Image Description: Photo shot by the author with three masked individuals facing away from the camera overlooking UCLA’s Palestine solidarity encampment between Powell Library and Royce Hall. One individual holds up the Palestinian flag. A helicopter can be seen hovering over the camp from a distance. With Israel’s ongoing genocide of the Palestinian people currently amassing well over thirty thousand civilian deaths, student protests throughout the nation reject the monetary complicity of their universities in this UN-deemed humanitarian catastrophe. Between Powell Library and Royce Hall at ..read more

The following is a submission to our open call for art related to the UCLA encampment and the Palestinian crisis. Olivia Sieve is a third-year studying Psychology at UCLA. She has been involved in Community Outreach, Design, and Arts & Creative during her time at FEM Newsmagazine, and organizes with Anakbayan, IGNITE, and the Student Wellness Commission. “First Light” comprises mornings in UCLA’s Palestine Solidarity Encampment. Included are images of police detaining a protester for protecting the Palestinian flag, of food donations, and of the Bruin Statue, endowed with PPE. The last pic ..read more

Image Description: Police stand in a line at night, with a screen illuminated in front of them that displays half of the American flag and half of the Israeli flag Photography by Damjan Nastic. View the full collection titled, “Resistance”, here. The following is a submission to our open call for art related to the UCLA encampment and the Palestinian crisis. How is a plea of righteous anger ‘gainst the profiteering off persecution met with batons the lengths of our interlocked arms— bodily anchors and limbs— and rows of three that stretch from one end of my campus to the other; How is it met w ..read more

Image Description: A black and white photo of the UCLA encampment shows a crowd of masked protestors. Photography by Damjan Nastic. View the full collection titled, “Resistance”, here. The following is a submission to our open call for art related to the UCLA encampment and the Palestinian crisis. Anna Richardson is a third-year English major from Ventura, California. She’s taken two writing workshops at UCLA, and has been using writing as a way to process recent events on campus—namely, the university’s brutal treatment of protestors and complicity in the ongoing genocide in Gaza.  5/5 a ..read more

Image Description: A black and white photo of Royce Hall during the encampment covered in various graffiti that reads sayings like, “ACAB”. Photography by Zaia Hammond. View the full collection here. The following is a submission to our open call for art related to the UCLA encampment and the Palestinian crisis. Konani is a first-year multi-medium artist from Oakland, California in the United States. In their visual art, music, and writing, they cover themes of love, cultural identity, gender, activism, and more, giving an intimate and personal perspective of adolescence as a third-generation ..read more

Image Description: Protestors at the UCLA encampment hold flags and fists high in the night sky. Photography by Zaia Hammond. View the full photography collection here. The following is a submission to our open call for art related to the UCLA encampment and the Palestinian crisis. Abdhi Jadeja, a South Campus major in the day, moonlights as a writer and aspiring poet locked in a perpetual battle to unify the two opposing worlds of science and storytelling that define her heart. It would have been a beautiful night, if she could see the stars. She’s been squinting for them, hazel eyes scouring ..read more

The following is a submission by Anonymous to our open call for art related to the UCLA encampment and the Palestinian crisis. “Our campus, their war ground” is a digital rendering capturing the poignant moment of an encampment organizer praying in front of a line of police during the violent raid at UCLA, depicting her lost hope and resort to faith amidst the ruthless transformation of their peaceful protest into a battlefield. “Hidden Tears” is a pencil sketch capturing the raw emotion and resilience of a woman whose tear-filled eyes, visible through the traditional keffiyeh, speak volu ..read more

Image Description: Feet standing on yellow brick on the UCLA campus. The brick has “FREE FREE PALESTINE” written over it in black and white spray paint. The following is a submission to our open call for art related to the UCLA encampment and the Palestinian crisis. Zaia Hammond is a second-year Human Biology and Society Major and African American Studies Minor at UCLA. She is from Atlanta, Georgia and is involved in the Afrikan Education Project and Black Pre-Law Association Journal on campus. She is passionate about giving voice and highlighting the experiences of underrepresented communitie ..read more

The following is a submission to our open call for art related to the UCLA encampment and the Palestinian crisis. My name is Damjan Nastic and I am a senior at UCLA majoring in Math/Economics. I also love capturing and sharing stories through photography. “Resistance” is a collection of photos I took throughout the life of the UCLA pro-Palestine encampment. My goal initially was to capture portraits of students on the ground protesting, to humanize them and hopefully show a perspective not often seen on the news. To me, it was important to capture the little things, such as students worki ..read more

The following is a submission to our open call for art related to the UCLA encampment and the Palestinian crisis. “the youth” is an oil painting by an anonymous UCLA art student. This piece focuses on Palestinian youth as the future of Palestine’s liberation ..read more