The Oral History series engages Seattle residents as part of the UN-[TITLED] project. It is a space of reflection on where we all fit on the spectrum of gentrification, and the shifting story of home in Seattle.

Each installment here bears witness to changes experienced by everyday people, their friends and their families, the impact on their street blocks, their memories, and their sense of place.  Together they illustrate that much of urban development seen today is capital driven, and not people centered, and undeniably contributes to visible displacements and rising rates of unhoused people in King Country and throughout the Greater Seattle area.  These stories, rants, and reports offer a compass of be/longing, and serve as a vessel of memory-keeping and memory-making for displaced communities.

the UN-[TITLED] project holds a series of offerings that aims to expose the realities of housing insecurities, community dispersion, and cultural erasure caused by rapid urban developments. This collaborative work also looks to powerful organizing actions of community resistance and reclamation in this face of these challenges. The geographic focus of the UN-[TITLED] project is in, and at the intersection of Central and Chinatown International Districts,  and is informed by the witnessing and embodied knowledge of people who currently reside or formerly lived in these spaces. 

As resident beings sharing space on these stolen yet "titled" lands – we pay our deepest respects to the Coast Salish peoples, the shared waters of all tribes and bands named and unnamed including Duwamish, Muckleshoot, Snohomish, Stillaguamish, Suquamish, and Tulalip nations - to the elders, and to present rural and urban indigenous peoples who continue to steward rights, access, and protections for present and future generations. 

Please see the Land & People Acknowledgement page for more information on what land you are on, its ancestral stewards, and how you can actively support Land Back initiatives.