The AC Pulse — Season 2, Episode 10

RedLine Reframed: Artist Harm, Repackaged

How do nonprofit arts institutions reframe artist harm as growth — and why do funders reward it?

In this episode of The AC Pulse, host Amanda Corrales breaks down how institutional harm is often repackaged through PR, DEI programming, and “learning narratives” instead of being addressed with accountability, repair, or restitution.

This is not a general critique.
It is a documented pattern.

Episode 10 examines how artist exploitation, uncredited intellectual property use, and exclusion are routinely reframed as organizational resilience — while the artists who were harmed are erased from the conversation entirely.

• How nonprofit arts organizations reframe artist harm as institutional growth
• The “DEI-as-PR” cycle used to launder accountability failures
• Why harmed artists are excluded from so-called healing processes
• How silence, rebranding, and leadership continuity protect institutions — not communities
• Why funders often reward reframing instead of repair

Amanda walks through how RedLine responded after being publicly called out — not with accountability, but with a pivot. A shift in optics. A reframing of harm as “learning.” And how that reframing was rewarded.

This episode is about institutional gaslighting in the arts, creative labor exploitation, and the systems that protect brands while discarding people.

A parody of institutional damage-control culture — because nothing says equity like a glossy recap with no accountability.

Amanda has just released The Artist Code: Power, a guided companion for artists reclaiming creative authority, boundaries, and stability after institutional harm.

👉 Access The Artist Code: Power here:
https://tr.ee/f8xV7YmmKQ

Have you seen your harm reframed as an organization’s progress?

• Tag @theacpulse
• Use #RepackagedHarm
• Email your story: amanda@ajcorrales.com

Because we remember what they tried to rewrite.

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🔍 What this episode covers:🛑 Satirical Ad Break: RePutation™📘 New Release — For Artists📣 Community Call