Welcome to the Crowdsourcing Mornings segment! Every weekday morning, Geek Alabama talks about and features one crowdsourcing project from crowdsourcing sites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, and others. The hope with Crowdsourcing Mornings is to feature and help a project be successful and reach its fundraising goal. Please enjoy today’s featured project!
Please read our crowdsourcing guidelines at: https://geekalabama.com/media-kit-pr/geek-alabama-crowdsourcing-guidelines
BODY FREEDOM FOR EVERY(BODY) is a cross-country exhibition tour inside a 27-foot box truck celebrating reproductive justice, Queer liberation, and Trans joy! We’re bringing almost 200 artists’ works inside this truck to cultivate community coast-to-coast. The two-part endeavor (a traveling exhibition and an accessible digital database) addresses the importance of agency, autonomy, and choice when it comes to healthcare and individual identity.
This project aims to show art, create awareness, cultivate community, and engender support for bodily autonomy through art. We believe that uplifting artists and their work helps build the coalition and community necessary to combat the attacks on our body autonomies. The underlying truth behind this project is that Choice/Bodily Autonomy/Body Freedom is an issue that impacts every single person, whether or not that reality is at the forefront of their consciousness.
Inside the truck, visitors will be able to see and interact with artworks from artists across the United States that explore equitable futures, discuss body freedoms, and inspire new perspectives. We’ll show intergenerational artists to be in dialogue, many of which will be for the first time ever. A few of the featured artists we’re planning to show include David Antonio Cruz, Amaryllis R. Flowers, Eric Hart Jr., Marilyn Minter, and Viva Ruiz x Thank God For Abortion.
Some exciting truck features include a reflection space stocked with essential materials and literature. Within this space there is an audio recording station, enabling both visitors to document and preserve their own “calls for Body Freedom.” These submissions, openly shared and archived online, will encompass a range of narratives, from navigating healthcare systems to asserting autonomy in one’s identity. Additionally, there will be an exterior stage that travels with us, creating space for guest speakers, screenings, panels, performances and dance parties. While this work directly addresses harmful social issues, it is imperative that space is made for joy and celebration.
Your support will allow us to build out our truck, envision and execute exhibitions, and hit the road. We’ll stop along the way, opening our doors and unfolding our stage for guest speakers, screenings, panels, performances, and talks. Partnerships with like-minded local organizations will ensure local contexts, communities, and ideas are top of mind.
Regardless of how you identify, if you’re curious and you want to engage, this project is for you. Our focus here is not on debating the validity of our rights, our sense of belonging, or our capacity to make choices. Our focus is to present artists across the country, raise awareness, build and amplify our communities, affirm our presence, and acknowledge the resilience of marginalized folks in our society.
As of April 26th, this project has raised $23,000 of their $50,000 goal. This project has 14 days left to raise the $50,000 or it will not be funded. For a pledge of $10, you will get your name on their website. For a pledge of $25, you will get one fuchsia fan. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/bodyfreedom/body-freedom-for-everybody?
Categories: Crowdsourcing Mornings Stuff
