Attention Activism Toolkit, Vol. 2 continues where Vol. 1 left off, documenting the workshops and attention exercises of C21’s Story Cart: Attention. This mobile, community-based storytelling project brings humanities practices into public spaces across Milwaukee. Developed through workshops led by C21’s Story Fellows, the toolkit introduces attention activism. The Strother School of Radical Attention (SoRA) describes attention activism as a way “to push back against the fracking of human attention by coercive digital technologies.”
Created by Ladasia Bryant, this Story Cart Zine is a portable invitation to slow down. Within its pages is a series of creative, community-based exercises designed to help us notice, more deeply and more intentionally, the worlds we move through every day. Rooted in the idea that attention shapes how we experience ourselves and others, these exercises offer simple, grounded practices that reconnect attention to memory, imagination, and collective experience.
Inside, readers find guided activities that are completed alone or with others, requiring only minimal materials and inviting expansive reflection. They ask you to spend time at a museum, park, or library, using your imagination to explore and create with found objects; to listen to the rhythms of your body through a curated yoga flow with guest artist Matthew Lewis; to reflect on the embodied experience of protest; to collectively listen as a form of archiving memory and emotion; and to ground yourself in nature.
Rather than prescribing a single way of engaging, the toolkit opens space for noticing, remembering, and being present. Like Vol. 1, Attention Activism Toolkit, Vol. 2 treats attention as a precious commodity.
