If the history of Seattle is grunge, Emma Lee Toyoda is giving that history a twist. Calling their music "soft punk," they take on the genre with a sensitivity rooted in their own experiences. And while they might describe themselves as soft, softness isn't something they see as diluting the strength of their message, which is clear: They are who they are, and they're not taking any bullshit. We talked about their experiences performing in their teen years and carving out a home for non-binary artists in Seattle.

Coco Spadoni's relationship with their ceramics work is all about the body -- the inherent intimacy between person and clay when making a piece and the continuation of that relationship even after someone purchases it. In this episode, Coco talks about how their own relationship with pottery began, why their work focuses on stories of the body, and how they teach others to get comfortable with clay.

As the artist-in-residence last summer in Seattle’s historic Fremont Bridge, composer Paurl Walsh worked to create Bascule, a musical fusion of both classical chamber and electronic music. He talked to fields about his introduction to this music, what working in the bridge was like and how his personal relationship with it shaped his work.

Angel Alviar-Langley, who also goes by Moonyeka, has always been drawn to dance. After getting introduced to the popping community in college, Moonyeka's been a large part of Seattle's popping community and is currently organizing the third iteration of a femme street styles dance event called What's Poppin' Ladiez?! In this episode, fields talked to Moonyeka about joining the popping community in Seattle, storytelling through movement, and the gender dynamics at play within the dance form.

As Seattle’s fourth youth poet laureate, Azura Tyabji is working on publishing a book—and as an 18-year-old recent high school graduate, it’s an entirely new experience. Even so, she’s made a name for herself in the city’s poetry landscape by performing spoken word pieces that are deeply rooted in Seattle’s changing culture and what that means alongside her own understanding of personal identity. For this episode, Azura chatted about her experience at an experimental high school, the reputation of spoken word among poets, and why it’s important to have a youth-specific poet laureate in the first place.

Seattle's long thought of itself as a queer city, so it's unsurprising that queer identities have become an integral part of its artistic beating heart: its music scene. fields spoke with two members of Seaside Tryst, a band that describes itself as super synthy "trans ass new wave" with a knack for aggressively danceable songs. In this episode, two of its members discuss what attracted them to Seattle's music scene and what diversity looks like within it.

With Seattle’s annual Short Run convention just around the corner — an underground comics and art festival — it seems fitting to chat with an illustrator who’ll be boothing at the event this year: Myra Lara. While she’s long been interested in comics, she’s especially focused her energy on it in recent years, getting published in various comics publications in the city (like "Thick as Thieves") and an Ignatz-nominated anthology, "La Raza Anthology: Unidos y Fuertes." In this episode, Myra discusses her entry into underground comics, bilingual art, and the fusion of illustration with activism.

In the podcast's inaugural episode, our host Manola Secaira sits down with illustrator and poet Gabrielle Bates. Bates is known for her poetry comics, an emerging hybrid genre which applies the lyric sensibility of poetry to hand-drawn images. Here, Bates shares with us her ideas on illustration, the Seattle poetry scene, and independent publishing.