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Welcome to the 19th annual Allied Media Conference!

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Friday, June 16
 

11:00am EDT

Detroit Through the Eyes of James and Grace Lee Boggs
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How does the radical legacy of James and Grace Lee Boggs speak to our struggles to transform ourselves and society? We will explore how James and Grace Lee Boggs analyzed capitalism and white supremacy, while they made Detroit the center of revolutionary organizing from the eras of civil rights and Black Power to neoliberalism and emergency management. Participants will come away with new insights from Detroit's ongoing movement history and the Boggs's philosophical activism.
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Scott Kurashige

Scott Kurashige is author of The Shifting Grounds of Race: Black and Japanese Americans in the Making of Multiethnic LA; The Next American Revolution: Sustainable Activism for the Twenty-First Century with Grace Lee Boggs; and The Fifty-Year Rebellion: How the U.S. Political Crisis... Read More →
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Stephen Ward

Boggs Center to Nurture Community Leadership
Stephen Ward is the author of IN LOVE AND STRUGGLE: THE REVOLUTIONARY LIVES OF JAMES AND GRACE LEE BOGGS and editor of PAGES FROM A BLACK RADICAL’S NOTEBOOK: A JAMES BOGGS READER. He teaches African American history and urban community studies at the University of Michigan.

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry B
  Panel-Presentation

11:00am EDT

Starting an Ancestor Practice
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We are the sum total of all the hopes and dreams of our ancestors – when we viscerally feel this connection we can live and tell our own stories. In this workshop we will learn how to create an ancestral shrine, cultivate intimacy with our ancestors whether we know them or not, deal with problematic ancestors, and engage the power of our ancestors to help us manifest our vision and remind us of who we are.
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Langston Kahn

Occupy Your Heart
Langston Kahn is a black queer Brooklyn based shamanic practitioner specializing in healing trauma and radical transformation. He stands firmly at the crossroads, his practice informed by the somatic modality of Inner Relationship Focusing, initiations into traditions of the African... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 111
  Panel-Presentation

12:45pm EDT

Black Touch: A Somatic Healing Space
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Black people need the medicine of our bodies. In a society that demonizes and hypersexualizes black bodies touching, we create a container for liberatory physical dialogue to bring connection, unity, and transformation. Participants will explore somatic techniques rooted in compassion and shared presence, releasing tension and recalling our innate worth and value as beings. Together we share the wisdom of our bodies to organize and heal, to affirm that we are not alone.
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Angela Davis Johnson

Collective Member, The Hollerin Space
Angela Davis Johnson comes from generations of healers and creators. Informed by their wisdom, she creates paintings, installations, and performances to examine and archive the technologies of black folks. Merging art into a contemplative practice she embodies Live Dreaming - a process... Read More →
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nyx zierhut

nyx zierhut is a multiracial black genderqueer performance artist, dancer, and poet. a creator of visceral aesthetic and, Alternate Roots
nyx zierhut is a multiracial black genderqueer performance artist, choreographer, dancer, and poet. a creator of visceral aesthetic and political interventions, their praxis and survival are nourished by ritual, somatic healing, and contemplative movement traditions. nyx cultivates... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 12:45pm - 1:45pm EDT
McGregor: Room L/M
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2:00pm EDT

Community Led Business Models
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How do we deconstruct economic cultures and shift towards sustainable models built on love, social justice and community support? In this skillshare we will examine the history of these models in South Texas, explore our shared working experiences and the challenges and solutions we have encountered. Participants will have interactive opportunities to try out social media marketing, pop-up market organizing and reflect on economic models in their home communities.
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Beto De Leon

Southwest Worker's Union
Beto De León is a queer organizer based out of San Antonio, TX. He is the co-founder of Sol Y Luna Soaps and the Queer the Cheer Annual Market which promotes Trans/LGBQ talent and art each winter as part of the SAQ Collective. He is also focused on maintaining the plant based traditions... Read More →
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Diana Lopez

Southwest Workers Union
Diana Lopez is a Xicana born and raised in San Antonio, TX. Her work with Southwest Workers Union involves linking issues around environmental justice, living wage and accountable governance. SWU works to reframe public policy to protect the community and include the voices of local... Read More →
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Cristina Martinez

Very That
Cristina Martinez is a full time artist and online hustler based in the South Side of San Antonio, TX. Born of immigrant parents, Spanish was her first language, Spanglish is her current. Today you can find Cristina in and around San Antonio setting up at events, organizing local... Read More →

Friday June 16, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 125
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Saturday, June 17
 

11:00am EDT

From Media to Medium: Creating Revolutionary Oracles
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An oracle is a tool that brings us clarity and allows us to move forward with love and confidence instead of being stuck in reactive feedback loops! This is a time for oracles, and they are all around us. In this workshop we will explore examples of community-generated and queer Black feminist oracles and create our own oracles together. Participants will leave with new oracles and the ability to build oracles individually and with their communities.
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Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Alexis Pauline Gumbs is the author of M Archive: After the End of the World, Spill: Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, Mobile Homecoming
Alexis Pauline Gumbs is a queer black troublemaker and a black feminist love evangelist based in Durham, NC.
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Seneca Micheal Gumbs Morin

Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind
Seneca Micheal Gumbs Morin is a dream oracle creator and emergent video game designer. He is currently studying computer science and cognitive psychology at Vanderbilt University in order to create a link between dreams, video games and possible worlds of liberation.

Saturday June 17, 2017 11:00am - 12:30pm EDT
Student Center: Hilberry A
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2:00pm EDT

Don't Stop! Get it, Get it: A Pan African History of Twerk
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Twerking is a Black dance tradition originating in West Africa with a rich history in the black belt region of the south. This tradition has been co-opted by white culture in ways that obscure its richness, technical virtuosity, and uses for healing. We will honor this rich cultural tradition and explore West African origins of twerk, various schools of black belt region twerking, and examples of twerk music throughout history while reflecting on its evolution within black cultures.
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golden collier

golden collier is a radical facilitator and multidisciplinary artist living in Philadelphia, PA. A double virgo, they deeply enjoy supporting their communities through creative and organizational work. They are a member of Soapbox Community Printshop back home, and in their spare... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
Student Center: Room 020
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2:00pm EDT

Living Your Soul's Purpose in Community
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In almost all indigenous cultures, spiritual technologies are first and foremost oriented towards helping individuals live their unique soul's purpose, in service to community. The collective supports individuals in discovering their unique gifts and finding fulfillment in service to the collective. In this presentation we will explore the concept of purpose in indigenous cultures and how we can begin to cultivate our ability to orient towards this energy in everyday life as we engage in community and co-create with each other.
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Langston Kahn

Occupy Your Heart
Langston Kahn is a black queer Brooklyn based shamanic practitioner specializing in healing trauma and radical transformation. He stands firmly at the crossroads, his practice informed by the somatic modality of Inner Relationship Focusing, initiations into traditions of the African... Read More →

Saturday June 17, 2017 2:00pm - 3:30pm EDT
State Hall: Room 116
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