by Clara Riggio Dear Annie, I miss the sun, but every time it’s out we get loads of shitty little stink bugs soaking up heat on our living room window. Studying there is a nightmare when they keep crawling around in hoards, projecting the worlds most disgusting shadow puppet show […]
The Fantasies of Youth: an Interview with Artist Elayna Sturm
by Lee Arneson Hello! My name’s Elayna (she/her), I’ll be newly twenty-two by the time this is printed (yes, I’m a Sagittarius) and I’m always changing my favorite color but currently it’s cedar-branch-green. I grew up in Massachusetts and moved to Olympia to attend Evergreen, where I will be graduating […]
Dean Spade In Context
by Elise Grage Dean Spade is an emergent revolutionary author, focusing primarily on abolitionist and trans-feminist theory. For nearly two decades, Spade worked towards racial and economic justice while being a member of the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, a collective organization focused on community building and legal service accessibility to […]
Moving Olympia’s Unhoused: From Deschutes, the Mitigation Site, to Ensign Road
by Miguel Louis For the last month, local city and council meetings have been defined by a series of debates between citizens and their local governments that will define the future of unhoused Olympians and residents of Thurston County. One of the primary concerns was the Mitigation Site, a small […]
Public Funded Art Creates Health Hazard for Evergreen Staff and Neighbors
by Caroline Keane Evergreen allowed large rocks to be cut by faculty for art, potentially exposing Evergreen staff and community residents to large amounts of silica, or fine ground rock particles. Silica exposure over time can lead to silicosis, a serious lung disease. Rock artist and faculty member, Bob Leverich, […]
The Murder of Speedy Geoduck
ERRATICA: FROM THE DESK OF FIORE AMORE, ESQ. OLYMPIA, OCTOBER 29th The Committee for Pleasant Journalism, a clandestine organization dedicated to uncovering the rot, silica, and asbestos from the hidden channels of the Evergreen State College, was prevented from screening the seminal 1983 body horror film “Videodrome” by David Cronenberg. […]
Bill 1202: For The People, by The People
by Michael Richards When looking at the major systemic changes that need to take place in our Washington State courts, there are far more than one can cover in just one article. But there is a particular act currently being consulted by Washington State representative My-Linh Thai that deserves the […]
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all poems featured in this post originally published in volume 50, issue 3/4
Students On Strike at River Ridge High
by Miguel Louis A month ago, local news flooded with reports of a racist incident in Olympia area schools. During a game between River Ridge, in Lacey, and Capital High School, on the Westside of Olympia, a white student from Capital chanted at a black student from the rival school. […]