MAKE MOVES S2 Ep.11 feat. Maiza Hixson & Ingrid LaFleur, Artists, Curators, & 2017 Mayoral Candidates

Maiza & Ingrid discuss:

• Their careers as artists/curators and transitions into politics
• Utopian activism and the power of imagination to fuel change
• Afrofuturism
• The beauty and possible futures of Detroit
• Broad demographics of voters that embrace new ideas
• The limitations of institutions
• How lessons from curating art inform their political lenses
• Including creatives in solution planning instead of employing them to accessorize uncreative solutions
• Being ahead of the pack
• Pressures on women in politics

Other topics touched upon: invisible histories, healing black and white bodies, cosmos and meditations, cultural property, cryptocurrency, innovation, universal basic income, clean water, equity, balance, millenials + baby boomer women, etc.

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Maiza Hixson

The Shaft

Santa Barbara Center for Art, Science, and Technology

Ingrid LaFleur

Afrotopia

Music to Check Out

With permission of Atlanta Records, this episode features a segment of the song Fruition off of Chantae Cann’s album Sol Empowered.

With permission of Ropeadope Records, this episode features a segment of the song Shenanigans off Maurice Brown’s album The Mood.

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