By Jamie* Tired of seeing these bars Years of emotional scars I can’t wait until my freedom to shine This day will come in a matter of time Seconds tick as minutes pass I’ll erase memories of my troubled past Hours that drag slowly turn into days But I’m bettering myself in many ways Months go by and add up to years Times has dried … Continue reading Poem
By Anonymous PZ ’25 Roughly a month ago, I decided to skip my Friday morning class to attend a vigil honoring the Palestinian lives lost at the hands of war and settler violence. Dozens of students fashioned in all black stood around the Coop Fountain. Handwritten notes hung from the fountain walls, displaying messages of solidarity and support. White roses and yellow daffodils plucked from … Continue reading CPLM and #RhodesMustFall: A comparative analysis
By Ashe West-Lewis PZ ’26 Artist’s Note: I created these images for my Intermediate Photography class at Pitzer, focusing on a self-purposed research question surrounding anything that we liked. As a queer artist, I am drawn towards representing the lives, expressions, and emotions of my community. Wanting to get in touch with my identity and those of my peers, I thought of no better models … Continue reading Photos from series “Love, Joy, Freedom, Expression”
By Luca Rudenstine That summer, my mother pressed flowersTo draft eulogies while my great-aunt carved pill Bottles in the image of her patchwork throat.This hurt her to swallow, but she still craved Cherries, taking them whole as if she tooCould become indigestible to the earth like How a seed is both a body and a confession.In this way, death became more than it was Ever … Continue reading Untitled & Of a different tongue
