Melisa Ferati In August, I lost a childhood friend and an uncle within the same week. The news of the two happened within four days of each other. It turned out that my friend had actually passed almost 3 weeks earlier, but my friends from back home wanted to wait […]
Please Worry Darling
Don’t Worry Darling is the second directorial offering by Olivia Wilde released on September 23, 2022 in the U.S. The previews for the movie depict something like The Stepford Wives, the controversial cyborg housewives from the 1950’s. After watching the ending of the movie, I decided it was more like […]
What Could Life Be Like Connected With An AI Chatterbot?
Digital Environments and Instructional/Development Programs – Brain-Computer-Interfaces and AI Chatterbots. Part I By Jason Stone Currently, it is common knowledge that AI programs have the ability to connect to humans in one direction through information assimilation. However, wireless connection to AI entities/assistants through Brain Computer Interfacing is becoming increasingly advanced […]
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 […]
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 […]
I Think You Should Know About Edward Bernays
A Proper Propagandist & Instigator of Hedonia in America by Chase Patton The field of public relations is associated with the “engineering of consent” based on the Jeffersonian principle that “in a truly democratic society, everything depends upon the consent of the public.” However, is consent truly consent when systematically […]
A Night at Emerson’s Bar and Grill
by L. Kravit-Smith Olympia theater is back! After a long-awaited pandemic setback, shows at the Harlequin Theater are going steady once more. Harlequin has updated their regulations when it comes to seeing shows with a mandatory mask and vaccination requirement. They’re not allowing max capacity in their theater and are […]
Quo Vadis, Aida? – A Review
by Alden Nagel 9/10 Quo Vadis, Aida? is a piercing meditation on the nature of cultural and historical trauma as seen through the eyes of its perpetrators, the intermediary bureaucrats actively participating in the necessarily banality of evil while retaining their individuality, and the victims of such events in such […]
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 […]