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AS A MOTHER, I WANT WHAT’S BEST FOR MY FAMILY

We put our toddler to bed and cozied up alongside the fireplace illuminating our small trailer in the woods. If you aren’t ready to have another child, then we have to change what we are doing. You can’t keep coming inside of me. He had protested the idea of a vasectomy (too emasculating). I tried an IUD, but the pain and heavy bleeding following its insertion led to its removal. My period had been irregular since giving birth, and between taking care of a toddler and healing from postpartum depression, I was never successful at tracking my cycle.

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Supperfield Museum of Contemporary Art

The Supperfield Museum of Contemporary Art is the only full-scale miniature art museum in Seattle, permanently housed inside First Hill’s Museum of Museums. Created by sculptor Jennifer McNeely, the SMCA began presenting its third show as the MOM re-opened earlier this month.

Unlike the recently opened 3,000 square-foot Seattle NFT Museum, the SMCA exists in a more tangible, albeit tiny plane. “It’s like a gem. If you discover it, you discover it. Any way that you experience it is good. You know it’s fun,” said McNeely.

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Remembering Black Wall Street

An organization working to unearth and examine the history of racist land practices in Seattle and the Central District and push for economic solutions to repair the damage will bring a night of lessons and learnings about the destruction of Oklahoma Black Wall Street to 14th Ave’s Washington Hall and online Saturday night.

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Intiman Theater ready for Capital Hill Debut

In the face of the pandemic, Capitol Hill’s theater community is trying to grow. This February, Intiman Theatre debuts its first production in its new home on Capitol Hill. This will be Intiman’s first stage production since COVID cast theaters across the country into darkness — and first on Harvard Ave.

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A 2022 Season In Motion

Velocity Dance Center has announced its 2022 season, its first season without a dedicated home on Capitol Hill. Interim artistic and managing director Erin Johnson shared with CHS how much the company has gone through in the past few years. “We went through two pretty substantial leadership transitions, we left our old space, we turned 25.”

Velocity left its Capitol Hill space on 12th Ave and has since developed a new strategic plan for what comes next. While its 25th season will be across a variety of venues, its future home will most likely not be on the Hill.

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