Use Your Voice (UYV)

Use Your Voice (UYV) is a philanthropic cultural platform centering humankind across difference—beyond dominant systems of value, visibility, and measurement.

Founded by Jasmine Gabrielle Washington, UYV exists to support artists, writers, cultural workers, and communities whose voices are often rendered illegible, undervalued, or excluded by institutional, economic, and linguistic hierarchies. Rather than measuring worth through productivity, scale, or recognition, UYV prioritizes care, interiority, relational labor, and ways of knowing that exceed quantification.

UYV functions as both a platform and a practice: a site for programming, research, publication, and resource-sharing that asks how we might listen differently—especially to those positioned at the margins of legibility. The platform foregrounds voices shaped by race, gender, sexuality, class, disability, migration, and other intersecting identities, while remaining expansive enough to hold complexity, contradiction, and difference without collapse.

At its core, UYV is invested in cultural work that resists extraction. We support projects that honor process over spectacle, depth over speed, and collective nourishment over individual acclaim. This includes exhibitions, public programs, publications, and collaborations that create space for reflection, dialogue, and sustained engagement.

Rich in What They Can’t Measure (RIWTCM) is UYV’s inaugural program and annual exhibition series. Curated from the perspective of Black women’s voices, RIWTCM examines how value is constructed—and distorted—by systems that privilege legibility, productivity, and recognition, while dismissing care, interiority, and relational labor as excess or invisible. The exhibition serves as a living extension of UYV’s mission, modeling what it looks like to center forms of wealth that exist beyond metrics, markets, and institutional reward.

Through UYV, we ask not only whose voices are heard, but how listening itself can be reimagined as an ethical, political, and creative act.

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