Claudia Alick, Author at Calling Up Justice!

DAY FOUR: Ableism

30 Days of Racial and Disabled Justice A system that places value on people’s bodies and minds based on societally constructed ideas of normalcy, intelligence,

Claudia Alick reached out to natasha marin who had collaborated on a few clubhouse experiments together and pitched a conversation exploring liberation and resilience. Natasha had just finished a book project on Black Imagination and was about to start another. Claudia imagined a space for them fueled by pleasure activism and access intimacy that used digital tools to gather responses and make aggregate dreamscapes. They both invited Black activists, artists, organizers and community members. The final group gathered was all Black women. The beginning moments opened with a conflict. There wasn’t an understanding that the space needed to be Black exclusive. The white CSI members left quickly but it was a reminder of the constant labor to create safe space where Black folks can feel free. The conversation was rich and varied. Below is one artifact from our time dreaming together.

DAY THREE: 30 Days of Racial and Disabled Justice

DAY 3 DISABILITY JUSTICE “Disability justice challenges the idea that our worth as individuals has to do with our ability to perform as productive members

GAMING 4 JUSTICE

Our social justice gaming stream project is designed as a weekly digital space for personal connections and further consciousness raising with fun entertainment thrown in! Every week we stream videogames and discuss a different topic and engage with people in the chat. We’ve discussed Harm vs Intent, Copaganda and State Violence, as well as premiering original concepts such as The Woke Clock. After these conversations we enjoy a game as both a palate cleanser and a way to look at the ways BIPOC, LGTBQ+, and Disability Justice intersect in entertainment and society. We also build original videogames and use those to fuel conversations. Watch Gaming4Justice on twitch.tv/callingupjustice

DAY TWO: 30 Days of Racial and Disabled Justice

DAY 2 INTERSECTIONALITY “Intersectionality is a prism, for seeing the way in which various forms of inequality often operate together and exacerbate each other” Source:

DAY ONE: 30 Days of Racial and Disabled Justice

LANGUAGE IS A TOOLWhat are some sources you use for preferred language? Comment below with sources that work well for you and your community. Source: Calling

Unsettling Dramaturgy Digital Communications Lead – Job Posting

The Unsettling Dramaturgy Colloquium (unsettlingdramaturgy.com) is an ongoing project bringing together Crip and Indigenous dramaturgs from across so-called Canada and the United States who work

Digital Equity

Digital Equity panel featuring Claudia Alick. Almost overnight, the pandemic accelerated a shift to creating, collaborating, and presenting online. Given the ongoing issues of the pandemic and climate change, this trend is not going away. The barriers of white supremacy culture, inaccessibility, and exclusionary policies are as insidious in the digital space as they are in our towns and cities. As the performing arts explore this new form, how do we build digital equity? What do we as artists, agents, producers, and presenters need to know as we plan our own excursions into digital spaces? Are there works, models, or strategies from the last 18 months that suggest a way forward?

NPN 2021 Conference Consultation

Calling Up Justice was hired to provide Disability Justice Consultation for NPN’s 2021 Annual Conference. Below is a rough description of our initial scope of work. NPN is a national arts service organization, grantmaker, and movement-builder working to create a more just and equitable world — one that champions freedom of expression, liberation and anti-oppression, and building and claiming collective power for radical systems change. Through national programs, investments in our communities in the South, and engagement in global movements, we seek to build artists’ power, advance racial and cultural justice in the arts, and foster relationship-building and reciprocity between individuals, institutions, and communities.

WCGTV 2021

Calling up Justice started We Charge Genocide TV and with it produced a news website, 2 Live-streamed variety style presentations and 2 music playlists in 2020. In 2021 we presented short form content on tiktok and Instagram.

Author: Claudia Alick