AMP News for November 2020
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Dear AMP Community,
With so much focus on the power of elections to shape our future, for better or worse, we offer this reminder from Alexis de Veaux and Revered Gerard Williams, shared during the Writing New Worlds ([link removed][UNIQID]) plenary at AMC2020.
We are collectively holding our breath, but we are also breathing deeply into the futures we need and deserve. We know that despite all that has happened and all that may come, our communities, we who work towards liberation, are more powerful than ever.
We see you out here, making brave, beautiful plans for our collective futures. We see you sharpening your analysis and your strategies, being visionary and pragmatic at once, all while taking deep care of yourself and others. We honor the way you are moving, at whatever pace feels right, but nonetheless forward and undaunted, in these tumultuous times.
For us, this looks like slow and steady construction of our future home, the LOVE Building. More than just the physical space, we are constructing the relationships, the culture, and the values that we want this new space to embody. Read more and follow our progress at this newly launched page on our website ([link removed][UNIQID]) .
It also looks like deep planning and reflecting as we cocoon the Allied Media Conference once again in preparation for the next biennial conference-- in June 2022. The first step in our planning is learning from what happened this year. We have been processing all of the gems you gave us in the post-AMC reflection survey and have distilled some lessons that we will be carrying forward ([link removed][UNIQID]) .
We are grateful for the abundant resources and wisdom of our network, as we move into the future, breath by breath.
AMP
** Nurture care. Tag #AMPCollectiveCare to share resources with us.
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* An Election Wellness Toolkit ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Sapelo Square and Muslim Wellness Foundation for American Muslims.
* Celebrating One Step playlist by Adrienne Maree B ([link removed][UNIQID]) rown ([link removed][UNIQID]) .
* Care-Based Approaches to Surviving 2020 ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Una Lee of And Also Too.
* 'Visionary and Pragmatic'—A Black Feminist Guide to Electoral Politics ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Danielle Purifoy.
* Going Back is Impossible: Crisis, Moral Leadership, and a New Path for the Future ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Visionary Organizing Lab.
* Disability Inclusion Toolkit ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Mia Ives Rublee and Andréa LaVant for the Ford Foundation.
* Pre & Post Election Self Care Suggestions ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Rooted Blossoms.
* A sea angel under ice in the White Sea short film ([link removed][UNIQID]) by The Kids Should See This.
* Finding Our Way with Prentis Hemphill podcast ([link removed][UNIQID]) featuring Alexis Pauline Gumbs.
* Songs My Mother Taught Me ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Fannie Lou Hamer.
Calls to Action
** Because it’s time to answer.
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* Urge Nextdoor to cut ties with police ([link removed][UNIQID]) .
* Support the Affordable Water For All pledge ([link removed][UNIQID]) .
* Donate to the #EndSARSteachin Fund for Marginalized Nigerians ([link removed][UNIQID]) .
** Support for all of us.
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* For organizations ([link removed][UNIQID]) to research digital threats to democracy, mis/disinformation and public interest.
* For artists, curators, and cultural workers ([link removed][UNIQID]) of color.
* For independent visual artists ([link removed][UNIQID]) based in Los Angeles County.
* For nonwhite queer identifying artists ([link removed][UNIQID]) of all ages.
** What the AMP staff has been getting into.
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* Nadine keeps returning to legendary poet Mary Oliver’s interview on the On Being with Krista Tippet podcast ([link removed][UNIQID])
* Nic can’t stop listening to Thundercat’s NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert ([link removed][UNIQID])
* Toni is watching multidisciplinary artist and dancer Bree Gant in conversation with curator Olayami Dabls in a moving exploration of the Dabls Mbad African Bead Museum ([link removed][UNIQID])
* Nandi is digging the Amapiano Selections album by Teno Afrika. ([link removed][UNIQID])
* Brenda think these geometric pies ([link removed][UNIQID]) look pretty to eat.
* Leila is pre-ordering Take Care of Yourself: The Art and Cultures of Care and Liberatio ([link removed][UNIQID]) n by Sundus Abdul Hadi.
** AMP sponsored projects, speakers bureau members, and friends are creating the future.
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* Decolonizing Thanksgiving ([link removed][UNIQID]) Resources curated by the I-Collective.
* Learn about the Waawiiyaataanong Arts Council ([link removed][UNIQID]) and apply to become a member.
* So You’re Thinking About Becoming an Abolitionist ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Mariame Kaba.
* The Shiny, High-Tech Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Ruha Benjamin.
* Nandi Comer vs. La Lucha ([link removed][UNIQID]) for the VS Podcast.
* Explore the newly-launched Black Bottom Digital Archive ([link removed][UNIQID]) !
* Contribute to the video installation and live premiere of FORCE! an opera in three acts ([link removed][UNIQID]) by Anna Martine Whitehead.
* Support 18 Million Rising's Coin is Care Fundraiser ([link removed][UNIQID] ) .
* Attend Design Justice Network events ([link removed][UNIQID]) .
* Call for submissions from disabled QTBIPOC ([link removed][UNIQID]) for art reproducible in print media.
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