Mayday: Storying Workers' Rights in a Time of Political Upheaval

with Katie Guinn, Domi Shoemaker, and Lidia Yuknavitch

Saturday May 17th, 2025
1pm-3pm Pacific over Zoom
(A recording will be made available to all registrants afterwards.)

Fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and visual art about workers' rights tackle themes of exploitation, inequality, and the fight for fair conditions, featuring both historical struggles like child labor and contemporary issues like workplace safety and unionization. 

We will explore these narrative, poetic, and visual art realms as possibility spaces together. We will help remind each other how labor and art use the voice as a muscle.

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Pricing:

This is a community offering and our goal is to make this as accessible as possible for all who are interested in participating. Feel welcome to enroll at the $0 tier, but if you are able to contribute at a higher tier, we would deeply appreciate that. Donations will contribute to our scholarship fund and make it possible for us to broaden accessibility to all our offerings throughout the year.

The following payment model is inspired by and borrowed from the payment model of Bayo Akomolafe’s class, We Will Dance With Mountains: Into the Cracks. 

This event offers a sliding scale based on your relative financial standing. In an effort to reflect disparity in economic condition and access to wealth, the following payment system is designed for those with more wealth to help cover the costs of those with less access to wealth and resources. We trust your discernment of your current financial situation and how you fit into the global economic context.

As you decide what amount to pay, please consider your present-day financial situation governed by income, but also the following factors: historical discrimination faced by your peoples; your financial wealth (retirement/savings/investments); your access to income and financial wealth, both current and anticipated (how easily could you earn more income compared to other people in your community, country, and the world; are you expecting an inheritance); people counting on your financial livelihood including dependents and community members; the socio-economic conditions of your locale (relative to other places in your country and in the world); your relationship to food & resource scarcity.

$50  Partner

$25  Supporter (Note: This amount reflects the “real” value of this offering.)

$10  Companion

$5    Friend

$0   Community Member