We Are The Voices Radio

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.

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 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.