Everything Everywhere All at Once
Give Michelle Yeoh all the awards! This film was awesome. Can’t wait to see more from these directors.
Author: Claudia Alick
Clear Masks are Awesome
As an access doula, I had the opportunity to work closely with the Criptech + Gray Area Metaverse collaboration and provide my expertise in access design. One of the accessibility measures that we implemented was the use of clear masks from BendShape Barrier™, which were recommended by Lindsey Dolich Felt, the Leonardo Disability, Access and Impact Lead.
Calling Up Justice Personal Assistant Job Description
Calling Up seeks an Assistant to the Executive Producer (Remote) “If you have come to help me you are wasting your time, but if you
Rihanna halftime show
Rihanna halftime show was giving Squid Game Realness and I am here for it.
Liberated EDI let’s talk about Wokeness
Awesome conversation about Woke in the Liberated Equity Diversity Inclusion Clubhouse Room. Really appreciated reviewing the history of the term, how it’s being used today and ideas about healing for justice producers. First used in the 1940s, the term “woke” has resurfaced in recent years as a concept that symbolises awareness of social issues and movement against injustice, inequality, and prejudice. James Baldwin said To be a Negro in this country and to be relatively conscious is to be in a rage almost all the time. Supremacy Culture wants you to be in denial. It pathologizes the word “woke” so that you’ll stop thinking. Not talking about racism is not the same as being anti-racist. To be in denial of supremacy culture is to be in support of it. Everyday we do not dismantle supremacy culture we increase its power. It’s killing us. Get woke. Stay woke.
Agents of Supremacy Culture
You will encounter a variety of different types of Agents of Supremacy Culture. Some of them will stalk you online and say things like being woke is a bad thing. They need us to be in denial of our own oppression. There are also people who make money spreading things like disinformation, misinformation, and other types of propaganda like Tucker Carlson. Sometimes, we might discover we have been acting as an unwitting agent of supremacy culture by treating ourselves badly due to our own internalized biases.Resist getting recruited into Supremacy Culture by society and yourself!
The CripTech Metaverse Lab
VR, AR and spatial audio present significant access frictions and barriers for disabled users and creators. The CripTech Metaverse Lab, a collaboration between Leonardo CripTech Incubator and Gray Area, will gather ten disabled creatives to collectively experience immersive artworks, generate participatory aesthetic access, and create new speculative artworks culminating in Gray Area Festival 2023. The lab will imagine new creative pathways for experiencing metaverse artworks amongst participants and future audiences. The findings from this research lab will be shared via the publication of a white paper in Leonardo journal, an online research archive, and culminate in a series of talks, performances, and an exhibition for the 2023 Gray Area Festival this Fall.
Urban Bush Woman CCI Workshop
Claudia Alick taught a masterclass in creating your own personal access riders and creating access riders for your dance troupe.
Access Rider
Access riders are documents that detail information about an individual’s access requirements. They can stop endless conversations about access by offering a considered and detailed list of what might be needed when, to enable employers, colleagues, and others to simply know how best to support someone without assumptions and guesswork. These articles introduce what an access rider is, where and how it can be used and what you might want to include in yours.
Access Doula
Calling up Justice integrates the role of The Access Doula as a design and facilitation role for live performance in digital and physically shared spaces. It is more empowered and centered than an access coordinator. This role is for folks who want to help monitor the gathering, looking for ways to help enhance access. They negotiate access with all cross-disability participants. This role is flexible by necessity and political inclination. The Access Doula serves to legitimize support-giving by naming it while reframing ideas around access in this hybrid virtual moment.