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Sunday, June 18 • 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Artists and Organizers Shifting Culture

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Our communities need visionary solutions, and artists will lead the way. In this session, we’ll explore how artists and organizers produce transformative work through collaborative, not transactional, relationships. Using stories from the Trans Day of Resilience art project, Echoing Ida writing program, and more, we’ll share how to center the radical imaginations of culture workers. Participants will leave with tried and true principles designed to shift culture and fuel any movement.
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Kemi Alabi

Forward Together
Kemi Alabi is a queer Black writer and teaching artist based in Chicago, IL. As editorial manager of Forward Together, they hold down Echoing Ida, a community of Black women and nonbinary media makers.
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Micah Bazant

Forward Together
Micah Bazant is a trans visual artist who makes work inspired by struggles to decolonize ourselves from white supremacy, patriarchy, ableism, and the gender binary. They co-founded the national Trans Day of Resilience art project (tdor.co) and the Trans Life and Liberation Art S... Read More →
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Taja Lindley

Taja Lindley is a writer and artist based in Brooklyn, New York. She is the founder and Managing Member of Colored Girls Hustle, and a member of Echoing Ida and Harriet's Apothecary. Lindley considers herself a healer and an activist, creating socially engaged artwork that reflects... Read More →
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Bishakh Som

Bishakh’s comics have appeared in The Other Side: An Anthology of Queer Paranormal Romance, The Boston Review, Black Warrior Review, Drunken Boat, The Brooklyn Rail, Buzzfeed, Ink Brick, The Huffington Post, The Graphic Canon and the Eisner and Harvey-winning anthology Little... Read More →

Sunday June 18, 2017 1:00pm - 2:30pm
State Hall: Room 131
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