We Are The Voices Radio

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!

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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-making.

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 the collocations of Black music and experimental poetics, the “freedom drive” of Black life and the “fugitive impulses” in Black performance.

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, and imagining what might come after—or beyond—the university. This event was co-sponsored by the Mills College Art Museum.

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 and two recent Transgress Press authors Kim Green and Brynn Tannehill.

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 conversation about the linked systems of ​​ecologies, labor, and borders.

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 a multi-channel film experience, that recounts a relationship between God, the Church, and a queer Black child.

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 about the emergence of Black Trans Studies, the Black Trans Lives Matter Movement, and Black Trans Histories

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 Syracuse University consider how we might challenge white rage while centering the Black radical tradition.

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-century folk hero Jack Sheppard.

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 empowerment through creative writing and expression. The goal of this workshop is to illuminate stories of Black writers in the Bay Area and the dynamic power of writing. This episode will feature writers who have taken part of Raise Your Voice from in person to zoom, to a one off workshop centered around Inner Child healing.

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 explores the layered relationship between the Black diaspora and Western environmental stewardship. She was joined byThe Burl Concentrate, a collaborative project of the writers Connie Zheng and Sarah Dawn Albani that works towards dismantling the a-priori othering at the heart of the contemporary human relationship to the earth and the idea of “nature.”

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 Francisco to celebrate local luminary Alli Warren and the release of her new collection, Little Hill. Warren was joined by special guest Cedar Sigo, who was raised on the Suquamish reservation near Seattle, Washington, and is the author of over 7 books of poetry, including the soon to be published Guard The Mysteries.

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 language, identity, and history in readings that produce an entwined conversation in poems.

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 in the spaces of, as Professor Summers names, “post-chocolate cities”— such as their hometown of Oakland.

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 Voices, Professor Sheila Lloyd.