We here at The Stranger are thrilled to announce that Vivian McCall is our new News Editor. She’s no, ahem, stranger around these parts.

Vivian joined our staff in 2023 and brought with her an enviable, inspirational curiosity. (And very cool clothes.) She hit the ground running, platforming voices in Seattle’s queer community and giving them a place to share their experiences and talk about how increasingly regressive federal laws impact them.

In her Forced Out series, she conducted hours and hours of interviews with trans people and their families who were having to leave their red states to (hopefully) find safety in more progressive cities.

And she still made time to dig into more creative corners of the city, too, searching for ghosts, interviewing food-focused videogame makers, ha

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