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EDC Project Award Proposal: BMORE Good Guide
In the spirit of devising and enacting antidotes to toxicity, I am proposing the construction of a comprehensive guide to highlight many of the organizations, groups, initiatives, and ideas that are floating around the Balt-Metro area. The guide would be comprised of a sort of practical “yellow pages” that indexes those that are actively working on antidotes themselves. Whether it is a mainstay institution like Second Chance, a national network org with a local chapter like the Network for Developing Conscious Communities, or the uber-local Baltimore Free Farm, there are a plethora of people countering toxicity in one form or another. My vision for the guide would to create a sort of panopticon, which would put forth a periodical that illuminates and highlights the best of Bmore. It would ideally be produced in a solely physical format, as the digital space is just as prone to intrinsic toxicity as the physical world; but I would be amenable to publishing a digital component if the need arose.
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Hi Timothy,
I think your idea is interesting. As someone engaged in preservation and storytelling work, I love the idea of wanting to create a sort of “yellow pages” guide that indexes and highlights those doing the work of countering toxicity. I am curious about the content and style such a guide would take; Would it include portraits of the people? Would their stories be written out like an interview conversation or like an acrostic or concrete poem? It reminds me of other recent projects like Baltimore Heroes and the Chicory Revitalization Project (which I am apart of) that seek to combat the toxicity of erasure and honor our interconnectedness, which smalltimore has a way of doing somehow!
(https://www.baltimoreheroes.org/#%23)
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