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Luke Grayson

Luke Grayson is a 20-something, disabled, queer and nonbinary trans person who has been in Spokane since 2012 and is an advocate for the LGBT and transgender communities, foster youth and those experiencing homelessness. Luke is also a slam (performance) poet and visual artist who experiments with acrylic paint, spray paint, graphite and other mediums, who created a spray paint mural at the Spokane County Fair in 2022. Luke doesn't currently know quite what faith-base they "belong in," but grew up in an evangelical church that they left when they moved to Spokane and has attended an open and affirming UCC church off and on for the last 8 years. Luke uses they/them and he/him pronouns.
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When poor health makes you question God

On a good day my faith is shaky at best, When everything is crashing down around me, I spend a very large portion of my time cursing God.
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Fear of school shooting is real, but can’t teach our kids to fear the world

As it does with every headline, my stomach dropped and I fought back tears, because I can't believe this is still happening. I can't believe that we still see multiple headlines a month, sometimes a week, where there is yet another school or mass shooting.
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#WhyIDidntReport – we need to treat survivors better

This weekend tens of thousands of people participated in the #WhyIDidntReport Twitter storm that very quickly reached the top of the trending list and stayed there for hours.
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Father’s Day was hell for asylum seekers

Across the country, there are thousands — if not millions — of children being ripped away from their parents because they dared to seek asylum in our country.
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Chase Youth Awards recognizes Freeman High

When the Personal Achievement for a teen group was announced nearly everyone in the audience held their breath knowing this group of kids was the clear decision, this group of kids dealt with something no one should ever have to and came back to change the culture in their school to prevent something like this from ever happening again. 
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Spokane’s heart problem

Most poets, a lot of them whom I know well, made it to town just three days after a driver hit three homeless people who were sleeping up against a wall in North Spokane.
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Millennials feeling righteous anger

The more I watch, the more I see that the majority (if not all) of the rallies, protests, marches in Spokane are missing anyone under the age of 30-40.
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