Artists Against Alligator Auschwitz: Advocacy Campaign
Type
Online Exhibition, Publication, Other
Category
Activism, Intervention, Other
Status
Open for Applications
Deadline
July 31, 2025
Application Fee
Free
Host
Lachlan Thompson
Location
New York, United States
The Catalyst is a blog and community hub for the work of healers, organizers, artists, and storytellers.
This is a flash submission campaign against the building of a "detention center" (concentration camp) at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the Florida Everglades. Dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and more properly referred to as Alligator Auschwitz by people with a moral compass (originating on Bluesky).
The Catalyst is seeking artwork and writing to publish beginning July 4th and into the future. This deliberately coincides with the Independence Day in the United States—a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776—to question and disrupt the ideology of American Exceptionalism at the expense of Black and Brown lives globally.
OPTIONALLY: the published collection will be transformed into a digital zine at an undesignated time in the future and distributed for advocacy efforts, including being sent directly to Florida officials like James Uthmeier. The zine may be transformed into a print version to raise money for mutual aid/political advocacy efforts.
This is a flash submission campaign against the building of a "detention center" (concentration camp) at the Dade-Collier Training and Transition Airport in the Florida Everglades. Dubbed "Alligator Alcatraz" by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier and more properly referred to as Alligator Auschwitz by people with a moral compass (originating on Bluesky).
The Catalyst is seeking artwork and writing to publish beginning July 4th and into the future. This deliberately coincides with the Independence Day in the United States—a federal holiday commemorating the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776—to question and disrupt the ideology of American Exceptionalism at the expense of Black and Brown lives globally.
OPTIONALLY: the published collection will be transformed into a digital zine at an undesignated time in the future and distributed for advocacy efforts, including being sent directly to Florida officials like James Uthmeier. The zine may be transformed into a print version to raise money for mutual aid/political advocacy efforts.