MAGA Fallout Panel Instructions

1. Who is your panel about? You, someone you know, or a person whose story you’ve read about? See some stories here.
2. What harm are you highlighting?
   • Immigration / deportation
   • Loss of health care
   • Anti‑LGBTQ+ policies
   • Racial injustice / white supremacy
   • Environmental damage
   • Economic harm / job loss
   • COVID‑19 impacts
   • Reproductive rights erosion
   • Disability rights attacks
   • Misinformation‑driven violence
   • Other harms that matter to you
3. How did it affect you / this person? Emotionally, materially, or otherwise, what happened to you / them?
4. What should others understand? What does the story reveal about justice, safety, or dignity? What feelings do you want viewers to experience?
5. Looking forward. How do you or the person in your panel feel about the future? What does healing, resistance, or justice look like?

The completed panel will must be 11.7 × 16.5 in (or 8.5 × 11 in if easier), ideally on cardstock or poster paper. Markers, paint, magazine cut‑outs, tape, fabric, crayons, pens: anything works. Use whatever art style or materials feel right. Abstract, symbolic, or literal: all are welcome. No art experience needed. Your story is what matters.

You don’t need to be an artist to make something powerful. The panel is your way to show what happened, how it felt, and what it means. It can be as simple or as elaborate as you like. You can use words, symbols, colors, shapes, cut-out images, drawings, or any combination. If you’re stuck, look through the magazines for images or words that grab you. Here are more approaches that can get you started.

1. Use words

   • For example, write the person’s name or initials.
   • Choose a few powerful words or a short quote that expresses what happened or how it felt (examples: “They took her away without warning.” “I still have medical debt.” “We were scared every day.”).
   • Add words that represent your feeling or impact: “grief”, “fear”, “strength”, “hope”, “anger”, “anxiety”, “hopelessness,” “moral injury.”
   • Include part of your story on the panel if you want, just a few lines.

2. Use color and emotion

   • Use colors that remind you of this person or this experience. What could blue, red or black mean for what you’re feeling? You can use a variety of materials and their combination to build a mood or feeling.

3. Use symbols

   • A broken heart for grief
   • A flame for anger or activism
   • A lock and key for safety or being trapped
   • A house for family or home being threatened
   • A bird for freedom
   • A mask or hospital symbol for disease
   • The Statue of Liberty for immigration stories
   • Your own made-up symbol that means something personal to you

4. Use images

   • Cut out pictures from magazines that show what happened, how it felt, or what should change.
   • Add a photo (if you have one and feel comfortable) of the person the panel is about.

5. Use shape and layout

   • Divide the panel into “Before / After” sections.
   • Make a collage of feelings or events.
   • Put one image or symbol in the center and surround it with words.
   • Make it like a protest sign, a love letter, a journal page, or a shrine.

6. Keep it simple if you want

   It’s okay if your panel is just:

   • A person’s name and a word like “Gone” or “Fired” or “Survived”
   • A single symbol
   • A quote and a border

Once your panel is ready, choose one of these easy ways to get it to us:

• Bring it in person to our next working session in Mountain View.
• Drop it off in Mountain View: email info@itsblueturn.com to coordinate.
• Mail it to our team. Contact us for the mailing address.