Hot Tears holds an important place in Olympia’s music scene. In the midst of the city’s impressive music communities, it’s easy to break off into cliques. Different styles of music can sometimes feel unwelcoming and exclusive to outsiders, but Hot Tears evades genres and resists categorization. The group recently returned […]
Resisting the New Plantation
BLACK PANTHER SPEAKS ON PRISON INJUSTICE A Student Submission BY JOSEPH BULLINGTON What does he look like? That’s what a friend wondered when I told her that Robert H. King, a Black Panther and one of the Angola 3, would be speaking at Evergreen. I was curious too. What does […]
From France, With Love
BY PATRICK STEWART The sirens blared as they loaded the woman onto the ambulance. The twisted wreckage of her moped lay to the side, still making dying noises, while the woman herself made no noises at all. I could not tell for certain that she was dead, but with the […]
The Procession of the Species: Olympia’s Finest Tradition
BY EMILY McHUGH With the annual Procession of the Species just around the corner, founder Eli Sterling recalls his own discovery of myth and how it inspired him to begin Olympia’s finest tradition. The Procession of the Species has for years been a staple of Olympia cultural life, exposing the […]
Uprising or Rebellion?
REVISITING THE CONTROVERSIAL STORY Part Three in a Three-Part Series Click here for part 1, click here for part 2 BY JOSH WOLF Six years ago last Valentine’s Day, an estimated 200 students surrounded Evergreen Police Services Officer April Meyers, after she arrested black breakdancer Kaylen Williams. The students blocked […]
A No-nonsense Guide to Net Neutrality
BY SERENA IMANI KORN Internet neutrality and regulation is complicated. Part of the complexity of the issue is that it is an ongoing process and debate. We do not have the position of retrospect as we do with past debates over regulation. There is a lot within this subject that […]
An Island on the Sound
BY SARA FABIAN Many people move to Olympia because of its politics—the state capital can be seen as “progressive” due to its close knit community that are highly involved in political activism. Media Island is a house-turned-activism center that primarily consists of a “networking center for individuals, groups, and people […]
Exploring Me: LGBTQ Style & Identity
BY SARA FABIAN Identity is one of the most compelling and controversial concepts within human nature. Fashion is inevitably intertwined in the constructions and reconstructions of identity—how we represent the contradictions within ourselves in our everyday lives. Through style, individuals announce who they are and who they hope to become. […]
The Dead Prez Riot Part 2
Revisiting the Controversial Story BY JOSH WOLF Click here to read part 1 The Dead Prez riot has become commonly associated with The Evergreen State College. Yet, despite the number of students and police officers at the event, eyewitness reports are numerous and conflicting. Did Officer Meyers racially profile Kaylen […]
Water to Beer: A Timeline of Industry and Drinking
BY CASSIE JOHNSON-VILLALOBOS Olympia’s history as a brewery town goes back to just seven years after Washington turned from United States territory to a state of its own. A relatively unbroken legacy spanned from the 1896 establishment of Capital Brewing Company by Leopold Schmidt until 1983, when Olympia Beer […]
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