 Good morning. Good afternoon. Good evening. Thank you so much for the opportunity to be here with you today at Wikimania My name is Kira Wisnesky. My pronouns are she and her. I have the distinct honor of privilege of being executive director of art and feminism I'm currently coming to you from the isolation of my bedroom because I got COVID this week So hopefully we can make it through this presentation together though I do want to share the photos and sharing on social media are okay. The presentation is linked in The ether pad if you're interested in following along that way or that's easier for you for accessibility reasons And we'll we'll get right into it Let me go ahead and share a screen afternoon evening wherever you're you're joining us from I'm Really excited to to be here with you today advanced slide. Let's go So this is me As I said, I my pronouns are she her I have the honor and privilege of being executive director here are in feminism We like to kick off all of our sessions with our brave friendly space agreement So the goal of this session is to create an encouraging space for collective learning The requires intentional behavior where participants are conscious of an accountable for the effects of their statements and actions on others We respect our experiences and the experience of others and recognize that we can't do this work without one another We agree to hold each other accountable to foster a brave friendly space As you all probably know so far from your experience on Wikimania feed We there's a one to two minutes away from like what I'm saying to when you're hearing it So please feel free to have our questions throughout this short presentation And then hopefully we'll get to those at the end and there won't be too much awkward space in between I'm really excited today to talk to you about the work that we've been doing here at art and feminism that's really about centering equity and race and so as As part of our formal strategic planning We work with a consultant group that uses social justice and an equity lens with their work And we reworked our mission vision and mission vision and values in 2020 started that process in 2020 and then concluded it in 2021 And have just really been feeding a lot of the work we've been doing now. And so here is our mission and vision and Although art and feminism originated with a focus on gender and equity All other means of identity oppression, especially racism are interconnected and cannot be tackled as distinct problems We see equity as a responsibility to ourselves and our community and are specifically beginning with addressing racial and ethnic equity To reflect that in our values. So let's talk about our values We believe in the power of the arts We believe that art is fundamental to flourishing open societies We are a community of many feminism's we believe in their collective power to challenge oppressive structures and create new liberating ones We create safer and braver spaces that are carrying equitable pro-black queer and trans affirming Intentional and accessible and all-around anti-oppressive. We find joy in our community knowing it will sustain us in our work and Lastly we commit to knowledge sharing and creation on global scale highlighting voices and stories which are often unheard We also embrace our own learning and unlearning of knowledge so that we may dream of new ways of being and doing individually and collectively So you may notice that the words underrepresented and marginalized don't appear in this mission vision or values And this is intentional Although not perfect So from August to December of 2021 the art and feminism leadership team composed of we co-organizers and staff took an organizational pause of all programmatic activities to prioritize the work and Improving the work of improving and creating internal anti-oppression policies and mechanisms This in a way became our programming The leadership team became deeply engaged in this work by meeting Breeding working through past trauma Examining how white supremacy and Anglo-Saxon practices perpetuate in our everyday work culture. So things like sense of urgency Tatering to the white gays Centering or over-representing the US culture and we were working through these to create Operational definitions and concepts like for concepts like equity and racism this important work takes Intention it takes time and it's an ongoing process and by no means is done We specifically focused on developing an anti-racism policy to be implemented across the organization and to form our new Cultural practices our goal is to move our feminism toward a cultural shift With established policies and protocols that will help the organization be more consistent with our values We also envision creating regular org-wide trainings to help us Keep an alignment with this work Both of these policies and statements are available on our website and on meta They're also the etherpad and we hope that you are as excited as we are as we continue through this trajectory So initially when I put this presentation together I thought we could have this interactive moment of like how do you define equity or how do you define racism? But of course with the the two minutes away that would be a little bit more challenging But these are questions that I invite you to think about because we really believe that art and feminism that this shouldn't just be the work of Groups that are working at the margins. This should be the work of everyone and Would really love for you to reflect on the last time your affiliate or user group Have a time to specifically discuss race or equity and how is that really showing up in the work that you're doing? In the wiki verse So as I said, we really took the time to define collectively what these words meant to us as an organization and so our definition of racism is That we recognize and define racism as micro and macro acts of harm power and violence against black indigenous and other non-white people across the globe as a colonial system centered and maintaining and protecting whiteness Racism permeates our societies through antagonism Exclusion and disenfranchisement acts and processes that reduce the quality of life and produce premature death Anti-black racism is a racism directed towards black people people of Acre-candescent and people with darker skin and also Distribution of resources is done so in a way that makes survival in our current social and economic systems more possible for historically oppressed groups of people Perhaps the equity needs focusing on their experiences needs and narratives of these groups So how does this all play into into our work? So far in 2022 These is like a snapshot of the art and feminism work that we've done in our global campaign and These numbers are compiled by the wonderful dashboard Created a main time by wiki ebu and realized that this doesn't capture all the participants in art and feminism events For instance, this doesn't account for anybody who turns tunes into a panel or Would be participating in something that isn't a traditional edit on and whereas events traditionally do happen around International Women's Day organizers are now celebrating events year-round and so going a little bit about how Redistributing those resources and how we are our living and centering our equity These are some ways that we support our Organizers worldwide so we work an interpretation and translation As you saw from the last side We don't have our materials in 27 languages yet, but our website is available in English French Spanish and Portuguese. We're also working on Arabic right now We offer micro funding up to $250 mostly around accessibility Towards our event organizers and then we also create spaces like community hours for peer learning and community support hours They're lightly facilitated spaces for connection and as the pandemic You know continues. I have covered right now We put together a community care statement and we reissued it each year to really kind of highlight things to Really put care first So what is safest for the most vulnerable people who might want to attend events? What is safest for the staff of venues that you posted your events and what is the safest for your community at large? We always want to highlight that accessibility needs, especially when you're thinking about virtual platforms as well and They quickly just want to mention a couple other initiatives that we have Earlier this year we announced new pieces on Wikimedia Commons as part of our called action art commission program And we have these three new wonderful pieces that are available on the Commons We celebrated the global south exclusively inviting applicants from artists located in the regions where our curators call home So African countries Brazil India Bangladesh Pakistan and Sri Lanka each of these commissions came with a $2,000 artist fee and then Lastly, I wanted to mention some research that we did called unreliable guidelines where we looked at reliable source guidelines on how they affect Communities and French English and Spanish Wikipedia The project used an intersectional feminist methodology to address how Wikipedia trainers involved in the art and feminism movement And it ends with recommendations for a more inclusive and diverse Wikipedia's So I know that was a lot Hopefully You have you you learn something or maybe you're thinking about how you could bring some equity Discussions to to your your corner of the wiki verse I invite you to of course connect with us We'll be celebrating our tenure anniversary next year and if like this work if our values of our mission Resonates with you. We really can please consider this an invitation to join us. We'd love to help you So much this is another former call to action our commission that's available on we're gonna get comments With some of the image credits from my slide deck and now I'm gonna see if we have any any questions That have popped up. Thank you again so much for for joining today Um, you know, there's a little bit of a delay Going to the questions now. I see that they're the font size of the chat. I agree. It's very small And if there are no other questions Thank you again for for joining today, I hope that you have a great rest of your But yes, I hope that you have a great rest of your wikimania So happy to be celebrating with you Look forward to celebrating 10 years of art and feminism with you next year So thank you so much and I'll see you around