Claudia Alick, Author at Calling Up Justice!

United States Artists

Calling Up Justice explores funding opportunities for artists, social justice practitioners, and entrepreneurs in our Open Development meeting. This post is highlighting a funder who

The Menu

movie review of the menu. Beautifully plated, but the critique lacked bite and I was left feeling hungry.

Strange World movie review. It’s good. On multiple levels. It is difficult to find anything to critique harshly. I am loath to promote Disney projects or corporate projects in general but this is a good film and a good time.

Justice Acronyms

Calling Up Justice works with folks who use a number of different ways to describe their practice. There are a number of different acronyms that are used to refer to initiatives that focus on promoting justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion (JEDI). Some of the most common acronyms include:

EDI: Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion

DEI: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

IDEA: Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility

JEDI: Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion

DJEDI: Decolonization, Justice, Equity, Diversity, Inclusion

The Equity Diversity and Inclusion Industrial Complex

The EDI Industrial Complex may be seen as a vested interest that influences public policy and decision-making, with the goal of promoting equity, diversity, and inclusion for profit or other agendas. Some critics argue that the EDI Industrial Complex may be focused on managing the symptoms of inequality and discrimination rather than addressing the root causes. Calling Up Justice believes in familiarizing yourself these concepts.

HowlRound Anthology: Essays and Conversations from the First Ten Years

The Howlround anthology celebrates a decade of publishing essays, livestreaming events, and bringing theatre practitioners together to amplify progressive and disruptive ideas, and exists as a result of the thousands of theatremakers who have shared their collective wisdom through contributions to this commons-based free and open platform. In publishing this anthology, they hope to further our vision of a theatre field where resources and power are shared equitably in all directions, contributing to a more just and sustainable world. The writing highlighted offers a much-needed reminder that alternatives to the status quo are possible, and we are making them together by practicing otherwise everyday.

Matilda the Musical

Real quick movie review! This film is safe to watch with children and the whole family. It’s cute, it’s watchable, the kids will like it a lot. It has cultural appropriation, but has several featured black roles and feels not racist and not anti-woman. That’s an accomplishment for a Roald Dahl project.

Black Men Dancing

Artistic and Process Statement: Claudia Alick’s “Black Men Dancing” began as an exercise working with the male figure. She had been primarily celebrating the black femme form and pivoted to male bodies for this project. This was a time where Claudia was obsessed with making the AI generators produce Black people which required a surprising amount of effort. Somehow even black outlines were suggesting white identities an it took specific prompts and specialized fine tuning data to get this result. She fed in images references from sports, history, and dance. Music paired with video is On Time – Metro Boomin & John Legend

Podcast and Publications 2022

An incomplete list of some of the publications and Podcasts related to Calling Up Justice from 2022. Including NPR,Cripping Media Art Ecologies, Interspectional, and Trek Table

Glass Onion

Spoiler free review of Glass Onion. It’s a hit go see it. we enjoyed the elegant structure, fabulous, set ups, and payoffs, great cast, and of course the class politics. The final moments of the film are deeply satisfying. Janelle Monáe is transcendent and brilliant. She deserves all the awards.

Author: Claudia Alick