From my perspective at the tiny corner occupied by the CPJ table, this year’s Chibi Chibi Con, taking place on the Evergreen campus for over 20 years now, was as vibrant as ever. The sheer quantity of people in the campus’ fairly large auditorium was something that filled myself and […]
SLIGHTY WEST
SLIGHTLY WEST LIVES! Missing and presumed dead for the last 10 years, Slightly West is a student-run literary publication, featuring students’ creative literary and visual works easily printed in black and white. We want your poems, stories, pulp, flash fiction, satire, secret magic spells, original chain mail, homemade recipes, manifestos, […]
Love—not Cops!—In the Library
Content Warning: this piece makes explicit description of the forced detox and murder of my friend, Rob Talbot, by police in March 2018, and contains descriptions of the somatic reactions I have when trying to work as a Peer Writing Tutor with police around. Please take care of yourself if […]
Feeding the Diaspora: That’s My Jam
For this installment of Feeding the Diaspora, I decided to clue you all into an interview I recently did with my mom, Maria, as part of another project I’ve been working on. While we mostly discussed gardening, we took a little detour to jam—something I remember Mom always making with […]
Thurston Housing Land Trust
Housing is an important part of life. In the past I was a cost estimator for a large local siding company which installed siding on hundreds of single family new homes and several multi-family buildings every year throughout the Puget Sound. I would create estimates and order material packages on […]
Shaping our work and Shaping Ourselves
A Program Spotlight: “Studio Projects: Rites of Passage” By Grace Selvig Studio Projects: Rites Of Passage is a 16 credit, 3 quarter program based in ceramics and ritual studies. The program is very structured with two theme projects a quarter as well as weekly readings, essays, lectures and skills assignments. […]
Feeding the Diaspora: It’s the Simple Things
by Natalie “Lee” Arneson As we creep out of December and settle into the heart of January, it’s simple foods that begin to sound the most appetizing. With the cold keeping a firm grasp on the PNW, our energy declines and cooking can feel especially taxing some days. So, something […]
Artist Feature: Alec Phipps
Hi, I’m Alec and I’m an illustrator and aspiring children’s book author! I work mainly on large-scale gouache paintings and monochrome ink on paper pieces. I’m an advocate for the weird and hope to keep creating till I drop! CPJ: The question that I always like to open up with […]
Gigastohorrem aka The Creature
By L Colloquially known as “The Creature” to the students of the Evergreen State College, this monstrosity has been witnessed by an unfortunate few, lurking in the activities building under the cover of night, feasting on the Greenery’s produce. Name: Gigastohorrem Monikers: The Creature, Drain Eater, Slug Mother Diet: Omnivore […]
Speedyfication: The hot new trend that may be changing someone you know into a bivalve
It seems like some students at The Evergreen State College are taking the immortal orders of our school’s fight song to “swivel about,” and “let it all hang,” out all too seriously. Revolutionary new technology is now allowing human geoducks to become actual geoducks. Thorn Foster, who lists their inspirations […]