Lol wut.

Yup. It’s okay.

Eat the rich. But only a few people who live on this lake are legit rich. I mean, even by my millennial standards. James woods is def the most wealthy by a significant margin.

Edit: I was responding to a comment that has been edited and now mine seems out of context!

This is my favorite lake. My grandpa bartered for a piece of property on it in 1950. I had my wedding here. James Woods can fuck off.

Yup. Thinking people are flashing when it’s a pothole or a speed bump gives me constant anxiety about driving at night.

There is one downtown and one in Pawtucket!

I highly recommend The Village restaurant for west African food with tons of meaty, veggie and vegan options!

I look forward to those every year!

Solitros in Knightsville. They beat the original Italian by a mile. Best pizza strips north of Westerly.

Sorry for being bitchy just found out my uncle died.

Yeah no. Not helpful.

Every time I see them I roll down my window and yell “I love you!” at them.

…adult book parties were prob more the old man mafia shack’s scene.

Nevertheless, they persisted.

I was going to bitch about the gentrification of the old man mafia shack, but now that I know it’s the sandwich hut I feel better about it because meatballs.

Seriously you want El Taconazo. Abuela runs the show. They have Pombazos and the salsa roja is so so hot.

Oh look another reason to criminalize poor people and black youth since we took a big one away with legalization.

That sucks. I adjunct at another local college and my syllabi are living documents that evolve based on student need and interest. I love teaching at the higher ed level, and I’m sorry you had that experience with your professors, esp because I can only imagine the debt a lot of your classmates have taken on to get that degree.

Oh our work was absolutely shallow. I mean, I quit art for a whole decade and mostly just do drawings of animals now so I’m not really in a position to say shit. So you’re right. It’s not really about student work. I’ve thought about it a bit and I think that my real issue is the undergraduate program’s rigidity. As an educator I really value interdisciplinary and multimedia study, and want to see art taught as a tool of argumentation.

I’m a born and raised working class Rhode Islander who left the state to attend an very ideologically progressive art school and then came back. As like a young artist in Providence I inevitably hung out with recent RISD grads/ grad students and eventually facility. I also worked there off and on for a few years.

Art school in general is weird and needlessly intense and insular so there’s that, but pedagogically RISD’s program always seemed to be overly rigid and archaic. The lack of opportunity for true interdisciplinary learning and experimentation and the instructional focus on technique over the conceptual and critical aspects of art were pretty glaring for me, resulting in some pretty derivative, shallow “fine art” work at both the undergrad/graduate level.

I graduated art school in the mid 00s, and haven’t worked there/ observed student work since like 2012 so this may be somewhat of an outdated perspective l.

So I 100% support student voice being central to every aspect of running a school, and as a art school undergrad who went somewhere else, I absolutely agree with the institutional disconnection you articulate below. It matches my observations of RISD’s structure, general pedagogy and the work that results.

That being said, is this really the hill y’all want to die on? I think the dick/ball mascots are stupid. I know see this as symbolic, but there are way more worthy campaigns.