Hope and Jackie talk about blight, aka the city's ability to seize land, and how it enabled Urban Renewal in a post WWII Seattle. They talk about the code enforcement program that was another tool for land grabbing, largely from Black families, and reference the 2021 Seattle Times piece written by Dr. Robert Jeffrey Sr. about the seizure of land from the New Hope Missionary Church.

Bringing it to the now, they talk about City Council's recent bill that allows the fire department to seize vacant land for demolition, pointing to the continuation of Seattle's land grabbing tactics.

They also seed the idea of "running" for the Planning Commission (not an elected office) and ask why orgs like Habitat for Humanity don't step in and help people with building restoration.

Thanks for listening!

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Hope and Jackie try to recall their experience when parks was trying to put a playground at a queer nude beach. We get into the leaked texts, the community outcry, the QFC and University Village owner Stuart Sloan of it all. This is a juicy one!

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episode is 1 hour. Spotify is saying 2 hours 7 min, don't believe the propaganda!

Jackie and Hope ask the hard hitting questions in this gay ass episode. Such as, what are queer spaces? what makes a queer space heterotopia? and who the fuck is Denny Blaine?

Come join us, as we explore!

Sorry this is late! We were up to a lot of stuff and something about mercury in retrograde and the full moon being in aquarius really set me (Jackie) back.

We did it tho, it is here! So enjoy us giggling and chit chatting our asses off.

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