Social Justice

The Fitzmaurice Institute's Social Justice branch focuses on using the Institute's work to support marginalized and under-served communities.

Team
Su-Feh Lee, Acting Director, Contact: leesufeh@gmail.com

Michael Morgan, Director on leave

Social Justice Projects Page

News:

The Eight Values of Fitzmaurice Institute, discerned and curated by the Social Justice team and the Advisory Group is listed on this page.

Dear Colleagues,
I am reaching out to you to inquire if you have any projects for our Social Justice webpage on the Fitzmaurice Institute website that you'd care to share with the community. I'm aiming to grow the page with descriptions of your theater and teaching practices that engage disenfranchised, marginalized, or "othered" populations of various sorts. Social Justice projects can either celebrate a neglected, misunderstood, or silenced demographic. Such undertakings might also subvert the status quo by challenging assumptions about privilege and authority. In these initiatives, individuals exercise agency and self-empowerment through theater, body, and voice. Their counter-narratives challenge cultural perspectives on racism, sexism, LBGTQ+ oppression, classism, religious oppression, ableism, youth oppression, and ageism. I invite theater activists who advocate for the oppressed environment as well.

Please send me project descriptions still images and videos of your work as well. Here is the link to the current page as a reference: https://www.fitzmauriceinstitute.org/social-justice-projects

I hope to make this an ongoing discussion where we can learn from each other and possibly pool our resources into collaborations. I know many of us are working isolated in the trenches, but I hope we can come together to celebrate and reflect on each other’s service endeavors.

I want to share this quote with you that I found helpful in defining the vision of social justice:

Our vision for social justice is a world in which the distribution of resources is equitable and ecologically sustainable, and all members are physically and psychologically safe and secure, recognized, and treated with respect. We envision a world in which individuals are both self –determining (able to develop their full capacities) and interdependent (capable of interacting democratically with others). Social justice involves social actors who have a sense of their own agency as well as a sense of social responsibility toward and with others, their society, the environment, and the broader world in which we live. These are conditions we not only wish for ourselves but for all people in our interdependent global community.

Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice video link.

The more I practice Fitzmaurice Voicework, the more evident it becomes that we are cultural workers with the potential to make changes toward more balance and equity in the world. Please let me know if you have any questions.

In peace and solidarity –
Michael K Morgan     

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