From Hyperallergic: “In response to the COVID-19 pandemic’s effects on the arts and culture sectors, the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture (ARTS) will distribute $2 million to create jobs for unemployed and underemployed artists and cultural workers.”

“’These programs will employ creative workers, demonstrate how they are embedded in the social-economic fabric, and reinforce the fact that Seattle is flourishing and meshing its creatives into its workforce, thereby into its social structures,’ royal alley-barnes, acting director of ARTS, told Hyperallergic in a statement.”

Read the full announcement here.

“Last week, we were reeling from the Supreme Court’s leaked decision to overturn Roe vs Wade. People will die, especially Black, Indigenous, Latinx, Asians and NH/PI, and low-income people, because safe abortions will still remain accessible to higher-income mostly white people,” said author Vu. “This week, a white man drove 200 miles to Buffalo and murdered 10 people, most of whom were Black, citing the ‘Great replacement theory’ espoused by many right-wing white supremacists. It is horrifying, and my heart breaks for the families of those who were murdered by this racist terrorist.”

How can funders and philanthropists combat white supremacy within the operations of our sector?

The proposed solutions include:

1. Increase your payout rates
2. Fund organizing work, especially work led by marginalized communities
3. Get political
4. Support movement leaders
5. Knock it off with all the grant application bullshit

Read the full article here.

“How do we learn patriarchy?” Said authors Phillip Agnew and Marcus Littles for Nonprofit Quarterly. “That’s like asking how we learn to breathe. In our memories of Black boyhood, we can sense it everywhere. It was all around us all the time—sometimes overt, sometimes just below the surface. Our families were different in many ways, and our experiences unique. But there are patterns.”

The article analyzes the ways in which, “patriarchy is so ubiquitous and so devious that even people and organizations who oppose it in theory can end up colluding with it,” providing a framework for what dismantlement looks like.

“What does that look like? It looks like going to therapy and encouraging and supporting our colleagues in doing the same. It looks like reading Black feminist texts, discussing them with the people we work and organize with, and doing the hard work of making the words live and breathe in our work.”

Read the full article here.