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Space and Race

In this audio, listen to a Black daughter share with her mother the importance of rest/home and racialized spaces. She begins by discussing how home and being surrounded by family offers a place and space to rest and be in the community. She then observes the difference in racialized spaces in Oakland, CA versus in Seattle. In Oakland, she recalls how intentional and unapologetic spaces were for Black people and she longs for the same thing in Seattle.

I want there to be a public expression of spaces that are for Black people and I want to feel unapologetically, I want Seattle to be a place where there isn’t this apologetic… undercurrent