Black Lives Matter - A Cultural Change About How We Make Sense of Information Required

This emergency episode was made quickly during a time of uprising following the killing of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, Tony McDade and countless other African Americans by police. We begin with Gerard G reading his poem “Black Lives Matter.” He is a member of the group Poets of Course, a New York City-based collective of intellectually disabled adults who write poetry. The group began working with the Fake News Poetry project in 2018; we’ve made scores of poems, videos, and audio recordings about the relations between disability, social media, lies, oppression, and expression. As the project hopes, this collective engagement in service of artmaking leads to more conversation. We listen in as Gerard and his mother, Vanessa Grant, use his poetry as a vehicle, receptacle, and excuse to teach, learn, and listen. Together they discuss safety and danger for Black men in America. We are granted permission to hear one Black mother’s rendition of “the talk,” reinforcing her family’s daily practices of staying safe. In so doing, the Grants make manifest one example of the project’s core commitment to pedagogy, hardtruth #18: a cultural change about how we make sense of information required. .........................Join us in the change!Read or respond to a poem or hardtruth found at the online primer of digital media literacy, #100hardtruths-#fakenews or fakenews-poetry.org.Organize your own Fake News Poetry Workshop.Reach out with questions or content @ 100hardtruths@gmail.com.Twitter: @100HardTruthsInstagram: @100hardtruthsYouTube: 100 Hard Truths#BlackLivesMatter#BlackDisabledLivesMatter Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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We engage in radical digital media literacy by enjoying a bite of education and a bit of poetry, creating humane responses to fake news and social media in the era of Covid-19.Each short episode assembles materials made over three related efforts. First, complex and consequential ideas about fake news: “hardtruths.” These were gathered in 2017 for an online primer in digital media literacy, #100hardtruths-#fakenews. There you can find scores of resources about fake news by artists, journalists, activists, scholars, and more. http://scalar.me/100hardtruths.Next we offer poems that build off of, respond to, or deepen a hardtruth. These were written in 2018 and 2019, at Fake News Poetry Workshops: encounters that address these complex concerns through art, intimacy, technology, and poetry. http://fakenews-poetry.org.Finally, given both the digital and viral truths wrought by the crisis of COVID-19, and to provide some small relief, we provide resources and methods to deepen connection and possibility during a time of social distancing and via technology.Each episode offers things to do with others as well as things that were done before and for you. Tender hand-offs of digital things remind us how we can use technologies that distance us physically for better. Making and making use of poetry and related knowledge can create verification engines that rely on belief structures outside the endangering logics of the internet and the fake news propelled therein.We are people, distanced but maintaining, and we need more than the transmission of messages and data. We want connection, goodness, reason, feeling, and change. In a time when we are more reliant on digital technology than ever, each episode demonstrates methods to take part in digital defiance, without collusion, and with care for our internet things and digital ways.Join us! Read or respond to a poem or hardtruth found on the two websites above.Organize your own Fake News Poetry Workshop.Reach out with questions or content @ 100hardtruths@gmail.com.Twitter: @100HardTruthsInstagram: #100HardTruthsYouTube: 100 Hard Truths   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.