Author: Claudia Alick

EarlyWords and Pricing for Justice

EarlyWords is a unique and empowering tool for anyone seeking to unlock their creativity and cultivate habits of self-reflection and introspection. Its pay-what-you-are-able approach to pricing recognizes the diversity of the creative community and empowers users to choose a subscription level that is sustainable for them. This approach promotes inclusivity, transparency, and mutual support, creating a sense of community and solidarity among users. EarlyWords encourages users to engage in a pure and unfiltered form of self-expression, empowering them to unleash their full creative potential.

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Stupid Tourist

The term “stupid tourist” is used to describe someone who feigns ignorance of rules or customs, in order to break them purposefully. In a TikTok video response to Mayte Lizbeth, KC Davis used this term to explain the phenomenon of “gaslighting” that Mayte was experiencing in the comments section of her video. Gaslighting is the psychological method of manipulating someone into questioning their own sanity or powers of reasoning.

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Why Karen’s Maintain Supremacy Culture in Public Spaces

The tweets by Claudia Alick shed light on the pervasive nature of Supremacy Culture and its impact on Black people’s agency, personal narratives, and labor. According to Alick, Supremacy Culture grants white people the expectation that they should have uninterrupted access to the bodies and personal narratives of Black people in public spaces. This privilege often translates into unwelcome questioning, inappropriate labor orders, and emotional caretaking expectations from Black people.

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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000

We at Calling Up justice enjoy watching the livestream recordings of this podcast on the Dair Institute Channel on twitch. The commenting audience often contributes additional useful information. We find this podcast fun and informative about artificial intelligence and ethics. https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

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Prioritizing for Success: Using the Pareto Principle and Crip Time in the Workplace

Calling Up Justice uses our time and energy wisely. The Pareto Principle and crip time are two strategies that can help individuals, particularly those with disabilities, to manage their time and energy more effectively to reach their goals. The Pareto Principle, also known as the 80/20 rule, states that roughly 80% of effects come from 20% of causes. In other words, a small percentage of efforts or inputs often result in a disproportionately large output or result.

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Relationship Repair Clause

Conflict is inevitable and can sometimes stall a project or poison future professional relationships. Do you want to create a culture of accountability and repair in your relationships with contractors? Hoping to be prepared for and even possibly prevent conflict? Look no further than the Relationship Repair Clause created by Calling Up Justice.

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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.

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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.

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