Claudia Alick, Author at Calling Up Justice!

Transforming Corporate Ghostlands

AI Experiment: Calling Up Justice looked at contemporary stories of commercial real estate and created prompts that encourage the machine to dream of a better future. Text generated by Chat GPT. Image generated by Dalle from this prompt-“Generate an image of a vibrant cityscape where repurposed office buildings have been transformed into creative community spaces. The scene takes place on a sunny day, bustling with activity. The focal point is a building adorned with colorful murals and open windows, revealing people collaborating inside. Other repurposed structures surround it, featuring greenery cascading from balconies and rooftops. Capture the diverse community engaged in conversations, idea exchange, and activities like a farmers market, street performances, and interactive installations. Portray a vivid sense of positivity, creativity, and the transformative potential of repurposing abandoned spaces.”

Accessible Virtual Pride 2023

Accessible Virtual Pride for Covid Conscious LGBTQ+ July 2 2023 with Calling Up Justice and One Free Community was a rousing success

Happy Disability Pride Month!

Join Calling Up Justice in honoring Disability Pride Month, a time to celebrate the power and resilience of disabled individuals. This month-long celebration is an opportunity to promote disability justice and advocate for equality, while shedding light on the unique experiences and contributions of the disabled community. Let’s come together to challenge ableist narratives and create a more inclusive society.

History of Pride

The history of LGBTQ+ pride, starting with Marsha P. Johnson and extending to the present day, is a testament to the ongoing struggle for equality, visibility, and acceptance for the LGBTQ+ community. Let’s continue the timeline:

Tactile Tours

Tactile tours are a type of tour designed for individuals with visual impairments or blindness to experience and explore various places, such as museums, landmarks, theaters, or cultural sites. These tours focus on providing tactile and sensory experiences to engage participants and offer them a comprehensive understanding of the location.

SOCIAL AUDIO DESCRIPTION COLLECTIVE

Calling Up Justice recommends the Social Audio Descriptive Collective for expertise in visual descriptions. Audio description, or more precisely visual description, is a form of narration used to provide information surrounding key visual elements in a media or live work for the benefit of consumers who are accessing by sight. This includes blind and visually impaired participants.

Submersible and Billionaires Discourse

Enjoy these videos reflecting on the submersible and billionaires dissource made in June of 2023. Titan, a five-person submersible operated by OceanGate, went missing during a dive to explore the wreck of the Titanic. The submersible, named Titan, had British billionaires Hamish Harding and Shahzada Dawood, French submarine pilot Paul-Henry Nargeolet, and Dawood’s son Suleman on board. The submersible lost contact with its operator, OceanGate Expeditions, and a search operation was launched. Unfortunately, it has been confirmed that all five people on board did not survive. The U.S. Coast Guard located a debris field on the sea floor, indicating a catastrophic implosion of the vessel.

Dot’s Home

Maiamama, captivated her live-stream audience as she delved into the immersive world of Dot’s Home during a captivating episode of Gaming4Justice. The game itself, a single-player masterpiece, revolved around the life of Dorothea “Dot” Hawkins, a vibrant young Black woman in her late twenties who resided in the bustling city of Detroit, Michigan, alongside her beloved grandmother, Mavis Hawkins. This interactive narrative, which merged gaming with the themes of housing and racial justice, proved to be a thought-provoking and enlightening experience.

LEDIA Let’s Talk about the 6 C’s

The LEDIA Talkspace held on June 21, 2023, focused on the topic of healing from colonizer illness through the utilization of the 6 C’s: curiosity, creativity, collaboration, connection, clarity, and consistency. Facilitated by Matthew Reynolds, with support from the Calling Up Justice practice, the conversation delved into the adverse effects of supremacy culture and toxic belief systems, emphasizing the importance of these 6 C’s in the healing process.

Backbones Talk

Claudia Alick held an empowering talk about disability identity with the BACKBONES Youth Summer Program. BACKBONES connects people with spinal cord injuries and their families with events and one on one meet-ups. The ten youth participants shared their stories about how they entered the disability community. Claudia shared history of disability movement, disability justice concepts, and accessibility vocabulary that allowed the group to talk about disability identity and their world. We closed with a conversation inspired by The Justice Producers Collaborative about how our disabled identities inform our work in the world and make us uniquely qualified. It was awesome to end reflecting on disabled innovation, resialance, perseverance, creativity, and advocacy. It’s a cool accessible program and we were honored to participate.

Author: Claudia Alick