Past Events

Since Fall of 2019, We Are The Voices has hosted local and national artists and scholars. These conversations and lectures
were open to the public and hosted at Mills Performing Arts venues and virtual sites.

2023

Second Saturday at RBA Creative: Black Women Artists in Oakland — Latisha Baker, Renata
Gray, Ajuan Mance, Brianna Mills, Michelle Tompkins, and Ortonda Uffre
Saturday, April 8
Presented in conjunction with RBA Creative

A+P+I Artist Talk with Heesoo Kwon
Tuesday, April 4
Presented in conjunction with the Mills College at Northeastern University Art
Museum

Danyel Smith 
Tuesday, March 28
Presented in conjunction with the Mills College at Northeastern University Literatures
and Languages Department and the Contemporary Writers Series

Public Forum: (Re)Imagining Trans Anti-Carceral Resistance in the Tenderloin
Thursday, March 23
Presented in conjunction with the Townsend Center for the Humanities, the Center
for Race and Gender, and The Joan E. Draper Architectural History Research Endowment
at the College of Evironmental Design, UC Berkeley

A+P+I Artist Talk with Liat Berdugo
Tuesday, March 14
Presented in conjunction with the Mills College at Northeastern University Art
Museum

Bonnie Tsui  
Tuesday, March 14
Presented in conjunction with the Mills College at Northeastern University Literatures
and Languages Department and the Contemporary Writers Series

A+P+I Artist Talk with Ranu Mukherjee
Tuesday, February 28
Presented in conjunction with the Mills College at Northeastern University Art
Museum

Sara Uribe & Holly Melgard  
Tuesday, February 28
Presented in conjunction with the Mills College at Northeastern University Literatures
and Languages Department and the Contemporary Writers Series

Alexis Pauline Gumbs  
Tuesday, February 21
Presented in conjunction with the Mills College at Northeastern University Literatures
and Languages Department and the Contemporary Writers Series

Karmina Šilec: The Choregie Method and BABA: The Life and Death of Stana
Friday, January 20
Presented in conjunction with the Mills College at Northeastern University Performing
Artist-in-Residency Program and Kitka Women’s Vocal Ensemble

2022

Volatile Contexts: Identity, Technology and Politics in a Moment of Danger
Wednesday April 13
Presented in conjunction with Mills College Trans Studies Speaker Series

The Wrong End of The Telescope: a conversation with Rabih Alameddine and Susan Stryker
Thursday, March 31
Presented in conjunction with Mills College Trans Studies Speaker Series

Temporary Utopias: Discussing the Films of Cary Cronenwett
Thursday, February 17
Presented in conjunction with Mills College Trans Studies Speaker Series

2021

Play†Prey: A conversation with Leila Weefur & Susan Stryker
Thursday, December 2
Presented in conjunction with the Mills College Trans Studies Speaker Series.

Labor and the Conditions of Protest: Militancy, Representation, and Aesthetics with
Tobi Haslett and Rachel Kushner
Thursday, November 18
Presented in conjunction with the Mills College Art Museum and the Mills College English Department.

Poetic Operations: a conversation with micha cárdenas and Susan Stryker
Thursday, October 28
Presented in conjunction with the Mills College Trans Studies Speaker Series.

Labor and the Conditions of Protest: Critical University Studies with Abigail Boggs
and Nick Mitchell
Thursday, October 14
Presented in conjunction with the Mills College Art Museum and the Mills College English Department.

Transgress Press: Trystan Cotten, Kim Green, and Brynn Tannehill in conversation with
Susan Stryker
Thursday, September 23
Presented in conjunction with Mills College Trans Studies Speaker Series.

Raise Your Voice Community Showcase
Saturday, May 8

Critical Disability: Precarities and Imaginaries, A Conversation
Thursday, May 6

A Discussion of Anti-Asian Racism with Helen Zia
Thursday, April 15
Presented in conjunction with Mills College Southeast Asian/Middle Eastern/Asian Pacific Islanders Heritage Month

Trans Aesthetics: McKenzie Wark & Shola von Reinhold in conversation with Susan Stryker
Thursday, April 8
Presented in conjunction with Mills College Trans Studies Speaker Series.

Social Listening #4: Nathaniel Mackey & Frederick Moten
Thursday, March 11

Trans is Black and Black is Trans?: C. Riley Snorton and Rod Ferguson in Conversation
with Susan Stryker
Thursday, February 18
Presented in conjunction with Mills College Trans Studies Speaker Series.
Part of Mills College Black History Month 2021 programming, BHM21.

The Black Radical Tradition in an Age of White Rage
Tuesday, January 19

2020

The Black Woman is God | Opening Night Conversation 2020 with Karen Seneferu, Renee Cox, and Harmonia Rosales
Friday, November 13

Confessions of the Fox, A Conversation between Author Jordy Rosenberg and Susan Stryker
Thursday, November 5

Social Listening #3 with Jayy Dodd and Britteney Black Rose Kapri
Thursday, September 24

Knowledge for Freedom: “Black Study” and The Present Struggle, with Brandi Thompson
Summers, Savannah Shange, and Nikhil Pal Singh
Tuesday, June 16

Bay Area Bookseller Voices | WATV x SPD #2 with Julia Bloch, Angie Sijun Lou, and
Melissa Merin
Friday, June 12

Bay Area Bookseller Voices | WATV x City Lights with Alli Warren, and Cedar Sigo
Thursday, June 4

Bay Area Bookseller Voices | WATV x FKA Wolfman Books with Ashia Ajani and The Burl
Concentrate (Connie Zheng + Sarah-Dawn Albani)
Thursday, May 21

Bay Area Bookseller Voices | WATV x SPD with Tessa Micaela, gin hart, Danielle Luz
Belanger
Friday, May 8

Social Listening #2 with Juliana Spahr, Cecily Nicholson, and Wendy Trevino
Thursday, April 30

Social Listening #1 with MK Chavev, Maw Shein Win, Dena Rod
Sunday, April 26

Black to the Future, with Alicia Garza and Brandi Thompson Summers
Thursday, February 20

Imagíname: A Queering of Language and Latinidad, with Juli Delgado Lopera, Marcia
Ochoa, and Jaime Cortez
Thursday, January 30

2019

Graphic Selves: Stories of Identity in the Asian Diaspora, with Thi Bui and Trinidad
Escobar
Friday, December 6

Patricia Smith, in conversation with Elmaz Abinader
Friday, October 4

Past-Events