On February 25, 2021, The Dean of Faculty’s Office at Pitzer College intervened in the MANIFESTO submission process to reject “WE NEED TO KNOW” and ask the student artist to remove trustee Fairbairn’s name and resubmit. After one week of unrelenting pressure, and the threat of student demonstration, Pitzer College Art Galleries published the work. That day, […]
Kenneth Butler is a student in the Pitzer College Inside-Out Program at California Rehabilitation Center. He is an avid reader, a student of life, an abolitionist, and a feminist. His goals in life are to dismantle all systems of oppression and to contribute to the creation a society where everyone is appreciated. His manifesto is an attempt […]
Austin Dowd ’24 draws a link between anti-racism and anti-capitalism in his manifesto, No Life. Dowd writes that his manifesto depicts “…the constant push that capitalism has forced upon marginalized groups in the United States, and yet the fact that the United States could not survive without these groups, which has been extremely evident during […]
Lilly Preis ’24 created her manifesto in response to the killings of Black people by police in 2020. She writes, “Black people are killed at disproportionate rates given the fact that Black people make up approximately 13% of the U.S. population but are killed at twice the rate of white people in the United States. I used […]
By Raina Desai ’24 | December 3, 2020 As a woman of color, I have a responsibility to stand up for my people. We are one of the most undervalued groups within society, yet we act as the glue that holds our communities together. We constantly face bias and discrimination, stemming from racism, sexism, social […]
This community manifesto was created and performed by the students in the Manifesto workshop held jointly in the First Year Seminars, Radical Care, taught by Professor Andrea Scott, and Tongue-in-Cheek: Humor in Art and Visual Culture, taught by Professor Tim Berg.
Freddy Cisneros is a 40 year old male of Mexican descent. He has been incarcerated for over 10 years in state prison, and will be released soon. He is attending Pitzer College and will be graduating with a B.A. in Organizational Studies. “I chose to make this ‘manifesto’ to convey the way I feel. Using […]
How Pitzer can support the success of their Black students Administrative Response President Melvin L. Oliver’s acknowledgment and initial response to the Pitzer College Black Student Union Address, October 6, 2020: https://www.pitzer.edu/president/mid-semester-updates/#bsu President Melvin L. Oliver’s response to the Pitzer College Black Student Union Address, October 19, 2020: https://www.pitzer.edu/president/response-to-the-pitzer-college-black-student-union-address/ Works Cited ACE Board of Directors. On the […]
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