By Patrick Hamilton From 1987 until his retirement in Spring of 2020, Peter Bohmer worked as a professor of Political Economy at Evergreen. On a cloudless May afternoon, my friend Magnus Cain and I sat down with Peter on his porch here in West Olympia. We asked him to reflect […]
Love in the Asian & Pacific Islander Communities
By Natalie “Lee” Arneson As I reflect on this last article I’m writing for this school year, I think back to the first article I wrote last Spring—“Being Asian American in the Time of COVID-19”. While this article is near and dear to me and the issues I discussed in […]
Spoiler Warning: Go Play Disco Elysium. Now. Posthaste.
By Alice McIntyre The 2019 role-playing game “Disco Elysium,” developed and published by ZA/UM, is phenomenal. This column has been, and will continue to be, essentially a place for me to gush about media I like and think CPJ readers ought to check out. On this occasion, though, I really […]
Guilty Pleasures
By Brooke Lynch Recently, I have been horrified to find that I have an affinity for 80s hard rock and metal. Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Guns N’ Roses and other bands whom I’ve had absolutely no love for have been popping up in my playlists and recent listens, and I […]
A Discussion with Talauna Reed, Running for Olympia City Council
By Miguel Louis This is an interview with Talauna Reed, conducted on the night of the 18th of May, 2021. ML: If you could start by introducing yourself. TR: My name is Talauna Reed, I’m from Olympia. I am running for Olympia City Council Position 5. I am an organizer, […]
An Interview with Moonshine Quinn
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 […]