Author: Claudia Alick

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“I’m One of the Good Ones”: Ugly Laws, Survival, and the Power of Celebrating Things that Aren’t Pretty

It was just me understanding that if I am a coded as being societally “ugly” in specific ways that I will not receive the care and treatment I need. So, I told myself, “I have to be the most attractive sick person, the most able-bodied-looking sick person.” Adding on to that, I also am expected to complain about not being able to aerial dance and do exercise shit. So that people really know that I’m one of the good ones, the one that they should save.

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Gaming and Theater

Calling Up Justice is interested in creating performances with empowered audience and artists. Having the ability to change what happens is the ultimate power. Theater performance and game mechanics are closely related, with forms such as improv theater, LARPing, and live stream D&D shows demonstrating the various ways in which these two fields can intersect and enhance each other. Whether through the use of rules and structure, interactive improvisation, or immersive storytelling, these forms of performance offer the opportunity to create engaging and imaginative experiences for audiences and participants.

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Mobility Access for Theater

Calling Up Justice knows making theater accessible to artists and audiences with mobility disabilities is an important step towards creating an inclusive and diverse cultural space.

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Black Powerful

Award-wining viral curator and poet Natasha Marin follows up her acclaimed Black Imagination with a new collection of sharply rendered, breathtaking reflections form more than one hundred Black voices.Black Powerful explores the monumental reliance, joy, and triumph of Black People everywhere. Claudia Alick is featured in the collection.

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Early Words

EarlyWords is a simple tool for daily, stream-of-consciousness journaling to jumpstart your day. We were inspired to build earlyWords by one of the best tools

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Vallejo Fund

We’re so excited to be invited by De La Projects to facilitate with 3 Palms Group and the Hewlett Foundation to design and envision distribution

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hold on wait for it episode 6

Hold On Wait For It Episode 6

After Episode 5 of Hold On Wait For It was lost and episode 4 was yet to be edited here is episode 6 of Hold on… Wait for It! where Claudia and Maia after a long wait discuss the wisdom of 3 year-olds, their addiction to media, acorn flour, Star Wars, defragging, why my sister has a better nerd card than me, mortality, downtime, Ferguson, what the kids are into to, getting cut off by Skype, Community, Chevy Chase, Monty Python and our inability to stop talking to each other.

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hold on wait for it episode 4

Hold On Wait For It Episode 4

On Episode 4 of Hold On… Wait For it Maia gets loopy on Nyquil and Claudia gets loopy on sugar as they philosophize on Kristin Stewart, Zarathura, the sorcerers apprentice, Dax Shepard, being Fancy, Punked, Punky Power, Bill Cosby, Raven Simone, CB4, Race and Representation, Wintworth Miller, One Drop, Stoker, NASA, Doctor Who, The Flash, Jesse L Martin, eating honey, quitting smoking, spoilers, Smallville, Superman, Nyquil, Benadryl and Unisom, Costco, allergies, Arizona, the revolution, toilet wine, box wine, physics, mortality, Ebola, talking to children about the afterlife, Magma, Battlestar Galactica so says the Whedon, So says we all.

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