A Conversation With Danielle, A Homeless Resident of Olympia, On the City’s Response to Homelessness and the Incident At the Red Lion Hotel By Miguel Louis The following is an interview. Here is Danielle: My name is Danielle. I’m 31 years old and I’ve been homeless for going on four […]
We’re Still in a Pandemic, Nice Weather Doesn’t Change That
By Natalie “Lee” Arneson As the months drag on and the weather starts to change, a pleasant Spring emerges from the chill of Winter and an increasing number of people are beginning to go out again. Travel posts and party pictures are slowly taking over social media sites—everything we should […]
The Rising Cost of Textbooks in the US
By Brooke Lynch It should come as no surprise to any college student to hear that textbooks are expensive. The often mandatory cost of the books students use has been increasing at a staggering three times the inflation rate since around the 1970s. This rate would be alarming on it’s […]
Life and Survival at the Northwest ICE Processing Center
By Caroline Keane En español During the COVID-19 pandemic, there have been 3 waves of hunger strikes at the Northwest ICE Processing Center (NWIPC)—formerly known as Northwest Detention Center (NWDC)—with as many as 300 people participating in one and lasting at least 100 days. Hunger strikes by prisoners (migrant and […]
Home
By Nate Warrows We are afraid of dying in the object, in the building. Afraid of our own teeth, as each one is a small bit of bone that lives inside our mouth and our bodies, the whole of which can start to waste away if a rotten tooth goes […]
A Union of Nobodies, Part One
By Fiore Amore We were in the worst alley behind the worst bar in the worst town in the worst state when we made the most important decision of our lives. “COMRADES!” boomed Lennie, standing wobbly with a fifth of Stoli in his hand. “Tonight we make the most important […]
Spoiler Warning: It’s a Strange World – “Blue Velvet”
By Alice McIntyre Blue Velvet (1986) is the fourth feature film directed by David Lynch, and a new favorite of mine. It follows Jeffrey Beaumont (Kyle MacLachlan), a college student returning to his hometown of Lumberton, NC in the wake of his father’s near-fatal stroke. During his visit, he finds […]
An Interview with Merrill Pusey
By Avery Quinn Merrill Pusey is Evergreen’s Multicultural Initiatives Coordinator and has been in that role for two years. Merrill is an incredible advocate for justice, bringing that passion to us through her work with students every day. She is also a painter of vibrant and evocative works ranging from […]
The Garbage of Earthly Delights
By Jack Stroud As for looking like you’re ‘bouta squeeze butterflies out of your solar plexus; lolloping cave-man like around a box TV framed in brightly painted polygons of cardboard; playing tug of war with your intestines when you’re an amorphous blob; twirling gracefully on an aerial swing amidst the […]
An Interview with Harrison Hannon
By Brooke Lynch (photo by Lindsey Dalthrop) Pre-Covid 19, what do you think the state of Olympia music was and what was your experience in it like? It was ranging from all these different types of people playing music: different genres, different subcultures, different sub genres being shown. It was […]