People mentioned the Seattle Chill but you weren't aware it was in every way physical, mental, spiritual.

And you still have months more of this to go until May when the sun might finally break through.

and then in May, the fires start :)

It’s real! https://www.google.com/amp/thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/385248-seattle-officials-file-motion-to-vacate-marijuana-convictions%3Famp

Oh wow

& they made a point to include undocumented people in the motion as well!!

A friend of mine needs help.

She is a transgender woman living with her mother, who is violent and abusive. This living situation is extremely detrimental to her mental health. If anyone in the greater Seattle area has room for her, please let me know.

Sara Jacobsen, 19, grew up eating family dinners beneath a stunning Native American robe.            

Not that she gave it much thought. Until, that is, her senior year of high school, when she saw a picture of a strikingly similar robe in an art history class.

The teacher told the class about how the robe was used in spiritual ceremonies, Sara Jacobsen said. “I started to wonder why we have it in our house when we’re not Native American.”

She said she asked her dad a few questions about this robe. Her dad, Bruce Jacobsen, called that an understatement.

“I felt like I was on the wrong side of a protest rally, with terms like ‘cultural appropriation’ and ‘sacred ceremonial robes’ and ‘completely inappropriate,’ and terms like that,” he said.

“I got defensive at first, of course,” he said. “I was like, ‘C’mon, Sara! This is more of the political stuff you all say these days.’”

But Sara didn’t back down. “I feel like in our country there are so many things that white people have taken that are not theirs, and I didn’t want to continue that pattern in our family,” she said.

The robe had been a centerpiece in the Jacobsen home. Bruce Jacobsen bought it from a gallery in Pioneer Square in 1986, when he first moved to Seattle. He had wanted to find a piece of Native art to express his appreciation of the region.

       The Chilkat robe that hung over the Jacobsen dining room table for years.   Credit Courtesy of the Jacobsens      

“I just thought it was so beautiful, and it was like nothing I had seen before,” Jacobsen said.

The robe was a Chilkat robe, or blanket, as it’s also known. They are woven by the Tlingit, Haida and Tsimshian peoples of Alaska and British Columbia and are traditionally made from mountain goat wool. The tribal or clan origin of this particular 6-foot-long piece was unclear, but it dated back to around 1900 and was beautifully preserved down to its long fringe.

“It’s a completely symmetric pattern of geometric shapes, and also shapes that come from the culture,” like birds, Jacobsen said. “And then it’s just perfectly made — you can see no seams in it at all.”

Jacobsen hung the robe on his dining room wall.

After more needling from Sara, Jacobsen decided to investigate her claims. He emailed experts at the Burke Museum, which has a huge collection of Native American art and artifacts.

“I got this eloquent email back that said, ‘We’re not gonna tell you what to go do,’ but then they confirmed what Sara said: It was an important ceremonial piece, that it was usually owned by an entire clan, that it would be passed down generation to generation, and that it had a ton of cultural significance to them.“  

Jacobsen says he was a bit disappointed to learn that his daughter was right about his beloved Chilkat robe. But he and his wife Gretchen now no longer thought of the robe as theirs. Bruce Jacobsen asked the curators at the Burke Museum for suggestions of institutions that would do the Chilkat robe justice. They told him about the Sealaska Heritage Institute in Juneau.

When Jacobsen emailed, SHI Executive Director Rosita Worl couldn’t believe the offer. “I was stunned. I was shocked. I was in awe. And I was so grateful to the Jacobsen family.”

Worl said the robe has a huge monetary value. But that’s not why it’s precious to local tribes.

“It’s what we call ‘atoow’: a sacred clan object,” she said. “Our beliefs are that it is imbued with the spirit of not only the craft itself, but also of our ancestors. We use [Chilkat robes] in our ceremonies when we are paying respect to our elders. And also it unites us as a people.”

Since the Jacobsens returned the robe to the institute, Worl said, master weavers have been examining it and marveling at the handiwork. Chilkat robes can take a year to make – and hardly anyone still weaves them.

“Our master artist, Delores Churchill, said it was absolutely a spectacular robe. The circles were absolutely perfect. So it does have that importance to us that it could also be used by our younger weavers to study the art form itself.”

Worl said private collectors hardly ever return anything to her organization. The federal Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act requires museums and other institutions that receive federal funding to repatriate significant cultural relics to Native tribes. But no such law exists for private collectors.

       Bruce and Gretchen Jacobsen hold the Chilkat robe they donated to the Sealaska Heritage Institute as Joe Zuboff, Deisheetaan, sings and drums and Brian Katzeek (behind robe) dances during the robe’s homecoming ceremony Saturday, August 26, 2017.   Credit NOBU KOCH / SEALASKA HERITAGE INSTITUTE      

Worl says the institute is lobbying Congress to improve the chances of getting more artifacts repatriated. “We are working on a better tax credit system that would benefit collectors so that they could be compensated,” she said.

Worl hopes stories like this will encourage people to look differently at the Native art and artifacts they possess.

The Sealaska Heritage Institute welcomed home the Chilkat robe in a two-hour ceremony over the weekend. Bruce and Gretchen Jacobsen traveled to Juneau to celebrate the robe’s homecoming.

Charleena Lyles was a “powerful lady” — until she faced Seattle’s flawed criminal justice system

$7,500/mo/4 br

Seattle, WA

So because the officer showed up to the scene basically unprepared/not with full kit a pregnant mother of 4 lost her life. 

She shouldn’t have been tased either

Charleena Lyles, a 30-year-old pregnant mother, was shot to death by Seattle police with her children – including one with Down syndrome – present in the apartment.

She called the police for help, had a knife in her hand to protect herself and her children. Cops saw the knife and immediately shot her to death in front of her children. She was pregnant and was a mother of four already. Needless to say the officers were white.

They could use their tasers, they could try to talk to her at least rather than shooting her. 

Be careful the next time you call the cops for help.

RIP Charleena Lyles.

Today in North Seattle, a pregnant*, Black mother of four* was murdered by police in her home after calling 911 for help for a burglary in progress. Her name was Charleena Lyles. There is a vigil going on right now (6:15 PM PST) at Magnuson Park near the soccer fields. Please attend if you are in the area and available. Let me know if this post needs more/different tags. 

*info has been updated as more news is coming out

http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/crime/officer-involved-shooting-in-magnuson-park-leaves-3-children-in-protective-custody/

she was also mentally ill and was afraid that the police might take her children. I cannot stress how fucking scary it is being a mentally ill black woman in american knowing that you could be killed by the police even after just calling for help

Shocking News Update: giving workers a living wage that actually allows them to afford basic necessities while being able to save to treat themself to something nice sometimes has not lead to the destruction of the economy and the downfall of civilisation as we know it

Republicans everywhere left baffled

$415,000/4 br

Seattle, WA

it looked so normal from the outside

i kind of love this

Resist ✊🏽🖤🏳️‍🌈 [My friends and I all made it safely to our end point, stay safe my loves 😘] #womensmarch #womensmarchwa #womensmarchseattle #iwillrise #hearmeroar #hispanica #twoc #transisbeautiful (at Womens march on Washington Seattle)