April 25 - May 10 Event Links: Node & Working Group Meetups; Organizer’s Training with Design as Protest Collective, State of Solidarity Series
Events Happening In Our Network
Check our Events page on the DJN website for updates between newsletters.
Friday, Apr 26 @ 10am EDT (UTC-4): Instructional Design Working Group Monthly Meeting (Free, Online, Open, Registration Required)
Tuesday, Apr 30 @ 1pm BST (UTC+1): DJN UK North Meetup (Free, Online, Open, Registration Required)
Events Shared Through The Network
Relevant events are regularly shared with our team via email, on Slack and social media by members, signatories, other sponsored projects with AMP, and our subscribers.
Saturday, Apr 27 @ 2pm BST (UTC+1): 3-Hour Edit-a-Thon for the Feminist design Wikipedia Page, hosted by FeministDesign.co and facilitated by Emeline Brulé (Free, Online, Open, RSVP Required)
Wednesday, May 1 @ 5pm EDT (UTC-4): Palestinian Seed Stories: To Eat Alone is To Die Alone, Vivien Sansour (Sliding Scale, Online, Open, Registration Required)
Thursday, May 2 @ 6pm PDT (UTC-7): Design Action Collective: 20 Years of Political Graphics Online, (Free, Hybrid [San Francisco, CA USA], Open, Registration Required)
Saturday, May 4 @ 1pm BST (UTC+1): Imagining Feminist Solidarity Cultures via Play (Free, Online, Limited, RSVP Required)
Up to 10 participants; spaces are limited so RSVP only if you will be able to attend.
Tuesdays, May 7 - June 11, Two Session Tracks Available: Organizing for Power’s Core Fundamentals with the Design as Protest Collective (Free, Online, Open, Registration Required)
Deadline to signup via DAP is Friday 4/26 at 4pm PST; 6-week training series on O4P’s organizing framework for collective action.
Event Pages Our Team Follows
Folks on our team recommend these curated event pages from community peers and partners.
30 min virtual space for space-holders, facilitators and practitioners to restore, reflect, and play; sessions scheduled on select Wednesdays through spring and summer.
Community Care Clinics for Disabled & Chronically Ill Movement Folks
An ongoing community care peer support space aimed at expanding possibilities for living and working as disabled and chronically ill people; sessions scheduled through June.
State of Solidarity Series, SolidarityIs at the Building Movement Project
A series exploring the evolving praxis, demands, and trajectories of solidarity within social justice movements with sessions scheduled through November.
Shared As Recommended Reading
Reading recommendations are offered for your consideration by members of our team and Network – whether you’re staying in, biding time in a Zoom waiting room, or just looking for something to read for deeper reflection on design justice.
Honoring the Legacy of the Allied Media Conference
AMP shares a timeline celebrating 25 years of media liberation and asks for folks to reflect in the comments of this and their second post in remembrance of their recently sunset conference, where founding members of DJN met and gathered regularly.
Event times are given in the timezone the event is located, when known or applicable; you can use a timezone converter (like Every Time Zone or World Time Buddy) to compare the listed time with your local time.
Share an event to include in the next issue of this mini-newsletter! It’s sent out weekly on Thursdays*; use DJN’s Share Request Form and choose Event as the request type. Alternatively, you can tag the DJN accounts on Instagram, LinkedIn or Twitter/X and use #DJNSpotlight if you just need a repost/retweet of an event link. We repost/retweet, plus share event links via IG Stories to curate as a Highlight on our IG profile page in between newsletters.
*I’ll be traveling next week, so no newsletter will be sent next Thursday, March 28 — newsletters will resume the following Thursday, April 4. 🙂 – Rene Joy