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IN THIS MOMENT 2: Revolution Reckoning Reparation | Visual Studies Workshop

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https://www.gofundme.com/f/they-lost-lucahelp-nick-rachel-keep-their-home

help a justice producers sister in a financial/housing crisis in Ohio

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Hello, my name is Barbara Davin; I'm a long-time family friend of Rachel Cook and Nick Stavale. I'm hoping to help Nick and Rachel through a very difficult time by setting up this Go Fund Me page for them. Please take a few minutes to read about how it happened that they need our help.

It started with a treatable injury and ended with the loss of their dear sweet dog Luca. You might remember Luca from Common Roots Pub, where Nick often tended bar with his best furry friend by his side. Luca was a handsome Catahoula Leopard Dog mix, a little shy but always playful and happy.

Last summer, Luca stepped off the bed awkwardly. That's it. The tiniest moment. TLC from Nick and Rachel at home and multiple vet visits followed, with increasing dosages and combinations of pain medication. An x-ray showed no broken bones, but dark spots along his cervical spine, which one vet thought could be arthritis, and a surgeon thought were herniated cervical discs. Over three months, Luca had some signs of progress and happy days for sure. However, his inability to heal, and his pain level didn't match the assumption of herniated discs. When Luca lost the use of his front left leg, Rachel and Nick built a ramp down the back steps to make trips to the yard smoother. They rearranged the house and how they lived in it to be with Luca on the ground floor when one vet prescribed absolute bed rest for Luca.

A bright spot in this story comes for Luca after seeing Dr. Leick of Alexandria, KY, who gave acupuncture, an adjustment, and some herbs for nausea. After months of stomach-churning pain, Luca had some relief, and was able to fall asleep deeply enough to snore loudly! Luca did not regain stability or mobility. He lost the ability to stand on his own for more than a couple minutes. He needed around-the-clock care. Nick had already pulled back at work over the last month, and now stayed home altogether in order to get Luca outside for his potty breaks. A big boy, Luca was 93lbs - Rachel wasn't able to manage that lift on her own.

On Thanksgiving morning, Luca took a turn. Rachel had convinced Nick to take Luca to his family's for the holiday to soak up the change of scenery and all the extra loving. His family were already on their way over to pick up Nick and Luca, when the decision to drive straight to the emergency vet was made. Luca died in his daddy's arms, in a car full of family, in the parking lot of the emergency vet. His death was caused by internal bleeding.

If only animals could talk! It can be very hard to tell if it's a better choice to nurse them or say goodbye. As a pet lover whose dogs are family members, I understand, and I'm sure you do too.

What "now" looks like for Nick and Rachel: The money spent on Luca's care was money meant for the mortgage of the house they just bought. Because Luca was never diagnosed with a terminal illness, there was always hope that he would recover. The extreme stress and grief of these past few months have been so hard on Nick and Rachel. They are both heartbroken, and now struggling to pay their mortgage, bills and even afford food. They currently don't have the credit to qualify for a loan. Nick's income is what was balancing the books each month. Time spent off work, combined with spending their entire savings on vet bills and medications, means that Rachel and Nick are in a true financial emergency.

Luckily, Nick works for a wonderful, understanding couple who -amazingly- are holding his job for him until he can get back to it.. Rachel is a grad student, which many of you know is extremely stressful even without any other problems! In May she receives her MS degree in Medical Herbalism. Currently, she receives a small stipend and also works part time. She's actively looking for more income and assistance, including selling whatever personal belongings she possibly can. Time is closing in, and even all of these efforts combined won't be enough to save the day.

Donations made here are routed directly to Rachel and Nick, and they'll be beyond grateful for your help. Please join me in helping them reach this goal and get through this rough patch. Every donation counts; no amount is too small. Thank you, Dear Friends, for taking the time to read this and for any help you can offer.

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They lost Luca-Help Nick & Rachel Keep Their Home, organized by Barbara Davin

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Hello, my name is Barbara Davin; I'm a long-time family friend of Rachel Cook and Nick Stavale. I'm hoping to help Nick and Rachel through a very difficult time by setting up this Go Fund Me page for them. Please take a few minutes to read about how it happened that they need our help.

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OFA's Signal Body Double Network has moved to DISCORD! You can keep on body doubling, and more community activities and mutual aid resources are on the way!

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End-of-Year Update, 2022 — The Curiosity Paradox

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Jonathan Paradox is an anti-virtuoso pointing their finger at folly. They have a penchant for the absurd and a taste for truth (?).

Jonathan Paradox is the alter ego of creative director and performance artist Jonathan Lee.

Jonathan Paradox lives in a world with dream logic, odd phys…

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HESAPA - A LANDBACK FILM

LANDBACK is a movement that has existed for generations with a long legacy of organizing and sacrifice to get Indigenous Lands back into Indigenous hands. Currently, there are LANDBACK battles being fought all across Turtle Island, to the north and the South.

As NDN Collective, we are stepping into this legacy with the launch of a LANDBACK Campaign as a mechanism to connect, coordinate, resource and amplify this movement and the communities that are fighting for LANDBACK. The closure of Mount Rushmore, return of that land and all public lands in the Black Hills, South Dakota is our cornerstone battle, from which we will build out this campaign. Not only does Mount Rushmore sit in the heart of the sacred Black Hills, but it is an international symbol of white supremacy and colonization. To truly dismantle white supremacy and systems of oppression, we have to go back to the roots. Which, for us, is putting Indigenous Lands back in Indigenous hands.

In addition, LANDBACK is more than just a campaign. It is a political framework that allows us to deepen our relationships across the field of organizing movements working towards true collective liberation. It allows us to envision a world where Black, Indigenous & POC liberation co-exists. It is our political, organizing and narrative framework from which we do the work.

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HESAPA - A LANDBACK FILM LANDBACK is a movement that has existed for generations with a long legacy of organizing and sacrifice to get Indigenous Lands back into Indigenous hands. Currently, there are LANDBACK battles being fought all across Turtle Island, to the north and the South.

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So you want social change.....but do you feel overwhelmed? Don't know where to start? Maybe you keep asking "Who is missing from the conversation/table" but do not know how to identify or reach out...or maybe you know that you don't know what you don't know...

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Cultivating An Intersectional Mindset: Transform Your Leadership in 30

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So you want social change.....but do you feel overwhelmed? Don't know where to start? Maybe you keep asking "Who is missing from the conversation/table" but do not know how to identify or reach out...or maybe you know that you don't know what you don't know... I'm here to help!

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Coming to UMass Amherst in Fall 2022.

With a Ph.D. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and a Graduate Certificate in College Instruction from the University of Connecticut, Anna is prepared to teach most undergraduate chemical engineering courses.

While engineering fundamentals should never be ignored, Anna also excels at bringing Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) work into her courses. Social justice and STEM are inseparable, which Anna has shown through her course modules (on environmental justice, anti-imperialism, A.I. and more) and through culturally-relevant feminist pedagogies.

Anna is currently a Lecturer at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is available to give seminar talks about everything from inclusive pedagogy to her own #TransInSTEM journey. Check out her qualifications below.

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Coming to UMass Amherst in Fall 2022. With a Ph.D. in Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering and a Graduate Certificate in College Instruction from the University of Connecticut, Anna is prepared to teach most undergraduate chemical engineering courses. While engineering fundamentals should never be ignored, Anna also excels at bringing Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion (JEDI) work into her courses.

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https://ganondagan.org/

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The newly built Seneca Art & Culture Center (2015) at Ganondagan State Historic Site is a 17,300-square-foot center that tells the story of Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) contributions to art, culture, and society. Designed to fit into the natural landscape, the center features an interactive, multi-media Exhibit Gallery, including a changing exhibit space, Orientation Theater (featuring the Iroquois Creation Story film), auditorium, and gift shop.

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FATALPROSE | Twitter, Instagram, TikTok | Linktree

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Father. Husband. Rotating ball of Light. Poet-Author of SCRATCH. See link below:

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Hi! I'm Julie Nowak (she/they) - a disabled educator and activist who writes and talks about the intersection of nature connection, disability justice, body liberation, and food justice. I'm also creating a podcast!

You can read more about me and my project 'The Seasonal Body' on my website ( SeasonalBody.org), or follow me on social media: @SeasonalBody on Facebook & Twitter; @TheSeasonalBody on Instagram.

My podcast (tentatively called "Homeward Nature" - release date tbd) will be a free resource focused on increasing access to nature connection through short, guided, experiential activities in audio form (plus transcripts).

This project is my act of love for those who are homebound and disabled like me, and for those who can't access outdoor green spaces for various reasons (e.g. due to ableism, location, safety, racism, lack of time, etc). But the podcast is also for anyone, so I hope you will listen!

This Patreon page is a place where you can optionally donate to support me as a chronically-ill and low-income creator (as my low/fluctuating capacity means I cannot work at a "regular" job, or handle consistent freelance work). Thankfully the podcast is something I can work on slowly at my own pace, taking extended breaks when needed.

You can choose to donate any monthly amount (as low as $1) - it's up to you!

There are no specific benefits or services you get from joining here - it's mainly a way for me to organize donations on an ongoing basis. I may occasionally post updates here, or share links to my work, which will be made available to non-donors as well. So you aren't missing out on any content if you aren't able to donate!

These donations will also help cover the initial and ongoing costs associated with producing a podcast and running a website.

If you prefer to give a one-time donation, or you want to offer your time instead of money (to help ease my workload with the podcast behind the scenes), you can donate or contact me through my website:
SeasonalBody.org/donate

I'm also sometimes available to offer public speaking, consulting, and educational resources (depending on my health capacity) - which you can learn about here:
SeasonalBody.org/services/

Regardless of whether or not you donate, I hope you will join me in working towards a world that makes nature connection more accessible and embraces disability justice!

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Julie Nowak: 'The Seasonal Body' & upcoming podcast is creating resources about nature & disability (donate $1/month or more) | Patreon

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Hi! I'm Julie Nowak (she/they) - a disabled educator and activist who writes and talks about the intersection of nature connection, disability justice, body liberation, and food justice. I'm also creating a podcast! You can read more about me and my project 'The Seasonal Body' on my website ( SeasonalBody.org), or follow me on social media: @SeasonalBody on Facebook & Twitter; @TheSeasonalBody on Instagram.

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Carmen Papalia, Mobilty Device, 2019, performance on the High Line, New York, Photo: Carlos David, Courtesy of the High Line

Image Description: A moment from Carmen Papalia's performance titled Mobility Device, captured at the High Line: an elevated linear park, greenway and rail trail created on a former New York Central Railroad spur on the west side of Manhattan in New York City. Carmen, a non-visual artist, is in the middle of the frame. He is midstep on the concrete path with his head turned to his left, wearing a pink, short-sleeved button-up shirt, black pants, brown sneakers and a purple fedora. A group of musicians follow Carmen closely. They are diverse in race and gender, all wearing clothing in a similar colour palette to Carmen's. The musicians are playing brass instruments including trombones, trumpets and tubas. In the background, a distant cityscape creates a distinct border between the grey sky at dusk and a body of water.

with Rebel Fayola Rose (Founder of Disability Justice Dreaming), Sharona Franklin, Catherine Frazee and Gabrielle Peters (Disability Filibuster Against Bill C-7), Heather Kai Smith, and The Curiosity Paradox

Carmen Papalia is a Vancouver-based, non-visual artist working in the realm of social practice. His artwork is concerned with unsettling traditions of cultural ableism, which he achieves by centring and affirming disability cultures in environments and places where members of the broader disability community are underrepresented. Papalia develops participatory projects that reveal non-visual sensory landscapes, demonstrating the possibilities of creative and justice-oriented accessibility practices.

This exhibition presents a new site-specific project by Papalia that asserts different models for collective care and Disability Justice. The installation features an imaginative accessible structure within the Gallery, which frames a gathering space where other voices and narratives from the contemporary disability movement are introduced. The exhibition also includes a dedicated programming space, which will host a full slate of workshops and talks, a resource library and contributions from a number of guest artists to further develop key ideas and conversations within the exhibition.

NEXT: Provisional Structures: Carmen Papalia with Co-Conspirators is the twentieth instalment in NEXT: A Series of Artist Projects from the Pacific Rim. This series highlights works previously not seen in Vancouver and seeks to engage the diverse practices of Pacific Rim artists.

Organized by the Vancouver Art Gallery and curated by Mandy Ginson, Associate Curator, in collaboration with Stephanie Bokenfohr, Adult Public Programs Coordinator

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NEXT: Provisional Structures | Carmen Papalia with Co-Conspirators

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with Rebel Fayola Rose (Founder of Disability Justice Dreaming), Sharona Franklin, Catherine Frazee and Gabrielle Peters (Disability Filibuster Against Bill C-7), Heather Kai Smith, and The Curiosity Paradox Carmen Papalia is a Vancouver-based, non-visual artist working in the realm of social practice.

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Technologist, storyteller (screenplay, fiction, poetry, music, media content), neuroscience grad, former nanobio-chemo, former investment banking finance.

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fatalprose (@fatalprose) TikTok | Watch fatalprose’s Newest TikTok Videos

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fatalprose (@fatalprose) on TikTok | 1.2M Likes. 104.4K Followers. Deconstructing; Decolonizing; and Divesting from Patriarchy. Start from SCRATCH

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https://callingupjustice.com/million-mask-march-online/

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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.

We live-streamed the march November 7 2022 on twitch and tiktok.
https://www.twitch.tv/videos/1647339300

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Million Mask March ONLINE - Calling Up Justice!

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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.

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Technologist, storyteller (screenplay, fiction, poetry, music, media content), neuroscience grad, former nanobio-chemo, former investment banking finance.

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Zacqueline Baldwin (@zacqueline_) * Instagram photos and videos

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Come here to see original video games from Maiamama

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Come here to see original video games from Maiamama

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Can You Survive a Racism: A social justice interactive experience

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"1492 Land Back Lane" (bordering the town of Caledonia and the Six Nations reserve in Ontario): https://www.facebook.com/1492LandBackLane/ (This land is part of the Haldimand Tract land defence: https://www.protectthetract.com/)

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"1492 Land Back Lane" (bordering the town of Caledonia and the Six Nations reserve in Ontario): https://www.facebook.com/1492LandBackLane/ (This land is part of the Haldimand Tract land defence: https://www.protectthetract.com/)

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The Council of Chiefs of the Haudenosaunee, Grand River Territory, wish to affirm and clarify our land rights in the tract conferment by Governor Frederick Haldimand on October 25, 1784. In making this statement, the Council of Chiefs wants to make it clear that we hold certain land ethics and principles that must be respected in any agreements on land use or occupation.

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The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book By Gord Hill 

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The 500 Years of Resistance Comic Book By Gord Hill 

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The book is worth the price simply for its outstanding introduction by Ward Churchill.

I knew about the Zapatista's armed struggle in the 90s. I did not know about the numerous armed resistances in Canada in the last quarter century or so.

The book is 10 years old, and it does touch upon genocide through spreading disease. The science may have changed on this recently.

I would like to see an equivalent book for other continents.

It can be hard to follow the panels at points, and some abbreviations...more

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The book is worth the price simply for its outstanding introduction by Ward Churchill. I knew about the Zapatista's armed struggle in the 90s. I did not know about the numerous armed resistances in Canada in the last quarter century or so. The book is 10 years old, and it does touch upon genocide through spreading disease.

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Fat Socialist (@jasminesherman80) TikTok | Watch Fat Socialist's Newest TikTok Videos

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Fat Socialist (@jasminesherman80) on TikTok | 870.6K Likes. 77.2K Fans. I am a socialist running for President 🇺🇸 in 2024 $JasmineSherman2024

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Story Brennen (@fightthedystopia) TikTok | Watch Story Brennen's Newest TikTok Videos

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Story Brennen (@fightthedystopia) on TikTok | 4.6K Likes. 1.6K Fans. Âû * They/Them * Queer * 34 * Leftist Land Back * Abolish * ac12 Scientist Witch

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Rebel Sidney Fayola Black Burnett - "Good Fortune Walks with Honor"

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Rebel Sidney Fayola Black Burnett - Disability Justice collaborator

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Rebel Sidney Black is an Access Artist based out of Portland Oregon. He is also Founder of Disability Justice Dreaming and Leaping Water Consulting

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Post with 96 views. Acrylic Painting Portfolio

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Podcast 3-part series about a Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their ancestral home in Northern California: https://emergencemagazine.org/audio-story/coming-home-to-the-cove/

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Podcast 3-part series about a Coast Miwok family’s eviction from their ancestral home in Northern California: https://emergencemagazine.org/audio-story/coming-home-to-the-cove/

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Episode 1

Theresa Harlan shares the story of her Coast Miwok family's eviction from their homestead on a cove in Tomales Bay-an uprooting which ended her family's time there but did not sever their connection to the ancestral lands and waters of Tamal-liwa.
Photo courtesy of Theresa Harlan

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Coming Home to the Cove - Emergence Magazine

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Theresa Harlan shares the story of her Coast Miwok family's eviction from their homestead on a cove in Tomales Bay-an uprooting which ended her family's time there but did not sever their connection to the ancestral lands and waters of Tamal-liwa. Photo courtesy of Theresa Harlan

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Photograph courtesy of Paul Wilson @paulrww
The views and opinions expressed by Klamath Land Back Tours, LLC are those of a private company and do not reflect the views or positions of The Klamath Tribes.

On the Klamath Tribes' Homelands, the Indigenous People who are the original stewards of the Land are facing constant settler-colonial violence through the ongoing Indian Wars, which have never ended. They've turned into the Klamath Basin's historic drought and continued Water Wars, which is one of the biggest Water Wars in US history. The War now looks like local Agriculture's water theft, constant violent threats and carried out assaults; the unsustainable and destructive cattle ranching; racialized wealth inequality leading to unstable housing and houselessness; escalating wildfires due to state and federal mismanagement i.e. lumber over-harvesting; and the resulting extinction of the Klamath Tribes' traditional foods - the Cwaam, Koptu, and Yen suckerfish. The suckerfish are fighting to survive in the Klamath Lake that's now dying. Colonial erasure of the Klamath, Modoc and Paiute People, environmental racism, and a broken Treaty are at the forefront.

The Highway 97 corridor cuts through Klamath Territory and gets 1 million + uninvited tourists and settlers every year. Klamath Land Back Tours was established to assert that this Territory is that of the Modoc, the Klamath, and Paiute People. As they struggle with the continued problems brought by colonization, Klamath Land Back Tours disrupts the local travel guide, and how the uninvited guests move through their Homelands. Klamath Land Back Tours offers you a detour into the reality of many Tribal People and provides an opportunity to understand a more complex and inclusive narrative. Klamath Land Back Tours is a redirection away from the idea and fantasy that we are no longer here, and that you are entitled to our Land.

Their most sacred sites are now federal and state parks and private land. With over 1 million uninvited tourists and settlers who access this Territory each year, these large droves are desecrating sacred places while the Indigenous People are being erased. Klamath Land Back Tours honors and claims the Territory with the aim of protecting and helping secure the future of its Indigenous People while reminding you, the uninvited colonizers that this is Klamath Land. It always will be. You are not entitled to the Land. You are not entitled to its resources. Instead, you are participating in its ecological collapse.

Proceeds go to THE AMBO FUND, to the development of Indigenous-led tours, and to Klamath Land Back initiatives. Now is your opportunity to acknowledge whose Land you are on, to stand in solidarity with the Indigenous Community, and to give back. The Modoc, Klamath, and Paiute Tribes are the original and rightful stewards. And they are fighting for their survival.

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Photograph courtesy of Paul Wilson @paulrww The views and opinions expressed by Klamath Land Back Tours, LLC are those of a private company and do not reflect the views or positions of The Klamath Tribes. On the Klamath Tribes' Homelands, the Indigenous People who are the original stewards of the Land are facing constant settler-colonial violence through the ongoing Indian Wars, which have never ended.

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Photo description: a carrot growing in muddy soil, with the green and orange top sticking out. Photo credit: “I spy a carrot!” by Gemma Garner – CC License

The Seasonal Body is a project focused on the intersection of nature connection, disability, food justice and body liberation.

This website is a hub for our work and writing, and also provides information about our available educational services. If you are interested in consulting, workshops, public speaking, or educational resources, click here for more details.

Continue reading about The Seasonal Body and its founder Julie Nowak.

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exploring the intersection of nature connection, disability justice, body liberation & food justice

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Bernardo

Mazón Daher (he/him)

Bernardo Mazón Daher is a border-brat bred from Chula Vista, California. He is a few years out from San Diego State University with degrees in Literature and Theatre. While in school, Bernardo became a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and producer cutting his teeth with local companies. Since then, his journeys in theatremaking have taken him around the country to work both with organizations of high prestige alongside grassroots, community-based projects. In addition to being an artist, Bernardo is an organizer chasing for the convergence of activism and art towards social progress. He has served as a steering committee member of the Latinx Theatre Commons, forged grants and awards opportunities for dramaturgs across Latin America, and co-founded this nonprofit back home for Latinx artists and audiences. Bernardo is an all around storyteller driven to create spaces where different peoples can intersect to listen, learn, labor, love, and play together.

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Bernardo Mazón Daher is a border-brat bred from Chula Vista, California. He is a few years out from San Diego State University with degrees in Literature and Theatre. While in school, Bernardo became a professional actor, director, writer, educator, and producer cutting his teeth with local companies.

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Sandy Pascual: MBA, NIC, CoreCHI, OCHI, Q-MHI; Nationally Certified American Sign Language Interpreter; (Tri-lingual: English, Spanish, ASL); Qualified Mental Health Interpreter (Q-MHI); Certified Medical Interpreter (CoreCHI); Oregon Certified Healthcare Interpreter (OCHI)

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Sandy Pascual: MBA, NIC, CoreCHI, OCHI, Q-MHI; Nationally Certified American Sign Language Interpreter; (Tri-lingual: English, Spanish, ASL); Qualified Mental Health Interpreter (Q-MHI); Certified Medical Interpreter (CoreCHI); Oregon Certified Healthcare Interpreter (OCHI)

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Audrey Ramirez-Loudenback: ASL/English Interpreter; NIC; MA in Interpreting Studies

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Audrey Ramirez-Loudenback: ASL/English Interpreter; NIC; MA in Interpreting Studies

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Audrey Ramirez-Loudenback lives in Salem, Oregon with her husband and two children. She completed her BA in ASL/English Interpreting from Western Oregon University in 2009 and her MA in Interpreting Studies from WOU in December 2015.

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Audrey Ramirez-Loudenback lives in Salem, Oregon with her husband and two children. She completed her BA in ASL/English Interpreting from Western Oregon University in 2009 and her MA in Interpreting Studies from WOU in December 2015.

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Assessments

Assessments are powerful leadership tools to uncover, recognize and change inequities that are internal to your organization.

Consulting

There’s no one-size-fits-all. We work with you to fully customize our work in response to the needs, dynamics, hopes and fears of your organization.

Equity Action Plan

Our strategic and comprehensive Equity Action Plan puts a theory of change into action to achieve a shared vision for equity across your organization.

Training & Facilitation

Our training and facilitation rely on a proven framework, experiential learning and relationship building to create brave space that allows you to be a force for change.

Our Partners in Envisioning Equity

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Our strategic and comprehensive Equity Action Plan puts a theory of change into action to achieve a shared vision for equity across your organization.

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Light Thief Productions - YouTube

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Independent Philadelphia based Production company providing digital event, news, and live event services

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We are on indefinite hiatus. The pandemic is not over. We are not done producing. Visit our Discord and FB Group to keep up with the on going projects and community. Congrats on over 100 hours of great art and ideas being shared.

Producing in Pandemic, begun in March of 2020 is a peer exchange gathering and non-prescriptive incubation space.

We are a collaborative, anti-capitalist, non-hierarchical group intentionally prioritizing voices of folks on the margins. Our team of organizers center racial and disabled justice and "decolonization".

Our hundreds of participants from North and South America and the UK share what we do well, what we are learning, and what we are struggling with in digital producing and safely shared physical space.

We are developing resources and relationships, while amplifying best new practices in this age of global pandemic.

We would love for you to join us!

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Feel free to contact us to attend a session, get in touch for media requests, access needs, or to be connected with a digital producer.

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JOIN our facebook page, Transmedia Performance, or send an email to producinginpandemic@gmail.com. Attend a meeting to recieve the discord link.

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documentary filmmaker

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Ronnie Braithwaite (he/they) is a Black American documentary filmmaker born and raised in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Esther Triggs-Camacho (S/H)#whatarewegoingtodo with all this hate? Sing. Dance. Breathe. ACT. 🔥🔥🔥#advocatelikeamotherforall  linktr.ee/EstherTriggs

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The Journey Theatre Project (JTP) works with non-profits, corporate entities, educational, religious and community organizations to build equitable and inclusive work and educational environments.

JTP is dedicated to fighting white supremacy and the violence it has always and continues to have on black and brown bodies.

As a women led organization, we challenge traditional power structures, and disrupt unconscious bias.

Land Acknowledgment

We would like to take a moment to acknowledge the land we are living on - land that was stolen from Indigenous people by settler-colonialists and later the American government and its people. Indigenous people are still here, taking care of their communities and fighting to keep them safe. The Journey Theatre Project is Brooklyn, NY based, land of the Canarsie band of the Lenape people. Learn more below about the land you are on below.

Work with Us

Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.

Journey Theatre Project’s signature workshop series, Race And You, leads organizations and communities toward becoming anti-racist. What sets our workshops apart, is the use of applied theatre strategies including critical dialogue, creative reflection and embodying action. Each workshop offers multiple opportunities for participants to engage with their own experience and grow through conversation with others.

Monologues from the War: New Plays From Ukraine

A staged reading featuring four Ukrainian playwrights to benefit those displaced by the war on Ukraine.

Directed by Dmitry Troyanovsky

Produced by Journey Theater Project

Saturday April 23 4PM

Greenwich House Music School, NYC

Tickets: $15-$100

100% Proceeds go to Refugees of the War on Ukraine

Community

We work with communities to create original theatre about the issues and stories they care about most. Tools: Playbuilding, improvisation, writing and devising theatre in a group

We create outlets for connection and reflection and cultivate support networks.Activities: Reflection and embodiment events, reading groups, support and celebration

The Gift

Read about our latest intergeneration project and performance!

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people and Talent enablement

We help you identify business strategies and tailor solutions to achieve business results, enable an effective culture, and support an engaged workforce. We advise you through all aspects of business and people planning, from the start (business and HR strategy), to the middle (employment management and development), to the end (workforce and succession planning).

human capital evaluation and procurement

Our goal is to bridge the gap between the public-sector and private-sector by bringing industry best practices to help agencies deliver desired results. We are more than partners and advisers; we are strategic solution-architects on any human capital topic, regardless of industry and market.

We collaborate with organizations that face unique people and talent challenges, leading with humanity by delivering dynamic, inspiring, and human-centric solutions to harness the power of their people.

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We collaborate with organizations that face unique people and talent challenges, leading with humanity by delivering dynamic, inspiring, and human-centric solutions to harness the power of their people.

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CarlosAlexis Cruz (el/ellos-he/his) :   https://nouveausud.org/

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1 min compilation from Kholoud Sawaf

Updates happening daily. Search our resources and take action. Scroll up and take direct action or find ways to join the movement. Scroll down down to see latest action, watch recorded broadcasts, and listen to music playlists.
Wednesday weekly meetings now include Every 28 Hours Play s and more. Join us HERE for replenishment and resistance work!

Last Livestream July 4!

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This Fourth of July, Eboni Muse, joined us a guest curator and shared live performance and content from and for the We Charge Genocide TV evidence files. Our performance was connected to a live event in the park in Los Angeles. Thanks to those who joined us for this chill afternoon of transmedia provocation and invocation of racial justice!

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We Charge Genocide Music Mix to celebrate Juneteenth

June 1st Pre-Launch Livestream
We produced this broadcast before our official launch to connect folks to the project. The 2 hour broadcast contains moving and beautiful content that informs this project.

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​Insight Prison Project was founded in 1997 with one class for 14 male prisoners at San Quentin State Prison. Today, IPP offers unique and effective programs for thousands of men, women, and...

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Creating safer spaces, cultivating care practices + seeding dreams.

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Creating safer spaces, cultivating care practices + seeding dreams.

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Progressive pop culture, politics, and news from an urban Black man’s point of view. Revolutionary Optimist. Hardcore blerd. This content is to take back woke, SJW and progressive. Pop Culture, politics, black issues, TV, movies, social commentary, news, reviews and anything I want to talk abou…

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Don't miss this experience!

You should attend this leadership academy if:

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You know that we can't wait for change

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You understand that justice needs good leaders, like you!

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Don't miss this experience! You should attend this leadership academy if: 1 You know that we can't wait for change 2 You want to ensure your equity initiative succeeds in the face of great odds (Look at where we at now. We can't afford to continue like we have) 3 You understand that justice needs good leaders, like you!

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Award-winning writer and entrepreneur interested in biotechnology, neuroscience, and ice cream

Niyathi Chakrapani is an award-winning writer and entrepreneur. She studies neuroscience and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, advocates for mental health resources, and co-founded a biotechnology company. Find her writing poetry, designing nanotechnology or telling bad puns anywhere around campus, or maybe check out her book, Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Stars, on Amazon. And while you're at it, save a piece of your chocolate bar for her. She'll remember it forever. https://www.linkedin.com/in/niyathichakrapani

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Contributor Award-winning writer and entrepreneur interested in biotechnology, neuroscience, and ice cream Niyathi Chakrapani is an award-winning writer and entrepreneur. She studies neuroscience and engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, advocates for mental health resources, and co-founded a biotechnology company.

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Hi! I'm Julie Nowak (she/they) - a disabled educator and activist who writes and talks about the intersection of nature connection, disability justice, body liberation, and food justice. I'm also creating a podcast!

You can read more about me and my project 'The Seasonal Body' on my website ( SeasonalBody.org), or follow me on social media: @SeasonalBody on Facebook & Twitter; @TheSeasonalBody on Instagram.

My podcast (tentatively called "Homeward Nature" - release date tbd) will be a free resource focused on increasing access to nature connection through short, guided, experiential activities in audio form (plus transcripts).

This project is my act of love for those who are homebound and disabled like me, and for those who can't access outdoor green spaces for various reasons (e.g. due to ableism, location, safety, racism, lack of time, etc). But the podcast is also for anyone, so I hope you will listen!

This Patreon page is a place where you can optionally donate to support me as a chronically-ill and low-income creator (as my low/fluctuating capacity means I cannot work at a "regular" job, or handle consistent freelance work). Thankfully the podcast is something I can work on slowly at my own pace, taking extended breaks when needed.

You can choose to donate any monthly amount (as low as $1) - it's up to you!

There are no specific benefits or services you get from joining here - it's mainly a way for me to organize donations on an ongoing basis. I may occasionally post updates here, or share links to my work, which will be made available to non-donors as well. So you aren't missing out on any content if you aren't able to donate!

These donations will also help cover the initial and ongoing costs associated with producing a podcast and running a website.

If you prefer to give a one-time donation, or you want to offer your time instead of money (to help ease my workload with the podcast behind the scenes), you can donate or contact me through my website:
SeasonalBody.org/donate

I'm also sometimes available to offer public speaking, consulting, and educational resources (depending on my health capacity) - which you can learn about here:
SeasonalBody.org/services/

Regardless of whether or not you donate, I hope you will join me in working towards a world that makes nature connection more accessible and embraces disability justice!

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Julie Nowak: 'The Seasonal Body' & upcoming podcast is creating resources about nature & disability (donate $1/month or more) | Patreon

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Hi! I'm Julie Nowak (she/they) - a disabled educator and activist who writes and talks about the intersection of nature connection, disability justice, body liberation, and food justice. I'm also creating a podcast! You can read more about me and my project 'The Seasonal Body' on my website ( SeasonalBody.org), or follow me on social media: @SeasonalBody on Facebook & Twitter; @TheSeasonalBody on Instagram.

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Photo description: a carrot growing in muddy soil, with the green and orange top sticking out. Photo credit: “I spy a carrot!” by Gemma Garner – CC License

The Seasonal Body is a project focused on the intersection of nature connection, disability, food justice and body liberation.

This website is a hub for our work and writing, and also provides information about our available educational services. If you are interested in consulting, workshops, public speaking, or educational resources, click here for more details.

Continue reading about The Seasonal Body and its founder Julie Nowak.

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exploring the intersection of nature connection, disability justice, body liberation & food justice

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Movement Generation facilitates workshops and strategy sessions to develop a shared analysis of the ecological crisis and its impacts on working class communities and communities of color.

We work with partnering grassroots organizations and alliances to provide customized, interactive workshops to engage staff and members as they integrate an ecological lens into their work. Here are a few examples:

MG facilitated a series of EcoSchools for the Right to the City Alliance member organizations and allies in 5 regions. The series featured both an analytical/training component and small group breakout sessions to strategize around the particular impacts of the crisis in their region.

Working with our partner PODER in San Francisco, MG developed a workshop to develop community members' analysis around the value of fostering a grassroots economy. In the workshop, participants shared the ways people must "get by" or "get ahead" in the current global economy and then brainstormed the value of "getting together."

MG has facilitated numerous bilingual popular education trainings for local union leadership, staff, and rank-and-file members - from hotel worker members of UNITE HERE 2850 to recycling sorter members of . In the trainings, we root the current ecological crisis in the same economy that drives worker exploitation, attacks on the public sector, and forced migration/displacement of communities. We tailor the trainings to the specific industries that workers are in and the campaign goals of the union.

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Movement Generation | Workshops & Strategy Sessions

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Movement Generation facilitates workshops and strategy sessions to develop a shared analysis of the ecological crisis and its impacts on working class communities and communities of color. We work with partnering grassroots organizations and alliances to provide customized, interactive workshops to engage staff and members as they integrate an ecological lens into their work.

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quest letters

Periodic reflections and news updates from a books, performance, and woods loving youth, who came of age in the San Francisco Bay Area, and now engages internationally in Montreal with comrades, arts, ecology, disability, gender, and work for liberation.

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AJ Sisneros they/them. I teach kids to physics, I’m learning to be creative, and I strive to be a kinder person. http://bit.ly/publicspreadsac

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​We aren't just looking for people who experience discrimination,
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and will help us determine if a business was just having an off-day, providing poor customer service to everyone,
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Brian Bell I write TV Shows, webseries, short films and the like. Afrofuturism is my 🎒

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Brian Bell I write TV Shows, webseries, short films and the like. Afrofuturism is my 🎒

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Luticha Andre Doucette EntrepreneurAward Winning #DisabilityJustice  #Advocate #Author #FencerI  #coach leaders and advocates using disability justice principles

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Mama Muralista (@mama.muralista) on TikTok | 58.7K Likes. 9.5K Fans. Indigenous Artist Educator Mamá Mapuche Jew Chilena EEUU

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A desire path is made by crossing it over and over again.

The Curiosity Paradox started the Desire Path Project in conversation with multiple Disabled and non-Disabled leaders in Portland, Oregon who we consider to be access artists.

These leaders practice access in creative and relational ways that are more loving, more nuanced, and less fear-based than dominant forms of accessibility. We have taken quotes from these conversations, and shaped them into Flower Arrangements and Flower Cuttings from our Conversation Contributors.

Access Art describes the ways marginalized people and communities creatively grow resources, design accessibility, celebrate joy and resistance, out-maneuver supremacy culture, and dream worlds beyond the impossible.

This definition is offered to help those of us who make access in creative ways recognize how our practices overlap and differ from each other. It is influenced by artists, activists, and political movements, including the Disability Justice Movement, Open Access, #AccessIsLove, Pleasure Activism, and more.

For The Curiosity Paradox, dreaming Access Art has happened in the midst of panic attacks, injuries, and days in bed. It has also happened in resistance to invalidations, degradation, and micro-aggressions. Through the labor of putting this together, we feel a joy and giddiness. We are enlivened by this work. And we invite you to see how your own desire path intersects with ours.

The frictions and discomfort that occur as we cross time and space are sites of poetry, beauty, and possibility for change. This is a path where our bodies ' needs and wants are welcome. A path where we shape and are shaped by our responsibilities to each other and the worlds we move through.

We invite you to consider your access needs in this space. And more specifically, is there anything we can do to make this site more accessible to you? How might we support each other to create worlds that overflow with Justice, equity, joyful coexistence, and liberation?

What do we need to face questions with no single answer?

Who was displaced for this project to exist? What was here before? Where are those people now? Which laws were used to claim ownership of this space? Whose labor developed the economy of this place? How does this project pay reparation and return land? How do the funders of this project pay reparation and return land?

SquareSpace, which hosts this website, is headquartered on the traditional lands of the Lanape people, colonially known as the island of Manhattan in New York, NY. We do not know the locations of the server warehouses where this site is held.

Since our activities are shared digitally, please consider the legacy of colonization embedded within technological structures, including the equipment and high speed internet which is not available in many indigenous and marginalized communities.

The Curiosity Paradox benefits as uninvited settlers on the stolen and unceded territory of the Multnomah and Clackamas bands of Chinook and Tualatin-Kalapuya people as well as other bands, unnamed. Colonially referred to as Portland, OR. SquareSpace also has an office in a recently-renovated old bank in SW Portland. This land was notably developed by exploited Chinese immigrants. And this country's economy was built by millions of stolen Africans during the trans-Atlantic slave trade.

We recognize the living leadership of the Confederated Tribes of the Grand Ronde, the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs, and the Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians. We honor the lives of all who endured, and continue to endure in the face of settler-colonialism and white supremacy, and enable us to create a more livable planet. We support movements for reparation and land back.

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A desire path is made by crossing it over and over again. The Curiosity Paradox started the Desire Path Project in conversation with multiple Disabled and non-Disabled leaders in Portland, Oregon who we consider to be access artists. These leaders practice access in creative and relational ways that are more loving, more nuanced, and less fear-based than dominant forms of accessibility.

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D.R.E.A.M. (Debt Rules Everything Around Me)

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D.R.E.A.M. (Debt Rules Everything Around Me)

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Ok so here’s the basics/Debt is an obligation A deferred payment Your cash is low so we made an arrangement Stores used to give credit/bars would run up a tab But only if they trust you and know you’ll pay it back But its more than that/ Debt is the American dream It’s the house car and fancy degree that you need But nowadays employers don’t care about a diploma They just want to know you got experience in being yoked up You know what? Debt can be a burden Especially when black woman are paid like 3/5s of a person 61cents on the dollar to pay for college? Debt is holding Black Americans hostage The way of life is gamefied/ If you’re not winning you’re miserable If you keep it in cash they call you credit invisible Ellison we owed our ancestors a moral debt 20 percent of Black net worth is worthless ain’t nothing going on but the rent and a six pack And and 760 next to 6’2” on a dating app Still waiting on reparations but I don’t expect them to pay it back There’s a reason getting out of debt gets you in the black My momma said Don’t spent what you don’t have Make sure you don’t owe nothin to no man Gotta make it home with no roadmap You ain’t on the map til you can own that — Credit was started with bs & rumors Boomers build up the zoomers they make em authorized users We’re socialized to ostracize those maneuvers Cuz it’s tough to fight for the future and keep an eye on abusers That’s poor tax and more facts The war on black banks From freedman’s to Dodd frank More than half tanked We give thanks and praise The the shanks from snakes Go fund me and Reddit When people need to be saved Look who gets to choose who’s too big to fail They best friends with the ones who chose who goes to jail We conversing through commissary they’re reading our mail It would be hyperbole to call it beyond the pale Credit scores wasn’t even a thing til 89 Before that they relied on prejudice & spies A buncha companies who competed until they didn’t American dreamed up a caste system for richness None of us know the formula or how they calculate it But we give the sweat from our brow for this evaluation It’s a score cuz it’s a game if you’re in debt you’re getting played but you’re already getting played so get in the game

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Debt Rules everything Around Me DREAM about the money Gotta lotta bills yall

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Dedrick Asante-Muhammad, Chief of Membership, Policy and Equity at NCRC.org shared some stats, reports, and articles about debt with Dyalekt, MC and director of pedagogy at Pockets Change. Dyalekt turned this info into a song with the help of brokeMC on the beat. We wrote a bazillion versions of this song, with bars about debt that range from foundational understanding, hidden tricks, misinfo, the (often racist) history and tips for how to overcome. There's too much. We chose a solid starting point and need your help. The websites below can set you up, and the instrumental track should give you the room to knock em down. What did you wish you learned about debt? What does your community need to know about debt? What does the world need to know?

NCRC.org
RaceAndWealth.com
inequality.org
ips-dc.org
ProsperityNow.com

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released September 2, 2021

Written by Dyalekt
Produced by brokeMC
Mixed & Mastered by Willie Green of Greenhouse Studios

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D.R.E.A.M. (Debt Rules Everything Around Me) Palms Up Preview, by Dyalekt & Dedrick Asante-Muhammad

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The Do You See Me Movement was created in 2015 to highlight and empower BIPOC communities with art and mural activism. Your support in this shop will fund art and mural workshops worldwide. We are on instagram @DoYouSeeMeMovement Thank you for your business, We See You.

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The Do You See Me Movement was created in 2015 to highlight and empower BIPOC communities with art and mural activism. Your support in this shop will fund art and mural workshops worldwide. We are on instagram @DoYouSeeMeMovement Thank you for your business, We See You.

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About the Museum

Dyalekt spent 2016 reading online article comments and began screenshotting and archiving words that were repeatedly used (and misused) to shut down conversation. He narrowed down to 11 words based on the ways in which they died, eliminating multiple examples of the same death. Inspired by George C. Wolfe’s “The Colored Museum”, these words hang on display in each space and create the one-man show and album, The Museum of Dead Words.

Since 2017, the Museum has popped up in Delaware, North Carolina, London, Santa Barbara, and New York City. This year’s cancelled shows in San Francisco, Colorado, and Alabama have brought us back to where it all began – Online.

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Hip Hop FinFest Volume 1: Save Your Assets!

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Brian 'Dyalekt' Kushner moved from St. Croix to New York to study acting and law. He also liked to rap. After witnessing civil rights injustices at the law firm he worked for, he dropped both the job and the law classes, pursuing the arts instead. Performances at the Nuyorican led him to Hip Hop Theater, writing plays that have been performed on stages across the world. He didn't sleep on the rapping either, releasing music and touring internationally. His first album/one man play Square Peg Syndrome helped him get named to the Public Theater's Emerging Writer's Group. He has been a mainstay in NYC's theater and Hip Hop scenes, rocking everywhere from the Bowery Ballroom to the Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

When Dyalekt was invited to present at a workshop for New York SCORES, a soccer and poetry program in Harlem and the Bronx, his perspective on performance changed. Students are much better audience members than bar patrons, and Dyalekt found he had a natural affinity for facilitation. Hip Hopping with students like he did with MCs in a cypher led to better engagement, grades, and overall attitude toward school than the usual class.

After researching Howard Gardner's Theory of Multiple Intelligences, Dyalekt designed curricula lining up the elements of Hip Hop with each learning style. Through Hip Hop, or rather, by Hip Hopping, students could assess their learning tendencies and use them to their benefit. Furthermore, the community aspects of Hip Hop show students how to be responsible citizens, peer mentors, and advocates for justice. Dyalekt brought this curriculum, along with his album/play back home to St. Croix, rocking with 17 orgs and over 400 students. They produced 2 books of poetry, an album, and a documentary. He also now teaches teachers how to MC in a classroom.

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Brian 'Dyalekt' Kushner moved from St. Croix to New York to study acting and law. He also liked to rap. After witnessing civil rights injustices at the law firm he worked for, he dropped both the job and the law classes, pursuing the arts instead.

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Pockets Change Building financial resilience through Hip Hop pedagogy.  Financial education is more than numbers, it’s a tool for self-care and social justice. 

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Pockets Change Building financial resilience through Hip Hop pedagogy.  Financial education is more than numbers, it’s a tool for self-care and social justice. 

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CHANGING THE WAY FINANCE IS TAUGHT

Our mission is to build intergenerational financial resilience with students, families, and educators. We believe financial education is about much more than numbers, it’s a means for self-care and social justice. It all happens through Hip Hop pedagogy, which focuses on understanding self-identity in relation to the whole.

Together we are working to address systemic issues of educational equity and the racial wealth divide.

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Our mission is to build intergenerational financial resilience with students, families, and educators. We believe financial education is about much more than numbers, it's a means for self-care and social justice. It all happens through Hip Hop pedagogy, which focuses on understanding self-identity in relation to the whole.

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Awesome to have Housing Justice experience in here!  The pandemic, increasingly devastating wildfires, and an economic crisis that disproportionately impacted our lowest-paid workers. These crises exacerbated widespread issues already plaguing the housing markets. Addressing housing and homelessness has never been more essential than it is right now. Historical disparities reproduced in today’s housing system operate in tandem with the  immense racial wealth gap, with Black and Latinx residents half as likely to own homes and twice as likely to live in poverty. In short, fighting for housing stability and affordability requires putting equity front and center. Housing Justice is a social justice issue. 

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Awesome to have Housing Justice experience in here!  The pandemic, increasingly devastating wildfires, and an economic crisis that disproportionately impacted our lowest-paid workers. These crises exacerbated widespread issues already plaguing the housing markets. Addressing housing and homelessness has never been more essential than it is right now. Historical disparities reproduced in today’s housing system operate in tandem with the  immense racial wealth gap, with Black and Latinx residents half as likely to own homes and twice as likely to live in poverty. In short, fighting for housing stability and affordability requires putting equity front and center. Housing Justice is a social justice issue. 

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"If you have come to help me you are wasting your time,but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine then let's work together."--Aboriginal Activist Sisters

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"If you have come to help me you are wasting your time,but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine then let's work together."--Aboriginal Activist Sisters

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Welcome to Disability Justice Dreaming!

Upcoming Events

CripCreate

A weekly online co-working space by and for all Deaf and Disabled people

This is a Disability Justice-centered co-working space for all Disabled (sick, Disabled, Mad/mentally ill, Deaf, Hard of Hearing, low vision/blind, neurodiverse, or otherwise chronically ill) people.

It takes place weekly on Wednesdays 1:00-3:00 PM PDT (GMT-7).

Crip Create begins and ends with a check-in, then participants are welcome to use the time how they wish. You may go into a breakout room to work silently or have a conversation. You can be playful, build community, or engage with new collaborations and relationships. We are an open source project with a rotating, ad hoc team of facilitators.

Created by Deanna Parvin Yadollahi and The Curiosity Paradox, CripCreate is now being supported by Disability Justice Dreaming in collaboration with Calling Up Justice.

Disabled and Deaf people from anywhere in the world are welcome.

Auto-captions will be enabled. For other access needs or to request Zoom information, please contact info@disabilityjusticedreaming.org.

Graciously Sponsored by Regional Arts & Culture Council

Dreaming Sessions

A monthly affinity space by and for Deaf and Disabled Queer and Trans people (LGBTQ2SIA+), sex workers, and Black, Indigenous, and Multiracial folks and People of Color (BIPOC), as well as those who fit under these umbrella categories.

Monday, June 6th, 5:00-6:00 PDT

Monday, July 4th, 5:00-6:00 PDT

Sunday, August 7th, 2:00-3:00 PDT

(Note: PDT is GMT-7)

These are intended to be gentle sessions that begin with an access check in and include time to reflect on/respond to various questions that support your own imaginings and keep us grounded in community needs.

Check out our Jamboard to find out how previous dreaming sessions have gone and to learn what questions we will reflect on next.

Auto-captions will be enabled; please message me with further access needs (the sooner the better).

For the zoom information and more, contact info@disabilityjusticedreaming.org

Board of Directors

Monday, June 13, 6-7:30 p.m. PDT (GMT-7)

Monday, July 11th, 6-7:30 p.m. PDT (GMT-7)

Sunday, August 14th, 2:00-3:30 p.m. PDT (GMT-7)

Our working Board is a gentle space that honors the needs of Board Members’ bodyminds while also both governing and managing Disability Justice Dreaming.*

We are currently working on the following:

Learning to practice consensus.

Developing a theory of change and logic model to shape our strategic plan (this will happen alongside the DJ Dreaming Sessions to facilitate whole-organization participation).

Being incorporated as a nonprofit 501(c)3.

Auto-captions will be enabled; please message with further access needs (the sooner the better) and to get zoom info: rebel@disabilityjusticedreaming.org

*To apply, you must be 18 years of age or older and identify as being Deaf or Disabled. See below for more information.

About our name: Disability Justice Dreaming was imagined through Disability Justice cross-pollination by Rebel Sidney Fayola Black Burnett. It is very similar to Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha’s subtitle for “Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice.” Leah and I talked, and they expressed that this name is lovely for our organization. Love, gratitude, and recognition!

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Ronnie Braithwaite Artist  | Writer | Activist | Filmmaker @wokethefilm @bipolartfilm @hetheyfilm 🎬

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Ronnie Braithwaite Artist  | Writer | Activist | Filmmaker @wokethefilm @bipolartfilm @hetheyfilm 🎬

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April 12, 2017 | How to quit your job and go full time freelance (in partnership with Young Professionals of San Francisco)

April 11, 2017 | How to Tackle Your Debt and Still Have a Life (in partnership with General Assembly SF)

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Don't be a jerk, do the work

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alternative language for "decolonized" and anti-colonial and counter colonial came up. 

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John is joined by friends-of-the-show Tyler Tully and Danielle Hanley to discuss Audra Simpson‘s Mohawk Interruptus: Political Life Across the Borders of Settler States (Duke UP, 2014). The book — simultaneously a work of political theory, ethnography, and settler colonial studies — thinks with the Kahnawà:ke Mohawks to examine the situated production and assertion of Indigenous political subjectivities, membership(s), sovereignties, knowledges, practices, and much more.

We talk through questions of a politics of refusal (and a politics of recognition and governance by settler states), ongoingness of settler colonialism (and how Simpsons confronts it), race and indigeneity (and why BIPOC might not be so great), Indigenous and settler epistemologies, dispossession and heteropatriarchy, the libidinal economy of white saviorism, and much more. Not to mention, there is extensive and extremely deserved dragging of John Locke. Are we in a post-, de-, and/or anti-colonial frame? Tune in to find out.

And, stay tuned for the glorious return of giving advice to listener questions! We tackle a question about organizing notes, texts, sources, etc., which unsurprisingly becomes a sort of meditation on our own academic trajectories, peccadillos, and bugaboos.

Requests for texts for us to discuss? Dreams for us to interpret? Advice questions for us to answer? Email us at alwaysalreadypodcast AT gmail DOT com. Subscribe on iTunes or Spotify. Follow us on Twitter. Like our Facebook page. RSS feed here. Patreon here. Thanks to Bad Infinity for the intro music, “Post Digital,” from their album FutureCommons; always already thanks to B for the outro music. For the mp3 of the episode click here.

Links:

Simpson’s homepage at Columbia

Simpson’s 2016 Theory & Event article, “The State Is a Man: Theresa Spence, Loretta Saunders and the Gendered Costs of Settler Sovereignty”

“Reconciliation and its Discontents: Settler Governance in an Age of Sorrow” lecture by Simpson

Tyler Tully, “Epistemological Sacrifice Zones and the Decolonization of Religion“

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It is a relationship with Mother Earth that is symbiotic and just, where we have reclaimed stewardship.

It is bringing our People with us as we move towards liberation and embodied sovereignty through an organizing, political and narrative framework.

It is a long legacy of warriors and leaders who sacrificed freedom and life.

It is a catalyst for current generation organizers and centers the voices of those who represent our future.

It is recognizing that our struggle is interconnected with the struggles of all oppressed Peoples.

It is a future where Black reparations and Indigenous LANDBACK co-exist. Where BIPOC collective liberation is at the core.

It is acknowledging that only when Mother Earth is well, can we, her children, be well. It is our belonging to the land - because - we are the land.
We are LANDBACK!

LANDBACK Organizing Principles

Don't burn bridges: even when there is conflict between groups or organizers remember that we are fighting for all of our peoples and we will continue to be in community even after this battle

Don't defend our ways

Organize to win

Move from abundance - We come from a space of scarcity. We must work from a place of abundance

We bring our people with us

Deep relationships by attraction, not promotion

Divest/invest

We value our warriors

Room for grace-be able to be human

We cannot let our oppressors inhumanity take away from ours

Strategy includes guidance

Realness: Sometimes the truth hurts

Unapologetic but keep it classy

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Mad Pride is a mass movement of the users of mental health services, former users, and the aligned, which advocates that individuals with mental illness should be proud of their 'mad' identity. It was formed in 1993 in response to local community prejudices towards people with a psychiatric history living in boarding homes in the Parkdale area of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and an event has been held every year since then in the city except for 1996. A similar movement began around the same time in the United Kingdom. By the late 1990s similar events were being organized under the Mad Pride name around the globe, including Australia, Ireland, Portugal, Brazil, Madagascar, South Africa, France, South Korea and the United States. Events draw thousands of participants, according to MindFreedom International, a United States mental health advocacy organization that promotes and tracks events spawned by the movement.

Mad Pride activists seek to reclaim terms such as " mad", " nutter", and " psycho" from misuse, such as in tabloid newspapers and in order to switch it from a negative view into a positive view. Through a series of mass media campaigns, Mad Pride activists seek to re-educate the general public on such subjects as the causes of mental disabilities, the experiences of those using the mental health system, and the global suicide pandemic.[citation needed ] One of Mad Pride's founding activists in the UK was Pete Shaughnessy, who later died by suicide. Mark Roberts, Robert Dellar (who died in 2016) and Simon Barnet were among the other founders of the movement. Mad Pride: A celebration of mad culture records the early Mad Pride movement. On Our Own: Patient-Controlled Alternatives to the Mental Health System, published in 1978 by Judi Chamberlin, is a foundational text in the Mad Pride movement, although it was published before the movement was launched.

The first known event, specifically organized as a Pride event by people who identified as survivors, consumers or ex-patients of psychiatric practices, was held on 18 September 1993, when it was called "Psychiatric Survivor Pride Day".

Mad studies grew out of mad pride and the psychiatric survivor framework, and focuses on developing scholarly thinking around "mental health" by academics who self-identify as mad. As noted in Mad matters: a critical reader in Canadian mad studies, "Mad Studies can be defined in general terms as a project of inquiry, knowledge production, and political action devoted to the critique and transcendence of psy-centred ways of thinking, behaving, relating, and being". Mad studies posits to offer "a critical discussion of mental health and madness in ways that demonstrate the struggles, oppression, resistance, agency and perspectives of Mad people to challenge dominant understandings of 'mental illness'". "Mad studies is a growing, evolving, multi-voiced and interdisciplinary field of activism, theory, praxis and scholarship."

Mad Pride was launched shortly before a book of the same name, Mad Pride: A celebration of mad culture, published in 2000. On May 11, 2008, Gabrielle Glaser documented Mad Pride in The New York Times. Glaser stated, "Just as gay-rights activists reclaimed the word queer as a badge of honor rather than a slur, these advocates proudly call themselves mad; they say their conditions do not preclude them from productive lives."

Elizabeth Packard (1816-1897) was deemed insane by her husband as she did not agree with his conservative political views. In Illinois at the time, involuntary admission to an asylum did not require a public hearing so long as it was a husband admitting his wife. Due to this, Packard was institutionalized though she saw herself to be sane. In Packard's lifetime, to be labeled as "mad" was a form of social disapproval. However, she felt solidarity among Mad people due to her experience in the institution. Though she did not personally identify as Mad and had to identify as "sane" in order to be an activist, it is here that we see early forms of organizing from ex-patients.

The Mad Pride movement has spawned recurring cultural events in Toronto, London, Dublin and other cities around the world. These events often include music, poetry readings, film screenings, and street theatre, such as "bed push" protests, which aim to raise awareness about the poor levels of choice of treatments and the widespread use of force in psychiatric hospitals. Past events have included British journalist Jonathan Freedland, and popular novelist Clare Allan. Mad Pride cultural events take a variety of forms, such as the South London collective Creative Routes, the Chipmunka Publishing enterprise, and the many works of Dolly Sen.

A Bed Push is a method of activism employed by multiple mental health agencies and advocates as a method of raising awareness about psychiatric care. Activists wheel a gurney through public spaces to provoke discussion about mental health care. MindFreedom has a recipe for a successful Bed Push on their website, urging participants to remain peaceful but also be seen by blowing horns, slightly disrupting traffic and playing music. Often patients in psychiatric care feel silenced and powerless, showing resilience in the face of that and securing visibility is a method of regaining dignity.

Mad Pride Week in Toronto is proclaimed as such by the city itself. The festivities surrounding this week are highlighted by the Mad Pride Bed Push, typically on the 14th of July. The event takes place Toronto's Queen Street West "to raise public awareness about the use of force and lack of choice for people ensnared in the Ontario mental health system". This week is officially run by Toronto Mad Pride which partners a number of mental health agencies in the city. In recent years, some advocates have pushed for Parkdale, Toronto to be renamed MAD! Village, to reclaim pride in its surrounding communities' long history of struggle with mental health and addictions.

A series of bed push events take place around London each year.

Psychiatric Patient-Built Wall Tours

The Psychiatric Patient-Built Wall Tours take place in Toronto, at the CAMH facility on Queen St West. The tours show the patient-built walls from the 19th century that are located at present day CAMH. The purpose of the tours is to give a history on the lives of the patients who built the walls, and bring attention to the harsh realities of psychiatry.

Geoffrey Reaume and Heinz Klein first came up with the idea of walking tours as part of a Mad Pride event in 2000. The first wall tour occurred on what is now known as Mad Pride Day, on July 14, 2000, with an attendance of about fifty people. Reaume solely leads the tours, and they have grown from annual events for Mad Pride, to occurring several times throughout the year in all non-winter months.

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Mad Pride is a mass movement of the users of mental health services, former users, and the aligned, which advocates that individuals with mental illness should be proud of their 'mad' identity.

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Freedom Verses is a strategic planning and consultancy firm co-created by two queer, nonbinary people of color with a long history of organizing and community work. Audrey and Povi-Tamu have joint and individual experience in building collective leadership, program development, grassroots organizing, fundraising, strategic planning, youth work, and board development, along with extensive training and facilitation experience for diverse audiences of all ages.

After collaborating on projects and actions across several organizations and job roles, we realized that we really enjoyed working with each other and strategic planned ourselves into co-creating a business. Freedom Verses grew out of our desire to support and develop organizations and leaders that strengthen our communities - and to create more spaciousness and flexibility in our own lives to do the work that feels most meaningful to us. We are committed to supporting social justice and liberation work, with a focus on those who exist and do work at the intersections of multiple axes of marginalization.

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Rebel Sidney Black (they/them pronouns) is a light-skinned multiracial, nonbinary, zami (same gender loving), disabled person. They have 15 years of experience doing community organizing, facilitating social justice trainings, contributing to community-based theorizing, and nonprofit leadership.

Rebel is currently a distance learning student to earn an MS in Counseling. They are interested in integrating counseling with social change work and apply a racial justice and anti-oppressions lens to everything they do. Their long-term goal is to create a therapy collective that integrates individual and group therapy with systemic change work to heal the individual, intergenerational, and systemic traumas that our BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and Multiracial folks, and People of Color) communities experience. They are also committed to incorporating traditional, cultural, and spiritual practices into this work.

Rebel has a history of mental health diagnosis of Bipolar, PTSD, and they are a suicide attempt survivor

Fireweed Collective offers mental health education and mutual aid through a Healing Justice lens. We help support the emotional wellness of all people and center the needs of those most marginalized by our society. Our work seeks to disrupt the harm of systems of abuse and oppression, often reproduced by the mental health system. Learn more about us.

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Rebel Sidney Black (they/them pronouns) is a light-skinned multiracial, nonbinary, zami (same gender loving), disabled person. They have 15 years of experience doing community organizing, facilitating social justice trainings, contributing to community-based theorizing, and nonprofit leadership. Rebel is currently a distance learning student to earn an MS in Counseling.

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"When I is replaced by we, illness becomes wellness."
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I am an African, European, Turtle Island, Multi-Racial, Cis Gendered, Hetero-leaning Queer Man, raised in a working class family with largely middle class ideology – currently hustling class – with ruling class economic goals and anti-capitalist, collective, tribal visions. Born and raised in Huichin, Occupied Ohlone Territory, AKA Oakland and Berkeley. Progeny of Pagan, Universalist, Abolitionist, Healer, Teacher, Creator, Organizers...  I am Singing Poet BeatMan; Meditator, Educator, shit talking Irreverent Reverend, Fractal Liberationist. Embodied, Mindful, Intergenerationally Therapeutic, Creative Liberation Coach & Councilor for Change Makers in a Changing World.

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First and foremost, I am a devotee of the sacred, & this makes me a student of nature -- our own, and all things. I have always been naturally empathetic, justice minded, and connected to spirit. As a child I had to learn to read people, energy, and situations well to survive. I developed a meditation practice in high school through hip-hop as a lyricist, emcee, and beat maker. In my early twenties I found Buddhist vipassana insight meditation, traditional plant medicines, and ritual praxes from the “Americas” and the African diaspora. Meditation, art therapy, and transgenerational healing both with professional practitioners and peers, saved my life as a teenager, and gave me power in the world, and peace within.
I have since toured the world with music, social justice education and healing programs, hosted men’s and young men’s groups, coached, counseled, and collaborated for more than two decades -- all combining arts, activism, healing, Ancestral connection, and education. I've had the honor to study with many teachers spanning a wide-range of disciplines and perspectives. This has all led me to offer the INNER EQUITY COACHING COUNCIL as a method and altar to support those who truly want to know themselves and the world whole and thriving.

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Embodied Mindfulness & Therapeutic Creative Liberation Coaching for Change Makers in a Changing World; Restor(y)ing the Multiverse Within through Intergenerational, Fractal Liberationist, Deep Justice, Equity, Diversity, & Inclusion.

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Specialties: Anti-Racism, Community Organizing, Meeting Facilitation, Fundraising, Event Coordination, Anti-Oppression Training & Coaching, Program Evaluation, Qualitative Research, Program Management, Capacity Building, Case Management, Client Advocacy, STD and HIV Education, Employment Counseling, LGBTQ Advocacy

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Specialties: Anti-Racism, Community Organizing, Meeting Facilitation, Fundraising, Event Coordination, Anti-Oppression Training & Coaching, Program Evaluation, Qualitative Research, Program Management, Capacity Building, Case Management, Client Advocacy, STD and HIV Education, Employment Counseling, LGBTQ Advocacy

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As an organization founded by two Disabled white people, we want to acknowledge that predominantly white institutions have an implicit bias toward white, work-ready bodies.

At the Curiosity Paradox, we consider the seemingly benign aspects of gathering people together and reframe them as a fertile ground of solidarity, resistance, learning, and creativity.

Systemic oppression is often hiding. Power imbalances are baked into everyday decision processes like meeting agendas, work schedules, and event registrations.

We work with our clients and audiences to slow down, expose power dynamics, and experiment with power redistribution.

Through consulting, creatively led workshops, and interactive artworks that center and model Disability access, we support essential and embodied changes in the ways groups of people make everyday decisions.

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The Curiosity Paradox is a transmedia performance opportunity born out of the collaboration between Grant (Curiosity) Miller and Jonathan PARADOX Lee.