Public Service Episode 3 with Guillaume "Gee" Schmidt

Cultural workers are being urged to create cultural infrastructures that prioritize equity and justice. But what are the ethics, practices, and logics we must adopt to develop outcomes for collective empowerment? In this conversation about building creative platforms that can change the way we live, make, and work together, Guillaume "Gee" Schmidt (Patta) and Esther M. Choi look to the soft power of streetwear and the subcultures of hip-hop and hardcore punk in past decades to consider how concepts of collectivity, criticality, and connection may have changed with the rise of neoliberalism and global capital. Are there aspects of these subcultural movements that could help us reimagine leadership, emancipatory politics, advocacy, and action to produce radically different futures?