We Are The Voices | Oakland

WATV was funded by the Mellon Foundation Higher Education and Scholarship in the Humanities. The grant was completed in June 2023.

[Northeastern University - Oakland @NU_Oakland]

The Mills College at Northeastern University Performing Artist-in-Residence Program in collaboration with @watv_oak presents an evening with Karmina Šilec on her current work-in-development BABA: The Life and Death of Stana.

📍Lisser Hall
📆 Fri, Jan 20; 7:30PM - 8:30PM

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Next Week!

Join us for a lecture from Community Collaborator Tiffany Cruz.

Tiffany will present their letterpressed illuminated book! A project that compares two 19th-British century novels whose protagonists are Black Women.

Register: https://t.co/713dkYsyLF.

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

You can still register to catch @susanstryker and @xychelsea in conversation tonight!

Register: https://t.co/wyyRvEuW80.

[Susan Stryker @susanstryker]

Counting down to my public conversation with Chelsea Manning at Mills College tomorrow April 13--in-person, online, and archived on the Trans Studies Speakers Series page at Mills Performing Arts.
https://t.co/KUxVePLZyw

[Susan Stryker @susanstryker]

Great story by @marthajross about my Wednesday 4/13 event in Oakland w/ @xychelsea at Mills College: 'Feeling good' after prison but her fight goes on https://t.co/knrPuNbbt2 via @mercnews

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Happening Today!

Join us for a conversation with @xychelsea!

RSVP: https://t.co/wyyRvEuW80.

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Our final event of the semester with Chelsea Manning.

Volatile Contexts: Identity, Technology and Politics in a Moment of Danger

4.13.22 @ 7 PM PT | RSVP for more: https://t.co/wyyRvEuW80.

#ChelseaManning #SurveillanceCulture #CarceralComplex #PrisonAbolition

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Are you registered?

Join us for a conversation with @xychelsea!

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Our final event of the semester with Chelsea Manning.

Volatile Contexts: Identity, Technology and Politics in a Moment of Danger

4.13.22 @ 7 PM PT | RSVP for more: https://t.co/wyyRvEuW80.

#ChelseaManning #SurveillanceCulture #CarceralComplex #PrisonAbolition

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

From Tovah:
As someone continually working to gain awareness of migration's continual role in the present, past, and future, the library has become one of my best friends.

"To leave is to die a little.
To arrive is never to arrive."
—Valeria Luiselli, "Lost Children Archive"

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

New episode this week!

Check out this episode from our Social Listening series with Juliana Spahr, Wendy Trevino, Cecily Nicholsen.
🔗 in bio to Spotify, Apple Podcast, and Simplecast.

#WATV #MellonGrant #WATVRadio #Poetry #JulianaSpahr #WendyTrevino #CecilyNicholsen

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Our final event of the semester with Chelsea Manning.

Volatile Contexts: Identity, Technology and Politics in a Moment of Danger

4.13.22 @ 7 PM PT | RSVP for more: https://t.co/wyyRvEuW80.

#ChelseaManning #SurveillanceCulture #CarceralComplex #PrisonAbolition

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Starting today! Stop by @SlideSpace123 for this limited 3-day exhibit.

#DecenterWhiteArt #ReclaimingLostVoices #DecolonizeMuseums

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Community Collaborator Zehra Shah (@zehjello) and WATV invite you to a three-day in-person exhibit at @SlideSpace123.

Join us for Decentering the Archive: Migration of Memory, Tradition & Identity.

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Submit to OUT!spoken!

A digital journal seeking poetry and short fiction/nonfiction by LGBTQ+ writers and activists whose work envisions a more just, equitable future and fights to end mass incarceration.

Submit @ https://t.co/9clvFe8yeA
#LGBTQ #EndMassIncarceration

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Submit to PERFORATIONS!

A digital project by Community Collaborator Tovah Strong, the journal seeks multimedia work examining and peeling open borders —particularly the U.S.-Mexico border.

Submit @ https://t.co/j6fFlQxPGa.
#BorderStudies #BorderLands #USMexicoBorder

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Community Collaborator Zehra Shah (@zehjello) and WATV invite you to a three-day in-person exhibit at @SlideSpace123.

Join us for Decentering the Archive: Migration of Memory, Tradition & Identity.

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Photos in order of location: Pourquoi naître esclave at the Petit Palace, and King Cophetua and the beggar maid at the Petit Palace. (6/6)

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

From Tiffany: During winter break I went to Paris for two weeks and one thing I created was a Black art tour. I made a list of paintings and sculptures that feature a Black person as the subject. (1/6)

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Photos in order of location: Louvre, Portrait of a Negress at the Louvre, Louvre, Louvre. (5/6)

[We Are The Voices | Oakland @watv_oak]

Catch Rabih Alameddine at our second event!

The Wrong End of The Telescope: a conversation with Rabih Alameddine and Susan Stryker

3.31.2022 @ 5 PM PT | RSVP: https://t.co/XfsrPqzhcd

#WATV #MillsCollege #MellonGrant #RabihAlameddine #QueerWriter #QueerStories #TransStory