By M. I have five unsent letters to my first love in my desk drawer. In this discourse of passion and heartbreak, I present to you five chronologically ordered excerpts from the love letters that have been walked in and out of the mailroom countless times. This is my catharsis. This is my sending them to her without complete indulgence. This is patience, waiting for … Continue reading A letter to my first love
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 Angela Silva Claro PZ ’25 Uruguay, like most developing countries, has been dealing with the consequences of climate change due to political, economic, and social challenges. Over the past few years, Uruguayan citizens have experienced a noticeable increase in temperatures, making each summer more insufferable. Additionally, with each passing year, the advent of a more severe drought season compounds the country’s challenges. For years … Continue reading Water Politics in Uruguay
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
By Anonymous A time period that really rattled me was the end of last semester. As I realized the year was beginning to come to a close, I suddenly began to feel the world close in on me. I became incredibly overwhelmed with everything going on in the world, and I began to hyper analyze literally everything. I realized I had not really processed the … Continue reading An Anonymous Response
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 Don* I call upon the Creator and yeah I call them first / yo the center of my life and they knowing where it hurts / my word is my bond / and I celebrate the birth / manifested in the in flesh / while I’m living on the earth / my life is a blessing I can show you what it’s worth / … Continue reading Walk With Me
By Don* I’ve been a headline like Drake / never been late / not for the reasons that would make me great / going for the grapes had me looking like an ape / now that it’s legal / which one of us was evil / scraping for power to the people / power tu’ the people / hola seniorita / system of a Down … Continue reading Untitled
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 Jane Lovett SC ’25, Helen Chirigos PZ ’25 and Maya Forgus SC ’25 Archiving 5C history through the lens of student organizers and for the purpose of creating institutional memory for future generations of students and organizers is an important power-tracing tool. Archiving creates a space in which to understand historical and contemporary power mapping, movement formations, movement reiterations, and successful tactical strategies that … Continue reading Mapping Student Resistance
