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The Cost of Being Nice: Why Politeness Is Killing the Arts

The Cost of Being Nice: Why Politeness Is Killi...

Amanda Corrales

Politeness has become one of the most effective tools of control in the arts. It’s framed as professionalism.As gratitude.As maturity. But in reality, niceness is costing artists their power, their...

The Cost of Being Nice: Why Politeness Is Killi...

Amanda Corrales

Politeness has become one of the most effective tools of control in the arts. It’s framed as professionalism.As gratitude.As maturity. But in reality, niceness is costing artists their power, their...

We Don’t Need Their Money: The Revival Has Already Begun

We Don’t Need Their Money: The Revival Has Alre...

Amanda Corrales

This isn’t a polite conversation. It isn’t soft.It isn’t sanitized. Because I am done watching foundations and funders manipulate, gaslight, and gatekeep the very people who built this community.

We Don’t Need Their Money: The Revival Has Alre...

Amanda Corrales

This isn’t a polite conversation. It isn’t soft.It isn’t sanitized. Because I am done watching foundations and funders manipulate, gaslight, and gatekeep the very people who built this community.

The Price of Access: Why Artists Can’t Afford the Art They Create

The Price of Access: Why Artists Can’t Afford t...

Amanda Corrales

Accessible for who?At what cost?And who is paying that cost?

The Price of Access: Why Artists Can’t Afford t...

Amanda Corrales

Accessible for who?At what cost?And who is paying that cost?

When Institutions Say “Equity” But Mean Compliance

When Institutions Say “Equity” But Mean Compliance

Amanda Corrales

They want participation without disruption. Feedback without demands. Representation without redistribution. They want communities close enough to legitimize their work, but not close enough to change it.

When Institutions Say “Equity” But Mean Compliance

Amanda Corrales

They want participation without disruption. Feedback without demands. Representation without redistribution. They want communities close enough to legitimize their work, but not close enough to change it.

Creative Labor Is Still Labor

Creative Labor Is Still Labor

Amanda Corrales

One of the most persistent lies in the creative economy is that passion replaces compensation. Artists are told their fulfillment is the payment. That visibility is the opportunity. That proximity...

Creative Labor Is Still Labor

Amanda Corrales

One of the most persistent lies in the creative economy is that passion replaces compensation. Artists are told their fulfillment is the payment. That visibility is the opportunity. That proximity...

The Pattern Beneath the Incident

The Pattern Beneath the Incident

Amanda Corrales

Suddenly there are rules that were never written down.Processes that only apply retroactively.Conversations that must happen before decisions that have already been made.

The Pattern Beneath the Incident

Amanda Corrales

Suddenly there are rules that were never written down.Processes that only apply retroactively.Conversations that must happen before decisions that have already been made.