Claudia Alick, Author at Calling Up Justice!

Holding Change: The Way of Emergent Strategy Facilitation and Mediation

In our complex world, facilitation and mediation skills are as important for individuals as they are for organizations. How do we practice them in ways that align with nature, with pleasure, with our best imagining of our future? How do we attend to generating the ease necessary to help us move through the inevitable struggles of life? How do we practice the art of holding others without losing ourselves? Black feminists have answers to those questions that can serve anyone working to create changes in our world, changes great and small; individually, interpersonally, and within our organizations.

Care Work

In their new, long-awaited collection of essays, Lambda Literary Award-winning writer and longtime disability justice activist and performance artist Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha explores the politics and realities of disability justice, a movement that centres the lives and leadership of sick and disabled queer, trans, Black, and brown people, with knowledge and gifts for all. Leah writes passionately and personally about creating spaces by and for sick and disabled queer people of colour, and creative “collective access”

Big Bug

Bigbug is on Netflix. Same director or delicatessen and children of lost children.

thomas reid. bland black man wearing sunglasses

REID MY MIND

Thomas Reid edited our Every 28 hours Plays podcasts in 2021. His podcast “Reid My Mind” features stories and profiles of compelling people impacted by all degrees of Blindness and Disability. Plus Reid explores his own experience in his unique way of pairing his words with music and sound design.

Early Words for Students

EarlyWords also offers a community forum where users can connect with others working to release their “most amazing selves.” The forum allows for sharing experiences, offering support, and gaining inspiration from others going through similar challenges. This can serve as a valuable source of motivation and encouragement for college students. EarlyWords can be a valuable addition to a student’s daily routine, helping to clear the mind, establish a regular habit, and promote self-discovery, personal growth, and connection with others.

Audience Empowerment in an Age of Pandemic

This essay explores the ways attendees of events can empower themselves for safety in an age of pandemic. Below are easy tips to keep in mind to protect yourself and loved ones. Calling Up Justice values an empowered and safe audience.

Doctor Who FanFic made with AI Assistance

The following stories were created using the AI tool Chat GPT. Donna and the Bubbles was the result of only two prompts. Claudia was live-streaming experiments with the AI and the audience requested she create a story with Doctor Who. She asked them for a companion and a noun. They chose Donna and the bubbles on her screen saver. The Star Trek Doctor Who crossover fanfic is pure first draft and reads more like an outline or treatment than a short story. It’s still a fun read and resembles some of the stories you might find on Archive of Our Own (AO3) the fanfic archive. The Chat GPT was only trained on a limited number of “main characters” so we had to train them on Bill Potts, Nardol and others. It also didn’t really understand the relationships between characters so we ended up entering in a lot of prompts to find results. Claudia edited stories from the results of multiple prompts. The results are 10 stories that are fun to read and were quite a lot of fun to create.

The Yoda Crossover Collection

15 Short Stories featuring Yoda and other well known characters from across many worlds. The stories were created with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence. The art work was created with Midjourney, Dream Woomba, and Dall-e. These stories are the products of exercises we did for educational and skill-building purposes. We share them for free and fun. They do represent hours of labor and aesthetic choices. If you’d like to enjoy projects like these in the future please feel free to support our practice at any level you wish. –Claudia Alick

Photo by Jay Yamayta. San Francisco. American Conservatory Theater. 2018

Every 28 Hours Plays Keenan Anderson Action

In 2012 a study found that every 28 hours a black person was extrajudicially killed by vigilante, security guard, or the police in the United States. This statistic was immediately contested and the country is still embroiled with addressing a problem it struggles to acknowledge.

Star Trek Fanfic Collection

11 short fanfic stories based in the Star Trek universe made with AI Assistance accompanied with art made using Dream woomba and Adobe. Stories include Grudge Saves the Kids; Saru and T’Rina; Guinin, Uhura, and Michael; Captain Alexander; Kirk, Spock, and McCoy Afterlife; The 3 Janeway’s, Q-Ball and Itchy, Strange New Worlds Basics, Owosekun and Detmer, Star Trek Pets, The TARDIS and the Enterprise

Author: Claudia Alick