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FROM THE ARCHIVES “Richard Johnson, a maintenance mechanic at the Evergreen State Col-
lege is known for his afterwork balloon-dancing in the CRC on Wednesday, October 27, 2010. By Hannah
Pietrick.” Courtesy of TESC Archives.
HOW WE WORK
The Cooper Point Journal is produced by students at The Evergreen State College, with funding from student
fees and advertising from local businesses. The Journal is published for free every other Wednesday during the
school year and distributed throughout the Olympia area.
Our content is also available online at www.cooperpointjournal.com.
Our mission is to provide an outlet for student voices, and to inform and entertain the Evergreen community
and the Olympia-area more broadly, as well as to provide a platform for students to learn about operating a
news publication.
Our office is located on the third floor of the Campus Activities Building (CAB) at Evergreen State College
in room 332 and we have open student meetings from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. every Wednesday. Come early if you’d
like to chat with the editor!
WORK FOR US
We accept submissions from any student at The Evergreen State College, and also from former students,
faculty, and staff. We also hire some students onto our staff, who write articles for each issue and receive a
learning stipend.
Have an exciting news topic? Know about some weird community happening? Enjoy that new hardcore
band? Come talk to us and write about it.
We will also consider submissions from non-Evergreen people, particularly if they have special knowledge on
the topic. We prioritize current student content first, followed by former students, faculty and staff, and then
general community submissions. Within that, we prioritize content related to Evergreen first, followed by
Olympia, the state of Washington, the Pacific Northwest, etc.
To submit an article, reach us at cooperpointjournal@gmail.com.
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
We want to hear from you! If you have an opinion on anything we’ve reported in the paper, or goings-on in
Olympia or at Evergreen, drop us a line with a paragraph or two (100 - 300 words) for us to publish in the
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News
“MiT student Julia Abrams student teaches at McKenny Elementary in Olympia, WA on Thursday, May 3, 2012”. SHAUNA BITTLE.
Master In Teaching Program
Set To Restructure Will Resume Taking
By DJ Pfeifle
The Master in Teaching
Program at The Evergreen
State College is being suspended until spring of 2020.
Students currently enrolled in
the program will continue as
normal with the current structure. The suspension is the
result of the program being
restructured, which includes
(among other things) moving the MIT program from a
fall start to a spring start. New
faculty have been hired, including a new director, whose
name is unreleased as of yet.
They will start in August.
The MIT program will
be accepting applications in
Applicants Spring 2020
spring of 2020 for a spring
2021 start. Applications may
open earlier, but will not open
later. The move to a spring
start makes the program perfectly timed for new teachers,
as students become certified
after four quarters. By doing this, students get the following summer off to look
for a teaching job, before the
fall start dates for schools.
Sonja Wiedenhaupt, an
MIT Faculty member, when
asked about why the program
is moving to a spring start said,
“When folks join our program
in the fall, it’s a two year commitment,” and for many stu-
dents, “Taking two years off
a full time job can be a huge
barrier.” By moving the MIT
program to a spring start, the
program can move to a one
year structure without missing out on length, thus making
it more accessible to students.
“Our goal is not to shorten the
program,” said Wiedenhaupt.
The current restructuring
of the program is a large and
noticeable change for the MIT
program, but the program is
constantly experiencing other
minor changes. Originally the
program put students in different types of schools; schools
with different racial makeup,
different ages, different social
classes and so on were all vis-
Weidenhaupt also said faculty members in the program
very much had a say in this
change, saying, “When we
started working on what this
model looked like … we sat
at the table and designed it.”
Evergreen’s MIT program is experiencing quite
a few changes but is by no
means at risk of disappearing in the long run, it is simited. Now the program is mov- ply taking some time off to
ing to a model that focuses on make some big changes. Stugetting to know the commu- dents currently in the pronities you’re teaching in. As gram can continue without
Wiedenhaupt said, “How do any change. As Wiedenhaupt
you get to know the communi- said, “Our vision is not changty on the community’s terms?” ing, even as the structure is.”
“Our vision is
not changing,
even as the
structure is”
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Community
Student Wellness Services entrance in Seminar I, 2019. MASON SOTO.
T alking
Student
W
e l l n e ss
An Interview With Evergreen
Therapist Leslie Johnson
By Marta Tahja-Syrett
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Leslie Johnson’s position as a mental health
therapist at The Evergreen
State College requires her
to play many roles. In addition to doing individual
therapy sessions, Johnson
co-facilitates and runs
groups centered around
mental health. Along with
this, she works on staff
at Evergreen’s Evaluation and Referral Services
(EARS) clinic. Despite
her extremely busy schedule, Johnson was able to
sit down with me and
discuss the importance
of emotional support
and normalizing mental health issues. She also
discussed the connection
between our current political climate and increasing rates of mental illness.
When students come
to the EARS clinic, “We
have this big menu of
things that we can do. Individual counseling here
is one thing,” said Johnson. “We do grief, shortterm therapy here, mainly
around issues of depression and anxiety, and then
the usual things that happen when you come to
college.” Located in Sem I
2110, the EARS clinic additionally offers same-day
appointments and crisis
hours for students in need
of mental health support.
“We need to
normalize that
having a mental
health issue
doesn’t make you
less of a person,
that it doesn’t
mean that you’re
flawed.”
Sometimes a new environment, or another
Community
form of life-alteration,
can force an individual to
interface with underlying mental health issues.
Johnson believes that college, specifically, can represent this sort of transitional phase. It is here
that students are provided
with an opportunity to
not only confront mental health issues but also
to redefine themselves.
“There are lots of reasons why students need a
lot of support. And feeling
bad about yourself or not
confident, having trauma that you experienced
when you were young, oftentimes that comes out
when you get to college,”
said Johnson. “People
come out when they leave
for college, change their
mind about who they
are, gender and identity.”
“And oftentimes when
people come to school, they
don’t think about what they’re
ready for,” said Johnson.
According to a study
reported by ABC News
and previously published
in the medical journal
Depression and Anxiety,
more college students
today are experiencing
depression and anxiety
than ever. ABC News’ article, written by Italo M.
Brown, accredits “mounting expectations, an evolving sense of self-identity,
and the typical shock of
leaving home for a new
place” to issues surrounding mental health. Johnson believes that outside
of these aforementioned
factors, social conditions can also be attributed to the increase in
mental health hardships.
“The country is in a
state of unrest. People are
feeling really stressed by
the current political situation. On all sides, feeling
helpless,
overwhelmed,
don’t know what they can
do. I thought that the
generation of my parents
were screwing everything
up, and I was mad at them
for screwing it up and mad
that I had to fix it. And I
think that all generations
face that sort of, ‘What
can we do? I’m just one
person.’ And we’ve never
seen a political arena like
we’re looking at today.
We’ve never seen anything
like that happen, and
there’s no norm for that,
and there’s no context for
“Feeling bad
about yourself
or not confident,
having trauma
that you
experienced
when you
were young,
oftentimes that
comes out when
you get to
college.”
how do you deal with that.
And I think it’s been really
stressful, people are reacting to the stress. I think
we’re seeing more anxiety and more depression,
not just in college systems
but just across the United
States, as a result of that,”
said Johnson. “And how
that’s handled makes a big
difference, too. You can
get overwhelmed by media — it’s constantly in the
news. Some people feel
compulsion to hear everything, to be aware. Other
people don’t want to hear
anything, and that stresses
them out,” said Johnson.
In connection with
our
society’s
heightened awareness regarding global warming, many
of Johnson’s clients have
expressed feelings of
anxiety and desperation.
“I talk to a lot of people
that are very concerned
about the environment
and feel overwhelmed
about that, and what can
they do. And none of us
can take care of that on
our own. We all have to
just do what we can in a
way that feels right to us,
and that we can handle.
Helping people to sort of
find a place where they
can get some peace, where
they can find some balance and support, is really important in this environment,” said Johnson.
According to an article
written by Jane E. Brody
and published by The
New York Times, suicide is the second highest
cause of death amongst
college students. In response to startling suicide
statistics, Johnson believes that post-secondary institutions need to
be proactive by providing
their student populations
with adequate support.
“We need to normalize
[the idea] that having a
mental health issue doesn’t
make you less of a person, that it doesn’t mean
that you’re flawed,” said
Johnson. “Part of what we
[mental health therapists]
do is, first of all, see people and hear them. Everybody needs to be seen and
heard and understood. [A
mental health facility or
therapist office] might be,
for some people, the only
place where they feel like
that’s happening. If you
can feel more confident
about your life, and able
to handle anxiety and depression and things that
roll along, you’re going to
be able to do a lot more of
what makes you happy.”
A significant factor
in maintaining support
for student well-being is
funding. Johnson believes
that government allotted
resources are an integral
component of accessibility.
“Much more money
needs to go into mental health in this country
than there is,” said John-
son. “Historically, when
they’ve cut benefits to
things across the United
States, the federal government has cut way back on
mental health services and
they counted on the communities to pick up the
slack. They were looking
to volunteers to pick up
the slack, and you can only
cut things down so far and
then it just doesn’t function, especially when it’s
people-delivered services.”
Johnson feels that therapists at The Evergreen
State College are truly
dedicated to supporting
students and ensuring
that their needs are met.
“We look at ways that
they feel stressed and
overwhelmed, and what
can we do about that. We
look at all the different
options for treating that.
We’re going to make sure
that they’re going to get
the help that they need,
and we take that really
“We do grief,
short-term
therapy here,
mainly around
issues of
depression and
anxiety, and then
the usual things
that happen
when you come
to college.”
seriously,” said Johnson.
During the process of
identifying student needs,
therapists on campus may
determine that an individual needs long-term mental health support. Therapists can then aid in a
student’s search for external resources in the greater Olympia community.
“When they come in,
we talk about what is it
that they need, what are
they looking for. We look
at where they’re at and
what brings them in today.
And if it’s a long-term issue, it’s been going on for
a long time, they’re probably better served in the
community where they
can do long-term therapy,” said Johnson. “We refer a lot, and we know a
lot of therapists, and so we
can help them with that.”
Johnson noted that, in
addition to referring students to therapists, mental
health professionals can
also direct individuals to
groups located on campus.
These groups utilize a variety of techniques in order
to help individuals maintain emotional health.
“We show you all
the groups we have, we
can get you enrolled in
groups,” said Johnson.
“There are really cool
groups, on mindfulness
and relationships. We
do trauma groups, we
do wilderness therapy.”
Johnson also expressed
excitement about another facet of Evergreen’s
Student Wellness Services — one that just recently came to fruition
in the past few months.
“We have this new website that we got this year
called TAO,” said Johnson.
“It’s got meditative things,
it talks about boundaries, anxiety, depression.”
The web-based service additionally does not
monitor who is accessing
it, allowing students to
feel a sense of confidentiality. Students can log
into the resource during
all hours of the day and as
often as they would like.
The link to TAO
(Therapist Assisted Online) is available on the
Student Wellness Services section of Evergreen’s website. To access
this free service, students
only need their identification number (A number).
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Stuff 2 Do
Three photos of dunes on Mars that NASA has dubbed ‘Olympia Undae.’ Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/ASU.
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D
2
STUFF
By Mason Soto
WEDNESDAY 5/3
WE’RE ALL LEADERS:
AN EVENING OF WHAT NEVER DIED
FRIDAY 5/10
STRIKE WAVE: EDUCATORS’ REVOLT
& ITS LESSONS WITH ERIC BLANC
Orca Books. 6 - 8 p.m. Free.
Orca Books and the Olympia Democratic Socialists
of America are hosting this discussion with Eric Blanc
about the impact and lessons to be learned from last
year’s wave of teacher strikes. Eric Blanc is the author
of Red State Revolt: The Teachers’ Strike Wave and Working
Class Politics, and a journalist for Jacobin and other
outlets who covered last year’s public education strikes
in Los Angeles, Oklahoma, West Virginia, and Arizona.
The event is free and open to the public.
115 Legion. 8 p.m. Donations for Justice For Yvonne.
115 Legion is hosting a night of music, poetry, and
more, all centered around worker and justice struggles
in the Northwest and beyond from the early 20th
century to now. Performance will be free and public,
and the hosts are taking donations to support Justice For
Yvonne McDonald.
If you can’t make it to this event, check out 115 Legion’s
website for a calendar of all the events they host, from
print shop hours, to movie screenings, reading groups,
and plenty else.
SATURDAY 5/4
OLYMPIA ASSEMBLY’S SPRING
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
Sylvester Park. Free.
Potluck 1 - 2 p.m.
Assembly 2 - 4 p.m.
Olympia Assembly is a libertarian socialist organization,
connecting people from a variety of backgrounds
and political perspectives around the principles of
participatory democracy, direct action, collective
liberation and solidarity, cooperative economics and
mutual aid, and ecological stewardship. Their seasonal
assemblies are a place for community members and
radicals to come together to discuss the essential
social, political and economic issues pertinent to the
community at large & brainstorm radical, direct action
and mutual aid based solutions to them. The discussions
at these general assemblies helps to determine the focus
of Olympia Assembly as an organization for the next
several months.
There’s also a potluck before the assembly itself starts.
So bring food or just show up and eat.
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MONDAY 5/13 - FRIDAY 5/24
THE OTHER IS NOT BY GUL CAGIN,
ILKNUR DEMIRKOPARAN, AND ARZU
ARDA KOSAR
Art Exhibition in SEM II E4115. Free.
Opening Reception: 5/13. 12 - 1 p.m. SEM II E4115
Artist Panel Discussion: 5/13. 1 - 3 p.m. Recital Hall
Master Class Sessions: 5/16. 10 - 12 p.m. SEM II E 4115
5/17. 10 - 12 p.m. COM 308
The Evergreen State College presents The Other Is Not,
an exhibition featuring three Turkish-American visual
artists. Gul Cagin, Ilknur Demirkoparan, and Arzu
Arda Kosar use a range of media including digital
prints, painting, and live assemblage to explore the
nuances of identity, community and difference. The
opening reception will be immediately followed by an
open panel discussion with all three artists, facilitated
by faculty Vuslat D. Katsanis. Master class sessions later
in the week will include discussion of MFA programs,
critique sessions for student projects, and more.
Free and open to the Evergreen community; RSVP to
katsaniv@evergreen.edu is encouraged.
TUESDAY 5/14
SCREEN SCORES: NOSFERATU
WITH THE INVINCIBLE CZARS
Capitol Theater. 8 - 9:30 p.m. $10 admission, $7 for
OFS members.
If you were ever curious what a 1920s German silent
horror film would feel like accompanied by an Austin,
Texas based, glockenspiel, flute, and violin-toting rock
band, this event is for you! Olympia Film Festival
presents F.W. Murnau’s Nosferatu (1922), with live
soundtrack by The Invincible Czars. If that doesn’t
scream interdisciplinary then I don’t know what does!
Also be on the lookout for more Screen Scores from
OFS, including Sundae Crush performing to Sailor
Moon R: The Movie.
Artist Interview
&
UP
COMING
WED. MAY 1
Celebration of International
Workers’ Day!
3 p.m. - 7 p.m., free
Sylvester Park
THU. MAY 2
Health & Wellness Fair
11 a.m. - 2 p.m., free
Library Mezzanine
Story Games Hangout
5:30 - 8:30 p.m., free, every Thursday
Heart of the Deernicorn
FRI. MAY 3
We’re All Leaders
8 p.m., donations suggested
115 Legion
Riot To Follow: Cabaret Night!
Fri- Sat, 7 p.m., free, donations
Recital Hall
SAT. MAY 4
Olympia Assembly’s Spring
General Assembly
1 p.m., free
Sylvester Park
Almost Legal! 17th
Anniversary Show
5 p.m., free
Last Word Books
WED. MAY 8
Spring Arts & Crafts Fair
11 a.m. - 4 p.m.
College Activities Building
Holistic Sexuality Workshop
5:30 p.m. - 8:30 p.m., free
Longhouse - Cedar Room
FRI. MAY 10
Strike Wave: Educators’ Revolt
& Its Lessons w/ Eric Blanc
6 pm. - 8 p.m., free
Orca Books
MON. MAY 13
The Other Is Not: Opening
Reception
12 p.m. - 1 p.m., free
SEM II E4115
TUE. MAY 14
Screen Scores: Nosferatu
with The Invincible Czars
8 p.m. - 9:30 p.m., $10 / $7 OFS
Capitol Theater
Jac
Yeatts:
Jac Yeatts is a senior at Evergreen
and a ceramic sculptor. Yeatts uses ceramics as a way to express their queer
identity, and artfully communicate the
many intersections of their experience as a trans non-binary individual.
Yeatts journey with clay art began
just about 3 years ago, with the help of
faculty Aisha Harrison and her program “Art, Mindfulness and Psychology.” The class was based around an exploration of the intersections of racial
identity through different artistic mediums, but centered around clay sculpture.
“I was not intending to get into clay
this much, but Aisha made it really exciting,” Yeatts said. “Something about
it, clay art, just stood out to me and just
really connected. It’s the first art form I
think I’ve ever been super engrossed in.”
Yeatts and Harrison are still working
together today, as Yeatts has taken the
program themes of that class and applied them to a focus more deeply relevant to themselves. “I’m always working on something. I have sculptures at
home, I have notebooks full of ideas.”
Currently, they are working on a sculpture-based independent learning contract on queer symbolism and queer sex.
“It’s an exploration of my queer identity,
exploring me and my partner being trans
and existing in a world with that identity,
together. It’s also intersecting with sexual
identity,” Yeatts said. “Sex: what does
that look like for queer people, what does
that look like for me, what meanings
come with that when you’re connecting
Holy
Sex
with another queer and trans person?”
The project Yeatts is making in coordination with their ILC
is a set of four sculptures, three of
which will be full figure clay bodies.
“They’re
like
my
children right now.” the artist said.
For Yeatts, sculpting a series of bodies
is a way of bringing themes that come up
in their art to a more direct point. Each
body will have a different posture, position and symbolic meaning behind it.
Two of the full-body figures are meant
to be paired together, and are clay representations of both Jac and their partner.
“What it’s going to look like, is
someone that’s laid out and ready
for sex with a strap. One of them
is laid out, the other is kneeling,”
Though at first glance the sculptures
only seem to be preparing for intercourse,
there are hidden symbolic elements in
the piece that convey a more nuanced
meaning, as the artist said, “I’m trying to
invite people to look deeper than what
the physical side [of sex] looks like.”
“There’s something else that’s happening between the lines that we don’t always really see in media or in art,” Yeatts
continued. “There’s something incredibly
beautiful and erotic. It isn’t in a way of
consuming it for pleasure, but rather validation. Acknowledging that it exists. It’s
something I’ve been trying to define...
It is almost like a religious act to me.”
The most sacred, intimate parts of sex
are the true focus of Yeatts’ erotic sculptures. The piece of them and their partner
artist
interview
by Brittanyana
Pierro
specifically holds a space for conversation
on the way sex differs in different types
of relationships. For Yeatts and their significant other, the act of sex is spiritual.
“Everything else in the world can just
shut away for a moment,and it’s just us.Seeing each other for who we are.” Yeatts said.
“I want people to look at this as not
just, my partner and I laid out publically for people to view, but rather
as a couple that is connecting on the
most intimate level, and seeing each
other for who they are within themselves, and not just their bodies.”
Yeatts plans on incorporating fiber
arts like wool and yarn into their pieces.
The textures will be placed on the sculptures in ways that creatively connect the
audience with the message and theme
of the project. The fabrics will be “representing where bodies can change,” signifying areas on the bodies where gender is
often associated, using the fabrics to address people’s misconceptions. Jac plans
on incorporating the textures in all kinds
of ways, including giving the sculptures
chest binders made from hand-dyed wool.
Yeatts has been brainstorming this
project for about a year and a half now,
and is finally bringing all the pieces together as part of their senior final project. The art will be featured in an show
with a few other senior ILC students
being mentored by Aisha Harrison, and
will be on the same day as Evergreen’s
upcoming graduation, held in Sem II
E4107 on June 14 from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.,
with a second showing from 4 - 5 p.m.
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Arts & Culture
JAC
YEATTS
“
“the act of sex
is spiritual”
“It’s an exploration
of my queer identity,
exploring me and my
partner being trans and
existing in a world with
that identity, together.
It’s also intersecting
with sexual identity,”
artist
interview
by
Brittanyana
Pierro
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Arts & Culture
“There’s something else
that’s happening between the
lines that we don’t always
really see in media or in art”
“Sex: what
does that look
like for queer
people, what
does that look
like for me,
what meanings
come with that
when you’re
connecting with
another queer
and trans
person?”
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Opinion
Hello! Welcome to BODY PARTY, a space to talk about
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Hello, Body Party,
I have a problem. As you may
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an upswing, trendwise, and I’ve been
absolutely about it. Using my strap to
heck my man is the absolute definition
of feminism for me. One problem,
though: When we’re done, the silicone
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It’s pegging, after all! My question is
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care should I be giving my member??
And how do I get the smell out???
Thanks in advance!,
PowerTop420
Hey PowerTop420?
Please don’t say those crazy
things to me ever again :-) This
is a stupid question and it’s not
even funny it’s just bad and I hated
reading it. I have a stomach ache
now so thanks for that. I’m not one
to “sex shame” but I’m shaming
you for this. Please lose my contact
info (which is cooperpointjournal@
gmail.com if you have any questions about bods, love, sex, and
relationships to anyone who was
wondering ;-) hehe). But really
please don’t make me read the
word pegging ever again.
Uh… But! You do bring up a
good point. Keeping your sexual
tools and toys clean and healthy is
crucial to your sexual health. It’s
hard to know, though, what to do.
Do you just throw that shit in the
dishwasher? Can you just wash it
with soap and water like you do
your hands? Should you boil it?
Well, sort of.
First of all, I commend you for
having enough wit about yourself
to use silicone. It’s really the best
choice. Anything you stick inside
your body (or the body of a loved
one) (or otherwise I guess idk)
ought to be non-porous and like,
suitable for bodies. A high quality
silicone is the best choice as it wont
harbor any weird bacteria in any
nooks and crannies and it’ll be way
easier to clean.
When it comes to cleaning it,
soap and water should usually
be enough. Make sure to clean it
soon after whatever you were doing is done and just give it a good
ol’ scrubber. As long as there's no
cracks or anything, that should really be enough.
Still feeling cautious? If something happened that makes you feel
like soap and water isn’t enough,
call me cause I’m trying to get
myself a freak like that. Haha, just
kidding ;-) But really, if something
bonkers went down and soap and
water isn’t enough, a good grade
of silicone will hold up to a pot of
boiling water. Whatever might be
on there will be dead within like
five minutes. I think. I don’t know.
Now is a good time to remind
you that I’m not a doctor, I am an
undergrad at the Evergreen State
College. Which isn’t saying very
much at all.
If you’re worried about roommates, get new roommates ‘cause
yours sound like narcs and tom
toms. If abandoning your boring life
for a much sexier one free of judgmental housemates is simply not an
option, you can always avoid being
caught by doing the deed under the
cover of darkness. Or you could just
throw some pasta in with that bad
baby and call it disguised.
Actually, don’t do that. I’m sorry.
If you’re feeling especially lazy, forgo the pasta and take your chances
with the dishwasher. It should be
good. If it’s made of bad silicone it
might melt but what is the zest of
life, the luck of the draw, if not the
roulette of putting a dildo in the
dishwasher? Live a little.
Hmm, I sort of got off track. Uh,
life hack, just use an unlubricated
condom over it to begin with and
save yourself like a ton of stress.
Make sure to use only water-based
lube like you would with any
other silicone condom or toy. You’ll
thank me later.
Before I go, remember to only
use flared-base toys for your butt,
only use water-based lube for
silicone stuff, only use high-quality
sex toys, and remember to be cool.
As always, I love you lots ;-) Oh
my gosh, did I just say that? Oh
man, I didn’t mean to make things
weird. Haha! Ahhh!
Ok bye!,
Pody Barty -- I mean!!! Ah, I’m
nervous now!
MAY 1, 2019 / THE COOPER POINT JOURNAL 11
Opinion
Greetings. Welcome to Wasted Advice, wherein you ask for advice and I continue
to get drunk and advise you. We both win. You can ask me the questions you can’t
ask your resident advisor.
“ Ya’ll deeply investigate
the physical violence against
Black people on Campus yet?”
Hopefully we tried…=( no or course no evergreen
is a pit of ecsitie talk horror. And I’m competency
and being brown on this campus is not something a drunk collumschool speak to beacuse it’s
just really sad.
“Do you believe in the
conspiracy that birds aren’t real
and are put out as surveillance?”
“What circle of hell do you
belong in and why?”
I feel like I belong in one of the outer like ego
rings I think like I wish I was clol enough to inflict pain on others but it’snjust be on myslef . I
wish I could br piroductive for the devil but I
don’t think I would be sadl y. Ioool. Idk I’m gay.
“What should I do about
my student debt?”
“How do I convince
Greeners to stop making
my life difficult?”
Okgay tell me when your ready? theres no way
to get greeners to make you life easier because u
already did liek four years of this shit and their
in years two. Do u remembet year two? teres a lot
oh no no no I can’t rteally remember year two.
Do you remember when you were a sophomore?
U were so annoying. thers no way to get them
to not annoy yuo until theyre you. And the best
thing about thing that is that you won’t be here
got that. Collge is basically a collection of naive
an adorable fresbmens who are annoying
Oh
shit
Absotuley if u have hav read the ten page thre Oh shit oh shit because so far I’m hoping for
essay about birds not bieng real idand you stoull the aipcilyse and that’s the extent of my advice
believe birds are real then tdid you even go to someone better forgive this shit before July 13th “What do you hope is
Evergreen? Have you derny their page? It’s likes and that’s the extent if my advice. Atlearr were all the first thing people think
a theseis. Birds arnt real
Australia ain’t real on the same shit page. Ok but true.
when they meet you?”
,i f there’s one thing I’ve learned it’s that’s bitfes
and Australia are igllusione of capitalism
“How do I ask for Bukkake
That’s like the worst qurntison ever. Idk k hope
from my sex partner?”
they meet me when I’m not this drunk bust also
“What did you do with Elijah’s wine?”
if they meet me where I’m this drunk with the
You gotta give real advice here that’s a real adive ple I work with at this pspdpsr then I’m okay. I
You pour it out I heard although I’m inclined to question that’s a thunker personally uhhhh more hope yppl think I’m a nice person and. Okay to
drink whatever wines in front if me at this point t than 4 or 5 umm what do they call it hmmm dis- be around I and Im also not doing wasiyed avited
I guess but g d bless elijah.and god blas’s grapes I charges not imullsions anyway you know what I all the time
guess….who’s eliighap. And I don’t know should mean more than 5 if those that’s just a little too Getting gdrunk for you is very quite diffulcyy it
I look this up? Idk but mood.
much. That’s just a moment I can’t relate too but actually hard to drunk and get your qquestion
if that’s what you and you want it in one session andi. Hope ppl think I’m gereat but I’m rppretyy
that’s a lot to ask but respect props so just go for shut I’m just a drunk girl ftrying to answer advice
it. The only way you can get what you want is by I’m not qauloford for . Mood
asking directly of your partner. There is no stupid
questions just a lot of messy ones. Mood.
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