How To Reimagine RISD as RISDIE
EXCLUSIVE: Internal e-mails and memos reveal that RISD is intentionally violating federal law with covert and rebranded DEI
Comrades: RISD has become RISDIE.
The Rhode Island School of Design used to be one of America’s top art schools. Now it has deteriorated into the Rhode Island School of Diversity, Inclusion, and Equity. Here is their new logo, which was designed by yours truly with no art school experience:
In 2021, RISDIE appointed Crystal Williams as its first black president. She is a career DEI administrator with no previous experience in art or design. The press release heralding her coronation featured the word inclusion 20 times, diversity 16 times, and equity 11 times. She was the first commissar I profiled the How To Appoint a Commissar series. The details are predictably gory.
Unsurprisingly, RISDIE has flagrantly violated federal laws under her regime. An insider has leaked e-mails to me that show how she and her cronies are circumventing the Trump administration’s directives about DEI. Prominent RISD alumni include Seth Macfarlane (Family Guy creator), Dale Chihuly (sculptor), and Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia (Airbnb co-founders). The next great artists and designers will not come out of RISDIE because they are being screened out by discriminatory practices or demoralized with leftist indoctrination.
If we care about winning culture, we must identify and nurture real talent outside of corrupted institutions like RISD.
Here are the full receipts and the diverse subversion agents responsible for them - woke isn’t going anywhere in these cesspools:
RISDIE has rebranded DEI as SEI (Social, Equity & Inclusion) that is enforced through an Equity & Compliance office:
RISD’s General Counsel is ironically named Renee BYAS and she is advising faculty on how to downplay SEI efforts while remaining committed to them. Official minutes from a faculty meeting with Provost Touba Ghadessi about organizing protests and staying “under the radar”:
A cohort of new faculty was cluster-hired for their race and decolonization focus:
RISD Faculty statement supporting BLM and SEI:
Courses like Decolonial Teaching are all over the curriculum, which is now being hidden from the public:
RISDIE Museum Director Tsugume Make is committed to acquiring works from “diverse cultures”:
RISD held a segregated gala for staff and faculty of color:
The faculty steering committee, which assisted the presidential search process that selected Crystal Williams, focused on race:
In 2020, the administration encouraged students to participate in a BLM protest despite having COVID-related confinement measures in place:
Safe Zone training continues in 2025:
For more on the rot in academia, check out the How To Get Into Harvard series:
How To Get Into Harvard (Part 5) - Claudine Gay's Bootlicking Bobo and Board
Comrades: Harvard has fallen. After almost 400 years, the world’s most powerful university has publicly declared moral and intellectual bankruptcy. I could not have imagined such a stunning collapse, even after ranking Harvard #1 in my Demoralized DIEvy League March Madness tournament
How To Get Into Harvard (Part 4) - An Open Letter to the Trustees
To the Trustees of American Universities:
How To Get Into Harvard (Part 3) - DIEvy League Demoralization March Madness
Comrades: Welcome to Demoralization March Madness! Just as RISD became RISDIE, the Ivy League has become the DIEvy League. Part 1 of How To Get into Harvard established the initial rankings and methodology, while Part 2 provided a fall semester update
Oh, RISD. Many, many years ago I applied to its MFA program, along with four or five others, and was rejected by them all. Two years in a row. One of my college art profs called this 100% failure rate a "dubious honor". At the time I was devastated. Now? I can only thank God that He knew better than I did.
As someone born and raised in RI (got the hell out in 1997!), RISD has always been a liberal cesspool. And don't forget - it's right down the street from Brown. If you walk down the streets of Providence around the college campus areas, every single store has a rainbow flag and a blm flag in their windows. RI is lost. The whole state. My entire family is there and they don't see it. They're completely blind to it all because they've never lived anywhere else to see what normalcy looks like.