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Westside Review

Vanessa Stokes

The official Substack of the Westside Review, a new quarterly magazine covering Chicago's great West Side neighborhoods. Published by Vanessa Stokes.

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Community Engagement as an Art Practice™

I spent part of Juneteenth weekend volunteering at the Sixth Annual Father’s Day Block Party on Madison and Pulaski. Organized by Levelz Style Lounge, Fawohodie Foundation, and the Madison & Pulaski Business Association, the event brought t...

a month ago
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Who Holds the Wealth? Rethinking Nonprofits, Wages, and Community Power

Something has been sitting with me, not just as a passing thought, but as a steady presence. This has been showing up in conversations, in budgets, in the quiet moments when I’m looking at numbers and asking myself what they actually mean....

3 months ago

Writing Instead of Performing

There is a difference between writing for myself and writing for approval. I can feel it in my body before I write a single word.

For the past 160 days, I have written three pages a day. Nearly 500 pages This writing wasn’t for an assignme...

3 months ago
1

The Funding Gap: Building What Doesn’t Yet Exist

There is a gap between vision and funding. And if you are building something that does not already exist, you feel that gap every single day.

I am building an art, cultural, and food space on Chicago’s West Side, on Chicago Avenue, the nam...

3 months ago
2

You Can't Build Culture for Free Forever

There’s a conversation happening right now around the Silver Room Block Party, but what’s being discussed isn’t just about a party. It’s about value. It’s about expectation. It’s about what happens when something built from love is suddenly...

3 months ago
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