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. […]
Wet City, USA
Part Three of ERRATICA: From the Desk of Fiore Amore, Esq. The Olympia structure, also known as the Legislature fault, is an 80km long gravitational and aeromagnetic anomaly separating the sedimentary deposits of the Tacoma Basin from the basalt of the Black Hills uplift. It is not known to be […]
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 […]
History and Homoeroticism: Taking a Look at Queer Coding in Horror Media
by Melisa Ferati The LGBTQ+ community has had quite the long-term relationship with the villains of the horror genre. From the homoerotic sexuality of vampires to the sympathetic creation of Dr. Frankenstein, the antagonists of horror primarily served as a reflection of heteronormative society’s perception of those who fell outside […]
CAFÉ FUN
by Michael Richards The door to Café Fun was a troublesome one to open. It had been built a hair too large and stuck against the frame, which made a terrible cracking sound when you tried to push it. If you could get past this, the door would fly open […]
“A Culture of Incompetence:” Public Records Lawsuit Spells Public Relations Nightmare
by Alice McIntyre Photo: John Carmichael Addresses the Board of Trustees in a July 2020 Virtual Meeting, THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE. On Aug. 26, former Cooper Point Journal news editor Daniel Vogel filed a lawsuit against The Evergreen State College and the State of Washington, alleging Evergreen “systematically and repeatedly […]
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 […]
Trumpers Gone AWOL
By Jack Stroud Owing to the historic swarms on the National Capitol and various state capitols (including our own) on January 6th, the nation awaited Inauguration Day with clenched teeth and private curiosity—not, “Would the Trumpers turn out?” but, “How many would there be?” Picket signs scattered throughout the suburbs […]
“Our City”
By Jack Stroud NOV. 28th* Notice: This article contains profanity. It’s Small Business Saturday and I’m sitting on a bench in Sylvester Park wondering what makes Olympia how it is. A red Kia drives by and the driver, through a bullhorn, warns the citizens that there is a group of […]
Artist Feature: Travis Johnson
by Bahi’chi Castañeda Travis Johnson is a Black, 41-year-old creative, storyteller, and artist currently based in Olympia, WA. Over the last three decades, he has honed his skill as a painter, sculptor, singer, poet, and textile artist, channeling the past and exploring themes of transgenerational trauma, memory, and reality. Tell […]