Our voices grow together.
The Seventh Wave is dedicated to providing a platform for disparate voices to mix, mingle, collide, and complement one another.
In addition to our magazine, we also publish interviews with organizations and individuals who are questioning, exemplifying, or addressing our current topics through their work, their beings, and/or their creations. Since we first began this column in conjunction with the magazine, we have spoken with nonprofit leaders, podcast hosts, world-class athletes, teachers, professors of religious studies and sexuality, and more. We have investigated the inner workings and complexities of industries like public health, social media activism, and environmental justice, and spoken with creatives who are pushing the conversation forward through filmmaking, acting, music, painting, and the written word.
Historically speaking, the majority of our interviews have been conducted by TSW Staff. Our earlier interviews were published under the name “Side Conversations,” and so you’ll find a length and intimacy to those interviews that differ from some of our more recent interviews, which dive equally deep in terms of ideas and exchange, but read more like an interview than a transcript of a conversation. And, in the past few years, we have expanded our interview column, allowing past contributors and past residents to also publish interviews with us, which is a trend we intend on continuing. We also intend to shine a brighter light on our TSW contributors this year by interviewing them about their creative processes and practices, as so many of the people we have worked with have their first (if not second and third!) book out there in the world today.
Want to get involved? Currently, we are accepting interview pitches from past TSW contributors, residents, and staff. If you know of someone or an organization that you feel would be great to highlight within our interviews column, please let us know by emailing us at interviews@seventhwavemag.com. Currently, we pay $50-100 per interview, depending on scope of the intended conversation.
Photo credit: Chloe Collyer
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![Finding Texture and Moving Beyond Words](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/Sanna-headshot-1-e1705180576627.jpeg?x50507)
A conversation with 2023-2024 Artist in Residence Sanna Wani
![Time, Context, and a Radical Shift in Perspective](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/EllenWiener_Interview3.jpg?x50507)
A conversation with Issue 16: Proximities featured artist Ellen Wiener.
![Existing Across Boundaries](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/SharonChang.jpg?x50507)
A conversation with community journalist and editor Sharon Ho Chang
![Exposure and Belonging](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/AnneLiuKellor2.jpg?x50507)
A conversation with Anne Liu Kellor, author of Heart Radical
![Kink, Negotiation, and Joy](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/EffingFoundation.jpg?x50507)
A conversation with Carlton Perry & Dr. Kit Stubbs of The Effing Foundation
![Mapping Relationships with the Physical World](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/CallumAngus2.jpg?x50507)
![Vulnerability, Navigating the Digital Landscape, and Seeing Comedy as a Two-Way Street](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/JamesTison.jpg?x50507)
A conversation with comedian James Tison
![Asexual Visibility and a Creative Life](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/YasminBenoit.jpg?x50507)
![Angry Atheists and Healing by Humanism](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/AnyaOvermann.jpg?x50507)
A conversation with Anya Overmann, president of Young Humanists International
![The Dream of Queer](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/MattildaBernsteinSycamore.jpg?x50507)
![Qualifications and Qualifying Statements](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/JoelSephyGleiser.jpg?x50507)
![A Place in the World](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/DonnaMiscolta.jpg?x50507)
![Social Categories, Nuance, and Being Messy](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/AnthonyOcampo.jpg?x50507)
A Conversation with Sociologist and Author Anthony Ocampo, Ph.D.
![They Want Us To Forget](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/CynthiaBrothers.jpg?x50507)
An interview with Cynthia Brothers, founder of Vanishing Seattle
![In the Meantime](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/CorinneManning.jpg?x50507)
![Graceful Chaos](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/SiaSerafina.jpg?x50507)
![Queerness, Flowers, and Staying In the Fight](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/JarvisSubia.jpg?x50507)
A Conversation with poet and performer Jarvis Subia
![A Poem of Persistence](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/RubyMcConnell.jpg?x50507)
![Shin Yu Pai Asserts the Complexity of One’s Being](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/ShinYuPai.jpg?x50507)
An Interview with Ensō Author Shin Yu Pai, by Anne Liu Kellor
![Diaspora, Encounter, and Emotional Restitution](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/KristenMillaresYoung.jpg?x50507)
An Interview with Author Kristen Millares Young
![Locating Curiosity and Joy](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/HalaAlyan.jpg?x50507)
![Agency, Voice, and Casually Radical Acts of Art-Making](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/MimiLok.jpg?x50507)
An interview with author Mimi Lok
![In-Betweenness, Speculative Fiction, and the Carnivorous City](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/SuyiDaviesOkungbowa.jpg?x50507)
An interview with author Suyi Davies Okungbowa
![Digital Conversations, Comment Moderation, and Believing in the Effort to Try](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/NadiaPetschekRawls.jpg?x50507)
An interview with digital media guru Nadia Petschek Rawls
![Representation, Race, and Who Gets to Belong](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/PhilYu.jpg?x50507)
A Conversation with Angry Asian Man Founder, Phil Yu
![Music, Masculinity, and Turning Classrooms into Choirs](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/JoeKye.jpg?x50507)
An interview with violinist-looper and educator Joe Kye
![The Nature of Flux, and Reality of Being Wrong](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/IsaacFornarola.jpg?x50507)
An interview with Isaac Fornarola, Journalist and Founder of Flux Weekly
![Big Nature, Our Relationship to Fear, and the Need to Reexamine Goal Setting](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/StephJagger.jpg?x50507)
An interview with Steph Jagger, author and world record breaker
![RAPtivism, Hip-Hop as a Tool for Social Change, and De-Centering the Narrative](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/AishaFukushima.jpg?x50507)
An interview with Aisha Fukushima, Founder of RAPtivism
![Wounds, Stories as Sense-Making, and the Power of Critical Distance](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/MelissaFebos.jpg?x50507)
An interview with Melissa Febos, author of Abandon Me
![Art-Making, White Spaces, and the Realities of the American Dream](https://www.theseventhwave.org/wp-content/uploads/MalakaGharib2.jpg?x50507)
An interview with Malaka Gharib, author of I Was Their American Dream