· Essential Work: Anonymous “I think people can quickly forget that the reason that they’re able to live comfortable lives is because of the dedication of working-class people that are there every day, 40 hours a week, almost every week of the year providing that service. And I think that people take a lot of […]
“…all the friends that I’ve made throughout the years, some as early as freshman year of college, and some as late as within the past year or two. They all definitely have a piece in the puzzle of making Bellingham home. It’s always weird when they move, which I know is something that happens everywhere, […]
“It’s nice to be able to tell a story to yourself or to others when you’re making food and share experiences that you have tied up in your meals. And so I think that when you’re making food to share with somebody else, it adds a bit of an element of storytelling into it and […]
“It became really focused on culturally appropriate groceries, or culturally appropriate food. And I feel like that’s even just a word, or a term, that’s only just recently become a thing. In the past couple of years, this idea of ‘culturally appropriate’ anything. You know, like culturally appropriate food options, culturally appropriate blah blah blah. […]
“If you ask my mom, she’ll basically tell you that I hated Asian food until I went to college. I would eat it with my family and there are things that I definitely loved about it. Like Dâu Cháo Quây, the pan fried noodles and having the Peking duck and cha siu for Christmas. I […]
“What’s your perspective on being a youth activist, specifically? Being a young person in activism? CB: I think that it’s very moving. I think a lot of it, too, is unlearning that you’re just obeying the government or obeying these powers, but also being confident in your voice and just confident in how you move […]
“To me, activism starts inside. So it really could just be something like the process of decolonizing one’s self and changing our thoughts and our world views. I don’t think activism has to be really visible or blatant external activities, but I do believe that from that internal growth it often—Our own personal activisms do […]
“I enjoyed talking to many different voters, and getting to have conversations with people I don’t know about things that I care about. And learning why they might care about it, what makes them nervous about it—all of those good things.” Danielle is a 25-year-old volunteer and organizer with Bend the Arc: Jewish Action in […]
“One of the great things is that people are getting to know one another in our streams and they are communicating with each other and it’s almost like being in a pub. And they are like, Okay we are going to go to Joe’s stream and meet up with Katie and Melissa and they are […]
“I would say there is definitely points in the last few years where it has felt a little bit kind of, [sigh] we’re doing this again, playing in the same pubs and doing the same shows and that. But the band was growing just before COVID hit. We were starting to do bigger and better […]