Surveillance has become a ubiquitous feature of everyday life in America. Cameras watch us from businesses and homes, from bus stops, from cars, from traffic lights. Bluetooth trackers ping our smartphones as we pass by, mapping our movements. The phones themselves...
For nearly a century, “gay nightlife” has provided a crucial landscape for all kinds of gay mayhem and magic to ensue, for survival technologies to brew, and for queer world building and culture-making to flourish outside the constraints of heteronormative...
The Eugene city chambers were packed to full capacity of ~120, with more than 50 people turned away at the door before it even began. 72 people signed up to give public testimony. Some wore matching shirts that read, “No data centers – not in Eugene, not anywhere”....
By: Joy Santiago & Dime Reid Across states and spanning decades, the allowance of federal and state tax breaks for property developers has been a hotbed of debate. Numbers are crunched, independent consultants are acquired, and communities provide private and...
On Tuesday, July 7th, the bimonthly meeting for the Washington State Board of Natural Resources began like every other. After a few formalities, Dave Upthegrove, State Commissioner of Public Lands, announced that a 60-minute comment period was about to begin. He...
By: Cipher As we mourn the recent ICE murders of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo and Joan Sebastian Guerrero, we must continue to resist this fascist violence, and take inspiration from those who have been engaged in this battle with their full selves. This spring, ICE and...
