Sabra Boyd
Journalist at Freelance
journo | screenwriter | editor | dev | child trafficking survivor | ex hospital admin | born on a Coen brothers set✏️@NYTimes @WashingtonPost @Eater @SaveurMag
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2 weeks ago |
realchangenews.org | Sabra Boyd
In February 2024, I testified at the state legislature as a child trafficking survivor in support of the Strippers Bill of Rights to help repeal discriminatory laws that made performers in Washington more vulnerable to being exploited. I highlighted the importance of passing the bill after the Stonewall-reminiscent raids on gay clubs in Capitol Hill just two weeks earlier in January 2024 — a raid that was legally justified by the very same “lewd laws” that strip clubs also fell under.
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2 weeks ago |
realchangenews.org | Sabra Boyd
June in Seattle brings sun, fun and daring fashions. While many choose to play it safe with an off-the-rack mesh top or hand-cut jean shorts, Pride serves as the perfect runway for some of Seattle’s most intrepid fashionistas. Real Change interviewed a few of them at the June 7 Pride in the Park festival about their couture creations, makeup tips, inspirations and how they got their stage names.
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1 month ago |
realchangenews.org | Sabra Boyd
In the mid-1980s, Maria Foscarinis left her job as a litigator at a large corporate law firm after volunteering to represent pro bono cases and advocate for homeless families. She led the effort to pass the first federal legislation to help protect the rights of unhoused people and, in 1989, founded the National Homelessness Law Center.
From the page to the stage: How some of Seattle’s celebrated memoirists craft autobiographical plays
1 month ago |
realchangenews.org | Sabra Boyd
Seattle is a city of writers. Some of the most celebrated memoir writers in the world live here. And many of those writers are also playwrights. Which came first for these memoirist playwrights? The book or the play? Did the writing process begin with painfully awkward memoir workshops, like when I read aloud to strangers in a harshly lit conference room and a man said, “That’s not how women talk,” when I quoted my own self in my own draft?
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1 month ago |
realchangenews.org | Sabra Boyd
Law enforcement and logging trucks rumbled into Deschutes National Forest in the dark morning hours of May 1 at 3 a.m. The largest encampment sweep on federal land ever, which evicted everyone living in the China Hat area — just south of Bend, Oregon — began after a federal judge denied the complaint for an injunction and a temporary restraining order, which had been intended to give residents more time to find alternative housing.
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