AMP Blog: Allied Media Conference

Call for Session Proposals: Science & Social Movements

Why do organizers love science metaphors so much? Rhizomes, dandelions, "grassroots." Maybe it’s our conscious or subconscious desire to realign human social organization with the organization of the natural world.

"How We Organize the AMC Zine Vol. 1" now available for purchase and download

The Allied Media Conference was founded as the Midwest Zine Conference in 1999 and we are excited to carry forward the zine practice and culture as we enter the conference's 15th year with the release of How We Organize the AMC Zine Vol. 1.

Call for Session Proposals: Fierce Fashion Futures

Everyday we communicate something about who we are, who we want and what kind of world we want with our clothes and our bodies. How can we understand the ways that fashion builds community and simultaneously excludes from community? How can we reclaim beauty in our own fat, QTPOC, disabled, radical selves?

Call for Session Proposals: Engaging Power: Media Rights & Our Movements

We are now accepting proposals for the Engaging Power: Media Rights & Our Movements track for this year’s Allied Media Conference.

Let’s change the rules of the game.

Call for Session Proposals: Imagining Better Futures Through Play

Everyone plays games, but why are so many of the most popular games about violence, inequality, and imperialism, and why do they misrepresent our communities for commercial gain? Can't they reflect the world we want to live in instead?