all poems featured in this post originally published in volume 50, issue 3/4
Students On Strike at River Ridge High
by Miguel Louis A month ago, local news flooded with reports of a racist incident in Olympia area schools. During a game between River Ridge, in Lacey, and Capital High School, on the Westside of Olympia, a white student from Capital chanted at a black student from the rival school. […]
Exploring Community in Olympia
by Caroline Keane Olympia is known as a place for radicals, queers, and weirdos. People are attracted from all over the country to move here or attend Evergreen. Olympia’s dwindling Evergreen population is transient by nature. Rents are rising, making this city less liveable. Any communities or public spaces that […]
History and Homoeroticism: Taking a Look at Queer Coding in Horror Media
by Melisa Ferati The LGBTQ+ community has had quite the long-term relationship with the villains of the horror genre. From the homoerotic sexuality of vampires to the sympathetic creation of Dr. Frankenstein, the antagonists of horror primarily served as a reflection of heteronormative society’s perception of those who fell outside […]
An Interview with Sako, the CPJ’s Amazing In-House Artist!
by Natalie ‘Lee’ Arneson CPJ: So, would you like to introduce yourself? Sako: Yeah! Hello, my name is Sako. This is my second year at Evergreen, and I am a visual artist of several mediums. I would say I do mostly illustration, digital, and a lot of my art practice […]
‘Geoengineered Transhumanism’, a Review
by Chase Patton “Geoengineered Transhumanism: How the Environment Has Been Weaponized by Chemicals, Electromagnetics, & Nanotechnology for Synthetic Biology” is the third book in a trilogy by Elana Freeland on the topic of geoengineering. It goes even further into depth about how humanity and the environment are being transformed to […]
Crisis-Friendly Cooking: single-serving dishes for minimal cleanup and maximum comfort
by Adam Nichols Hello, hungry reader, and welcome to the crisis-baking column! Here I personally tailor recipes to serve a single distressed, depressed, or otherwise baking-inept liberal arts student, keeping accessibility of ingredients, number of dishes, and overall prep time in mind to give you a relatively easy, and hopefully […]
Slouching Towards Evergreen
by Clara R. Riggio I’ve been spending a lot of time walking around campus lately, probably making up for the time I lost to the virus. I’ve also been reading a healthy serving of Joan Didion and her style of writing has influenced my own voice and the ways that […]
CAFÉ FUN
by Michael Richards The door to Café Fun was a troublesome one to open. It had been built a hair too large and stuck against the frame, which made a terrible cracking sound when you tried to push it. If you could get past this, the door would fly open […]
IT CAME FROM THE FRIDGE…
Part One of ERRATICA: From the Desk of Fiore Amore, Esq. The return to campus has assuredly been a turbulent time for everyone. In this foul and plague-ridden year of our lord, 2021, even that which we’re closest to remains unfamiliar. Nothing could have prepared me for what I saw […]