
Mink in a cage. Source: Fur Free Alliance The weakness that you can’t controlBrings animals death and painThe struggle I fought to overcomeIs the dark pit where you choose to remain Earth Crisis — “All Out War” (1992) In the sweltering summer days of June 22 and July 17, 1996, thousands of animals fled farms…

xforever warx at Fellowship Hall, 2/13/26. Source: Jessie Carlton Last year on Edge Day, I wrote an article on my ethic on straight edge. I’ve since taken the article down, mostly out of embarrassment, but I think it’s worth revisiting the bones of my argument. It went something like this: Maybe you’ve heard the inspirational…

The new New Right. Credit: Mark Peterson Content warning: offensive language In the January 27th, 2025 issue of New York Magazine, Brock Colyar describes their personal experience navigating the right-wing influencer parties held between the 2024 election and the second inauguration of Donald Trump. Their feature, provocatively titled “The Cruel Kids Table”, is nothing short…

One Day at a Time Vol. II at Black Iris, 10.14.24. Source: MJ Grimes This past September, I had the privilege of enjoying a local show. There wasn’t any stadium-filling headliner. Tickets were $15, doors were at 8PM. By most respects, it was the same show that I’ve booked, attended and moshed at many times over…

Original artwork of ‘10.21‘. Source: Rate Your Music Demographically, the breadth of KAMP’s volunteer base, listenership and readership are—like me—in their 20s. Maybe it’s sophomoric to say as someone who just entered this bracket, but I imagine that the majority of peoples’ 20s are, in the words of my colleague Bruce, “an unnavigable gauntlet of…