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Trans Studies Speaker Series: Poetic Operations with micha cárdenas

We Are The Voices Radio - May 31, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour
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...

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Raise Your Voice Community Showcase

We Are The Voices Radio - May 31, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour
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 d...

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Trans Studies Speaker Series: Chelsea Manning - Volatile Contexts: Identity, Technology and Politics in a Moment of Danger

We Are The Voices Radio - May 31, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour
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 ...

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Critical Disability: Precarities and Imaginaries, A Conversation

We Are The Voices Radio - May 31, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour
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 ...

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Trans Studies Speakers Series: Rabih Alamedine- Wrong End of the Telescope

We Are The Voices Radio - May 31, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour
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 sta...

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Social Listening #3- Jayy Dodd & Britteney Black Rose Kapri

We Are The Voices Radio - May 31, 2022 07:00 - 46 minutes
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...

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Trans Studies Speakers Series: Trans Aesthetics with McKenzie Wark & Shola von Reinhold

We Are The Voices Radio - April 19, 2022 18:05 - 1 hour
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 media theorist McKenzie Wark and novelist Shola von Reinhold about Black and femme trans cultural production and world-ma...

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Social Listening #4: Nathaniel Mackey & Fred Moten

We Are The Voices Radio - April 19, 2022 18:02 - 1 hour
The Social Listening series created spaces for listening and connecting despite our spatial isolation during the pandemic. This social listening episode features acclaimed poets and scholars, Dr. Nathaniel Mackey and Dr. Fred Moten as they read from poetry which offers profound explorations of th...

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Labor and the Conditions of Protest: Critical University Studies with Abigail Boggs and Nick Mitchell

We Are The Voices Radio - April 19, 2022 18:01 - 1 hour
This episode is the first of two events on labor and protest, co-hosted by Mills Professors Stephanie Young and Juliana Spahr. Professors Spahr and Young talk with abolitionist scholars Dr. Abigail Boggs and Dr. Nick Mitchell about their scholarly work on academic abolition, university studies, a...

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Trans Studies Speakers Series: Transgress Press

We Are The Voices Radio - April 19, 2022 17:58 - 1 hour
This episode is part of our Trans Speakers Series, hosted by Dr. Susan Stryker, the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Womens’ Leadership. This episode centers on Transgress Press, an Oakland-based indie publisher of trans queer feminist books. It features its publisher professor Trystan Cotten ...

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Trans Studies Speakers Series: Trans is Black and Black is Trans?

We Are The Voices Radio - March 17, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour
This episode is part of our Trans Studies Speakers Series hosted by Dr. Susan Stryker, the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Womens’ Leadership. Dr. Stryker curates a conversation with eminent scholars Dr. Rod Ferguson of Yale University and Dr, C. Riley Snorton of The University of Chicago abou...

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Social Listening #2: Quarantine Readings - Juliana Spahr, Wendy Trevino, Cecily Nicholson

We Are The Voices Radio - March 17, 2022 07:00 - 36 minutes
The Social Listening series created spaces for listening and connecting despite our spatial isolation during the pandemic. This second episode of Social Listening features readings from internationally acclaimed poets Juliana Spahr, Wendy Trevino, and Cecily Nicholson who share their work and con...

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The Black Radical Tradition in an Age of White Rage

We Are The Voices Radio - March 17, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour
This episode was organized and hosted by Dr. Sheila Lloyd in response to the events of January 6th, 2021 “Save America” rally and the insurrection at the Capitol. Dr. Lloyd and panelists Dr. Robin D.G. Kelley of UCLA, Dr. Marquis Bey of Northwestern University, and, and Dr. Jenn M. Jackson of Sy...

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Trans Studies Speakers Series: Dr. Jordy Rosenberg

We Are The Voices Radio - March 17, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour
This episode is part of our Trans Studies Speakers Series, hosted by Dr. Susan Stryker, the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Womens’ Leadership. Dr. Stryker is in conversation with Dr. Jordy Rosenberg, scholar and author of the breakout novel, Confessions of the Fox—a faux memoir of the 18th-c...

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Trans Studies Speakers Series: Leila Weefur

We Are The Voices Radio - March 17, 2022 07:00 - 1 hour
This episode is part of our Trans Studies Speakers Series, hosted by Dr. Susan Stryker, the Barbara Lee Distinguished Chair in Womens’ Leadership. Dr. Stryker interviews Oakland-based artist, curator, writer, and Mills alum Leila Weefur about her upcoming project PLAY†PREY, a gospel presented as...

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Raise Your Voice Podcast Episode

We Are The Voices Radio - May 06, 2021 06:29 - 44 minutes
In this special episode, we are featuring WATV’s Community Collaborator Alie Jones. Alie Jones is a second year graduate student in the Creative Writing program at Mills College. She has been hosting and curating Raise Your Voice - a free monthly workshop exploring connection, healing, and empowe...

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Bay Area Bookseller Voices: Wolfman Books

We Are The Voices Radio - February 10, 2021 08:00 - 1 hour
In this episode, we collaborated with Wolfman Books, of Oakland CA, as part of our Bay Area Bookseller Voices series. This series allows our beloved booksellers to curate readings with authors of their choosing. We welcomed artist Ashia Ajani, a Black storyteller from Denver, CO. Her work explore...

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Bay Area Bookseller Voices: City Lights

We Are The Voices Radio - February 10, 2021 07:56 - 1 hour
WATV launched Bay Area Bookseller Voices this past spring, a new series of virtual events in which we partnered with our beloved booksellers to curate readings with authors of their choosing. In this episode, we had the honor of collaborating with the historic City Lights Bookstore of San Francis...

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Social Listening #1: Quarantine Readings

We Are The Voices Radio - July 10, 2020 08:47 - 55 minutes
In this episode, we offer the recording of our first quarantine readings, organized in response to the first month of shelter in place. Poet MK Chavez curated a powerful communal gathering—in which she was joined by poets Maw Shein Win and Dena Rod. The three shared their stirring work on languag...

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Black To The Future

We Are The Voices Radio - July 10, 2020 05:52 - 1 hour
In this episode, we are joined by Alicia Garza, Black Lives Matter co-founder and Principal of the Black Futures Lab, along with scholar and public intellectual Professor Brandi Thompson Summers of UC, Berkeley. Their discussion excavates the structural intersections of race, privilege, and power...

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Knowledge For Freedom- “Black Study” and the Present Struggle

We Are The Voices Radio - July 10, 2020 05:37 - 1 hour
In this episode, we are joined by oppositional intellectuals Nikhil Pal Singh, Brandi Thompson Summers, and Savannah Shange for a crucial and enlightening discussion of abolition, racial capitalism, and the 2020 uprisings. This event was moderated by the Principal Investigator of We Are The Voice...

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