Art Student Fights for Free Speech After School Asks to Remove Pro-Palestine Signs
about 5 months ago (12/11/2023)
Art Student Fights for Free Speech After School Asks to Remove Pro-Palestine Signs Skip to content Morgan Patten’s signs reading “Zionism is Fascism” and “Free Palestine” (all images courtesy Morgan Patten) In mid-October, amid Israel’s deadly ongoing bombardment of Gaza, first-year MFA student Morgan Patten taped two hand-painted signs to the door of her Brooklyn College studio. In red lettering, they spelled “Free Palestine” and “Zionism = Fascism.” The pair of posters went unmentioned until a November 18 open studios event, when two campus police officers told Patten to remove the signs, citing school policy. The student complied, but the incident left her with the sense that her voice had been suppressed.