Early version of Cabbage Asaspice debut featuring Bruce Vayne. Raw bars and beat made in their Seattle living room alongside mushroom pesto pasta. Hip hop and chillin and lo-fi and real shit at its finest.

Ease 2b on the other side of trouble (ft. Bruce Vayne)

Episode 4: Tap into TAP, a Seattle-based podcast focused on empowering youth voices through the exploration of art, all conceived and hosted by teen artists. TAP teens dive into important art from many generations, and give a Gen Z perspective on why they are important in today’s world.
Each podcast starts with a teen artist sharing an important artistic influence on what they are thinking and creating today. We then take a deep dive and discuss the context surrounding its making, drawing local Seattle connections.
Today we’re talking about the legacy of the riotgrrrl movement—its impact and its flaws, and why it is still important for us to talk about today. Joining us is Vivi Annis, a local fem punk musician and we’ll get her perspective on riotgrrrl and its impact on her.

Recorded from Ground Zero Radio at Vera Project in Seattle, WA
TAP Teens: Ashwari Shende, Blue Counts, Caden Nam, and Mickey Fontaine
Thank you Totem Star recording artist Lily Indigo for the music you heard at the beginning of this episode

Riotgrrrl: From Origins to Influence Today

Episode 4 Part 2: Tap into TAP, a Seattle-based podcast focused on empowering youth voices through the exploration of art, all conceived and hosted by teen artists. TAP teens dive into important art from many generations, and give a Gen Z perspective on why they are important in today’s world.
Each podcast starts with a teen artist sharing an important artistic influence on what they are thinking and creating today. We then take a deep dive and discuss the context surrounding its making, drawing local Seattle connections.
Today we’re talking about the legacy of the Riotgrrrl movement—its impact and its flaws, and why it is still important for us to talk about today. This is part 2 of our episode on Riotgrrrl, and we’ll be interviewing Allison Wolfe from Bratmobile, one of the most important original Riotgrrrl bands.

Recorded from Ground Zero Radio at Vera Project in Seattle, WA
TAP Teens: Ashwari Shende, Blue Counts, Caden Nam, and Mickey Fontaine
Thank you Totem Star recording artist Lily Indigo for the music you heard at the beginning of this episode

Riotgrrrl Pt 2: Exploring Its Ongoing Legacy with Allison Wolfe

Episode 5: Tap into TAP, a Seattle-based podcast focused on empowering youth voices through the exploration of art, all conceived and hosted by teen artists. TAP teens dive into important art from many generations, and give a Gen Z perspective on why they are important in today’s world.
Each podcast starts with a teen artist sharing an important artistic influence on what they are thinking and creating today. We then take a deep dive and discuss the context surrounding its making, drawing local Seattle connections.
Today, we are talking about stickers — if you look around a city like Seattle, you’ll notice that they're everywhere. They can be powerful outlets for artists and activists alike. But how do these stickers get to all of these places to begin with? What attracts artists to stickers, and more importantly, why and how can these stickers be so valuable to teen artists? 
We will be interviewing the StickerMovie crew to learn about their personal connections with stickers after sharing our own, and their perspectives may help us unveil what bridges stickers across decades.

Learn more about the Sticker Movie at Stickermovie.com 

Recorded from Ground Zero Radio at Vera Project in Seattle, WA
TAP Teens: Ashwari Shende, Blue Counts, Caden Nam, and Mickey Fontaine
Thank you Totem Star recording artist Lily Indigo for the music you heard at the beginning of this episode

Sticker Movie!

Opening Doors is produced by the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium and Jack Straw Cultural Center. This podcast was made possible by The Awesome Foundation and the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture with in-kind support from Jack Straw Cultural Center, Sound Theatre Company, Jennifer Rice Communications, and the SCAC steering committee. Music performed by William Chapman Nyaho, produced through the Jack Straw Artist Support Program. 

Transcript:

Narrator: Opening Doors is a new podcast about accessibility in arts and civic life, brought to you by the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium and Jack Straw Cultural Center. For our first season, we aim to amplify the voices of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color with disabilities, and to learn how race and disability impact their access to arts and culture.

Kameko Thomas: the number one thing when you have an invisible disability is of course the automatic assumption that there’s nothing wrong with you. I’ll get these incredulous looks like “Oh really?” and then, the next one is “Oh, you don’t look like disabled.”

Troy Coalman: The same cultural attributes that exist to create racism exist for someone who can’t see. And so, we have to break down those walls and we have to break down those barriers that may exist, whether they have to do with language or they have to do with behavior. Whether they have to do with access. They don’t work separately; they work hand in hand. 

King Khazm: We all need to do our part in unlearning prejudice and hatred and decolonizing our minds and looking deep into our systemic infrastructure and how we can all be a part of the solution.  You know, what is the change that we want to see and how are we gonna get there?

Christiana ObeySumner: I cannot have a meltdown in the same way I could if I was say, a white cis man. Because if I had a meltdown as a white cis man, then people would just see me as “oh, this person is emotional” or “this person is upset” or- “this person is expressing themselves.” If I’m emotional, then I’m a danger. I’m a threat. They should call 911.

Narrator: Subscribe and listen at soundcloud.com/OpeningDoorsPod and wherever you get your podcasts.

Opening Doors Podcast

Opening Doors Season One Promo

Opening Doors is a podcast about accessibility in arts and civic life, brought to you by the Seattle Cultural Accessibility Consortium and Jack Straw Cultural Center. Now in our second season, we seek to amplify the voices of outstanding individuals with disabilities of all kinds.

Opening Doors Season One Promo

Opening Doors Podcast

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