Mission Statement

We write about how we resist, thrive and celebrate our individuality while resisting patriarchal standards. This blog focuses on women and the opportunities and reflections gained when we express our strength and beauty.

As authors of The Fizz, we’ll share our take on contemporary feminist issues, looking through our intersectional, and transnational lenses. We’ll highlight stories about professional women athletes and equal pay. We’ll write about what it feels like to see badass female video game characters. And we’ll respond to how we recognize beauty in ourselves and others, in continuously changing beauty standards. The Fizz is about writing to empower our generation.

Each author may approach the topics with a problem statement, asking many cultural questions surrounding female identities, queer identities, and how they are connected to patriarchal capitalism, or blatantly misogynistic institutional standards. These questions relate to women and the queer community interpersonally, but also on a political and professional scale. Our narratives will address these issues, and we will write to empower our readers, through shared community, but also through actionable strategies about how to get involved in tackling these intersectional issues.  

Meet The Fizz!

Adele is a senior at Claremont McKenna College in Southern California studying Philosophy and Public Affairs. She grew up in Portland, Oregon with her parents and three siblings. Upon graduation she will pursue a career in consulting before starting her own business in an industry and cause that she cares deeply about.

Lucy is a sophomore at Pitzer College in California where she is designing her own major that combines Environmental Analysis and Sociology. She grew up in Tokyo and London with her family and identifies as Asian American. After graduating from college, she plans to pursue a career in music before getting a degree in social work.

Hazel is a Senior at Pitzer College studying Environmental Analysis and Studio Art as a Combined Major. She is a native New Yorker, but has come to love the food and outdoors of LA. Hazel is an artist, activist and athlete. After graduation she will pursue a career in the art world, and develop programs around environmental sustainability.

Contact: hhutchin@students.pitzer.edu

Amaya is a first-year at Scripps College studying Media Studies. Her family is from New York, but she has lived in various places in the East Coast, Spain, Okinawa, and currently resides in California. She identifies as mixed-race and queer. She has spoken on feminist topics at various events and conferences, such as at the University of San Diego’s Joan B. Kroc School of Peace Studies and at San Diego Comic-Con International 2018. Following graduation, she will pursue a career working for Disney.