🎙 The AC Pulse — Season 2, Episode 7
“Equity on Paper: How Funders Look Away”

When institutions harm artists, they rarely act alone.
They act with cover.

In Episode 7 of The AC Pulse: Season 2 — Behind the Red Line, host Amanda Corrales turns the lens toward the funders — the foundations and grantmakers who publicly champion equity, artist-centered values, and community care, yet fall silent when harm is documented and brought directly to them.

After RedLine’s actions were laid out with receipts, timelines, and formal reporting, Amanda reached out to the organizations funding the work — submitting evidence, speaking with program officers, and asking the most basic question: What happens now?
For many funders, the answer was nothing.

This episode examines how “equity” becomes a branding exercise rather than a practice, how reputations are protected at the expense of artists, and how silence functions as institutional endorsement. With sharp analysis and pointed satire — including the mock commercial The DEI Diluter™ — Amanda exposes the danger of funders prioritizing narrative preservation over accountability.

Because ignoring harm doesn’t make funders neutral.
It makes them complicit.

In this episode:

• How funder silence becomes institutional cover

• Why “transparency” often stops at inconvenience

• Who gets believed — and who gets ghosted

• The cost of being labeled a grantee “success story”

• A satirical ad break that names performative equity for what it is

Coming next: why so many artists stay silent — and what speaking up really costs.

The AC Pulse is where equity stops being a slogan — and starts being tested.

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📩 Had your harm ignored by funders? Email amanda@ajcorrales.com