Renée Reizman
Deconstructing Legalese: Executive Orders
Renée Reizman
Using the Trump Administration’s executive orders as our canvas, this found poetry workshop examines contracts and codes imposed upon us by bureaucratic systems and reconstructs the language to reclaim our voice. The nuance of our identity, advocacy, health, relationships, and values are dismantled, minimized, and erased through legalese. The public is invited to reconstruct Trump’s jargon as a resistance to the orders through the act of collage into empowerment. Poems will be displayed throughout AiOP and incorporated into a zine.
Renée Reizman is a disabled, Jewish, interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator. She works with communities to reveal the ways infrastructure and public policy contribute to social inequality. She is the founder of Disability Drawing Club and is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Pepperdine University and the University of Southern California.