Photo: The Flaming Eggplant by Shayna Clayton By Mariah Guilfoil-Dovel “The Flaming Eggplant, what the heck is that?” If you know, then you know, but if you find yourself utterly confused at those words then you aren’t alone. The Flaming Eggplant is a cafe-style restaurant located on the Olympia campus of The Evergreen State College, in […]
Evergreen RAs Present List of Demands
Photo courtesy of the author / resized from original By Brittanyana Pierro Several students working as Residential Advisors (RAs) for on-campus housing have recently quit their jobs due to lack of adequate pay, a concern for food security and issues of transparent communication with Residential and Dining Services (RAD) professional staff. On Oct. 22, just three weeks after the […]
Horoscopes: Feb. 5th, 2020
By Your Cosmic Best Friend Aries (March 21 – April 20): Adventure motivates this February—let your independent and courageous spirit lead the way. Your excitement for life brings joy into the lives of others. Never dull your sparkle and keep that enthusiastic energy up, even in the midst of these cloudy gray skies. Taurus […]
Left at London: Interview by Miette Deschenes
Photo courtesy of Nat Puff Left at London is the stage name of Nat Puff, a trans woman and singer-songwriter from Seattle. Originally known for her Vines, Puff is now an up-and-coming musician who has released several EPs, most recently Transgender Street Legend, Vol. 1, and will soon be releasing her first album, You […]
Spoiler Warning: Alien, Authoritarianism, and Fear of the Unknown
By Alice McIntyre Ridley Scott’s sci-fi horror classic Alien (1979) is widely regarded as one of the best films of all time, and deservedly so. It tells the story of the commercial starship Nostromo and its crew, who intercept a distress signal during their return to earth and subsequently deal with an […]
Bunni Peterson-Haitwas: Welcome Woman
Photo: Photograph of the Welcome Woman, by herself, courtesy of Shayna Clayton. Interview by Marta Tahja-Syrett On Oct. 2 of 2019, Makah carver Greg Colfax and Skokomish artist Bunni Peterson-Haitwas revealed their beautiful restoration of the Welcome Woman—a joint project which they presented to the Evergreen community through a fall unveiling […]
Always Greener: A Look at Xing Wei’s Evergreen Partnership and the Radical Potential of Student Power in Practice
By Daniel Mootz Four years after opening in 2012, Xing Wei College, a private liberal arts school in Shanghai, partnered with Evergreen to develop an overseas exchange program. For four years that program has been going strong, and has expanded to include independent Evergreen courses, such as Arts, Culture, and […]
Remembering Rachel Corrie
Photo: “Rachel Corrie Peace Vigil”. WIKIMEDIA COMMONS. CC BY-SA 3.0 By Jake Andersen If you’ve walked around Evergreen, I’m sure you’ve seen the Rachel Corrie Memorial on the third floor of the College Activities Building (CAB). The memorial, a bronze dove perched atop a steel pyramid, stands outside of the Student Activities […]
Ro Waters: Artist Interview by Jacob Anderson-Kester
Photo: art by Ro Waters By Jacob Anderson-Kester Ro Waters is a visual artist attending Evergreen. Originating from deep in the concrete holdings of Denver, they expressed to me an artistic desire to break free from the bleak shroud an environment of such a type might cast. Fittingly, Ro’s artistic output is predominantly loud […]