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Welcome to the Allied Media Conference 2015!

9:00am EDT

A Skid Row PAR Initiative: Alternatives to Homelessness and Policing State Hall: Room 131 Art in Exile State Hall: Room 219 Beyond the Research Report: How to Shift the Narrative State Hall: Room 128 Club 100: Detroit Youth Build A Car! Art Education: Room 156 Rainbow Warriors: Queer & Trans Youth Resiliency Art Education: Room 158 The Art of Being An Active Listener & Learner State Hall: Room 213 Ye Olde Femmes: Histories of Queer Femme Art and Ideas State Hall: Room 208

11:00am EDT

Best Practices for Making Direct Actions Accessible for People with Disabilities Education Building: Room 189 Groundswell: Oral History, Research Justice, & Activism State Hall: Room 208 Humanizing Schooling in Detroit Education Building: Room 300 Place-Making at the Edge of the Salton Sea State Hall: Room 128

2:00pm EDT

Kickstarting & Sustaining TQPOC Artists State Hall: Room 137 Public Libraries & Food Justice: Plant Seeds of Success Art Education: Room 158 We Don’t Even Know Who They’re Trying to Kill Education Building: Room 204 What Does Justice Look Like? State Hall: Room 131

4:00pm EDT

Creator Kinship: Building Your Music Career Art Education: Room 158 Health Instead of Punishment: Research Shifts the Frame State Hall: Room 131 Hear Me Now: All Media Open Mic Community Arts Auditorium Legacy, Love, Liberation: Mangos with Chili's Final Bow Education Building: Room 204 Preserving the Power: A Community-Based Archive State Hall: Room 137 Storysharing for Culture & Policy Shift McGregor: Room B

9:00am EDT

Migritudes: Digital Music, Identity, and Place State Hall: Room 219 Nourishing Our Spirits: Desi Kitchen Stories of Healing State Hall: Room 208 Organizing and Winning Against Mass Incarceration Locally State Hall: Room 137 Trans Media: A Platform for Change State Hall: Room 128

11:00am EDT

Detroit Grown McGregor: Room F/G Fat 101 - Fatness as a Political Issue State Hall: Room 137 Ferguson and Beyond: The Role of Independent Media Student Center: Room 285 How to Start Your Own Culture Podcast Education Building: Room 189 I See You: Creating Femmes of Color Visibility & Community Student Center: Ballroom A Mentoring it Forward: Youth Leadership State Hall: Room 219 Out in the System: LGBTQ Youth and CPS State Hall: Room 213 People-Powered Movements: Individual Donor Programs State Hall: Room 208

2:00pm EDT

Anti-Eviction Mapping Project: Data Viz & Storytelling State Hall: Room 137 Cake Is Not A Moral Issue: Rejecting Fatphobic Moralism Student Center: Ballroom B Economy of Liberation: Cultivating Black Feminist Lives DeRoy Auditorium: Room 146 Green Hair, Grey Hair: Bridging Race, Class, and Age Education Building: Room 204 Is the Library the Settlement House of Today? State Hall: Room 218 The Hijab: Through the Eyes of Muslims State Hall: Room 219 What We Say We Need: Youth in the Sex Trades State Hall: Room 131

4:00pm EDT

Arab Feminist Organizing in Detroit and Chicago McGregor: Room F/G Defending Blogs Against Legal Attack DeRoy Auditorium: Room 146 Feathers of Hope: A First Nations Youth Action Plan State Hall: Room 131 MakerSpace(less): Creating with Space You Already Have State Hall: Room 128 Surviving the Mic: Making Safe Creative Space State Hall: Room 137 Trans/Gender Non-Conforming (GNC) Solidarity Panel Student Center: Ballroom C

10:00am EDT

Design and Web Strategies for Fundraising Student Center: Ballroom B Facilitating Youth-led Participatory Action Research Education Building: Room 200 Organizing & Collaborating Inside & Outside of Prison State Hall: Room 131 View Source: Code and Collaboration in Journalism State Hall: Room 137

1:00pm EDT

Reparations for Democratic New Economic Development Education Building: Room 300 Social Justice and Suzuki Violin in Detroit State Hall: Room 213

3:00pm EDT

DIY: A Tutorial from the Black & Brown Punk Show Art Education: Room 156 Organizing with Families Affected by Police Violence State Hall: Room 131 Radical Print Media in the Digital Age State Hall: Room 128 The Free Black Woman's Library Education Building: Room 200