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Russian Pussies and Ukrainian Boobs: The new feminism of the former Soviet Union

by Sarah Stuteville

Yesterday, Russian punk band Pussy Riot were found guilty of “hooliganism” and sentenced to two years in prison. The case has dominated the Internet and the airwaves for weeks, forcing well-mannered newscasters to cringingly utter one of our most taboo words in nightly news roundups. The trouble started back in February when the group staged a direct-action protest […]

The visitor brings the sharpest knife

by Sarah Stuteville

Telling the stories of others is a fraught endeavor. It’s hard enough when you’re doing it in your own city or community, but interpreting cultures and places that are not your own is especially problematic. International journalists and travel writers take (often deserved) criticism for superficiality, ethnocentrism or exoticizing their subjects. Not a day has passed since […]

Secret Seattle blogger uncovers Europe’s weirdest music videos

by Sarah Stuteville

About a month ago an anonymous Seattle blogger called Videofedhead started a remarkable but unadorned collection of the wildest and weirdest international music videos I’d ever laid eyes on. Most of them are European, with a few notable Israeli, Korean, Japanese and American exceptions. Some are pretty porny (I’m still blushing from that Giant Panda’s strip […]

A ‘Messi’ initiation into the Seattle soccer scene

by Sarah Stuteville

I hate sports. And I’m not talking your run-of-the-mill “football is too violent” or “I just don’t get baseball” hate. I’m talking terror-inducing phobia. I was a puffy, overly serious kid and sports were a daily reminder that I sucked. I got hit in the face with basketballs (how is it possible for one kid to […]

Immigration and Customs

Is Washington the next Arizona? Report cites Canadian border abuses

by Sarah Stuteville

Blaine, just south of Washington’s US-Canada border, evokes images of pastoral farmland back-dropped by mountains, Boundary Bay views and the idyllically named Peace Arch Park. The worst case scenario for most Seattleites headed to the area is a traffic jam on the way to Canada. But a newly released report, published by the immigrant advocacy […]

Peace Somalia Seattle

Filmmakers go in search of peace with Seattle Somali community

by Sarah Stuteville

Washington State is home to more than 40,000 refugees from civil war and political violence in Somalia. But this population is more complex than the occasional news story about Somalia would imply. That belief is at the heart of “In Search of Nabad,” a feature-length documentary film about the Somali community in Seattle, produced by Set […]

St Patrick's Day Seattle

Too cool to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day? That’s racist.

by Sarah Stuteville

St. Patrick’s Day has always annoyed me. From jerks at work pinching me, to college students barfing Guinness in Pioneer Square, to the incessant blaring of House of Pain’s Jump Around, it just isn’t my thing. “Do you celebrate St. Patrick’s Day?” my friend Cat asked me this time last year. “Uh, no, I don’t,” I responded snottily. “Well, […]

This International Women’s Day, Americans should take a look in the mirror.

by Sarah Stuteville

I once spent a March 8th in Mexico and was surprised to find the streets filled with parades and vendors selling giant teddy bears in celebration of International Women’s Day. Random people greeted me with a cheerful “Feliz dia de la mujer.” International Women’s Day isn’t such a big deal here in the US, and […]

Guilt by friend request: How the war on terror came to my facebook

by Sarah Stuteville

My finger froze over the mouse as I squinted at a blurry photo of a young Pakistani man holding an AK-47 on my Facebook page. “Confirm friend request,” the cheerful blue font suggested. I closed the window and sighed, saving the decision for another morning. The obvious answer here—the one I got from everyone I […]

Jimmy Carter at the World Affairs Council: Not your grandfather’s American Exceptionalism

by Sarah Stuteville

The lights are low and excitement high at the Paramount Theater in downtown Seattle. Murmuring gives way to whistling and foot stomping and finally shouting and thunderous applause. A smiling white-haired man steps onstage. No, it isn’t Bono or the Boss, it’s former President Jimmy Carter, and Seattle loves him. I knew three things about […]

Search for authentic Pakistani food leads to the Kebab Palace in Redmond

by Sarah Stuteville

Chicken handi is the dish that defines Pakistani food for me. The first time I tried it I was sitting on the roof of Cuckoo’s Den in Lahore–a former brothel famously converted to an eccentric restaurant with a romantic nighttime view of the Badshahi Mosque. I remember the sweat-soaked shirt plastered against my lower back […]

Grab your passport and head to Victoria for an international getaway

by Sarah Stuteville

I woke up on last Friday, December 30th with one thought in my mind: “I’ve got to get the hell out of town.” I was feeling the weeks of festive eating, drinking and socializing and realized I couldn’t bear another hangover. It meant skipping out on New Year’s with friends, but December 31st is the […]

Between Worlds/Behind Bars

by Sarah Stuteville

From the dark days of the Chinese Exclusion Act to post–September 11 crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, immigration detention has a controversial history in both our nation and in the Puget Sound region. Between World/Behind Bars is a four-part radio series exploring immigration detention from its roots in the 1930s at “Seattle’s Ellis Island” in the International District to today’s privately-run Northwest Detention Center on the Tacoma Tideflats.