2014 — The Monarch Review — Page 9
Street Harassment Lexicon – Piper J. Daniels
Monday, August 25, 2014 11:13 — 1 Comment
The following stories were gathered from twenty-three women living in Seattle, WA over the course of a single week. In order to protect the women behind these stories from further harm, all identities have been withheld.
Vote Jess Spear: Vote, Participate
Monday, August 25, 2014 10:50 — 0 Comments
ÂThe World will be What We Make of It: Why Voting, Activism and Getting Involved Matters
Marco Collins 15 Best Seattle Summer Jams 2014
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 16:58 — 0 Comments
Hall of Fame DJ, Marco Collins, is beloved by us Monarch folk. He started a musical movement in the 90’s and continues to be a friend of all things (Seattle) music today. His movie, The Glamour and the Squalor, all about his life within music scene, will be finished Thursday – the final shots for the film to be done at Chop Suey. In order to celebrate Marco, his movie and Seattle music, we thought we’d offer the DJ’s list of 15 Best Seattle Summer Jams 2014. ENJOY!
Freedom Is Slavery – Levi Fuller & the Library
Tuesday, August 19, 2014 11:24 — 0 Comments
When Chris Estey talks, we listen.
One Super Important Question For Stephanie Drury
Thursday, August 14, 2014 14:17 — 0 Comments
Stephanie Drury champions compassion, understanding, freedom from (religious) oppression and is one of The Monarch’s patron saints of excellence. Which is why, of course, we had to ask her one super important question – a simple question this time:Â
White Girl Wasted – Amanda Manitach
Thursday, August 14, 2014 12:39 — 0 Comments
Amanda Manitach is one of The Monarch’s favorite people, visual artists and thinkers. Over the past few months, Amanda has been posting hand-drawn pictures of drunk girls with graphic t-shirts that we absolutely adore. She writes, “These were inspired by (among other things) some t-shirt companies based in LA, vibrators, found phrases on dumpsters, the fact I have always had penis envy and don’t love my pubic hair but don’t think that makes me a bad feminist. (My list of ten things that suck about having a dick probably does, but to be fair, that list was generated by a […]
The Home of the Mighty
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 23:01 — 0 Comments
Solidarity is weird stuff. It belongs to no one. It’s between us. It means you’d die for your people. It means you have nothing to believe in but those people. Things used to be about the ruin porn and welcome to fold city, now it’s welcome to the Home of the Mighty. We used to live in a culture that told us to be ordinary, to be ok, to hate our jobs, to get by. Nobody was telling us to be great. Corporate advertisements told us we could be great if we bought their shit, but their shit was just that, and […]
On Robin Williams
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 14:11 — 0 Comments
Caleb Thompson and I have talked for a couple of years now about the idea of having a confidant: a friend, someone you can tell your secrets to, your doubts, your worries, your mistakes, whatever those things are that you want to express but think you wouldn’t otherwise be able to. The kind of person who would be comfortable seeing you, intellectually-speaking at least, naked.Â
Old Yellow Couch – Benjamin Soileau
Tuesday, August 12, 2014 10:50 — 2 Comments
So I come out the bathroom and I see that little fool doing sit-ups with his feet stuck up under my mamma’s armoire. I can hear all the china rattling around in there each time he pulls himself up.
The answer isn't poetry, but rather language
- Richard Kenney
