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20th Annual Allied Media Conference

Welcome to the 20th Annual Allied Media Conference!

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Quiana Perkins

BLUU
Ann Arbor MI

(she/her) I am attending AMC as member of the BLUU delegation. I am a fat, black, queer, pansexual/bi, polyamorus fierce mama bear of two cubs. On a journey to integrate social justice + faith+ healing + culture +resilience into all things. Weaving and unweaving possiblites.

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10:00am

Facilitation for Liberation Network Gathering (invite only) STUDENT CENTER: Room 285 Fat Lovin' Media Futures Network Gathering MCGREGOR: Room C

7:00pm

Past, Present, Futurism: Resilient Infrastructure Community Arts AuditoriumJenny Lee • Tara Rodríguez Besosa • Monica Lewis-Patrick • Diana Nucera • Maya Wiley

8:00pm

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.

9:00am

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

Black Touch STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Angela Davis Johnson • nyx zierhut DIY Embroidery Patches MCGREGOR: Room JLucia Calderon Arrieta Holding Space Part I: Strategies for Anti-Oppressive Facilitation STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Five Miles of Freedom: African American History Tour in Detroit SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyJamon Jordan

12:45pm

Twelve Lessons from "Parable of the Sower" STATE HALL: Room 125olaronke akinmowo Wakanda Foreva, eva? Black Folks at AMC! STATE HALL: Room 113Moya Bailey • Nandi • Tawana Petty

2:00pm

Holding Space Part II: Facilitator Magic! STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • Maryse Mitchell-Brody Reclaim Tarot within Communities of Color STATE HALL: Room 128Casey Rocheteau • Jana Lynne Umipig

4:00pm

BUFU: Our Selves, Our Stories, and Our Futures STATE HALL: Room 101Sonia Choi • Jazmin Jones • Tsige Tafesse • Katherine Tom Surviving Impossible Times: Herbal Strategies for People of Color STUDENT CENTER: Room 025Carmen Malis King • Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis • Lottie V. Spady Our Data Bodies Matter! STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry CVirginia Eubanks • Seeta Peña Gangadharan • Tamika Lewis • Tawana Petty • Mariella Saba

6:00pm

Opening Ceremony Detroit Film TheaterTarana Burke • Mariame Kaba

6:30pm

Cumbia Kids Sci-Fi Party New Center ParkKristy La rAt • Mother Cyborg

8:00pm

The Original AMC Karaoke + Bowling Party The Garden BowlJennyoke

8:00am

Breakfast & Beats Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Sicily Amaris McRaven

9:00am

Shaping Data, Shaping Power Community Arts AuditoriumSasha Costanza-Chock • Ruha Benjamin • Mona Chalabi • Tawana Petty • Dr. Kortney Ryan Ziegler

11:00am

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 Designing Possibilities for the Wellbeing of Black Women STUDENT CENTER: Hilberry BDenise Shanté Brown • N'Deye Diakhate Detroit Narrative Agency 2.0 Project Screenings SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + Kirbypaige watkins • ill weaver

12:45pm

Digging out the Roots of Trauma: Healing our Relationship to Land STATE HALL: Room 135Leo Orleans How to Create and Heal Organizations that Embody Our Values STATE HALL: Room 115Andrea Hart • Erika Owens

2:00pm

Poetry as Freedom STATE HALL: Room 117LaShaun 'Phoenix' Kotaran • Eldric Laron • A'janae Neal • Imani Nichele • Justin Rogers • LaShawn Smith-Wright "How to Survive the End of the World" Live Podcast STATE HALL: Room 101Autumn Brown • adrienne maree brown • Zak Rosen afrofuturepast: Dance Technology and Aesthetics as Self Care STUDENT CENTER: Room 020Bree Gant Mawadisidiwag: They Visit Each Other SHUTTLE STOP: Anthony Wayne + KirbyThe Aadizookaan

4:00pm

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

6:00pm

Blackness and Afro Latinidad: Brujas Healing the Diaspora STATE HALL: Room 117Consuela Lopez • Antonio Rafael • Briana Urena-Ravelo Community Dinner for Black Native American/Afro-Indígena Folks STATE HALL: Room 125Jillian White Dear Black Women: The Power of Black Women Affirming Themselves STATE HALL: Room 127Florence Noel Healing Justice for QTPoC STATE HALL: Room 135Taising Chen • Samia Lalani • Erica Woodland

10:00pm

Portage Garage Sounds at the Dream Cafe Dream Cafe (Cass Cafe)Vinnie Massimino • Benjamin Kenjiro Saginaw • Zachary Shigeto Saginaw • Charles Trees

10:00am

Altars: Rituals and Creation STATE HALL: Room 134olaronke akinmowo Black Trans Narratives STATE HALL: Room 114Sasha Alexander • Mikalya C. • Bre Campell • Maddox Guerilla • Ahya Nicole An Introduction to Pleasure Activism Community Arts Auditoriumadrienne maree brown

11:45am

Light Your Fire: Altar Candles for Resilience STATE HALL: Room 134Robin Markle

1:00pm

Practical Magic: Lunar Ritual for Manifestation MCGREGOR: Room CCarmen Mayes Education for Abolition STATE HALL: Room 101adrienne maree brown • Mariame Kaba Mariposas & Unicorns: Narratives Defying Borders and Binaries STATE HALL: Room 118Giselle Ariel Bleuz • Citlali Ortiz

3:00pm

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

4:00pm

Closing Ceremony: Rituals to Return Community Arts Auditorium