Faculty Voices

Statement from Pacifica Students and Alumni   Public Statement: If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, [...]

A Day with Dr. Fanny Brewster Morning Dreamwork Salon + Afternoon Salon on “The Racial Complex” Saturday, July 18th 10:30am-1pm & 2:30-4pm PST EST: 1:30-4pm & 5:30-7pm   Morning [...]

Breath and Identity:   What White Institutions Fail to Understand, Including Our Own  Dr. Leslie Shore Mythological Studies    Remember My Name in Africa, was Kossola. For George Floyd Whose [...]

A Statement from the Board of Pacifica Graduate Institute Alumni Association    We as a cultural group of Africanist people have been in an intergenerational struggle for our lives that does not [...]

George Floyd George Floyd. George Floyd. George Floyd. I have been saying his name aloud since the terrible news of his death. I want him to be witnessed, I want to witness him. Through times [...]

The perils of being black in public: we are all Christian Cooper and George Floyd Too often, by default, black people are perceived as threats to white people’s physical safety. We need [...]

Pacifica Graduate Institute:  Statement on Addressing Systemic Racism At Pacifica Graduate Institute, we are deeply distressed and aggrieved by the senseless, on-going violence directed at black [...]

PGIAA President Harry Grammer – George Floyd Statement “The death of George Floyd in the wake of the murder of Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Botham Jean and hundreds of recent others is [...]