interchanges.io | Laura Diamond | Activity https://interchanges.io/members/laura/activity/ Activity feed for Laura Diamond. Mon, 18 May 2026 19:05:03 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v= en-US 30 hourly 2 1024372c68dd6a5758c3b50708fa0425 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=1169 Sat, 03 Oct 2015 02:56:54 +0000 One thing I have learned at Burning Man is that plans almost never go as you expect, and it’s best if you let things just happen the way they unfold. For this reason, long before arriving on the playa, I set as […]

]]> 7371275fe883ae031ec19dc8072bbc7b Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=1140 Tue, 29 Sep 2015 21:14:57 +0000 A project by Laura Diamond for a showcase of graduating seniors from UCLA World Arts and Cultures/Dance, “Narratives; Program B”

Photography by OhTony Edwards, historical photographs by Stuart Harvey

 

]]> dc113f227a292fa5fe9320ff43a42c39 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=1067 Wed, 05 Aug 2015 17:16:55 +0000 I am excited to announce that the Burning Man Project has responded to our project proposal and granted three scholarship (gifted) tickets for our sponsorship project for 2015!

To learn more about this project […]

]]> 7947170b16e86f70021b9dedf67f6b92 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=1049 Wed, 05 Aug 2015 14:09:09 +0000 Read here for an exciting update on this project!
Greetings! My name is Laura Diamond (Diamond-cutter). I am a seven-year Burner, who like many restructured my life because of my experience at Burning Man, and […]

]]> 860609c29754ec54c72d419385a97296 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=868 Fri, 14 Nov 2014 15:52:57 +0000 Under 1000 characters version:
Being radically inclusive means involving people from all walks of life in Burning Man: wealthy, poor, and people of all stripes, and tutus.  Everyone wants to share Burning Man […]

]]> 3b04aa675da634e69c621b8776c1f415 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=781 Sat, 13 Sep 2014 18:46:03 +0000 Que Viva is the name of our Theme Camp at Burning Man, a group of artists working for social justice, founded by Arts Attorney Brooke Oliver and Juanita Chavez , daughter of civil rights worker Dolores Huerta, […]

]]> 41976de350a081ee91cdfa09f3fb8b70 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=773 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 23:33:53 +0000 Our camp Que Viva hosted butterfly wing making activities, a migration story video booth, and letter writing to refugee children activities with artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez of Culture Strike and her M […]

]]> e70bd1acc993ccdbeeb59b25c338af26 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=766 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 22:31:22 +0000 OhTony Edwards took great pictures at Que Viva Camp  this year, both at our art workshops and amongst our campmates, many of whom were attending for the first time. You can see all of OhTony’s photographs by […]

]]> e5acc969ebe36640038db4b058e644d5 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=694 Thu, 11 Sep 2014 19:41:05 +0000 http://vimeo.com/80472062

]]> 4ab68a31140a029dbf9035bd5feb585c Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=642 Sun, 17 Aug 2014 23:29:45 +0000 This year at Burning Man I will be giving a presentation about my senior project for World Arts and Cultures at UCLA, in our camp, Que Viva. Last year I approached Brooke Oliver, our main camp leader, with m […]

]]> f1c84c7ce889841b70af3ad131823eb1 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=336 Mon, 17 Mar 2014 20:54:49 +0000 Post-colonialism describes what happens in the culture of a people as a result of colonization. Post-colonial studies examines the affects of colonization on the colonized as well as on the people of the […]

]]> 6775aeb4bfe31b96beeb3653f61269dc Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=385 Thu, 13 Mar 2014 15:47:26 +0000 As an artist who expresses myself through my hair, I identified strongly with the artistic hair practices of the different peoples of Africa, so I based my research on the culture of hair. I saw the beauty in the […]

]]> 9c443a61801afbd6c253edf07ae695e6 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=327 Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:26:55 +0000 My first exposure to Favianna Rodriguez was last year at Burning Man, as we were camped together in a new Theme Camp, ‘Que Viva,’ at which her project, ‘Migration is Beautiful’ was a major part. Her message […]

]]> 272eb510aeefc46f9a6137b1a8d03fd1 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=334 Tue, 04 Feb 2014 20:45:16 +0000 If I had been asked as a child what I thought ‘culture’ is, I would have pulled out my hard-earned collection of tiny ‘golden’ (plastic) figures of women from all over the world, dressed in their cultural attire, […]

]]> a03c2f7e963a62a4940d84ee2857722a Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=305 Sat, 07 Dec 2013 17:32:28 +0000 Like my Professor, Dr. Berky Nelson, I am committed to the idea of diversity education as a necessity for solving racial and immigration tension in the United States, and the World. I am discouraged by the limited […]

]]> 9796221c7fa0319f84ef5839d97d59f0 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=538 Sun, 27 Oct 2013 15:08:58 +0000 A group slideshow assignment for UCLA World Arts and Cultures. It was created and edited by me, the soundtrack and sound mixing assistance by Tony Edwards. Poetry was cowritten by  Ari Stanton, Eryn Voigt, Jul […]

]]> cbe327a07fd0d38788c4d18bde27fbd5 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=533 Sat, 01 Jun 2013 14:38:20 +0000 (Written speech is not a transcript)

This Changes Everything

It is my great honor, and even greater surprise to stand here and address you today, the faculty, students, and families at LACC. Three years ago, […]

]]> ff43ed8575d3287277ce95c971bdbb60 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=280 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:37:32 +0000 Spielberg’s film, Lincoln, opens on a battlefield in where a terrible, violent battle is taking place between a company of Negro Union soldiers and a company of white Confederate soldiers. It is particularly b […]

]]> c1c1d739e2d3cf5356296176f1588b83 Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=292 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 03:31:50 +0000 On November 30, 2011, I was arrested for failure to disperse from the park at City Hall in Los Angeles with the Occupy Wall Street movement. I used to stay out of politics, but a shift in consciousness made it […]

]]> 380f0394974d0d72c1d63e40e9bc462a Laura Diamond wrote a new post on the site Project Radical Inclusion http://projectradicalinclusion.interchanges.io/?p=297 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 03:37:29 +0000 In the wake of the eviction of the Occupy Los Angeles protestors from City Hall Park, there is much talk and a flurry of activity regarding what to do next. The obvious legislative issues are being addressed and […]

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