by Kate Morgan West
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Whitney Mongé has a big, beautiful voice accompanied by the warmest, smoothest acoustic guitar I’ve heard in years. Her album Heartbeat is like a breath of fresh air in the Pacific Northwest. I first heard her performing live at the Pike Place Market in downtown Seattle and was so impressed I bought her album on the spot. Inside her guitar case is a cardboard sign that says “Art is sharing love with strangers” and Mongé clearly puts her heart and soul into her music. She began singing and playing guitar as a teenager, but intended to pursue a career behind-the-scenes when she attended the Art Institute of Seattle for audio engineering. A year into her training she began performing live but her education came in handy as she was able to write, perform, produce, record, mix and master her own album.
Heartbeat opens with the song Good Things, Mongé’s voice clear and melodic, and maybe the most folk-oriented song on the album, reminiscent of Tracy Chapman. Mongé describes her style of music as pop/soul and we definitely hear the soul come out in a raspy and somewhat ethereal Serenity, her lyrics “I know just what is mine/and I refuse to see the lines/shame is the game/but it’s who I’m supposed to be/and I identify the claim/just for some serenity, serenity, serenity” embedded into one’s brain after escaping into this song.
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
OUTscene: Exclusive INTER-view with Seattle lesbian author Kate Christie!
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The Seattle area is home to many talented people, among them author Kate Christie. She has published two novels to date, Solstice and Leaving L.A., with a couple more in the works. Christie grew up in Southwest Michigan, “studied women in a major way” at Smith College and then ended up here in the Pacific Northwest where she attended grad school. She and her wife Kris decided to stay and make Washington their home and have added to their family recently with a beautiful baby girl. Recently, Christie was kind enough to sit down and answer some questions I had for her about her life and career.
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Saturday, April 16, 2011
OUTscene: (RE-view) Kate Christie brings lesbian romance to Seattle!
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Recently, I discovered a local gem. Her name is Kate Christie and she’s a Seattle lesbian fiction writer with two novels under her belt. A third is set to be released later this year. Originally from Michigan, Christie went to college at Smith and now resides in the Pacific Northwest with her partner and their child. According to Christie, Seattle is “where I learned to love winter rain, cloudless summers, and dirt soccer fields.”
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Recently, I discovered a local gem. Her name is Kate Christie and she’s a Seattle lesbian fiction writer with two novels under her belt. A third is set to be released later this year. Originally from Michigan, Christie went to college at Smith and now resides in the Pacific Northwest with her partner and their child. According to Christie, Seattle is “where I learned to love winter rain, cloudless summers, and dirt soccer fields.”
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Monday, April 4, 2011
Exclusive Interview: Rep. Laurie Jinkins on being an out lesbian legislator, the budget and bullying
by Kate Morgan West
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To the joy of the LGBT community, Representative Laurie Jinkins was elected to the House of Representatives in the Washington State legislature last fall as the first openly lesbian member. Since taking office she has been moving and shaking, sponsoring and co-sponsoring a number of bills, some related to LGBT issues and many others related to health care and other issues. She is the Vice-Chair of the Health Care & Wellness committee as well as sitting as a member of the Capital Budget, Environment and Transportation committees. Rep. Jinkins has a long history of community involvement in her district where she lives with her partner and son. I had the honor of speaking with her a few days ago about her experience since being elected and taking office.
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To the joy of the LGBT community, Representative Laurie Jinkins was elected to the House of Representatives in the Washington State legislature last fall as the first openly lesbian member. Since taking office she has been moving and shaking, sponsoring and co-sponsoring a number of bills, some related to LGBT issues and many others related to health care and other issues. She is the Vice-Chair of the Health Care & Wellness committee as well as sitting as a member of the Capital Budget, Environment and Transportation committees. Rep. Jinkins has a long history of community involvement in her district where she lives with her partner and son. I had the honor of speaking with her a few days ago about her experience since being elected and taking office.
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