By Avery Quinn Moonshine Quinn is a twenty-three year old artist currently residing in Olympia on Coast Salish, Cowlitz, Nisqually, and Squaxin land. Moon is an incredible human, who in addition to being my sibling has also saved my life more than a hundred times over simply by existing. Their […]
A Press Conference With Homeless Residents in Olympia
By Miguel Louis On Saturday April 12, local homeless residents called for a press conference, so they could respond to the county’s new “scattered site mitigation plan” and the measures taken by the city as a result. The week before, the city undertook a new project at the Deschutes Encampment. […]
Evergreen Presidential Finalist Profiles
By Jacob Anderson-Kester On April 21, The Evergreen State College hosted a virtual event where students were invited to ask questions of the three finalists of the ongoing presidential search. Michael Dumont, Catherine Kodat, and Lee Lambert spoke with a panel of students who asked questions about the candidates’ histories, […]
Letter to the Editor: “Protect Thacker Pass”
By Paul Feather (featured image by Travis London) I never thought I’d be fighting the environmental movement, but here I am. I’m sitting at the top of Thacker Pass, NV surrounded by old-growth sagebrush. This place is in danger, and so are the antelope that greeted my arrival, the meadowlarks […]
Hyperpop Transness
By Brooke Lynch I don’t think I was ready for how catchy “800 db cloud” by 100 gecs was gonna be. As an 18-year-old, I was all about the distorted guitars and supposed rawness of punk and grunge, so an experimental electronic album was of no interest to me. But […]
Poetry by lee 이 therese
Love Letter to the Little Mixed Kid by lee 이 therese Whenever you are ready if you are ever ready just know I will embrace you welcome you with both hands arms spread wide to catch your starlight you multifaceted wonder you with your eclectic soul you can be a […]
A Union of Nobodies, Part Two
By Fiore Amore Here we stood in front of a flame-engulfed McDonald’s staring right at the inhuman face of our small-town business community. Gone was any pretense. Behold the mighty hog, a sight for the ages beyond belief. From this point forward my memory fails me. Only glimpses and fragments […]
Spoiler Warning: Bullshit Jobs, Clerks, and Capitalist Realism
By Alice McIntyre Kevin Smith’s “Clerks” (1994) is one of my comfort movies, for sure. It chronicles the misadventures of Dante (Brian O’Halloran) and Randal (Jeff Anderson), two minimum-wage retail clerks in New Jersey. After being called in to cover another employee’s morning shift, Dante has a series of encounters […]
[VIDEO] Footage from the Red Lion Hotel Incident
Embedded below is a video from the Police Surveillance Project. This video was sent to us under the suggestion that we share it. It contains commentary that advocates for a man named Lee Isaac and is critical of the actions of the authorities at the incident that occurred at the […]
Vida y Supervivencia al Northwest ICE Processing Center
Por Caroline Keane Traducción: Madeline Farías Durante la pandemia COVID-19 han ocurrido tres olas de huelgas de hambre en el Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC), anteriormente conocido como Northwest Detention Center, con hasta trescientas personas. Las huelgas de hambre por parte de las personas prisioneras (migrantes y no migrantes) han […]