Access riders are documents that detail information about an individual’s access requirements. They can stop endless conversations about access by offering a considered and detailed list of what might be needed when, to enable employers, colleagues, and others to simply know how best to support someone without assumptions and guesswork. These articles introduce what an access rider is, where and how it can be used and what you might want to include in yours.
Calling up Justice integrates the role of The Access Doula as a design and facilitation role for live performance in digital and physically shared spaces. It is more empowered and centered than an access coordinator. This role is for folks who want to help monitor the gathering, looking for ways to help enhance access. They negotiate access with all cross-disability participants. This role is flexible by necessity and political inclination. The Access Doula serves to legitimize support-giving by naming it while reframing ideas around access in this hybrid virtual moment.
Calling Up Justice uses the Just Transition framework in much of it’s work. We highly recommend these resources from Movement Generation. They offer this framework as a humble point of departure for folks interested in building collective vision and action towards Ecological Justice that does not separate humans from nature, or social equity from ecological integrity. For more on Just Transition framework and strategies from MG and others: Read MG’s Just Transition Zine; Visit Climate Justice Alliance’s webpage on Just Transition and
check out their Just Transition Framework Adaptations page that showcases powerful adaptations of Just Transition framework by different communities in various languages, creative formats, and sector-specific lenses.
Spike Lee’s film School Daze featured this powerful ending where a young generation of African Americans knew they need to wake up. Woke is a good thing to be. Black film history!
Calling Up Justice is proud to introduce two thought-provoking video games from designer Maiamama. All Games are available for free. Any donations allow the games to continue to be built and improved upon.”Can You Survive a Racism?” and “Can You Survive a Racism: Industrial Medical COMPLEX”
Calling Up Justice producer Claudia Alick has been experimenting with creating participatory fine tuning sets. We wanted to show you how you might start using this tool. This entire article is the result of the prompt: “create a short article for beginners to understand what being a prompt engineer is. it needs to include some vocabulary and different types of job applications. integrate a few example prompts”
Calling Up Justice highly recommends the podcast Disability Visibility with Alice Wong: Disability Activist, Media Maker, Consultant. Alice Wong is a culture leader and we have collaborated on several projects. Disability Visibility featured conversations on disability politics, culture, and media.
This resource of BIPOC Authored Plays and Musicals with Multi-Racial Casts was complied by B Herrera. It includes Plays, Plays by MENA and/or first-gen immigrant
Calling Up Justice is happy to be helping to produce this virtual gathering of WOCA’s 13th Annual Membership Meeting. It’s been almost three years into these pandemics and women of color are doing it for ourselves. In a hat tip to the late, great Shirley Chisholm, the theme for WOCA’s 13th Annual Membership Meeting is “Unbothered and Unbossed” recognizing that while women of color have been disproportionately impacted by these pandemics and the oppressive systems which uphold them, we remain undeterred by the various challenges of our times. Women of color arts leaders continue to create, innovate, inspire, and lead – on our own terms
Calling Up Justice believes that Rest is resistance and have been appreciating and supporting these ideas. In Rest Is Resistance, Tricia Hersey, aka the Nap Bishop, casts an illuminating light on our troubled relationship with rest and how to imagine and dream our way to a future where rest is exalted. Our worth does not reside in how much we produce, especially not for a system that exploits and dehumanizes us. Rest, in its simplest form, becomes an act of resistance and a reclaiming of power because it asserts our most basic humanity. We are enough. The systems cannot have us. We recommend you visit the Nap Ministry website and access more of these ideas from their blog and get the book!
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