21 episodes
We Are The Voices Radio We Are The Voices
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- Society & Culture
We Are the Voices Radio is pleased to present inspiring poetry readings and edifying conversations, recorded this past fall and in spring and summer 2020.
The episodes included in this series feature the voices of nationally prominent activists, scholars, poets, and more. We offer these episodes in the hope that they will contribute to our listeners’ well-being and self-reflection, and will heighten their awareness, and move them to action.
“We Are the Voices” is a Mellon Foundation Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities-funded project that forges an alliance between arts, literature, and public humanities. We are housed at Mills College in Oakland, CA, which sits on the ancestral and unceded land of the Ohlone people. This land acknowledgment serves as just a starting point for accountability and for actions to support indigenous organizations and change movements.
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Trans Studies Speaker Series: Chelsea Manning - Volatile Contexts: Identity, Technology and Politics in a Moment of Danger
In this final event in our Trans Speakers Series Dr. Susan Stryker, Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Womens’ Leadership joins network security expert Chelsea Manning for a far reaching conversation that spans the social, technological, and economic ramifications of Artificial Intelligence, the practical applications of machine learning, social media, video games, the nation state, and more!
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Trans Studies Speakers Series: Rabih Alamedine- Wrong End of the Telescope
This episode is part of our Trans Speakers Series, hosted by Dr. Susan Stryker, the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Womens’ Leadership. Dr. Stryker is in conversation with acclaimed novelist and activist Rabih Alamedine focusing on his 2021 novel, The Wrong End of the Telescope, which won starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus, and the Library Journal, and earned raves in The Guardian and the New York Times Book Review, among others.
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Trans Studies Speaker Series: Poetic Operations with micha cárdenas
This episode is part of our Trans Studies Speakers Series, hosted by Dr. Susan Stryker, the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Womens’ Leadership. Dr. Susan Stryker is in conversation with micha cárdenas of UC Santa Cruz about her new book Poetic Operations which proposes algorithmic analysis as a method for developing a trans of color poetics.
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Critical Disability: Precarities and Imaginaries, A Conversation
This episode features an electric conversation between four of the most cutting edge thinkers and activists in the field of Critical Disability. Join us as Mills professor Kirsten Saxton facilitates a free flowing discussion between Dr. Jina Kim, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Dr. Jasbir Puar and Dr. Sami Schalk as they discuss disability studies, activism, capitalism, arts and the academy, and the role of the bodymind in a time of epidemic.
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Raise Your Voice Community Showcase
This episode features a warm and lively community showcase hosted by Mills graduate student and WATV Community collaborator Alie Jones, in the culminating event for her Raise Your Voice community writing workshops. These free workshops supported the work of Black writers in the Bay Area and the dynamic power of writing. Readers include Tongo Eisen-Martin, Mimi Tempestt, Brandon Logan, Jazz Hudson, and Tai Marie
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Social Listening #3- Jayy Dodd & Britteney Black Rose Kapri
The Social Listening series created spaces for listening and connecting despite our spatial isolation during the pandemic.This social listening episode features acclaimed poets Jayy Dodd and Britteney Black Rose Kapri reading work that engages complex attitudes toward gender, sexuality, power and grace.