“It Feels Like Having a Sugar Daddy. But Like in the Worst Way”:

The recommendations in this report are intended for the gatekeepers in the arts industries, such as funding organizations, bookers and promoters, and arts programmers, educators and organizations. [...] And then realize like, I just told you a very intimate I have to sell my art and myself in a part of myself in hopes that you’re very particular way to satisfy those going to give me x amount of giving me money and it feels like money and also the more having a sugar daddy. [...] “ “ 4 their concerns that for artists of colour, particularly Black artists, the arts industry expects to see trauma in their work, resulting in deficit narratives around who racialized 2SLGBTQ+ artists are 5 that arts groups and organizations recreate the same systems of oppression in their diversity and inclusion work because their allyship is not thorough or accountable to their mistakes, and o. [...] MAKE ROOM FOR ALL EXPERIENCES OF BEING RACIALIZED AND IN THE 2SLGBTQ+ COMMUNITY, IN REAL WAYS There are many lived experiences of racialized 2SLGBTQ+ youth artists and your programs and funding initiatives should reflect that. [...] Does something need to change? If you have a jury of people deciding on artist funding, can you ensure that they are knowledgeable in anti-oppression and social equity? Follow up after your outreach to see if you actually reached the people you hoped to, look who is in the room, and do the call out again if you haven’t reached the right communities.