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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
