School Daze
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!
Author: Claudia Alick
Can you Survive a Racism Videogames
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”
Prompt Engineering: An Introduction for Beginners
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”
Disability Visibility
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.
BIPOC Authored Plays and Musicals with Multi-Racial Casts
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
THE 2023 WOCA ANNUAL MEMBERSHIP MEETING
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
Yo-Yo Lin Resilience Journal
Calling Up Justice believes in the art of self-reflection and journaling for empowerment. This tool designed by Yo-Yo Lin uses the idea of data-tracking as an objective tool for holding space for illness. Yo-Yo Lin seeks for The Resilience Journal to be a self-reflection, advocacy, and community-building tool, residing on the shoulders of Disability Justice giants.
Nap Ministry
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!
Access Choreographies
Calling Up Justice coined the term “Access choreographies” to refer to the art of designing how people can move in all spaces to ensure accessibility. This includes considerations of access check-in, discussions of captions, reviewing accessible bathrooms, and more. Accessibility is defined as the quality of being easy to approach, enter, operate, participate in, or use. It is an important consideration in a variety of settings, from the home to the workplace to public spaces. We think all the world’s a stage so this term is ideal.