CELEBRATIONS: We have a Mission, Vision, and Intentions for the Design Justice Network!

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You've been reading our regular updates about the writing and editing process of our new Mission, Vision, and Intentions for DJN, and we've now officially launched (and celebrated!) with a small group of our DJN members! Now, we pass along to the full network, and ask, How do you celebrate having a mission, vision, and intentions? What intentions do you wish to set for yourself, your DJN local node, or your working group? Please share and tag us on any social channel, and use the hashtag #DJNintentions to let us know! We'll be sharing more info about the process over the coming weeks and months, so stay tuned!

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Announcement: Welcoming New Steering Committee Members!

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Hi DJN Members and Network!

As many of you know, last March we said goodbye to one of our founders, Una Lee. Since then we have identified the need for more support and insight for both members and staff. We are excited to let DJN members know that we have expanded our capacity through the addition of three steering committee roles (one of which is being shared by two DJN Mediterranea members)! After much consideration and after completing the Mission, Vision, and Intentions process (details on that coming soon as well), we’ve invited Nour Arafat (Chicago node facilitator), Boaz Sender (website working group + DJN LA facilitator), and Elena Silvestrini (DJ Mediterranea facilitator/initiator), who will share the position with Marta Delatte (DJ Mediterranea). You can read all about our new members here: https://designjustice.org/steering-committee

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September 2021, Design Justice Newsletter

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Dear DJN Members, Signatories, and Friends,

This month, we opened up the Network’s visioning process with some initial long-standing DJN members that have participated in organizing, volunteering, and facilitating and we can’t wait to share some of this with the rest of the network in the upcoming months! Thank you to everyone who participated and supported this process. We also welcome the DMV (DC, Maryland, Virginia) node officially to the network (details below), and for those who are Montreal (or surrounding area) based, you’ll see a callout below for a new node coming together there! We are re-highlighting DJN member, Nushin Yazdani, this month, and of course, provide links to various paid and volunteer opportunities (and more), in this newsletter! Thank you to the new DJN Communications team, who is working to make these newsletters more concise, and also for the new online format that you are reading/viewing here!

Thank you for reading, and if you have any thoughts/feedback or ideas for these newsletters, please do get in touch with us!

- Taylor Simone and Victoria Barnett, DJN International Network Coordinators, and the new DJN Communications team!

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July 2021, Design Justice Newsletter

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Dear DJN Members, Signatories, and Friends,

The Design Justice Network Steering Committee (and staff) have been busy over the last year working with Corina Fadel on our mission, vision and strategic intentions process. Through this process we have found the need and space for additional network support. We are extremely excited to introduce you all to Taylor Simone, who joins Victoria Barnett in the role of International Network Coordinator! To read more about Taylor, please visit our Staff page.

We are also excited to open up this visioning process with the network…

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June 2021, Design Justice Newsletter

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Dear DJN Members, Signatories, and Friends,

While we continue in the ongoing struggle to resist fascism, we are imagining, with you, new worlds and experiences rooted in joy, care and the gradual hope to eliminate the pandemic that has hit everyone, worldwide. Our Design Justice Network mission, vision and strategic intentions process is ongoing, and we look forward to sharing this with you in the near future.

As a reminder, the Design Justice Network (Steering Committee and Staff) will begin our second quarterly Pause next week: June 28 - July 4 (Upcoming Pauses are also: Fall: Sept 27 - Oct 3 and Winter: Dec 20 - Jan 2 (extended end-of-year)). We’re learning how to model what it means to approach the work of design justice differently, in hopes that DJN members, signatories, friends, and other movements can integrate time to pause as well!

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May 2021, DJN Newsletter

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Dear DJN Members, Signatories, and Friends,

We believe in care for the health of our network and for ourselves; The Design Justice Network (Steering Committee and Staff) held their first quarterly pause, April 26 - May 2, 2021, and will host three other pauses this year: Summer: June 28 - July 4, Fall: Sept 27 - Oct 3 and Winter: Dec 20 - Jan 2 (extended end-of-year break). Taking an intentional pause is a living expression of aligning design justice work with practices of care. We’re learning how to model what it means to approach the work of design justice differently, in hopes that DJN members, signatories, friends, and other movements can integrate time to pause as well!

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Our first Membership Report of the Design Justice Network is here!

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2020 was difficult for reasons we are all too aware of. Yet as the Steering Committee met to consider everything that our network accomplished last year, we realized that we feel good, we feel calm, and we feel nourished by all of the work and play of the Design Justice Network (DJN) in 2020.

You can read and download “A complex and beautiful year in review: 2020 Membership Report”: https://designjustice.org/2020-membership-report

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#DesignJustice #BlackLivesMatter

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Hello Design Justice Network family,

We just wanted to let you all know that we are organizing, mobilizing, donating, listening, gathering information, and trying to hold space for reflection. We're focused on long term transformation and lifting up movements that can build the worlds we need, worlds without antiblackness.

We're building towards our Network Gathering at the Allied Media Conference in July to help channel the energy and spirit of today's movements into the future.

We're sharing links to resources, calls to action, and reflections that we've been reading, internally on slack and publicly via our social media channels. 

We'd also love to hear and amplify DJN members' and signatories’ reflections, writings, actions, and creative work.  Please share within the network via slack in channel #inspiration, and if you are comfortable doing so publicly, share using the #designjustice hashtag on instagram, twitter, and other social media. Tag us, and we will amplify.

Stay safe. We love you. 

#BlackLivesMatter

#DesignJustice

Pictured above: A visual representation of the above intentions, by the Design Justice Network - 4 square images, outlined with various imagery and icons surrounding the text. Ends with Stay safe. We love you. #BlackLivesMatter #DesignJustice (visual assistance to the text).

Update from the Design Justice Network Steering Committee April 2020 retreat

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The Design Justice Network Steering Committee had a retreat in early April. We welcomed new Steering Committee member Denise Shanté Brown, built community and shared intentions, and explored some of the challenges and opportunities of the rapid recent growth of the network. Check out this post to learn more!

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Hello & Updates from the Design Justice Network

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Like all of you, we are doing our best to stay calm, support our families, friends, and communities, #StayHome as much as possible, and wash our hands. It's a difficult time, and many in our network are exploring how to take care of ourselves and one another from a distance.

We have a few updates that we've been meaning to share for a while, so here they are (please read!).

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