Respair Production & Media is a movement journalism and media organization reshaping culture toward liberation. Rooted in Chicago, we build media projects about, in partnership with, and in support of communities challenging power, reconfiguring public life, and reimagining our world. From producing award-winning podcasts and films to supporting and advising collaborators across our ecosystem, we're building new media infrastructure for collective justice and liberation. 

A resilient, sustainable media ecosystem is both a necessary tool for justice and a difficult structure to build. Respair contributes programming, production, publishing, development, and personal tools to emergent media makers, while encouraging the autonomy necessary to independently build media that transforms our world. Respair makes it possible for movement media-makers across the country to have access to the resources and support they need to create without compromise.

For nearly a decade, Respair co-founders Damon A. Williams and Daniel Kisslinger have built humanizing, subject-to-subject media projects in partnership and participation with liberation movements. They are the co-creators of AirGo, a weekly podcast in Chicago that reshapes the culture of the city and beyond for the more liberatory and creative. Through longform conversations with movement workers, artists, rappers, poets, musicians, organizers, and changemakers, AirGo puts Chicago's reimaginers in conversation and creates a living dialogue-based archive of our creative communities and social movements. Past guests include Angela Davis, Mariame Kaba, adrienne maree brown, Hanif Abdurraqib, Eve L. Ewing, Jamila Woods, and many more. AirGo also has used its emergent frameworks and praxises to help organizations, campaigns, universities, and audiences across the country to create their own media projects and reimagine their communities.