The summit concluded at the White House Sunday night with an updated reading of “I want a president…,” a “collective reading project” devised in 1992 by artist and activist Zoe Leonard.

The original version of the statement described Leonard’s desire for a president who has experienced various setbacks, such as lacking health insurance or having an abortion, that would presumably induce them to support a larger role for government in addressing such issues.

“I want a dyke for president. I want a person with AIDS for president and I want a fag for vice president and I want someone with no health insurance and I want someone who grew up in a place where the earth is so saturated with toxic waste that they didn’t have a choice about getting leukemia,” the original version states. “I want a president that [sic] had an abortion at sixteen and I want a candidate who isn’t the lesser of two evils and I want a president who lost their last lover to aids [sic].”

The concept was adapted and updated for the social justice conference, with contemporary issues such as immigration and diversity/inclusivity sprinkled liberally throughout.

“I want a Native American for president. I want a Muslim refugee for president, and I want a queer for vice president, and I want someone who walked hundreds of miles across a desert and swam across a river to be here,” the updated version begins. “I want someone who has redefined their gender and sexual identity and spoken up for their rights and committed civil disobedience and sees the flag as a work in progress.”

Many of the original elements were retained in the re-write, but with minor tweaks. Rather than desiring a president who had an abortion at 16, for example, the new version calls for one “who had a dangerous illegal abortion at 14,” then apparently reconsidered and became a parent at 15.

Summit co-host Richard Saxton, an associate professor at the University of Colorado at Boulder, told Campus Reform that the social justice conference is part of a long history of artworks, particularly those that are not confined to museums, aimed at promoting social change.

“You can trace artists impacting social space back to the founding of our country. It’s in the statues of George Washington or critiques of them (Michael Asher), paintings that inspired the National Park System (Thomas Cole), socially engaged art/architecture (Rick Lowe and Project Rowhouses), and protest/occupy works (Pedro Reyes forthcoming Doomocracy project),” he asserted. “Most of this work takes place outside of traditional art venues and attracts many people who are not from a traditional art audience.”

“Social works happen outside in social spaces. Artists who are interested in people and place are drawn to this work,” Saxton continued. “For artists that fall into the loose lineage of Social Sculpture (Joseph Beuys), this is their material and medium. They make the art by conceptualizing an idea and seeing it through.”

Why is social justice almost the exclusive domain of the far left? Surely there are young radical people who want to fix inequality without killing all white men? If social justice was more balanced, maybe it wouldn't have been able to become so cancerous.

>>80074
>Why is social justice almost the exclusive domain of the far left?
It isn't. The christian right has a metric shit ton of SJW groups with millions of members, but mostly they are archaic and operate through letter writing campaigns and don't know how to use computers.

>>80068
Here OP, have a proper news link because /news/ has standards, you blogposting bastard.

https://gwtoday.gwu.edu/corcoran-school-arts-and-design-partners-creative-time-summit

>>80074
Never heard of soccer moms? These are their offspring that rebelled to the left.

I don't understand what exactly these people want. Nobody is stopping these types of people from running. Who are they "demanding" this from?

>>80074
It still amazes me when I see posts like this. Christcucks were the OG SJWs, liberals only started going hard in tge last couple of decades. How old are you?

Of all the important events going on in the world, how is it that this board is filled with with such obscure news articles?

>>80132
Because it's a respite from that. If you want to hear about every time Trump or Hillary farts, that's what /pol/ is for.

>>80132
It isn't like /news/ gets crosslinked to /g/ or /tv/ or /sci/ a lot, just /pol/ mostly it seems.

>>80068
>Caring more about a candidate's special snowflake status than about their actual policies
I fucking hate what the left has become. We just turned down an actual progressive socialist president that opposes stupid wars because "DUDE! FIRST WOMAN PRESIDENT!"

>>80133
What if I want to hear about every time Ivanka farts?

>>80152
No, said woman president rigged the system so she would win. It had nothing to do with whether or not the left wanted it.

>>80155
it was rigged, but part of why it was rigged I think was because the Dems really really wanted the first woman president. O'Malley is the only guy that even came close to establishment that ran against her. Also white male voters still went with Bernie despite the rigging, in fact even just looking at male voters alone Bernie might have won. She got the nomination partly due to rigging but a lot of it was identity politics. Bernie is FUCKING A WHITE MALE and his supporters were FUCKING WHITE BERNIE BROS.

Your all Fucking stupid pieces of shit! Jill Stein is the only way for the country to be re-united again. Hillary Is The Devils Cunt

>>80161
Jill Stein supports identity politics even more than Hillary though. She wants to go full Europe and literally start forcing companies to discriminate against men.
Gary Johnson is the only option if you want unity, the other three are all divisive and all rely on identity politics to separate people into us-vs-them groups

>>80068
>democracy
>generally goes unexamined as a practice

yeah. nobody has ever done a study on the effectiveness of democracy.

>>80068
>we want all of our groups represented
>democracy is the problem
????

Yeah all those nondemocratic states or states where a minority rules over a majority really models for inclusiveness and acceptance

>>80163
Too bad Gary Johnson is more retarded than trump.

A special kind of stupid calling for abolish the democracy.

>abolish democracy
>authoritarian right wing christian regime instantly takes over
>can't complain without getting lynched

>>80208
We've literally got a rock-paper-scissors situation here.

Hillary is a warmonger, but Jill Stein is a SJW, but Johnson is an idiot, but Trump is whatever they call him now. Every vice is represented.

>>80208
no

I really don't understand this. Why can't the president be the person that has the best ideas or is the most dependable, why does it have to be someone with a disability or 16 abortions. Like what the fuck.

>>80247
I wish anonymous could run for president.

>>80068
Thank God it was an art summit and not a Poly Sci or God forbid a hard science summit

I honestly hope that this is a meme

>>80287
You mean the Russian hacker? Me too, Anon. Me too.

>>80287
Me too.

>>80247
Hillary is an SJW too (or at least pretends to be one to pander for votes). And Johnson isn't any dumber than the rest