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**Speakers Forum**

Readings, debates, lectures from around Seattle, and so much more. Hear fascinating talks by authors, intellectuals, officials and regular folks with important stories recorded live.

Latest Episodes:

Connection and restoration in the PNW, Ampersand-style Nov 13, 2020

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‘If you want to take up space, first see how small you are.’

Dare to Speak. Discourse amid difference Nov 06, 2020

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‘We’re in an extremely polarized moment as a country, and we have to find ways to talk about these things.’

'Seismic' literature inspires and changes Seattle through story Oct 23, 2020

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“Literature is an unopened umbrella in the rain ... literature is a cathedral.”

Pandemic parenting. It gets better? A tool kit Oct 16, 2020

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‘Kids need to feel safe, they need to feel secure, they need to be seen, and they need to be soothed. Talk to them about what make them feel safer, or what makes them feel soothed.’

Claudia Rankine on the unbearable lightness of whiteness in America Oct 09, 2020

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‘The indifference is impenetrable and reliable and distributed across centuries, and I am stupidly hurt when my friends can’t see that.’

Margaret Atwood revisits totalitarian fears in her new book ‘The Testaments' Sep 24, 2020

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As we approach a spooky time of the year (No, I’m not referring to the US election season) we may be finding ourselves slowly drawn towards unnerving but entertaining cautionary tales. One of those stories just may be the award-winning TV show The Handmaid’s tale based on the best-selling novel by author Margaret Atwood.

It was an economic theory with little traction, then the pandemic hit Sep 11, 2020

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Stephanie Kelton is a professor of economics and public policy at Stony Brook University. She served as a senior economic adviser to Bernie Sanders in his 2016 and 2020 presidential campaigns. Her most recent book is The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy. She gave this talk, presented by Town Hall Seattle, on June 15.

Erica Barnett shakes-up and stirs the conversation around alcoholism and addiction Sep 02, 2020

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When Seattle based reporter Erica Barnett took her first sip of alcohol as a young teen, she had no idea just how impactful that moment would later become. Nor did she realize how inadequate rehabilitation centers, inspirational self-help mottos, and truisms about a “rock bottom” (something Barnett never truly felt) would be for her.

Eve Ensler’s journey to recovery from an unconscionable abuse Aug 28, 2020

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Author Eve Ensler was the victim of prolonged sexual, physical and mental abuse at the hands of her father.

How to break the ice with boys and girls on the 'birds and bees' Aug 21, 2020

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Peggy Orenstein helps us have ‘the sex talk(s)’