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Through this collection of essays, author and activist Reagan Jackson, chronicles her journey into the world of journalism. Art, cinema, social justice, feminism, Black reparations, health & reproductive rights, dance, education-while Jackson's subjects range far and wide, her writing brings an intimacy & immediacy to all.

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"""Reagan Jackson's Still True: The Evolution of an Unexpected Journalist wants to sit you down in her living room to give you the facts. An intimate eye-witness to the personal effects of gentrification and the often passive violence on Black and brown bodies, Reagan Jackson unflinchingly tells the story of how a community is happily invisible until the neighborhood falls prey to white capitalist hunger."" Amber Flame, interdisciplinary creative, activist and educator and Program Director of Hedgebrook In a world desperate for the space/time to respond to change and to reflect on deep continuities, Reagan Jackson's Still True offers a glimpse of new and renewed forms of connection. Like the mixtapes she evokes in the title, she weaves an emotional and intellectual mosaic out of the fragments of though-in-the-moment. Formally innovative, aware of the ancestral resonances, and just plain smart, this is a book that testifies to a mind and spirit helping us think our way to something beyond the mess we're in. Craig Werner, Author of A Change Is Gonna Come: Music, Race & the Soul of America When Reagan Jackson writes, be prepared for straight talk. She does not hold back when talking about race, black lives, gender, white privilege, police accountability, the kind of hot button issues that make people uncomfortable.Like it or not, that's a good thing. Reagan lives and works in Seattle's south end, where people of color are struggling to live because of gentrification, rising property taxes along with dual pandemics of racism and now, Covid-19 that has revealed even more the racial disparities in America today. Our nation is being pushed like never before to see its original sin of inequality as the coronavirus devastates communities of color. As you read her stories, her Southend Mixtape, you will see a changing Seattle, a majority white city where people of color are still struggling to have a voice, and where a new kind of multi-media journalist and writer like Reagan Jackson are not just covering a community but living there to fully understand the changes underway. What you will find in Reagan's mixtape is powerful, and at times, humorous writing about everyday herself, life, human foibles, complicated issues, race, justice, injustice, and hope for a better Seattle and world. Keep on kicking ass, Reagan! Enrique Cerna, broadcast journalist Reagan Jackson is such a good writer and made me feel like you were telling me these stories over a cup of coffee or tea! You have a way of being matter of fact about very heavy and serious topics - making it more accessible to readers. Sharon Maeda, activist and radio managerReagan Jackson writes from the crossroads of journalism, memoir, activism, and everyday life in these raw and wild times. Jackson is a pioneer for what ""writing the first draft of history"" looks like in an intersectional world and a model of how media can help build the communities and worlds of the future. Whether she's talking gentrification, Black joy, or burlesque her voice speaks directly to the moment-moving target that it is-and is always raw, funny, challenging, and relatable. She's one of the most important voices in Seattle, and one all of America needs now more than ever. Sarah Stuteville Co-Founder of the Seattle Globalist"

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