Artist Advocacy Library

Articles

• Not Built For Us

An essay by Monty Cole on the ways in which American Theater is built not on art but on capitalism.

• Characteristics of White Supremacy Culture

An excellent breakdown of how white supremacy manifests within our institutions.

• Native Land Map

An interactive map of indigenous territories, languages, and treaties. Find out whose land you’re on.

• Freelancers Shouldn’t Have Horror Stories

A NYT article on the proposed bill to allow freelancers to engage in collective action & bargaining.

• Who Actually Gets to Create Black Pop Culture?

An economic framing around the ways Black producers and artists have succeeded and failed, and why, within the modern cultural zeitgeist.

Podcasts

• Code Switch: Can We Talk About Whiteness?

A discussion of white identity: why it’s hard to discuss in the first place and the importance of doing so anyway.

• Still Processing: Ziwe May Destroy Hamilton

Two culture writers from the New York Times discuss Hamilton: what it meant and what the backlash means now. Also their thoughts on I May Destroy You and Ziwe Fumudoh’s Baited where she interviews white comedians about race.

• All My Relations: Native Appropriations

A podcast hosted by two indigenous women, this episode focuses on the variety of forms that appropriation comes in and how to avoid it rather than trying to make it “okay”.