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...
by: Mx. Rahi Tea It seems the general “mainstream left” is fiiiiiinaaaaaly having critical conversations about pink-washing and rainbow-capitalism. The corporate and state-sanctioned messaging that presents the facade of support for the queer community but...
A recent dispute over protections to an old-growth redwood tree in Lower Redway, California has once again invigorated scrutiny towards hazard tree designations, their justifications, and the uses to which they are put. In late 2025 Robert Scarlett, a mid-twenties...
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,...
