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20th Annual Allied Media Conference

Welcome to the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference!

Browse all 300+ sessions below on our online schedule. Please note: bookmarking a session on our online schedule does not guarantee you a place in the session. All sessions are first come, first serve.

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Jennifer Rusciano

5:30pm EDT

3Leches x Liberation Cuisine at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

8:00pm EDT

Welcome to AMC2018! A FireHouse Music Series Celebration Detroit Institute of Arts (North Lawn)Monica Blaire • Detroit Che • One Freq • DJ Bleak G • DJ Stacye J • Trey P.

10:00pm EDT

Dream Cafe Kick-off Party with djs Whodat + LadyMonix Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Terri “Whodat” McQueen • Lady Monix

9:00am EDT

Stories Become Movements, Become Stories: Ending Sexual and Gender-based Violence Community Arts AuditoriumEmi Kane • The Free Siwatu Coalition • Tatyana Fazlalizadeh • Emi Koyama • Amita Swadhin

11:00am EDT

Decolonizing Family History through Storytelling STATE HALL: Room 125Chantal Shaffer Digitizing Palestine: Storytelling and the Moving Image STATE HALL: Room 117Leila Abdelrazaq • Ryah Aqel • Nehad Khader • Razan al Salah Holding Space Part I: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody The Nuts & Bolts of Fundraising from Foundations STATE HALL: Room 113mai cortez doan • Joy Messinger Libraries Empower Incarcerated Youth STATE HALL: Room 118Liz Atack • Klem-Mari Cajigas • Raemona Little Taylor • Niq Tognoni Reclaiming Science: What is community-based science? STATE HALL: Room 114Kieran Alessi • Mara Freilich • August Guang • Steph Yin Cuir Kitchen Brigade SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyTara Rodríguez Besosa • Luz Cruz/ Pao Lebron • Patri González Ramírez

12:00pm EDT

FoodLab Community Market at The Commons The Commons

12:45pm EDT

Decolonize your Bod-tany with Queer Ecology STATE HALL: Room 116Moretta Browne • Edgar Flores Riot Youth: Our queer stories STATE HALL: Room 115Paige Danovi • Alex Kincade-Beal • Ebere Oparaeke • Suzie Staley • Mattea Turreane • Jade Wang Swords into Plowshares: Reclaim the Bible for Healing & Justice STATE HALL: Room 135SueAnn Shiah Twelve Lessons from "Parable of the Sower" STATE HALL: Room 125olaronke akinmowo

2:00pm EDT

Aztec Dance and the Beginnings of the Day of the Dead Celebration STUDENT CENTER: Room 020Kia Ix Arriaga • Larry McMann • Naomi Acoyani Trevino BYP100 Presents The Black Joy Experience STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CJonathan Lykes • JeNae Taylor Holding Space Part II: Facilitator Magic! STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Shariah, Race, and American Islam: Case of Mahmoud Abdul-Rauf STATE HALL: Room 118Alison Kysia War on Drugs is a War on Healing STATE HALL: Room 123Ifetayo Harvey • Magalie Lerman • La Pachamami Recipes of Resilience: Transforming Trauma with Food STATE HALL: Room 131Amanny Ahmad • Tara Rodríguez Besosa • Neftali Duran • Kate McCabe • Anya Peters

4:00pm EDT

De-mechanize Design: This is not a Poster STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Katie Diamond • Liz Morgan How to Remix City Bureau’s “Public Newsroom” Model STATE HALL: Room 123Bettina Chang • Andrea Faye Hart • Aaliyah Wright Transforming the Family Album into a Tool for Social Change STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BThomas Allen Harris Revisiting Asset-based Mapping STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Diana Benitez • Betty Marín Artivism: Radical Art for Rapid Response Change STATE HALL: Room 135Sabiha Basrai • Free Egunfemi • Biana Nozaki-Nasser • Nijeul Porter Digital Consent is Coercive MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HJamie Garcia • Hamid Khan • Nadia Khan • Ken Montenegro Politics of Erasure: Intentional Marketing of QTPOC STATE HALL: Room 125Jayson Douglas

6:00pm EDT

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

8:00pm EDT

GET TO WERK The Marble BarTT the Artist • Stacye J and the Anthology of Booty • Miz Korona

10:00pm EDT

Comedy Night Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Joe Aasim • Francesca Fiorentini • Luna Malbroux • Kai Quix • T. Wise

11:00am EDT

Fire: A Transformation Oracle STATE HALL: Room 128Alexis Pauline Gumbs • Sangodare (Julia Roxanne Wallace) From the Rebel Alliance to Wakanda: Sci-fi Movement Building STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Kai M. Green • Terry Marshall • Jenna Peters-Golden • Manju Rajendran • Makani Themba Healing Uses of Plant Technology STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Karen L. Culpepper • Richael Faithful • Miriam Zoila Pérez Building a Freedom School Movement in Detroit STATE HALL: Room 116Piper Carter • Mike Doan • Amaniyea Ellis • Joy Ellis • Salima Ellis Cooperative Ecosystem: Lessons in Building Community Wealth STATE HALL: Room 113Margo Dalal • B. Anthony Holley • Meghan Sobocienski • Lucas Turner-Owens • Ed Whitfeld Healing Justice Lineages: A History Discussion STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CAutumn Brown • Adela Nieves Martinez • Cara Page • Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha • Rico • Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis Youth Fighting 4 Justice: The Mixtape STATE HALL: Room 115Shalina S. Ali • Tyrone Randall • JENE TATE • FIDEL VERDIN Indigenous Storytelling: Resisting Co2lonialism STATE HALL: Room 125S (she/her) • Eriel Deranger Local Opportunities to Preserve Net Neutrality STATE HALL: Room 123Sarah Morris • Hannah Sassaman Sex Work in the Digital Age: Navigating Consent MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HZoe Trope FEEST With Us! SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyCamille Charles • Kyasia Gunter • Kit an' Kin • Tajjae Maycock • Yasmine Mercado • Quianna Minott • Jelani Norman • Jamisha Williams • Kashani Williams

12:45pm EDT

Break Bread & Build: (Em)Power Brunch + Building Session CASS COMMONS: Memorial HallDevita Davison • Shakirah Simley • Julia Turshen How to Create and Heal Organizations that Embody Our Values STATE HALL: Room 115Andrea Faye Hart • Erika Owens Sustainable Sisterhood: Two Founders Share Stories and Skills STATE HALL: Room 116Dail Chambers • Chinyere E. Oteh

2:00pm EDT

An(Other) Cyborg Manifesto: Disability as Dissonance STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CArcee Neal Building Consentful Technology MCGREGOR: Room F/G/HTawana Petty (she/her) • Una Lee Divestin' from Capitalism, Using TimeBanks STATE HALL: Room 115Alice Bagley • Johanna James • Krystle Okafor • LaTierra Piphus • Jane Slaughter Scratch 3.0: Creating and Expressing with Code STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Champika Fernando • Saskia Leggett • Jaleesa Trapp Visionary Organizing: Crafting Radical Futures STATE HALL: Room 137Jonathan Hanna • Erika Linenfelser Well... What were they Wearing? Protective adornment MCGREGOR: Room JLucia Calderon Arrieta • Juan Martinez • Sicily Ameris Mcraven • Mark VanDamme Who "They" Is: Humanizing the Built Environment STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BAlexandria Barnes • Bradley Cooper • Jasmine Humphries • Madison Schillig Policing Black Lives and Resistance Across Borders STATE HALL: Room 123Robyn Maynard • Leroi NewBold Trans is Magick: Building Trans Community Through Celebration STATE HALL: Room 135Jimena Lucero • Mikaela Xochitl afrofuturepast: Dance Technology and Aesthetics as Self Care STUDENT CENTER: Room 020Bree Gant The Art of Interviewing STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry DKeisha TK Dutes Liberate the Skies: Diaspora and the New Anti-Militarism STATE HALL: Room 114Farah Erzouki • Ali Issa • Samira Shifteh Mawadisidiwag: They Visit Each Other SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyThe Aadizookaan

3:00pm EDT

Trap in the Park SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyJoy Mohammed

4:00pm EDT

Emergent Strategy: Spells and Practices Times STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry Badrienne maree brown Fight Your Racist Camera STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry DPatri Gonzalez-Ramirez • Jesus Villalba Food Fight STATE HALL: Room 118En Sawyer Lee • Julia Vallera Piss on Pity: Radically Uprooting the Culture of Ableism STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Hong Gwi-Seok • Baba Baxter Jones Biomythography STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CAsia Mock • Valencia Vanner Fringe Issue: Sex Work & Night Life Organizing STATE HALL: Room 106Lyn Archer Joyful Resistance: Art and Protest in Defense of the Hood MCGREGOR: Room JChiResists and Barrios Against Displacement Breaking Library Silos for Social Justice (BLS4SJ) STATE HALL: Room 135Elle Covington • Cindy Fisher • Ayshea Khan Dismantling Gender in Youth Spaces STATE HALL: Room 113Johanna Burgos • Nana Minder

5:30pm EDT

Kit an Kin at Cass Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

6:00pm EDT

Against Erasure STATE HALL: Room 128Chiwan Choi Disability Justice and Neurodiversity Dinner STATE HALL: Room 115the Redwoods Left Wing Futbol Game: Soccer For Justice WSU Field: Warren + TrumbullMartin Macias • Xili Our Radically Sober Futures STATE HALL: Room 118Sicily McRaven

8:00pm EDT

DANCE DANCE (R)EVOLUTION MOCADBeige • K-HAND • Le1f • Oshun • Vespre • Miz Korona and the Korona Effect • Stacey HOTTWAXX Hale • Los Hermanos • DJ Pia

10:00am EDT

We Are All Connected: Youth Bridging the Urban / Rural Divide STUDENT CENTER: Room 285Kendri Feliz • Emmanuel Garcia • Gabriel Martinez • Mary • Griselys Peña • Serenah Vaughan Altars: Rituals and Creation STATE HALL: Room 134olaronke akinmowo Know Your Rights Immigration Poster Making STATE HALL: Room 125Dewey • Joel Garcia Magick Slime: The Art of Potion Making STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry EStephanie Mae Howells ReKrumpstruction STUDENT CENTER: Room 020Rachel Johnson • Cat Mahari • Edward Skinner Empower Our Social Justice Projects Using the Co-op Model STATE HALL: Room 135Sabiha Basrai • ana martina • Jenna Peters-Golden • Manju Rajendran • Sarah Reilly Restorative Justice Peace Ambassadors STATE HALL: Room 118James Coleman • Tomas Ramirez • Bejor Weathersby An Introduction to Pleasure Activism Community Arts Auditoriumadrienne maree brown Where is Vincent Chin?: Asian American Tour of Detroit SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyRebecca J. Kinney • Soh Suzuki

11:00am EDT

The Asymmetrical Table at Dream Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)

11:45am EDT

Activism Is Not Criminal: Stop the Killings in the Philippines STATE HALL: Room 135Adrian Bonifacio • Joelle Eliza Lingat Advance Your Work with Allied Media Projects STATE HALL: Room 118Tawana Petty (she/her) • Serena Maria Daniels • Levon Kafafian • Cayden Mak • Toni Moceri • Benito "Mav-One" Vasquez Light Your Fire: Altar Candles for Resilience STATE HALL: Room 134Robin Markle

1:00pm EDT

Gabby Smashes: A Conversation about Race & Social Justice STATE HALL: Room 125Luann Algoso SARAP - FilipinX Drag Horror Cooking Show STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BKhary Mathurin • Patrick Salvani Practical Magic: Lunar Ritual for Manifestation MCGREGOR: Room CCarmen Mayes Sex Worker Archives: Preserving Our Histories STUDENT CENTER: Room 384Juniper Fleming • Zee St. James Education for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 101adrienne maree brown • Mariame Kaba Humanizing Schooling In Detroit STATE HALL: Room 134Alondra Castañeda • N8 Mullen • kelly rickert Mariposas & Unicorns: Narratives Defying Borders and Binaries STATE HALL: Room 118Giselle Ariel Bleuz • Citlali Ortiz Building Relationships to Transform Local News MCGREGOR: Room BAlicia Bell

3:00pm EDT

Performing New Worlds Plenary and Closing Ceremony Celebration Community Arts AuditoriumUna Aya Osato • Ricardo Gamboa • Xandra Ibarra • Francesca Fiorentini

4:00pm EDT

Closing Ceremony: Rituals to Return Community Arts Auditorium

6:30pm EDT

Matriarchy in the Kitchen: Supper Club From Nowhere x Kit an Kin at Folk FOLK Detroit

8:00pm EDT

Allied Ever After Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Beige • Nandi • Mike Medow