Authoritarianism is accelerating as is climate change and environmental degradation. Fire season has started early in the South-West United States. We sit back and watch as the Earth is pillaged for its resources, wars are fought over them, there is a new mass shooting almost every day, often targeting Black […]
Spring Blooms New Tunes: Interview with the Window Smashing Job Creators
Olympia favorites, The Window Smashing Job Creators, are set to release a new album soon. They’ve released a few songs early, which can be found on youtube or bandcamp. You can hear about upcoming shows on their Facebook or Instagram. I spoke with members about the new album, their musical […]
Gamified Existence of Institutions, Entities, and Avatars
By Chase Patton As you stand on the surface of the earth and look up through the atmosphere into outer space, your body travels through fields of various intersecting electromagnetic frequencies. Your own electrochemical nervous system interacts with fields that connect far into the outer reaches of space. These electromagnetic […]
Irrealism, Imagination, Intervention: The Locust Review in Their Words and Mine
by Alex McIntyre The Locust Review is a project of the Locust Arts & Letters Collective, “published quarterly in an anachronistic newspaper format” and online. The collective defines itself as “an association of radical, critical irrealist and socialist artists,” and published the first issue of the Locust in Fall 2019. […]
Student Art Returns to Evergreen
by Michael Richards On Thursday, Mar. 10, three separate art programs presented their work in a gallery hosted at the beautiful Evergreen Arts Annex. For the first time in a long while, students and people in the Olympia community were encouraged to experience the handiwork of Evergreen’s extremely talented collection […]
Students for Justice in Palestine
By Caroline Keane Evergreen has a long history of solidarity with the Palestinian liberation movement. The Evergreen chapter of Students for Justice in Palestine is planning some events for Israeli Apartheid Week. They are seeking new members, and can be reached through their Instagram page @beldaan. The CPJ spoke with […]
It Came From the Library
Fascinating Finds from the Bowels of Castle Carmichael by Alden Nagle The Daniel J. Evans Library is a welcoming space, with original furniture, carpeted floors, and collections that include classic literature, handmade books, and even laserdiscs. I go there on a regular basis to stock up on DVDs, both because […]
Our Parable
by Clara Riggio How do we know when the apocalypse starts? Is a nation-wide alert going to pop up on our phones and tell us that it has officially begun? Is mass violence going to break out like in “The Purge”? Could it be that it has already started? Octavia […]
Abolitionist Values
by Caroline Keane A question I’ve been asking myself is, as an abolitionist feminist, what are my/our values? Who do I prioritize and how do my values transfer, do they transfer into my praxis and interpersonal relationships? The intention of this piece is to identify these values so they can […]
CRISIS IN UKRAINE
by Elise Grage and Dave Moore Over the last several weeks, we have witnessed the invasion of Ukraine by Russian forces, with more than 150,000 Ukrainians fleeing the country following attacks on Kyiv. As of February 26th, 2022, Russian military convoys are flooding the Russia-Ukraine border after orders to broaden […]