Read more about No-Funding in this speculative work of fiction Child’s Play by Amelia over at the GoFA blog.

[SPECULATIVE FICTION SHORT STORY]

Child’s Play

It’s all fun & games ‘till someone gets rich!

Is an elite cadre of children and seniors responsible for The Great Anomaly?

This short story is part of the official announcement of No Funding:

Be the Crypto-Anarchist Digital Artist Colony You Want to See in the World.

No Funding — the newest project from Stupid Hackathon co-founder Amelia Winger-Bearskin — is a mutual aid network that aims to help creatives radically rethink our relationships to funding, grants, and gatekeepers. In an arts and media culture increasingly focused on securing patronage from institutions, corporations, and wealthy individuals, No Funding asks what creative life would look like if artists were fully liberated from money and the self-censorship imposed by its pursuit? Rather than experience the soul-crushing lifestyle of striving, rejection, and constant jockeying for position, could we instead find new ways to support one another? What would we make?

No Funding is a public group; visit no-funding.com to get in on the fun and participate in weekly conversations where members present on topics near and dear to them. No Funding is primarily BIPOC creative technologists but it is open to anyone who has needed a day job to make something cool they believe in. Our motto is no-striving no-hustling: No-Funding.com a creative collective.