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A warm welcome to Cascadia Magazine intern Eun Hye Kim!
Eun Hye Kim grew up in Washington state after immigrating to the United States at the age of five. She’s currently pursuing a double degree in creative writing and marketing at the University of Washington and hopes to work in the book publishing industry one day. Her summer days are usually fragmented between serving teriyaki at her parents’ restaurant, sitting in bubble tea shops, and trying to write.
Eun Hye says she’s happy to be joining Cascadia Magazine for the summer, and we’re thrilled to welcome her to our team! She’ll be helping us produce Cascadia Daily as well as applying her skills in writing, copy editing, and marketing to make Cascadia Magazine even more awesome than it already is!
Please join us in welcoming Eun Hye!
“Ninety Days,” new fiction by Corinne Manning
Now online at Cascadia Magazine, find Seattle-based writer Corinne Manning’s sharp, strange, and slyly funny story “Ninety Days.” It delves into breakups, the intricacies of LGBTQ and gender-fluid relationships, and the possibility of closure. It’s not a brief story, but you should definitely make time for it. And we’re excited to pair it with art by Seattle’s Mita Mahato. Read the full story here.
“We could perform gender with such extreme attention that every heterosexual would see us and not feel straight enough or every gay man from New York would see us and want to buy property here immediately.”
Agitation over BC pipeline approval
Following the approved expansion of the Trans Mountain Pipeline across British Columbia on Tuesday, a CBC article discusses the scrutiny facing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s claim he can balance building a pipeline with being environmentally responsible. This is worsened by Trudeau’s seemingly dissonant declaration of a climate crisis only a day prior. Gregory Scruggs at Crosscut gives us a perspective on the implications of this expansion for Washington, including the Salish Sea ecology and orca whale populations.
Boeing 737MAX jets pile up in central Washington
As Boeing works to re-certify the 737MAX series of jetliners for commercial use after two fatal crashes, the undeliverable planes are backing up at the factory in Renton, WA. OPB reports that six of these planes are hanging out at Grant County International Airport in Moses Lake, WA because airfields in western Washington are running out of space. “The desert is a good place to store airplanes,” says Richard Mueller, Port of Moses Lake operations director, referring to the arid conditions.
WA measles outbreak prompts vaccine education efforts
Last month, the Washington legislature passed into law a bill ending personal and philosophical-based exemptions from required vaccines. Melissa Santos at Crosscut, examines a new approach to increasing vaccination rates: U.S. Rep. Kim Schrier, D-Issaquah has introduced a federal bill that would collect data and target educational campaigns aimed at communities with low vaccination rates.
Cannon Beach infested with with poop bacteria
An advisory, reported by Willamette Week, has been issued by the Oregon Health Authority (OHA) to avoid the Cannon Beach ocean water that currently has “higher-than-normal levels of fecal bacteria,” with the threat of stomach cramps, skin rashes, upper respiratory infections, and diarrhea from contact. In the past three years, there have been 19 fecal bacteria advisories for the Oregon Coast. In related news, the US Environmental Protection Agency removed potentially contaminated barrels from Wallowa Lake in Oregon labelled as agricultural herbicides.
New poet-in-residence at Hugo House: Laura Da’
A warm word of welcome to Laura Da’, who was named the 2019-20 Poet-in-Residence at Hugo House on Monday! Da’ is the author of Instruments of the True Measure (2018) and Tributaries (2015), the latter of which won the 2016 American Book Award. Read a great interview with Da’ at Seattle Review of Books, and also at SROB, check out “Passive Voice,” which notes that grammar in historical records begins to erase the genocide of Indigenous people:
“Where trouble was brewing.
Where, after further hostilities, the army was directed to enter.
Where the village was razed after the skirmish occurred.
Where most were women and children.”
Juneteenth across Cascadia
June 19 marks the day African Americans in Galveston saw the official abolition of slavery in Texas, two years after the Emancipation Proclamation. It’s now a day celebrating African American culture, and The Idaho Black History Museum in Boise has a Juneteenth exhibit detailing its history. There are also two Juneteenth community events in Seattle extending into the weekend: a free screening of I Am Not Your Negro on Friday, June 21 at the Northwest African American Museum, and a Juneteenth celebration on Saturday, June 22 by the Renton African American Pastoral Group at Harambe Church. OregonLive has a photo essay from the Portland Juneteenth celebration this past weekend.