CURRENT PRODUCTIONS
Accessible Audiencing: Planting Disabled Futures
January 14–16, 2026 Disability Cultural Community Center Berkely University Calling Up Justice is honored to provide Accessible Audiencing for Planting Disabled Futures, in collaboration with DJ1 Crip Reliance Hub and Disability Justice Culture Club. Claudia Alick is a featured dancer within the VR experience, contributing embodied movement and crip futurist presence to the project’s living, immersive world.
Disability Justice Is Beloved Community 2026
A Covid Conscious Gathering (In Person) Third Annual Event | Produced with Love by Disability Justice Culture Club and others Last year’s Disability Justice Is Beloved Community gathering was a joyful, multi-sensory day rooted in care, creativity, and collective liberation—and it’s the spirit we’re carrying forward into our 3rd annual event.
Vision Boarding for 2026
Join justice-centered artist, producer, and facilitator Claudia Alick to create your 2026 vision board with SF Disability Culture Center. This workshop encourages us to explore beyond New Year’s resolutions and goals.
Reclaim MLK Radical Legacy 2026 Week of Action
Calling Up Justice is honored to support the 12th Annual Reclaim MLK Week of Action, working alongside the Anti Police-Terror Project to ensure these powerful gatherings are accessible, connected, and rooted in Disability Justice.
ONGOING PROGRAMS
Digital Encampments
We are building digital student encampments for disabled students and others who cannot attend encampments in person for safety reasons.
Dis/Rep
Dis/Rep (Disability/Representation) is a yearly series of virtual dialogues focused on Disability, accessibility, and culture
Why Mask
Welcome to “WHY MASK?” the thought-provoking art installation by Claudia Alick. By provoking thoughtful consideration and raising awareness, this project transcends political divisions and emphasizes the significance of safeguarding one another during times of crisis.
Star Trek Podcasts, Videos, Essays
Trek Talk, Trek Table, AI Experiments, and more
Virtual Protests
Not everyone can physically attend protests, and this virtual gathering serves as a vital platform to express grief, stand in solidarity, and engage in meaningful action against ongoing humanitarian crises.
Watch Parties
we value the act of being in community while we audience for cultural productions. We produce gatherings to enjoy theater, film, and television in a digital space where we can share reactions and comments
STORYMODE with Maiamama
STORYMODE with Maiamama Fridays | 5–7 PM PST | Inside One Free Community These are immersive stories that push the boundaries of gaming—and because of their mature themes or copyrighted music, you won’t find them on our Twitch channel.
Virtual Protests
Calling Up Justice supports our audience who cannot attend protests in person.
Every 28 Hours Plays
The Every 28 Hours Plays were developed to address the racial justice conversation we need to have.
Livestreaming
Calling Up Justice regularly conducts scheduled and impromptu livestreams across multiple platforms, including Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok.
Gaming For Justice
Calling Up Justice combining streaming video game platforms and social justice content.
Artificial Intelligence Experiments
Calling Up Justice is producing disability and racial justice in our artificial intelligence and machine learning experiments and projects.
We Charge Genocide TV
We Charge Genocide TV: QTBIPOC vs the United States Government for the continuing crime of genocide.
PAST PRODUCTIONS
2025 Ghostlight Project
Jan 6 2025 was a call to action to celebrate and collaborate with local arts, cultural organizations, and communities to amplify our collective impact. This beautiful event included national theater leaders sharing inspiring ideas and actions. Let us ask ourselves and others: "How are you keeping your light on?
Mouthwater Cuntry
July 2025 Mouthwater Dance will share it's 2024 Festival on it's youtube channel and via a special space in gathertown produced and livestreamed with Calling Up Justice.
HOW WE MOVE
June 2025. Produced by Embraced Body -A Dance intensive created for and by Disabled dancers and centering multiply marginalized (BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, etc) dancers within our communities. Jesenia worked as access doula
Accessible Virtual Pride 2025
July is Disability Pride Month! What better way to celebrate LGBTQ+ Pride and Disability Pride with an Accessible Virtual Pride!
JVP National Conference
May 2025 JVP (Jewish Voices for Peace) held their first National Member Conference since 2020 this year, and Disability Justice was at the forefront of planning this over 2K attendee MASKS REQUIRED event. Jesenia from Calling Up Justice, supported assembling a team of access doulas to join the leadership of Embraced Body in providing access services for the JVP National member conference!
Why Mask Installation at the Black Arts Movement House
April 2025. Calling Up Justice was honored to collaborate with the legendary Lower Bottom Playaz for a mask mandated presentation of their powerful production of Government Housing 2, written and directed by Dr. Ayodele Nzinga.
Hands Off Virtual Protest
April 5 we produced a special protest space in gathertown, one free community discord, and livestream for over 5000 participants
Mouthwater Festival
Calling Up Justice Communications Producer, Jesenia @NeuroSpicyNetworking, drove up to Seattle to join MouthWater Festival as their Production Manager. MouthWater Festival is a Disabled Arts Festival centering Black and Indigenous Disabled artists in Seattle, WA SEP 23 – OCT 13, 2024.
Save Our Studio
October 3 2024 Calling Up Justice held an emergency 3 day livestream in order to raise enough money to save our studio
Every 28 Hours Plays Sonya Massey Action
July 24 2024 This action includes a livestream honoring of Sonya’s life and loss, live reading of selected scripts, this project description, and Links to immediately take action, plus Links to download plays.
Disability Culture is Here
July 12 2024 Disability Culture is Here: Virtual Talent Showcase, Panel, and Community Dance Party. Featuring Claudia Alick, Daisy Washington, Antoine Hunter, Lotus Boy, and Gaelyn Lea.
Chicago hybrid convening
June 21 2024 we participated in digital events and art making in Chicago with the Network of Ensemble Theaters and Theater Communications Group. The conference was in person with limited hybrid and digital options. Network of Ensemble theaters held a hybrid closing dinner with Alisha Tonsic.
Why Mask StaceyFest
July 20 2024 StaceyFest is a project of the Disability Justice Culture Club and fiscally sponsored by the SPM Disability Justice Fund 501(c)(3). StaceyFest is a new disability justice culture festival and an opportunity to celebrate the memory and ongoing legacy of renowned disability justice advocate Stacey Park Milbern.
Coast Pride
CUJ advised them on their accessibility and digital engagement. June 9 2024 We embedded the livestream in our LGBQ2S Oasis inside the Digital Encampment. We hung out for around 3 hours chatting, enjoying the acts and doing a digital dance.
Voices on the Ground
Voices on the Ground is an offshoot of Virtual Protesting, where we hear from people who are in or from the countries experiencing ongoing genocides. At these live streams, guest speakers on the ground share firsthand accounts of their experiences, families, and struggles. April 2024
Claudia Not Safe for Platforms
March 1 2024 For Claudia’s birthday we presented content and speech that she can’t share on the platforms. The evening included poetry, stories, and speech she get’s suspended, banned and suppressed for...and karaoke!
100K Praises
Feb 29 2024 presented at La Mama Theater in NYC. Commissioned by Erik Ehn “100K Praises” is a videogame that celebrates self-empowerment and positive self-image. Journey through a series of challenges and collect 100 genuine statements about your own character and achievements. Designed by Maiamama and Claudia Alick. Music from Makenna Lyric.
Martin Luther King Day 2024
Jan 15 2024 We attended Anti Police-Terror Project’s 10th Annual Reclaim MLK’s Radical Legacy March and Week of Action. We attended the livestream during Maiamama’s Make-up Monday and then Claudia read the Letter from Birmingham Jail. Below is the full text from the speech.
Gaza Monologues
November 29 2023 Calling Up Justice Produced a disability justice informed digital production of The Gaza Monologues written by children from Ashtar Theater Palestine. We are among many different productions producing The International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People.
W.O.C.A Annual Gathering
In a hat tip to the late, great Shirley Chisholm, the theme for WOCA‘s 13th Annual Membership Meeting is “Unbothered and Unbossed” 2023
E.A.A.T Exhibit
Experiments in Art, Access & Technology, or E.A.A.T. chronicles the emergence of access as an animating principle of art, science, and technology. 2023
We Been Here
WE BEEN HERE! Celebrating the International Movement of Disabled Hip Hop Artists. 2022
F*ck the Gala
2022 year-long digital performance and social experiment around arts fundraising. Experience a liberating artistic exploration of decolonizing wealth and deconstructing our relationship to philanthropy.
Electra
2021 Electra, performed by groundbreaking, fully virtual theater production company Access Classics, and co-produced by Calling Up Justice.
Festival of Masks
August 2020 with LA COMMONS AND THE LEIMERT PARK ARTWALK
Build Convening
September 2020 with Fools Fury
2025 MLK
Monday Jan 20 2025 we live-streamed a reading of the “I Have Been to the Mountaintop” Martin Luther King’s last speech before his assassination. Then in our digital encampment we gathered with disabled friends and watched the live-stream of the Radical Legacy March and performance with ASL.
Zero Remake Return
May 15-18, 2025 Creativity Conference – Southern Oregon University Embodied Creative Making with Generative AI: An Interactive Workshop
Accessible No Kings
On June 14, 2025, Calling Up Justice activated our Digital Encampment and tiktok livestream channels as part of the national NO KINGS protest actions—a decentralized day of resistance against oligarchy, ableism, and authoritarianism.
Touch Aesthetics Fellowship
May 10, 2025 Join artists Vanessa Cruz, Selwa Sweidan, Olivia Ting, Antonella Mazzoni, and Petra Kuppers in exploring the intersections of disability, haptics, and immersive storytelling. Touch Aesthetics Fellowship, a collaboration between Leonardo CripTech Incubator and the Haptics for Inclusion Lab, under the Narrative and Emerging Media Program at Arizona State University (ASU NEM Program)
Korematsu Revisited
April 19, 2025 Supreme Court Theatre and Calling Up Justice . A Theatrical Reading and Community Conversation on Japanese Internment to ICE detention to deportation
The Rescue Trial
June 19 2025. Groundbreaking on the Digital Black Arts Movement Business District —a visionary virtual venue designed to preserve, expand, and reimagine Black cultural space online. This groundbreaking ceremony will feature a staged reading of The Rescue Trial, an original historical fiction play by Latisha Jones
Istwa A two long table read
Dec 28 2024 Calling Up Justice presented this digital cold reading of. “Istwa A Two Long Table Read,” the afrofuturist devised dance music theater piece from SkyRiver Speaks and directed by Claudia Alick. We were joined by international theater makers, Haitian cultural experts, and disabled community in our our futuristic digital space full of links to Haitian cultural information.
All My Pretty Fictions
I Left Neither my Bed Nor my Room Terri Lynne Hudson multimedia piece December 12 2024. Her 3Arts Fellowship culminated in an asynchronous multimedia experience. Claudia Alick directing and co-designed her devised piece that includes original music, art, movement, and text.
Election Night Gathering
Nov 6 2024 We designed special spaces and performative scores to experience the production of election night. Part Watch Party, part disassociation party, part design jam.
(Di)vergent for Community
October 2024 The [Di]Vergent unconference in San Pedro Laguna, Guatemala was produced by Jesenia and others from The Justice Producers Collaborative.
Honoring the Life and Legacy of Tinu Abayomi-Paul
Calling Up Justice is mourning the loss of our dear artistic partner and powerful advocate, Tinu Abayomi-Paul, who passed away on September 26, 2024. We supported the digital memorial session for Tinu produced by family and friends.
Why Mask Portland
Aug 25 2024—Portland Playhouse and Online. a hybrid pro-masking disability justice pop-up art exhibition and open mic, organized to raise awareness about the critical need for masking to protect disabled community members.
24 Hours for Palestine: A Moon Will Rise from Darkness
This 24-hour online event featuring 100+ Global Artists and Activists for a Free Palestine, including performances and presentations honoring the Palestinian people and their steadfastness in the face of genocide. CUJ created a digital theater space and arranged hosts for a 24 watch party.
Why Mask Chicago
June 22 2024 Claudia Alick printed stickers to a location in Chicago for a Why Mask installation performance at the TCG Conference. Jesse Alick picked up the stickers and shared them to other people at the conference.
Nero Launch Party
June 17 2024 NERO is a Shakespearean, five-act “streamplay” theatricalizing the history from George W. Bush’s War on Terror to our present day as the rise and fall of Nero’s Roman Empire. Claudia acted as access doula and host for the watch party
Trek Table Final Season
De La Projects and Calling Up Justice joined with The Geekish Network to produce this final season. Reflecting on Star Trek Discovery's final season on a new channel.
Art Museum from Bed.
Claudia hosted M Elio’s Art Museum from Bed from Feb 21-March 11. She featured the artwork in the background of several of her online performances and events.
Free Palestine March
Jan. 13, 2024 Members of One Free Community and Calling Up Justice attended the rally and march in DC on Saturday January 13th where over 400,000 people came out in support of a permanent ceasefire and the liberation of the people in Palestine via our virtual protests
US Gender and Disability Justice Alliance 2024 Convening
Calling Up Justice Producer Jesenia @NeuroSpicyNetworking attended this Disability Justice Convening hosted by Women Enabled International.
Gray Area Festival
We collaborated on access design with Gray Area Festival Oct 19-22 2023 Plural Prototypes. We started with supporting artists and process with the Viverse Metaverse CripTech collab.
Inclusive Theater Festival
Calling Up Justice and One Free Community were so happy to work with the Inclusive Theatre Festival Oct 11-12 2023 with Seesaw Theater at Northwestern University in Chicago lL.
The Call: Watch Night for Black Lives
2021 Collaboration with Babmbd Fest
Producing In A Pandemic
Begun in March of 2020 by producer/directors Claudia Alick and Kholoud Sawaf, is an international peer exchange gathering and non-prescriptive incubation space.
Million Mask March ONLINE
Our Million Mask March is to protest ending mask mandates. We invite everyone to post a photo or video to our digital March since we can’t meet in person safely without mask mandates. Our Digital March is an online protest to the eugenics filled policies of COVID denial. We can’t march outside together safely because not enough people are masking. Help us reach 1 million masks. This project was conceived by Tinu, produced by Claudia, and graphic designed by Maia. 2022
White/Nights Black Paradise
2020 with Sikivu Hutchinson and MOAD the Museum of African Diaspora
The Justice Quilt Story Circles
2019-2020
Complaints Anonymous web series
2020-2021 with Black Girl Magic Creative Series and Ella Tureen