Respair contributes programming, production, publishing, development, and personal tools to emergent media makers, while encouraging the autonomy necessary to independently build transformative media.
WHAT WE DO
WHAT WE DO
Production
We create dynamic, intentional, and engaging original media in partnership with organizations and individuals.
Examples: Under the Tree, Through the Portal
Publishing
We publish and distribute multimedia content from virtual events and webinars, allowing important conversations to live beyond the calls in which they take place.
Development
We provide infrastructure for sustainable direct-to-listener fundraising, enabling both media projects and movement organizations to thrive while being less dependent on the nonprofit-industrial complex.
Examples: Chicago Liberation Resource List, COVID Stimulus Redistribution Plan
Administration
We build backend support for organizational development, enabling new projects to grow at a human pace while still remaining compliant with all legal requirements.
Facilitation
We guide your organization, classroom, community space, or group through a day of customized workshops, reflections, and exercises built to address the needs, contradictions, and goals of your space or gathering. Participants gain hands-on tools to navigate power dynamics,foster their radical imaginations, and connect their political contexts to contemporary and historical lineages of liberatory social movements.
Education & Skill Building
We lead workshops and retreats focusing on:
Structural Power and Dialogue
How to Make Emancipatory Media
Dialogue, Dialectics, and Liberation
Building toward Abolition
Hip-Hop Poetics: Building Verse, Song & Chant
Events & Performance
We host and DJ concerts, live conversations, and gala/fundraisers for movement-aligned organizations.
