STOP & LISTEN: A figurative and literal perspective
By Enoch James, Matrix Contributor
Stop, and listen. Stop when, and where? And listen to what?
It doesn't mean that whenever you’re approached by a person you stop whatever you’re doing,...
Matrix Column: Advocate for advocacy
By Angie Tinker, Matrix Co-Editor
What do the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, the protests in Ferguson and the Ruth Anderson debate on vegetarianism all have in common? They’re all forms...
From Saxifrage: Lean In
By Grace Garvey-Hall, Saxifrage 38 Contributor
Lean in closer,
I’ll tell you.
Passion is pen and
Paper and words
Filling
Filling
Filling the page
Hot water washing away
Mud and revealing inspiration
Sore muscles
Heavy with accomplishment
My heart swinging
From sorrow to...
From Saxifrage: Fraconia Ridge
By Anna Rasmussen, Saxifrage 38 Contributor
Guy and Laura Waterman built a house
in the snowcapped White Mountains
of Vermont. They managed without water
or electricity—just two small rooms filled
with climbing gear, instruments, and
stacks...
Stop and Listen: no, really….
Part I
By Laura Johnson, Co-Editor of The Matrix
What do stop signs and Pacific Lutheran University’s social justice journal, The Matrix, have in common this semester? For both, you are...
From The Matrix: Infinitely
By Kristin Hayes, Matrix Contributor
Of the five classified Romantic languages
We have five translations of feminism.
FĂ©minisme
Feminism
Femminismo
Feminismo
Feminism
Our blossoming evolution into third wave feminism
Is that of intersectionality
And challenging the veil
Of sisterhood.
The metaphor of these...
From Saxifrage: Noir Sepia
By Joseph Fries, Saxifrage 34 Contributor
I sometimes feel
like an old silent moving picture,
words flashing on the screen and
occasionally faint splotches of color
painted onto film, flaking away
and, leaving it all...
From Matrix: Perspective
By Pam Barker, Matrix Contributor
By Pam Barker
Matrix Contributor
White walls
White shoes
White cars
White people
White World
Everything growing up
was white
An Advocate
I never dreamed I’d be
Perspective colored the sky
Love blurred my straight lines
Understanding opened...
From Saxifrage: salt and sugar
By Kara Larson
Saxifrage Contributor
Perfection must be distinct for everyone or America
would be cheerleaders and lawyers
and Gap babies.
How about three groovy chicks with freshly shaven pale legs
in a red car...