September 2026
Disabled love – time is an access need
My spirit lives outside of time, but my body lives within time. My spouse Ming and I have become close to a community where there are no clocks. “Why are there no clocks here? Time is a construct we invite you to disconnect from,” a laminated sign says in...
Anarchic Reflections: On Anti-Surveillance Mindfulness
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...
Cheap Drinks, Crappy Music, Slutty Men: an interview with longstanding queer cultural place-maker, DJ EnriqueDamnit
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...
Eugene Demands Data Center Ban: September 14th City Council Meeting
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”....
Private Stake in Public Land on 1059 Willamette: MUPTES, Opportunity Zones, and More Tax Exemptions for Developers
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 public comments regarding their elected officials’ plans to allocate public money to property developers to, presumably, increase the availability of housing.
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