Photo: Amira Caluya’s Equity Symposium presentation by Britt Pierro Workshop by Amira Caluya, Article by Miette Deschenes “There is no monolithic Asian American experience.” This was one of the most prominent messages of The Social Construction of AZN, a workshop that was held Friday morning during the Equity Symposium. The workshop was hosted by Amira Caluya, Trans & Queer Center coordinator at […]
Evergreen Alumna Lynda Barry Receives Grant for Inspiring Engagement
Photo: A comic by Lynda Barry featured in The Cooper Point Journal in the 1970s, Marta Tahja-Syrett Cartoonist, teacher, and Evergreen alumna Lynda Barry has been awarded a $625,000 grant by the MacArthur Fellows Program. According to the MacArthur Foundation, her award is for “inspiring creative engagement through original graphic works and a teaching practice centered on the role of image making in communication.” “The […]
Teaching for Social Justice Conference: Students and Faculty Share Their Thoughts
Photo: Evergreen Students Callista Lahney and Zoe Chamberlain (left to right) at NWTSJ Conference, Khristine Sandwith By Khristine Sandwith On Oct. 19, 2019, Evergreen students attended the Northwest Teaching for Social Justice (NWTSJ) conference in Seattle, Washington. The conference ran for its 12th year at Chief Sealth International High School, teaching and inspiring educators to get involved in social justice through the education system to strengthen […]
A Glimpse into Evergreen’s Rare Books Room
Photo: Book available in the Rare Book Room by Allegra Simpkins By Allegra Simpkins Just across the top of the stairs, on the third floor of the library lives a calm and quiet room that oozes a welcoming ambiance. Framed poetry and artwork reside on the walls, the natural wooden shelves and warm lighting makes it almost impossible not to be coaxed […]
Greener Foundations: Your New GF
Photo: Greener Foundations by Shayna Clayton By Sonia Boeger During 2019 fall and winter quarters, first-year Greeners enrolled in specific 16 credit academic programs will take a pilot program called Greener Foundations (GF). This program is described by the Irrepressible Bodies-Greener Foundations Week 1 presentation as a “holistic first-year student success course.” It is […]
Hot Spot Fixed: William Ward, Evergreen Students Share Their Thoughts
Photo: Hot Spot by Brittanyana Pierro By Miette Deschenes The beloved hot spots on campus, which had been around for years and reached dangerously high temperatures, were repaired over summer break. Student reactions to the repairs vary wildly. According to William Ward, Associate Vice President of Facilities Services, the repairs have been a long time coming, despite […]
By Night in Oly Olympia’s Karaoke & Open-Mic Scene
Photo: “YOYO” by Pat Castaldo is licensed under CC BY 2.0 / Desaturated from original By Daniel Mootz As Fall begins and the school year starts back up, downtown Olympia offers a number of unique venues for creative and artistic expression. From bars to dispensaries, coffee shops to street corners, people gather not only to hang out and catch a few bands, […]
An Interview with CCBLA Director Ellen Sanchez
By Marta Tahja-Syrett. Ellen Shortt Sanchez is devoted to collaboration and advocacy. In her professional life, Shortt Sanchez attends to the partnership and academic needs of The Evergreen State College. As the director of Evergreen’s Center for Community-Based Learning and Action (CCBLA), she finds herself merging the divide between community […]
I Don’t Want Your Hipster Gumbo
By Marta Tahja-Syrett The marbled wood-grain of my great-grandmother’s shotgun sits propped against hung fabrics, quietly dusting itself in the corner of my parents’ closet. I only met her once before she died in Virginia on a street named for the beauty of bluebirds. The stale scent of present estranged […]
Evergreen Overshares: I loved, and now I hate:
Every issue we ask folks at this school an uncomfortable question and publish the answers.