The question “What are you?” haunts the girl who fell from the sky
Author Heidi Durrow reads from her prizewinning novel Thursday evening (Jan. 13) at the Northwest African American Museum.
Judy Lightfoot
Judy Lightfoot writes about how the region's people confront a variety of challenges. She often draws on her weekly one-on-one coffees with individuals sharing our public spaces who are socially isola
Latest work
Washington's serious economic risk factors drive homelessness
A report from the National Alliance to End Homelessness shows homelessness rising in the state, and far more families lost their housing here than in the nation as a whole. Looks like 2011 is a year for carefully targeted efficiencies on the homeless front.
Crosscut Tout: 'Informal Urbanism' seminar at the UW on Thursday
This week's seminar in the UW series 'Now Urbanism: City Making in the 21st Century and Beyond' features the Gates Foundation's Melanie Walker and other distinguished experts on slum cities and global health.
Equity
Can scare tactics sell the state on mental health funding?
A healthcare union framed its appeal to the legislature with scary stereotypes of mental illness. Mental health advocates called the approach stigmatizing and self-defeating.
Crosscut Tout: ‘Dance Lest We All Fall Down,’ by Margaret Willson
A Seattle anthropologist builds a school for girls in a Brazil slum.