Creativity and Culture
A place for art, poetry, reviews, and fun featured in Dissonant Times.
Wayfinding Towards Solidarity and Struggle: The importance of community-powered education
When we struggle personally and collectively with conflict and injustice, where do we turn? When liberatory projects, campaigns, and larger movements burn and fizzle out, how can we build resilience across individuals and communities to keep up the work? How do we...
Information and History the Oregon Country Fair Doesn’t Want You to Know
1) Oregon Country Fair is located on an Indigenous burial ground and a traditional village site; 2) Archeology is rooted in racism; 3) Colonial nostalgia doesn't rinse out in the sauna shower. A brief history of Oregon Country Fair playing Indian, disrespecting tribal...
To Plant a Garden
Seventeen planters, placed by the city over a year ago to deter people from relaxing in front of an unoccupied downtown building, yet never filled with life. Nine, approximately 22’x25’ austere, concrete boxes lining the front of the federal courthouse, each occupied...
From Incarceration to Queer Liberation
My coming out story is pretty unique - kinda gritty, but also very supportive and loving. I grew up entangled in male toxicity where one of the main expressions was anger, and sarcasm took the place of tenderness. When my father died at 52 from a heart attack, my twin...
“A Review of No Option But Sabotage: An Academic’s Analysis Misses the Forest for the Trees
B.C Sadlee is the pseudonym of a depressed old anarchist and animal liberationist who still lives in Eugene. He hates cages and loves books. In April of 2022 I received an email from a professor named Thomas Zeitzoff requesting an interview for a book about the...
About the Cover Art
I first read this quote when I saw it shared in reference to the u.s.-isreali war on iran. It put words to the growing, crushing feeling I’d been having of all my grief and rage colliding. The feeling I had when I heard about a member of our community being kidnapped...
Oregon Burning
by Hakiyim Hakiyim is a wildland firefighter and father of four who is facing six years in prison for self-defense against a racially motivated attack, despite his aggressor admitting he started the fight. Support this defender of our forests State of Oregon vs Brian...
On Grand Jury Resistance
The grand jury is a tool of the federal (and California) legal system. Ostensibly they are used to determine whether or not to issue an indictment in the case of a felony crime, and hear evidence presented by a prosecutor to make this determination. Unlike normal...
Finding Community on 1/30/26
You message early ‘It’s already heated, going early’… my chest throbs I might be late to the party, but I’ll find you at the front. Hard to leave, to say goodbye. remember every item every promise must be kept Fuck. gear is heavy. Get help. soul swells, heart escapes....
The Return of Creative Wintervention
On Monday February 16th, radicals and creatives gathered for a second annual Creative Wintervention: an intentional space for participants to make and share art during the darkest, coldest, and often most isolated time of the year. In a season already marked by death...