“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

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 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 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

• Jun 24, 2025 3 PM EST – Register here

WATCH

• Check out the Hustleween, short documentary centering Black Trans Brilliance from Espicy Nipples

• Comfrey Films held their 2nd Annual Black Trans Short Film Festival in late April

READ

• Check out this session and zine from Just Practice Collaborative to help you form a crisis response team that doesn't use the police

• adrienne maree brown’s new book Ancestors is out June 10. This book is the conclusion to the Grievers trilogy. Detroit In-person Book Launch on June 10th at 6PM

ATTEND EVENTS IN DETROIT

• June 7th - Bulk Space Spring Fling Fundraiser 2PM-6PM at Bulk Space

• June 15th - Bangla School of Music and Play House Labs present Raga & Rhythm: A Classical Cultural Showcase Sunday, from 2-5PM at Play House in Detroit

• June 28th - Expungement Fair 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 with the Detroit Symphony Orchestra from 12PM-4PM with zines and merch!

• June 29th - Check out GhostLight Arts’ LIMITLESS: A GhostLight Gala at the The Garden Theatre in Detroit

LISTEN

• adrienne maree brown’s podcast “How to Survive the End of the World”

• AirGo’s new episode with Antonio Gutierrez on Anti-Displacement Organizing and Fighting Deportations

DANCE

• Check out Temate Institute for Black Dance and Culture’s upcoming dance conference and save the dates!

• Check out Summer Classes at MCSDA

TAKE ACTION

• Join the Giving Circle Orientation in support of Black Lives Matter Detroit and the Detroit Safety Team.  

• DNA 2025 Summer Filmmaking Workshop Series Application

• Join Project Hajra against genocide and for a free Palestine!

• From Community Justice Exchange “Five Questions for Cultivating Solidarity When Responding to Political Repression”

• “When ICE is Watching: Know Your Fight, Protect Your People” 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

  
  

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 to see the projects’ profiles and donate to their work directly.