Claudia Alick, Author at Calling Up Justice!

Chris Rock Selective Outrage

According to a 2016 report from The Hollywood Reporter, Rock’s Saturday special was part of a $40 million deal he made with Netflix for two stand-up specials.

Disability Representation in Comic Book Heroes and Villains

The representation of disability in comic books has been a complex and often problematic issue. Historically, disability has been portrayed through a medical model that focuses on individual impairments and frames disability as a personal tragedy or limitation. However, in recent years, a social model of disability has emerged that recognizes disability as a result of societal barriers and discrimination. This essay will explore the representation of disability in comic book heroes and villains through the lens of the social model of disability.

Heroes and Villains and Disability Future

Claudia Alick, a guest lecturer in Dr. Maya Dworsky-Rocha’s “Medicine, Body and Culture” class at Brandeis University on March 2, 2023, delivered a lecture on “Heroes and Villains and Disability Futures.” The lecture focused on Alick’s ideas on disability justice and cross movement solidarity. The topics covered included disabled rights vs. disabled justice, cross disability solidarity, ugly laws, how we identify as members of the disability community, crip theory, ableism, access intimacy, and disabled heroes and villains in fiction.

AI and the Reproduction of Supremacy Culture Ideologues

The emergence and advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AI) has brought about significant changes in various fields, including entertainment, medicine, education, and more. However, as AI becomes increasingly integrated into our daily lives, it raises important ethical questions, such as bias and discrimination. Calling Up Justice is experimenting with the AI platforms such as Chat-GPT to surface issues and give feedback that reduces bias.

Black Characters in Star Trek

Calling Up Justice is celebrating Black characters in Sar Trek! Star Trek has always been at the forefront of representation and diversity in popular culture, and the franchise has introduced a number of notable black characters over the years. From Lieutenant Uhura, the communications officer aboard the USS Enterprise in the original series, to Michael Burnham, the protagonist of Star Trek: Discovery, these characters have brought unique perspectives and added depth to the Star Trek universe. This list of black Star Trek characters is a testament to the franchise’s commitment to representation, and celebrates the diverse range of experiences and stories that have been brought to life on screen.

The Road Trip AI Designed Video Game

In this choose-your-own-adventure game, players will have the option to choose between two paths: one that explores the possibilities and limitations of AI-generated art on a road trip, and one that leads to a page with real human artists. Maiamama coded the videogame in Twinery using Claudia Alick generated text and images from entering custom prompts and fine-tuning data into Chat-GPT, Mall-E, and Dream Woomba. This game was designed in part during livestreams in the Calling Up Justice AI experiment performances with Claudia Alick and Gaming4Justice with Maiamama. As players navigate through the game, they will encounter various scenarios and challenges. They will be presented with text and image options to choose from, leading to different endings that ultimately provide the same choice.

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Revolutionizing Creative Expression: How Calling Up Justice pushes Social Justice in AI

The Calling Up Justice practice explores technological innovation that impacts cultural producing. We asked Chat GPT to describe the experiment we are doing with artificial intelligence platforms. Our interest is in accessibility, bias, and how it will impact creative production in the future. We’ve been creating everything from plays and stories to animations and videogames using the tools and discussing them publicly. The text below is the result of fine tuning data that described a few of our sessions.

Breaking Barriers and Beyond

Claudia Alick guested on a very special edition of Captains Quadrant looking at the Barriers Star Trek has broken in society. This episode features Nita Flores, Captain Dove, Claudia Alick, and Phillip. On Spectrum Sanctorum Network.

Normalizing Healing in the Black Diaspora

Sparked by the Quote, “Trauma has been normalized in the Black community, but not HEALING.” Charlamagne Tha God – Matthew Reynolds Consulting, LLC decided to ask the most powerful movers, shakers, and history makers we know to come together as a glorious panel and hear what they have to say about this quote. The conversation featured panelists include Leslie M. Scott-Jones, Trena Bolden-Fields, Maryella Marie, Claudia Alick, and Nakia Winfield!

Distracted or Disrespectful: Perceptions of Autistic Women of Color in the Workplace

As an autistic woman of color listening to conversations around autism in the workplace, I ask myself, where are all our voices? Where are the discussions on how cultural norms add complexity to our understanding of autism? I would like to explore our understanding of autism and how ideas of what is normal affects prescriptions of behavior.

I am a queer, autistic woman of latine-native immigrants. I am firmly at the intersection of woman, minority, and neurodivergent where there is very little room for authenticity and self expression. My purple faux-hawk, bold print blazer, and big jewelry do not fit into typical definitions of “work-appropriate”, especially not for an interview (to say nothing of how my autism affects my prospects). Yet that is exactly how I dress for interviews, even though there are a slew of studies showing how personal bias affects the likelihood of people of color being hired with all other factors being equal.

Author: Claudia Alick