The Calling Moon Hood Hippie Universe Episode Decolonization 4 Dreamers
HoodHippie Universe’s Dreamers Anonymous: A Variety Show introducing the month’s Dream Guides, music, and explorations in Decolonization.
Working Reality: Disability Justice & Employment Summit
It’s a whole pandemic (still!) and folk are leaving jobs left and right. HOWEVER, one group of people have been clamoring to get in…..Disabled people! In the beforetimes, 70% of reasonable accommodations for remote work that went into litigation were denied. Yet, COVID has shown that remote work was not an undue hardship, but a …
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Producing with a Disabled Lens
Work that does not center justice is centering injustice, which makes for negative artistic outcomes. Practically speaking, it is important for the production teams to have expertise in the areas they want to be successful in. And when it comes to accessibility, disabled artists have the lived experience necessary that will lead to more successful outcomes.
Bad Faith Communication
“Bad faith is to act in ways that spoof the normal modes of interaction, such as in debate, conversation, commerce, while actually pursuing hidden, selfish motives or even hoping to disrupt the operation of the system in which they operate… [Making] effort as is necessary to avoid understanding a conflicting viewpoint to the extent that …
WAYS TO RESPOND TO INJUSTICE
These alliterative techniques for responding to injustice from Claudia Alick of Calling Up Justice are inspired by bystander trainings, peer exchange sessions, and personal experience. The “three D’s” are ways to respond direct, delayed, or delegated response. The “seven R’s” are types of response Request More Info, Redirect, Remove, Reflect, Reframe, Record, Re-educate.
Calling Up Justice Captioning Resource Guide
Calling Up Justice uses captioning in our digital spaces whenever we can. This provides an added layer of communication and accessibility not only for the hard of hearing or deaf community, but also for those of us that can use printed text to aid in meaning making. Best practice is to have live captioners but …
“I’m One of the Good Ones”: Ugly Laws, Survival, and the Power of Celebrating Things that Aren’t Pretty
It was just me understanding that if I am a coded as being societally “ugly” in specific ways that I will not receive the care and treatment I need. So, I told myself, “I have to be the most attractive sick person, the most able-bodied-looking sick person.” Adding on to that, I also am expected to complain about not being able to aerial dance and do exercise shit. So that people really know that I’m one of the good ones, the one that they should save.
The Block Party
We often experience attacks and trauma on the internet. Social Media Platforms can be unsafe for marginalized creators and audience. In our Internet Safety Workshop, “The Block Party” we will share techniques and tools to defend against trolls. Join us and Subvert the Algorithm!
Early Words
EarlyWords is a simple tool for daily, stream-of-consciousness journaling to jumpstart your day. We were inspired to build earlyWords by one of the best tools for getting our minds and hearts moving! The private, stream-of-consciousness journaling known as ‘morning pages’ are the first and most important practice described in Julia Cameron’s wonderful work The Artists Way. …
Vallejo Fund
We’re so excited to be invited by De La Projects to facilitate with 3 Palms Group and the Hewlett Foundation to design and envision distribution of funds to Vallejo based Artists. We’ve been holding digital and live meetings with up to 40 participants representing a diversity of community viewpoints. It’s been fun, empowering, and inspiring …