Where do you think you are going so fast? [Marine mammals] offer slowing down as a strategic intervention in a world on speed, and an appropriate response to the exact urges that made us feel we cannot slow down. It is the speed, the speed boats, the momentum of capitalism, the expediency of pollution that threatens the ocean, our marine mammal mentors, and our own lives. What if we could release ourselves from an internalized time clock and remember that slow is efficient, slow is effective, slow is beautiful?”
― Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Undrowned: Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals ([link removed])
What does it mean to flourish in these times?
What pace of action enables us to choose toward liberation among increasing pressure and urgency?
Longtime Allied Media Projects visionary Alexis Pauline Gumbs invites us to connect with the life force around us to find the strength and wisdom to move deliberately toward liberation.
In the AMP Summer Newsletter, we will focus on what is flourishing in our network despite current conditions and as a direct result of generations of struggle. At AMP, we insist on nourishing an ecosystem of visionary creativity as a compass toward another possible world that we co-create with each action, each day.
We are excited to open our fiscal sponsorship ([link removed]) support to new projects in Spring 2025!
Allied Media Projects supports people and projects committed to media for liberation. In our role as a fiscal sponsor, AMP has grown the organizational capacities of 100+ projects and people ([link removed]) through services such as accounting, HR, and fund development. We facilitate the flow of resources, bolster our projects’ capacity to uproot oppressive systems, and plant new liberatory ways of being through our radical shared infrastructure.
Join us for info calls to learn more about our program at either of these times:
* Jun 12, 2025 11 AM EST – Register here ([link removed])
* Jun 24, 2025 3 PM EST – Register here ([link removed])
Join us at the LOVE Building for a Book Presentation with Melissa Rosario ([link removed]) from CEPA, one of our Sponsored Projects!
Beyond Disaster: Building Collective Futures in Puerto Rico is a work that examines the deep wounds of colonialism in present-day life on the archipelago while uplifting the profound possibilities of embodying alternatives that exist beyond collective trauma and unending crisis.
No registration required!
WATCH
* Check out the Hustleween ([link removed]) , short documentary centering Black Trans Brilliance from Espicy Nipples
* Comfrey Films ([link removed]) held their 2nd Annual Black Trans Short Film Festival in late April
READ
* Check out this session ([link removed]) and zine ([link removed]) from Just Practice Collaborative ([link removed]) to help you form a crisis response team that doesn't use the police
* adrienne maree brown’s new book Ancestors ([link removed]) is out June 10. This book is the conclusion to the Grievers trilogy. Detroit In-person Book Launch ([link removed]) on June 10th at 6PM
ATTEND EVENTS IN DETROIT
* June 7th - Bulk Space Spring Fling Fundraiser ([link removed]) 2PM-6PM at Bulk Space
* June 15th - Bangla School of Music ([link removed]) and Play House Labs present Raga & Rhythm: A Classical Cultural Showcase Sunday, from 2-5PM at Play House in Detroit
* June 28th - Expungement Fair ([link removed]) from 10AM to 2PM at the LOVE Building. This event offers free legal assistance to help you clear your record and move forward with confidence.
* June 28th - Detroit Community Technology Project will be at Clark Park Arts and Culture Festival ([link removed]) with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 12PM-4PM with zines and merch!
* June 29th - Check out GhostLight Arts’ LIMITLESS: A GhostLight Gala ([link removed]) at the The Garden Theatre in Detroit
LISTEN
* adrienne maree brown’s podcast “How to Survive the End of the World” ([link removed])
* AirGo’s new episode ([link removed]) with Antonio Gutierrez on Anti-Displacement Organizing and Fighting Deportations
DANCE
* Check out Temate Institute for Black Dance and Culture’s upcoming dance conference ([link removed]) and save the dates!
* Check out Summer Classes ([link removed]) at MCSDA
TAKE ACTION
* Join theGiving Circle Orientation ([link removed]) in support of Black Lives Matter Detroit and the Detroit Safety Team.
* DNA 2025 Summer Filmmaking Workshop Series Application ([link removed])
* Join Project Hajra against genocide ([link removed]) and for a free Palestine!
* From Community Justice Exchange “Five Questions for Cultivating Solidarity When Responding to Political Repression” ([link removed])
* “When ICE is Watching: Know Your Fight, Protect Your People” ([link removed]) resource in English, Spanish, French, Wolof, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese, Hindi, Arabic, and Kreyol
* Check out the toolkit from Muslims for Just Futures on The Criminalization of Solidarity: A Practical Guide for Movements and Communities ([link removed])
AMP is a fiscal sponsor to over 100+ projects and people embodying media for liberation and functions as a network of brilliant organizers, artists, healers, and caretakers. Our network remains as critical today as it ever was. Check out our website ([link removed]) to see the projects’ profiles and donate to their work directly.
Donate to Support AMP’s Work of Cultivating Media for Liberation ([link removed])
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