In “Severance,” Hell Has Its Perks 

Words by Tania Azhang PZ ’25 Graphic by Ash Dirks SC ’28 “What does this piece evoke for you?” asked our museum guide Solomon. We were looking at Alison Saar’s painting “Lethe,” depicting a Black woman whose body is partially underwater while her head hovers above the surface.  I recently visited the Benton Museum’s “Black Ecologies in American Art” exhibition. We were evaluating works by … Continue reading In “Severance,” Hell Has Its Perks 

‘Get a piece of that MAGA pie’: In conversation with Shervin Malekzadeh

Words by Madeleine Farr PZ ’27 and Tania Azhang PZ ’25 Graphic by Genevieve O’Marah SC ’28 On the rainy afternoon of Friday, March 10, we, Madeleine Farr and Tania Azhang, had the pleasure of discussing the contemporary political landscape — particularly Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and the horrors of the tech-bro oligarchy — with Pitzer College political studies professor Shervin Malekzadeh.  Malekzadeh is a … Continue reading ‘Get a piece of that MAGA pie’: In conversation with Shervin Malekzadeh