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The feminist organization Women’s March designated October 8, 2026, a day of action, for rallies, campus walkouts, and other protests nationwide against sexual violence and the institutions that allow it to continue, under the slogan "Stop Sexual Violence: From the Frat House to the White House.” The catalyst was the high-profile “Cornell 7” case, in which seven members of the Chi Phi fraternity at Cornell University are accused of drugging and sexually assaulting an anonymous student in 2024.

I am a Transgender elder, and I have lived long enough to know that being down is not the same thing as being finished. I have also lived long enough to know that simply telling people we are hurting is not enough. The Transgender movement has much in common with the civil rights movements that came before it. Our histories are not identical, and we should never pretend that they are. But there are lessons we should be willing to learn.

More than half a century after The Rocky Horror Picture Show first stumbled into theaters, Patricia Quinn is still discovering just how enormous the strange little movie became. Quinn, who originated the role of Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show before bringing the character to the screen, is returning to Seattle’s 5th Avenue Theatre on October 15, as part of the Original Cast Spooktacular Tour celebrating 51 years of Rocky Horror.

For 35 years, Entre Hermanos has been more than an organization. It has been a lifeline, an advocate, a gathering place and, for generations of Latino LGBTQ+ people in Washington state, a family. As it prepares to celebrate its milestone anniversary with the annual Día de Muertos Gala, Executive Director Edgar Mack-Longoria is looking both backward and forward — honoring the people who built the organization while imagining what its next 35 years could look like.

Much like last year’s smash The Housemaid, Verity is a pulpy, unabashedly soapy erotic throwback to thrillers like The Hand That Rocks the Cradle and Sleeping with the Enemy. Unfortunately, unlike that jolt of cartoonish, female-driven silliness, filmmaker Michael Showalter (The Eyes of Tammy Faye) is way outside his comfort zone with his adaptation of the Colleen Hoover novel. His film just isn’t any fun. Don’t blame the talented cast, especially co-leads Anne Hathaway and Dakota Johnson.

I was introduced to Pregnant Dad at Chop Suey in February at the first-ever Trans Music Showcase. They say to save the best for last — but the host, May Graves, introduced them with something along the lines of: "This band is absolutely terrible. Their music is offensive to anyone with ears.” Aside from setting the bar low, it was also quite a humorous way of establishing the group’s personality.

In less than a month, Washington voters will decide on whether to approve or reject Let’s Go Washington’s initiatives: IL26-638 (“Protecting Girls’ Sports”) and IL26-001 (“Restoring Parental Rights”).

Reporters, photographers, copy editors, and others members of the Seattle Times newsroom took to downtown streets on Sept. 30, just a block from the newspaper’s new office, to demand wage increases, as well as proper protections against AI replacing them and their colleagues.

It’s no secret: Across the country, Americans face a crisis of community. The cult of individuality has left many feeling isolated and alone, as though nobody could understand their personal stories or struggles. In 2022, seeing the need for more authentic conversations to build community and coalition, creator Antonio Stephens launched his podcast, Life Chats with Friends.

For anyone who treated To Catch a Predator like appointment television, watching Primetime is a surreal experience. Documentarian Lance Oppenheim (Some Kind of Heaven) makes his narrative feature debut with this disquieting docudrama, and those buying a ticket should not anticipate an incisive, thought-provoking biopic of journalist Chris Hansen or of the zeitgeist news program he was the steely host of. This is not that film.