Here’s some related artists, activists and academics who have inspired us
Alphabetically and tagged by conference themes:
#CAREWORK #COVID19 #CLASS #COLONIALISM #DISABILITY, #ECOLOGY #FEMINISM #LAW #MENTALHEALTH #MIGRATION #MUTUALAID #INTERNATIONALORGANISING #LGBTQ+ #RACISM #SOCIALPRACTICE #SURVEILLANCE
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10 Principles of Disability Justice by Sins Invalid
#CAREWORK #CLASS #COLONIALISM #DISABILITY #FEMINISM #MENTALHEALTH #INTERNATIONALORGANISING #LGBTQ+ #RACISM
10 Reasons to Collaborate with Neurodiverse & Creative Allies by Dr Kai Syng Tan
#DISABILITY #FEMINISM #SOCIALPRACTICE
Accomplices Not Allies: Abolishing the Ally Industrial Complex, An Indigenous perspective & provocation – This provocation is intended to intervene in some of the current tensions around solidarity/support work
#COLONIALISM #INTERNATIONALORGANISING #SOCIALPRACTICE
Anti Social Social Practise – Hava Carvajal and Maz Murray ‘The Right Lube’
#CLASS #COLONIALISM #LGBTQ+ #MIGRATION #SOCIALPRACTICE
Asian American Feminist Antibodies {care in the time of coronavirus} – A collection of stories, essays, and artwork about experiences, resistance, and struggles with a viral outbreak that has been racialized as Asian
#CAREWORK #COVID19 #COLONIALISM #RACISM
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
#CAREWORK #COLONIALISM #RACISM
Conversations with adrienne maree brown
#CAREWORK #COLONIALISM #DISABILITY #FEMINISM #MENTALHEALTH #MUTUALAID #INTERNATIONALORGANISING #LGBTQ+ #RACISM
Disability Justice – a working draft by Patty Berne
#CAREWORK #CLASS #COLONIALISM #DISABILITY #FEMINISM #MENTALHEALTH #INTERNATIONALORGANISING #LGBTQ+ #RACISM
#CAREWORK #COVID19 #ECOLOGY #SOCIALPRACTICE
Feminism Aimed at Liberating All Women Must Be Anti-Capitalist – An interview with Nancy Fraser
#CLASS #FEMINISM
#COLONIALISM #DISABILITY #FEMINISM #LGBTQ #RACISM
From a Free Software Movement to a Free Safety Movement By Micha Cárdenas– A call to all feminist hackers, anti-racist coders, gender hackers, genderchangers, queer and trans hackers, political hackers, dancers, movement makers, poets, performers, anti-violence activists and networked activists to come together to help stop violence against queer and trans* people, people of color, disabled people and women
#CLASS #COLONIALISM #DISABILITY #FEMINISM #LAW #MENTALHEALTH #MIGRATION #INTERNATIONALORGANISING #LGBTQ+ #RACISM #SURVEILLANCE
Get Well Soon by Tega Brain, Johanna Hedva & Sam Lavigne – an archive of comments left on http://gofundme.com medical fundraiser pages. A backbone of the patchwork, precarious health care system in the United States. An archive of mutual aid in response to a ruthless for-profit health system.
#CAREWORK #DISABILITY #MENTALHEALTH #MUTUALAID
How to survive the apocalypse – An ongoing stream of consciousness blog by “Gerónimo” Gómez-Peña; full of contra/dictions, confessions & chance poetry, like life under lockdown…
#COVID19 #COLONIALISM #SOCIALPRACTICE
Instigating Institutional Change Towards Decolonization – Roya Amirsoleymani and Erin Boberg Doughton of the Portland Institute of for Contemporary Art share the steps they've taken toward decolonizing and indigenizing the practices and curatorial processes of their organization, supported by Emily Johnson and the advisory council of the Global First Nations Performance Network
#COLONIALISM #SOCIALPRACTICE
Me and White Supremacy Workbook by Layla Saad
#COLONIALISM #RACISM
People's Guide to AI written by Mimi Onuoha and Mother Cyborg (Diana Nucera) – The guide uses a popular education approach to explore and explain AI-based technologies so that everyone—from youth to seniors, and from non-techies to experts—has the chance to think critically about the kinds of futures automated technologies can bring.
#INTERNATIONALORGANISING #SURVEILLANCE
Pirate Care Syllabus – a tool for supporting and activating collective processes of learning from activism at the intersection of “care” and “piracy”, experimenting with self-organisation, alternative approaches to social reproduction and the commoning of tools, technologies and knowledges.
#CAREWORK #COVID19 #CLASS #COLONIALISM #DISABILITY, #ECOLOGY #FEMINISM #LAW #MENTALHEALTH #MIGRATION #MUTUALAID #INTERNATIONALORGANISING #LGBTQ+ #RACISM #SOCIALPRACTICE #SURVEILLANCE
The “Problem” Woman of Colour in the Workplace – One of many vital resources from COCo (the Centre for Community Organizations), a social justice support organisation in Quebec, Canada.
#FEMINISM #INTERNATIONALORGANISING #RACISM
Social Reproduction and the Pandemic, Sarah Jaffe with Tithi Bhattacharya
#CAREWORK #COVID19 #FEMINISM
The Arts are in a Sunken Place – how do we Get Out? by Jemma Desai
#COLONIALISM #RACISM #SOCIALPRACTICE
#CLASS #DISABILITY #MENTALHEALTH #LGBTQ+ #RACISM
There Are Words and Worlds That Are Truthful and True by Luiza Prado de O. Martins – a call for pluriversal practices of care, drawing on decolonisation, gender and sexuality, indigenous knowledges, botany and herbal medicine.
#CAREWORK #COLONIALISM #ECOLOGY
Urgency Reader 2: Mutual Aid Publishing During Crisis | Queer.Archive.Work – a collection of more than 100 submissions from artists and writers documenting some of the extraordinary conditions, dynamics, and emotions being experienced while in quarantine
#CAREWORK #COVID19 #FEMINISM #LGBTQ+
Vanishing Points – An anthology of cultural criticism, focusing on the making, watching and conditions of Live Art and performance in the UK today. All sales from hard copies go to a discretionary fund to support artists/arts workers of colour
#COVID19 #COLONIALISM #MIGRATION #RACISM #SOCIALPRACTICE
Virus Labour: how COVID-19 is fucking with our heads by Charlotte Cooper
#CAREWORK #COVID19 #MENTALHEALTH
Wanting to Feel Seen While Wanting to Feel Safe by Lorraine C – Reflections on Technology, Consent, Privacy, and Digital Storytelling as a Kid of Immigrants and a Woman of Colour
#FEMINISM #RACISM #SURVEILLANCE
What Does Justice Look Like Without Prisons? by Oonagh Ryder
#LAW #INTERNATIONALORGANISING
Watch and Listen
#DISABILITY #MENTALHEALTH
Anthropocene, Capitalocene, Chthulucene: Making String Figures with Biologies, Arts, Activisms – a lecture by Donna Haraway
#CAREWORK #ECOLOGY #FEMINISM
Care Work – Dreaming Disability Justice by Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (book launch lecture at Disability Intersectionality Summit 2018)
#CAREWORK #COLONIALISM #DISABILITY #MENTALHEALTH #LGBTQ+ #RACISM
Crutches And Spice Podcast – Writer, blogger and content creator Imani Barbarin talks to other disabled people about the things that matter to disabled folk.
#CLASS #DISABILITY #MENTALHEALTH #RACISM
The Disability And… podcast – Disability Arts Online and Graeae
#CAREWORK #CLASS #DISABILITY #ECOLOGY #FEMINISM #MENTALHEALTH #LGBTQ+ #RACISM #SOCIALPRACTICE
Disability and Intersectionality Summit 2018
#CLASS #COLONIALISM #DISABILITY #FEMINISM #MENTALHEALTH #LGBTQ+ #RACISM
How to Survive the End of the World – a podcast from the Brown sisters, learning from the apocalypse with grace, rigor and curiosity.
#CAREWORK #ECOLOGY #FEMINISM #MUTUALAID #INTERNATIONALORGANISING #LGBTQ+ #RACISM
Prison Island – Conversation with Corporate Watch, a podcast by Community action on Prison Expansion
#LAW #INTERNATIONALORGANISING #SURVEILLANCE
#CAREWORK #COLONIALISM #INTERNATIONALORGANISING #SOCIALPRACTICE
Stay in Touch: Alok Vaid-Menon aka ALOK (themy/them) – American gender non-conforming writer, performance and mixed media artist – talks to Kampnagel dramaturg Uta Lambertz about their perspective on the current Coronavirus-Crisis and how it might effect queer, transgender and black people in particular and how it changes their art. (Introduction in German, conversation in English)
#LGBTQ+ #RACISM #SOCIALPRACTICE
Tools
AORTA | Resources – Toolkits, handouts, guides, and other resources we've created over the years. Please feel free to use, share, and engage with them freely, crediting AORTA, a worker-owned cooperative devoted to strengthening movements for social justice and a solidarity economy
#CAREWORK #MUTUALAID #INTERNATIONALORGANISING #LGBTQ+ #RACISM
Decolonizing Solidarity: What can you do to support aboriginal people and communities resources. This matrix, originally entitled “So, what do Aboriginal people want? And what can I do?” was created by Frank Hytten when he was Coordinator of ANTaR Victoria (2003-2006) and is provided as a resource to accompany Clare Land's book
#COLONIALISM #INTERNATIONALORGANISING #RACISM
Digital Defense Playbook, by Our DataBodies – activities, tools, tip sheets, and reflection pieces, to support organizations and community members involved in intersectional fights to understand and address the impact of databased technologies on our social justice work.
#CLASS #COLONIALISM #DISABILITY #FEMINISM #LAW #LGBTQ+ #MIGRATION #RACISM #SURVEILLANCE
Feminist Response To COVID19 – FANTASTIC international resource from feminist organizations and activists, working across global movements centred on human rights, sustainable development, and economic and social justice, including response tracker that enables search by issue as well as country
#COVID19 #FEMINISM #INTERNATIONALORGANISING
Pods and Pod Mapping Worksheet – Written by Mia Mingus for the Bay Area Transformative Justice Collective (BATJC). The term “pod” refers to a specific type of relationship within transformative justice (TJ) work to describe the kind of relationship between people who would turn to each other for support around violent, harmful and abusive experiences, whether as survivors, bystanders or people who have harmed.
#CAREWORK #INTERNATIONALORGANISING
The Impact of COVID 19 on Disabled Women from Sisters of Frida – a collection of reflections, tools and accounts from Disabled women
#COVID19 #FEMINISM #DISABILITY #MENTALHEALTH
#CAREWORK #COVID19 #DISABILITY #MENTALHEALTH #LGBTQ+