Claudia Alick, Author at Calling Up Justice!

Liberation Meditation

Early Words Liberation Meditation is Claudia Alick’s daily practice of journaling, reflection, and collective political education. Each morning begins on EarlyWords.io, a community-built journaling platform,

a salmon leaping in a forest connected by technology

Networks of People Power

Calling Up Justice grows networks of people power like an ecosystem — rooted, resilient, interdependent, and alive. We are like salmon in a redwood forest,

Crip Create 2025 Annual Report

Introduction Crip Create is a weekly online co-working and socializing space centered on Disability Justice, created by and for Disabled people. It meets consistently on

Fifteen Years of Growing the Commons with HowlRound

Fifteen Years of Growing the Commons with HowlRound Calling Up Justice is proud to have supported HowlRound Theatre Commons for many years. HowlRound has consistently

A split-image composition showing hybrid digital placemaking: on the left, a pixel-art map of an arts center with multiple rooms and gathering spaces; on the right, a real photograph of the same building exterior and interior, where one person stands outside a green-framed arts venue beside a small table with masks and printed materials. The image contrasts virtual infrastructure and physical community care within a shared cultural space.

Digital Placemaking and Belonging

Digital Placemaking, Placekeeping, and the Work of Belonging Calling Up Justice as a Hybrid Practice Creative placemaking is often described as the process of shaping

An illustrated Zoom meeting shows nine diverse participants in a 3x3 grid, each drawn in a warm, hand-drawn style with bold outlines and textured colors. Above or around each person float symbols representing ideas and resource exchange—lightbulbs, gears, money, charts, papers, speech bubbles, and globes. The participants appear joyful, expressive, and engaged in conversation. At the bottom of the image is a stylized Zoom interface bar with icons for mute, video, participants, chat, share screen, record, breakout rooms, reactions, and leave.

Open Development 2025

Open Development 2025: A Year of Collective Growth, Resource Building, and Justice-Centered Innovation 2025 has been an extraordinary year for our Open Development community—a year

Accessible Sports in Society

Now more than ever our disabled youth need concrete skills of leadership to usher forth the society that we wish to see the in the

Cripping with Slow AI

Cripping with Slow AI: Reflections on My Work as Intersectional Design Specialist with the CripTech AI Lab When I joined the CripTech AI Lab as

Money Please For Our People

Featured Guest Artists & Justice Partners Spotlighting Disability Justice, Black & Brown Futures, Trans Brilliance & Community-Rooted Arts EVENT REPORT: “Money Please 2025”A 24-Hour Giving

Digital Placemaking Team

Join the Digital Placemaking Team at Calling Up Justice At Calling Up Justice, we don’t just build events—we build places. Digital Placemaking is a term

Author: Claudia Alick