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  "Constantly, constantly there's a lack of resources in our communities. So it's really about figuring out how to tell our stories by any means necessary."
  -Tani Ikeda, Making Your Story Webinar

  ImMEDIAte Justice is a volunteer-led organization that teaches girls how to tell their own stories, particularly around sex education. Tani Ikeda and Sylvia Raskin co-founded ImMEDIAte Justice as a summer camp for girls in South Central Los Angeles in 2008, but the organization has grown tremendously and now holds camps and workshops all around the world. ImMEDIAte Justice emphasizes mentoring relationships between young women and media industry professionals. Their workshops aim to give youth, particularly girls, the media literacy skills to tell stories at various levels of production and to have confidence in speaking about sexuality and sex education.
  ImMEDIAte Justice's main focus is on sex education and media literacy.  In sex education, they emphasize female, queer, and sex-positive perspectives that go beyond the information available to students in most American schools.  ImMEDIAte Justice's goal in their media literacy efforts is to build mentoring relationships between young women and media professionals.  
  
  The Not Your Mama's Sex Ed video is a key example of ImMEDIAte Justice's work with young women in workshops.  Summer workshop attendees directed and shot this video themselves with the help of film industry mentors.  It takes a frank, humorous approach to questions and experiences many girls may have but are afraid to ask about, like masturbation.
   
  Those interested in learning more or connecting with imMEDIAte Justice may contact co-founder and executive director Tani Ikeda directly at: tani@taniikeda.com
  
  Contributed by Samantha Close on 5/10/14

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  Improv Everywhere is flash comedy skit and prank group.  Charlie Todd founded the collective in 2001, and it continues to be based in New York City but also travels with "missions" of causing scenes and playing pranks in public spaces.  The group posts missions online and invites "agents" to participate in their scenes and games.  Smaller, more involved missions are circulated among people who have worked with the group for a long time or have particular skills, like singing, or fit particular profiles, like being twins.  Other, larger mission are open to anyone on Improv Everywhere's mailing list or who see the mission call posted online.  So far, tens of thousands of people in fifteen different countries have participated in Improv Everywhere missions.  Some missions, like the McDonald's Bathroom Attendant or Black Friday Dollar Store, are one-off and created to make a particular point.  Others, like the No Pants Subway Ride or the MP3 Experiments, have become annual or touring missions that many people can take part in. Improv Everywhere draws on the power of humor and joy in all of their missions.  They encourage people to see public space differently or to question accepted ways the world is structured.  Unlike Laughter For A Change (and despite their name!), Improv Everywhere does not actually use many techniques of improv comedy.  They often prepare skits or instructions for their missions and then see what happens when people play out unusual situations in public. Documentation is also a key part of Improv Everywhere's civic practice.  They make sure to include special agents with cameras, both still and video, as part of their missions.  They also write up each mission as a blog entry, where they can detail how the mission was planned, interesting things that happened during the mission, any consequences, and gather together all the related media. Contributed by Samantha Close on 5/10/14

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