By Avery Quinn Merrill Pusey is Evergreen’s Multicultural Initiatives Coordinator and has been in that role for two years. Merrill is an incredible advocate for justice, bringing that passion to us through her work with students every day. She is also a painter of vibrant and evocative works ranging from […]
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 […]
An Interview with Harrison Hannon
By Brooke Lynch (photo by Lindsey Dalthrop) Pre-Covid 19, what do you think the state of Olympia music was and what was your experience in it like? It was ranging from all these different types of people playing music: different genres, different subcultures, different sub genres being shown. It was […]
Spoiler Warning: Of Wizards and Workers – “Хо́ббит”
By Alice McIntyre As a child I was, like many others, enthralled by Tolkien’s classic novel The Hobbit. To this day when I recall my father sitting on my bedside and delivering his personal rendition of Bilbo Baggins’ journey to the Lonely Mountain and back, a part of me becomes […]
Oedipus Complex 3: Saint Pete
By Fiore Amore Content warning: mentions of suicide, self harm I’ve spent nine whole years of my life wanting to kill myself and by god, I did it. “Finally! Suck my dick, corporeal being! You don’t mean a goddamn thing to me.” Or so I thought. Funny thing: I was […]
George Washington Bush: an Abridged Biography
By Patrick Hamilton In 1844 the first Americans to settle on the Puget Sound in what is now Washington State were led through the frontier by George Washington Bush, a man of African and Irish descent. Bush, along with his wife (b.)Isabella James, established a farm named Bush Prairie in […]
How Contemporary Black Poets are Shaping Society
By Natalie “Lee” Arneson These past couple weeks I had the pleasure to interview three local Black poets in the Pacific Northwest. During Black History Month, it is important to celebrate Black history as well as look to those in the Black community currently making history. It could be said […]
On Oly Housing Now at the Red Lion Hotel
By Miguel Louis Correction: Within the print edition, we had claimed that the author was involved with the actions in the article. To clarify, this involvement was the retelling of events, giving special consideration to the perspectives of the actors involved. On Jan. 30, a small group of activists visited […]
Eating Sustainably & DIY Living: An Interview with Forest Ember (she/her), an Evergreen Student, Pt. 2
By Natalie “Lee” Arneson The following is the second half of an interview that was published in our January issue, which you can find here. What first started you with sustainable living–why’d you first decide to start that kind of lifestyle? When I moved to Seattle, I moved into an […]
Evergreen First Peoples’ February Events
by Natalie “Lee” Arneson The following is a list of virtual events and announcements for the month of February for Evergreen’s First Peoples, Multicultural, Trans, & Queer Support Services. Evergreen’s First Peoples, Multicultural, Trans, & Queer Support Services is here to provide (virtual) community amidst all our social distancing! We […]