With the weather tentatively turning for the better, I crave foods that are light and crisp. Something refreshing to cleanse the palate after months of heavy winter-made meals. This hesitant spring has me thinking about cucumbers, a vegetable that was a staple item in my mother’s garden. When I think […]
CANOE – A Flowing Fiction by Mj Richards
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Chibi Chibi Con Blurb
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 […]
The Spring Egg Hunt is Decadent and Depraved
By Fiore Amore SATURDAY, APRIL 16 — The Evergreen State College attempted to inaugurate a new tradition, the Spring Egg Hunt. The Easter holiday, a divine ray through the oppressive atmosphere of Wet City, appealed to me deeply. I and many others were duped into this horrific exercise. The force […]
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 […]
Evergreen Eye on Science
Fungal Kingdom Spotlight Part I: Likin’ the Lichens The Fungal Kingdom has been a two quarter upper-division program in mycology and lichenology taught by Lalita Calabria and Paul Przybylowicz. Over winter quarter, students in this program have been doing independent projects in groups. Over the next few issues, I will […]
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 […]
Evergreen Wrestling Team
In late December of 2022, The Evergreen State College introduced their first Men and Women’s wrestling teams. Along with the newly installed team also came new coaches Fan Zhang, head coach of the Women’s team, and Greg Ford, head coach of the Men’s team. Both Zhang and Ford share a […]
Artist Feature: Noquisi Christian-Smith
Artist Feature: Noquisi Christian-Smith by Natalie “Lee” Arneson Noquisi (they/them), is a multi-racial third-year student at Evergreen. They have a focus in history and cultural studies. Their favorite art mediums are ceramics, paper cuts, and darkroom photography. Their current project is a series of paper cuts that are based on […]