Jas Keimig

1 week ago | southseattleemerald.org | Jas Keimig |Jasmyne Keimig

"Taking Root: Southeast Asian Stories of Resettlement in Philadelphia" is one of three films screening tonight at the opening of the Seattle Asian American Film Festival. As immigrant communities across the country are under increased threats of ICE raids and deportations, there has been a strong show of resistance and defiance through protesting and legal action.

2 weeks ago | southseattleemerald.org | Jas Keimig |Jasmyne Keimig

Updated on June 18, 2025, 2:45 p.m.As we make our way to the summer solstice, we must first celebrate Juneteenth, a Black American holiday celebrating the end of chattel slavery in the United States. Here's what I wrote about the day — June 19 — in previous years' event roundups:"Every year, Black communities celebrate Juneteenth, the day in 1865 when enslaved African Americans in Texas finally got word of their emancipation.

3 weeks ago | southseattleemerald.org | Jas Keimig |Jasmyne Keimig

As the days turn warmer and longer, the Central District transforms into a grassy, verdant oasis in the middle of Seattle. Irises and California poppies beam out at you along quiet, hilly side streets, and sometimes when the air hits just right, you can smell the salty Puget Sound. June is truly the perfect time to go on a long afternoon walk through the neighborhood to see the old houses and notice gardens, parks, and dead ends that have perhaps gone unremembered during the coldness of winter.

1 month ago | southseattleemerald.org | Jas Keimig |Jasmyne Keimig

Blush as pink as flamingos and lipstick as red as apples. Hair teased to the gods. Jackets and sweaters suggestively slid off shoulders. Bodies enmeshed kickin', jerkin', and groovin' on the dance floor. Love songs crooned over brooding synthy and infectious beats. For many, the trends and styles of the "new wave" music — popular in the '80s — are most heavily associated with punk-ish white kids in metropoles, disaffected from society.

1 month ago | southseattleemerald.org | Jas Keimig |Jasmyne Keimig

The documentary Free Leonard Peltier opens in a moment of uncertainty. Activists Holly Cook Macarro (Red Lake Nation) and Nick Tilsen (Oglala Lakota) arrive in Washington, D.C., in 2024 prepared to go to Congress to fight for the freedom of Leonard Peltier, an Indigenous activist and American Indian Movement (AIM) member accused of killing two F.B.I. agents in 1975 and sentenced to back-to-back life sentences.