19th annual Allied Media Conference

Kemi Alabi is a queer Black writer and teaching artist based in Oakland, CA. They coordinate Echoing Ida, a Forward Together program amplifying the work of Black women and non-binary media makers. Find their poetry and essays in The Guardian, The Toast, Apogee Journal, Kweli Jour... Read More →

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 Series... Read More →

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 and transforms audiences, shifts culture and moves people to action. She uses movement, text, installation, ritual, burlesque, and multi-media to create works that are concerned with freedom, healing and pleasure. She is currently developing a body of work recycling and repurposing discarded materials. Her artwork has been featured at Spring/Break Art Show, Brooklyn Museum, the Movement Research at Judson Church series, Brooklyn Arts Exchange (BAX), the Gallatin Arts Festival at New York University, WOW... Read More →

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 Nemo: Dream Another Dream. They received the prestigious Xeric grant in 2003 for their comics... Read More →