Anita Hill Poster Series: The Gender/Race Imperative – 2017

This Title IX poster series was created in conjunction with Anita Hill’s visit to MIT as the Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Scholar, framing Title IX not only as a legal statute but as a living, contested framework shaping equity, access, and power in education and public life. Drawing on archival protest imagery, bold typographic hierarchy, and the visual language of institutional documents, the posters foreground the gender and race imperative at the heart of Title IX’s past, present, and future. The composition juxtaposes collective action with the formal authority of legal text, using scale, contrast, and repetition to underscore how policy becomes lived experience.

The series was later exhibited at the New York Historical Society as part of the exhibition Title IX: Activism On and Off the Field, situating the work within a broader historical narrative of feminist organizing, civil rights advocacy, and student-led activism in the United States. Shown in dialogue with archival materials and contemporary responses, the posters function both as graphic artifacts and as tools of public pedagogy—designed to provoke dialogue around institutional accountability, representation, and the unfinished work of gender and racial justice.

Exhibition link: https://www.nyhistory.org/exhibitions/title-ix-activism-on-and-off-the-field