Readings

April 6, 2021 by giarts-ts-admin

This piece was originally published in the inaugural issue of Nonprofit Wakanda Quarterly, an independent and free space for Black people who work or who are involved in the nonprofit sector to dream, aspire, interrogate, and express, freely.

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November 20, 2020 by giarts-ts-admin

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October 8, 2020 by giarts-ts-admin

Appendix C: Committee Sound-bytes, Impetus

Deep Context: My approach to data is “deep context”; I see value in understanding what is beneath the data. I think context is what helps determine future courses of action, which result in systemic solutions.

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September 28, 2020 by giarts-ts-admin

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September 20, 2020 by giarts-ts-admin

The United States is in the advanced stages of neoliberal capitalism. Within the construct of neoliberal economics nothing is safe and everything is commoditized, even culture. Capitalism is so desperate for land to conquer that it’s reached our mental space, where the issue becomes the manufacture of consent. The struggle for social justice has become about the very meaning of things, of framing, understanding, and feeling. This is the last space that is sovereign: our bodies and our minds.

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September 20, 2020 by giarts-ts-admin

This article was written prior to the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic has served to illuminate how small arts organizations have shown up for their communities, despite facing their own existential crises and barriers to public relief opportunities. They have become sites of mutual aid, healing, and connection for communities suffering historic health inequities, economic insecurity, and structural racism.

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September 20, 2020 by giarts-ts-admin

Reader’s Note: This research could not and did not imagine the state of the world in 2020. While the pandemic, the economic crisis and social unrest have brought into stark relief the inequities plaguing communities of low income, many of those circumstances are not new. They are structural. They are long-term. They are ingrained in a legacy of racist policies that have shaped how we invest (or fail to invest) in Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) communities.

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September 20, 2020 by giarts-ts-admin

In 2013, around a table at the San Francisco Tenants Union, the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project (AEMP) was formed among community activists with the intention of documenting eviction and tech-led speculative displacement in San Francisco.1 While the project founders imagined they’d only be creating one or two data visualization maps of evictions, the project has since grown in scale, methodology, and geography.

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