By Jasmine Kozak-Gilroy The EF, or Education First, campus is tucked away on the fourth floor of the Seminar I building, sharing floor space with the relocated Office of Sexual Violence Prevention (OSVP). For Evergreen students who haven’t visited OSVP in its new location, the school is all but invisible, […]
Janet Mock in Conversation with Talcott Broadhead Mock Comes to Evergreen for T*REX’s Queer-Trans Week
by Danny Loose On Saturday, May 21 feminist writer and media critic Janet Mock sat down with local writer and activist Talcott Broadhead for a conversation to conclude Evergreen’s first ever Queer Week. Queer Week was organized by Trans Resource & Education Extravaganza (T*REX), and included other talks Aydian Dowling […]
Students Work to Kick CAT off Campus Resolution Up fro Student Vote Would Reaffirm CAT Free Campus & Ban Other Boycotted Products
By Jamsine Kozak-Gilroy The current Student Government Vote includes an initiative to reinforce the 2010 vote to kick Caterpillar, Inc (stylized by the brand as CATerpillar and referred to as CAT) equipment off campus, alongside initiatives aimed at food services on campus, asking the college to formally de-shelve Sabra Hummus […]
‘FUCK TERF!’ Chalk On Campus Garners Backlash
By Nix Chace On May 2, Evergreen’s upper campus was covered in chalk. The phrases “Fuck TERFs!” and “Trans lives matter!” were written on the ground and walls around Red Square. TERF stands for ‘Trans-Exclusionary Radical Feminist’—usually meaning cis-woman who identify as feminists but misgender, exclude, and deny the womanhood […]
“Re-Imagining the American Dream” An Exploration of Intentional Living Communities & Sustainable Living
By Chloe Marina Manchester Evergreen students Soph Elden, Nate Kindler-Balmy, and Haley Varney have been working on a web series about different kinds of intentional living communities and people who live sustainably for the entire school year. To celebrate and showcase their work, they are holding two free screenings of […]
Empowering Survivors and Educating Allies Sexual violence awareness week at Evergreen
By Nix Chace The week of April 25 was Sexual Violence Awareness Week at Evergreen hosted by the Coalition Against Sexual Violence (CASV). This week is designed to bring awareness of the issue of sexual assault on this campus to the Evergreen community and to empower survivors on campus and […]
George Bridges Inaugurated as President
By Aria Cummings n April 22, 2016, The Evergreen State College celebrated the inauguration of its sixth President, George S. Bridges. The celebration began with a procession featuring dancers from the Git-Hoan tribe from Southeast Alaska, faculty members, college and university delegates, the Board of Trustees, and Bridges himself. A […]
Longhouse Anniversary Show
By Ruby Love This past Thursday marked the opening of sgʷigʷialʔtxʷ at 20: Building upon the Past, Visioning into the Future, a new exhibit at Evergreen Gallery celebrating the 20th anniversary of The Longhouse. I arrived early, and there were already people milling around outside the gallery doors, peering through […]
A Vagina DialogueThe Vagina Monologues Will be Performed at Evergreen
By Jasmine Kozak Gilroy This year from February 12-14 a group of students from the Evergreen State College will be performing a hybrid version of the Vagina Monologues, a combination of the original monologues and student written pieces, to benefit the Women’s Resource Center. Next year, instead of the Vagina […]
evergreen.snap Raises Privacy Concerns
By Danny Loose In September of 2015 a developer called Squid’s Inc. launched an app called “Fleek College Stories” was made available for download acting with a third party app in correspondence with the photo communication app Snapchat. The way it works is that Fleek geotags (establishes metadata to a […]