Podcasts about culturestrike

On the radio show this week, we cover the latest with Black Maternal Health Week; how to help stop the banning of diverse books by a small group of very loud far right extremists; the ways in which art is a tool for activism which can change culture and public policy; and we close the show covering how to fight back against the Moms for (against) LIberty who are taking away parent's rights. *Special guests include: Monifa Bandele, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Dr. Kimberly Allen, 904WARD, @904ward; Favianna Rodriguez, The Center for Cultural Power, @CultureStrike; and Nina Perez, MomsRising/MamásConPoder, @MomsRising @MamasConPoder.

On the radio show this week, we cover the latest with Black Maternal Health Week; how to help stop the banning of diverse books by a small group of very loud far right extremists;  the ways in which art is a tool for activism which can change culture and public policy; and we close the show covering how to fight back against the Moms for (against) LIberty who are taking away parent's rights.   *Special guests include: Monifa Bandele, MomsRising, @MomsRising; Dr. Kimberly Allen, 904WARD, @904ward; Favianna Rodriguez, The Center for Cultural Power, @CultureStrike; and Nina Perez, MomsRising/MamásConPoder, @MomsRising @MamasConPoder. 

Hillary and Tina interview artist, organizer, and social justice activist Favianna Rodriguez of the Center for Cultural Power. Favianna Rodriguez embodies the perspective of a first-generation American Latinx artist with Afro-Peruvian roots. Her art and praxis address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and climate change, boldly reshaping the myths, ideas, and cultural practices of the present, while confronting the wounds of the past. Favianna is regarded as one of the leading thinkers and personalities uniting art, culture, and social impact, collaborating deeply with social movements around the world. Favianna also helps lead cultural strategy design and investment by helping to organize the philanthropic sector, with a focus on foundations addressing gender justice, racial justice, climate change and cultural equity. Favianna speaks to us about climate justice, designing cultural campaigns, the role of arts in social justice movements, and more. For more information visit the Center for Cultural Power (https://www.culturalpower.org/). And be sure to follow Favianna and the Center for Cultural Power online at: Favianna on Instagram: favianna1 (https://www.instagram.com/favianna1/) Center for Cultural Power on Instagram: culturestrike (https://www.instagram.com/culturestrike/) Favianna on Twitter: @favianna (https://mobile.twitter.com/favianna) Center for Cultural Power on Twitter: @CultureStrike (https://twitter.com/CultureStrike)

Curator, writer and museum director Laura Raicovich talks about the challenges she faced as director of the Queens Museum, particularly around actively addressing the vulnerability of many Queens residents during the Trump era, including meeting some resistance from some the museum’s board members. She also discusses issues around diversity and where museums need to be moving, topics she’s addressed in her upcoming book, “Culture Strike: Art and Museums in an Age of Protest.” We also discuss the controversy around the postponed Philip Guston retrospective, and the various projects she’s taking on as her run as a museum director winds down.

Today I follow up with Julio Salgado and Kat Evasco from The Disruptors Fellowship. Representation is fundamental but many fellowships fall short of inclusion. Today I speak to Julio Salgado, Migrant Storytelling in Pop Culture Media and Kat Evasco the Senior Programming Director at the Center for Cultural Power, formerly CultureStrike. They in partnership with 5050by2020 launched The Disruptors Fellowship – a program that will be awarded to ten artists of color who identify as trans and/or non-binary, disabled, undocumented and/or formerly undocumented immigrants.   They get mentored beginning to end of script writing and pitching. With mentors and panelists and master class leaders will include industry veterans and fresh voices like Rafael Agustin (Jane the Virgin), Katherine Beattie (NCIS), Shantira Jackson (Saved by the Bell Reboot, Busy Tonight), Thomas Page McBee (The L Word, Tales of the City), Jill Soloway (Transparent), Ryan O’Connell (Special), Jenny Yang (Last Man Standing, Busy Tonight) and Trey Callaway (Rush Hour, CSI: NY).     Follow Julio Salgado on Insta: @juliosalgado83 Follow Kat Evasco on Insta: @katevascostories Follow me on Insta: @latinxontherise |  Twitter: @latinxontherise

Representation is fundamental but many fellowships fall short of inclusion. Today I speak to Julio Salgado, Migrant Storytelling in Pop Culture Media and Kat Evasco the Senior Programming Director at the Center for Cultural Power, formerly CultureStrike. They in partnership with 5050by2020 launched The Disruptors Fellowship – a program that will be awarded to ten artists of color who identify as trans and/or non-binary, disabled, undocumented and/or formerly undocumented immigrants.   They get mentored beginning to end of script writing and pitching. With mentors and panelists and master class leaders will include industry veterans and fresh voices like Rafael Agustin (Jane the Virgin), Katherine Beattie (NCIS), Shantira Jackson (Saved by the Bell Reboot, Busy Tonight), Thomas Page McBee (The L Word, Tales of the City), Jill Soloway (Transparent), Ryan O’Connell (Special), Jenny Yang (Last Man Standing, Busy Tonight) and Trey Callaway (Rush Hour, CSI: NY).

Young activists share their idea about making butterflies to symbolize the 15,000 children in detention centers in the US. What does it mean to be an activist? Kaia and Lily will tell you in this episode. Find out what inspired them and hear their interview with CultureStrike artist/activist Kat Evasco. Learn how your family can be involved in The Butterfly Effect: Migration is Beautiful movement at www.butterflyeffectmigration.org This episode features the song, “Until You’re Free” from the new Alphabet Rockers’ album, The Love.

We asked our listener community, “How did you learn where you come from?” What came back was a wide range of personal stories about how tricky it can be to access our heritage. From kids going to culture camp, to adoptees making journeys to their birth countries, to Asian Americans of all ages realizing that they’re inevitably going to lose a piece of themselves — we explore how we fit in with what came before us and figure out what comes next. We need your help! Please take this 1-minute survey, so we can have better conversations with partners and sponsors and keep this show growing. It’s fast, easy, and anonymous. Resources and Recommended Reading Misha recommends that Self Evident listeners check out episode 2 of Tell Them, I Am, “Deana.” Read some of Ansley’s poetry, accompanied by her own visual artwork, on Culturestrike. If you’d like to participate in Henry’s Chinese geneaology workshop, e-mail Henry [dot] Tom [at] Cox [dot] net. Mark, one of the voices on today’s episode, has told the full story of his trip to find his birth record in Korea on this episode of the Escape from Plan A podcast. Check out Leading Youth Forward, Chicago Desi Youth Rising, NQAPIA, and APIENC to see examples of Asian American spaces for cultural and political education. To learn more about “Love Boat” and how it’s impacted Asian Americans, check out Valerie Soe’s documentary, Love Boat: Taiwan, which is touring film festivals across the country. Shout Outs Shout out to Yin Kong and Yin Mei of Think!Chinatown for inviting us to the workshop where we met Henry Tom. Thanks to everyone from our listener community who shared their experiences with us in the making of this episode: Alice Chou, Davey Kim, Gabor Fu, Jenni Wong, Kathleen Burkinshaw, Lily Susman, Lori Wanko, Mark from Plan A, Mark Zastrow, Merk Nguyen, Michelle Chu, Rekha Radhakrishnan, Waverly Colville, and Win-Sie Tow. And very special thanks to our advisors for this season of the show: Alex Laughlin, Anika Gupta, Blair Matsuura, Christina Choi, Davey Kim, and Ted Hsieh. Credits Produced by James Boo Edited by Julia Shu and Cheryl Devall Editorial support from Davey Kim Production support by Jaye McAuliffe Sound engineering by Timothy Lou Ly Theme music by Dorian Love Music by Blue Dot Sessions and Epidemic Sound Self Evident is a Studiotobe production. Season 1 is presented by the Center for Asian American Media (CAAM), the Ford Foundation, and our listener community. Our show was incubated at the Made in New York Media Center by IFP. About CAAM: CAAM (Center for Asian American Media) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to presenting stories that convey the richness and diversity of Asian American experiences to the broadest audience possible. CAAM does this by funding, producing, distributing, and exhibiting works in film, television, and digital media. For more information on CAAM, please visit www.caamedia.org. With support from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, CAAM provides production funding to independent producers who make engaging Asian American works for public media.

Afro Guatemalan-Salvadoran cartoonist, Breena Nuñez joins Dorothy Santos in a discussion about comics, graphics novels, and queerness through a multicultural lens. Breena dives into the back story of some of her comics, her experiences growing up as Afrolatinx and how the seemingly unconnected threads of her childhood converged to weave her into the cartoonist she is today. *Helpful Links*Nagual - animal guardian Comics mentioned in this episode:Trinidad Escobar, http://www.trinidadescobar.com/Avy Jetter, http://nuthingoodat4.com/Julie Fiveash, https://jooliefiveash.tumblr.com/tagged/jooliecomix-About Breena Nuñez-Breena is an Afro Guatemalan-Salvadoran cartoonist based in Oakland, CA by way of San Bruno and South San Francisco. Breena also identifies as a non-binary womxn who uses She/Her/They/Them pronouns. She is currently pursuing an MFA in Comics at California College of the Arts. Breena's drawings and writings focus on Afrolatinx diaspora, Central American experiences, queer people of color, and socially awkward animal people. Her comics are primarily self-published as zines, and are accessible at zine fests, small press expos and through her online Etsy shop. Breena's work has been featured in online articles and interviews with CultureStrike, Fierce Mitú (one authored by Alán Pelaez Lopez and another by Stephanie Ginese), Taco Talk with Julio Salgado, Huffington Post, Prime Vice, Colorlines, The Beat, Remezcla, and The Baylies.Learn more at https://www.breenache.com/Follow her @breenache

This special episode features my live conversation with activist, writer and feminist organizer, Gloria Steinem and Oakland-based artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez. The legendary Gloria Steinem is the author of several best-selling books, was a founding editor of and political commentator for New York Magazine and a founding editor of Ms. Favianna Rodriguez’s art and collaborative projects address migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and ecology. Favianna is also the Executive Director of CultureStrike, a national arts organization that engages artists, writers and performers in migrant rights. Gloria, Favianna and I spoke on stage at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco on February 21st, 2019 as part of Women Lit, a program of the Bay Area Book Festival. Gloria’s book of essays--now in its third edition--and the occasion for our conversation--is called “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”--and there is no better or more timely theme! In this conversation we talked about the ongoing fight for equality, how much has changed--or not--since Gloria wrote those essays between the 1960s and the 1990s...and how to create the future we envision! This live event was made possible in part by EO essential oils bath and body care products and of course, my home station KALW in San Francisco, and PRX. Giving is a radical act. Help keep these podcasts coming:inflectionpointradio.org/contribute.

Prudence is joined this week by Favianna Rodriguez, an interdisciplinary artist, cultural organizer, and political activist based in Oakland, California. Her art addresses migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and ecology. She is also the Executive Director of CultureStrike, a national arts organization that engages artists, writers and performers in migrant rights. Together they tackle letters about what to do when your dad can’t get your transgender cousin’s pronouns right, how to handle gift giving in-laws who are cluttering your home with homemade knick-knacks, what actions to take if you feel your friends are taking advantage of your emotional and financial stability, how to tell the person that took you off the streets and fed you that you don’t like their cooking, what to do when your parents will no longer pay your college tuition because changed your major. Slate Plus members will hear Prudie and Favianna discuss a letter writer who is devastated that her younger sister didn’t include her in her wedding party, despite all the support given to her through the years. Not yet a member? Sign up at Slate.com/PrudiePod. Email: prudencepodcast@gmail.comProduction by Phil Surkis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prudence is joined this week by Favianna Rodriguez, an interdisciplinary artist, cultural organizer, and political activist based in Oakland, California. Her art addresses migration, economic inequality, gender justice, and ecology. She is also the Executive Director of CultureStrike, a national arts organization that engages artists, writers and performers in migrant rights. Together they tackle letters about what to do when your dad can’t get your transgender cousin’s pronouns right, how to handle gift giving in-laws who are cluttering your home with homemade knick-knacks, what actions to take if you feel your friends are taking advantage of your emotional and financial stability, how to tell the person that took you off the streets and fed you that you don’t like their cooking, what to do when your parents will no longer pay your college tuition because changed your major. Slate Plus members will hear Prudie and Favianna discuss a letter writer who is devastated that her younger sister didn’t include her in her wedding party, despite all the support given to her through the years. Not yet a member? Sign up at Slate.com/PrudiePod. Email: prudencepodcast@gmail.com Production by Phil Surkis Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Before you change politics, you have to change culture." Favianna Rodriguez is a transnational interdisciplinary artist and cultural organizer, whose art and collaborative projects deal with migration, global politics, economic injustice, patriarchy, and interdependence. She is also the director of CultureStrike, a national arts organization that engages artists, writers and performers in migrant rights and the co-founder of Presente.org, a national online organizing network dedicated to the political empowerment of Latino communities. In this talk from CreativeMornings/Oakland from May 2014 on Freedom, Favianna talks about how politics have affected art & culture throughout history — and how the artist is indispensable in changing culture. She encourages us to use art to reclaim our humanity, and empowers us to change the language we use in the stories we tell so that we can take action in our communities. Learn more at www.creativemornings.com

Tonight tune in to hear an interview with @Andres Soto on organizing in Richmond, California Julio Salgado with CultureStrike, poetry from WritersCorps students, poet laureate Jack Hirschman reads his Vietnam War poetry, Mumia Abu Jamal comments on police violence in #Ferguson, music de Bang Data y CARLA MORRISON OFICIAL!