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Artmaking As Intervention in Oral History Methodology: Painting Portraits of Queer/Trans South Asian Chosen Family

October 23, 2025November 3, 2025 ohma

In this thesis, interdisciplinary artist and oral historian Ananya Garg proposes artmaking, through her series of 100 oil-painted vignettes, as an intervention into family oral history methodology. Her collection of […]

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RE-ROOTING ORALITY: ON PLANT ORAL HISTORIES IN PAREDONES, MICHOACAN, MEXICO

July 3, 2025 ohma

Clarissa Shane The oral transmission of plant knowledge particularly their medicinal usages enriches relations to the land. How can plants/nonhuman be recognized for their ‘personhood’? Respect for the nonhuman is […]

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Embodied Storytelling: A Reality of Barriers to Abortion Access

July 3, 2025 ohma

Romy David This thesis explores the lived experiences of two women who were forced to travel out of their home state to access crucial abortion care, examining how personal narratives […]

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A Labor of/for Love: Bridging Intergenerational Dis/connection in a Modern World

May 22, 2024 ohma

A Labor of/for Love: Bridging Intergenerational Dis/connection in a Modern World Ambar Johnson How does our relationship with work impact our ability to relate to our relatives? This project seeks […]

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COLLAPSING TIME: INDIGENOUS STORYTELLERS AND THE ‘EVERYWHEN’

March 9, 2023 ohma

COLLAPSING TIME: INDIGENOUS STORYTELLERS AND THE ‘EVERYWHEN’ Bronte Gosper Too often, Indigenous voices encounter over-mystification, Indigenous testimonies are romanticized, and the ever-nodding head of (often well-meaning) non-indigenous listeners belabours our […]

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Queer Florida: Speculative Southern Oral Histories

February 17, 2023 ohma

Queer Florida: Speculative Southern Oral Histories Han Powell Queer Florida is a multimedia oral history project documenting the stories of LGBTQ+ people who are making efforts to organize, create, and […]

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The Queens Night Market Vendor Stories Oral History Project in 2020: Pandemic Pivots, Media Moments, and Narrator Care Questions

February 17, 2023February 24, 2023 ohma

The Queens Night Market Vendor Stories Oral History Project in 2020: Pandemic Pivots, Media Moments, and Narrator Care Questions Storm Garner In 2019, I cowrote a mass market cookbook-with-oral-histories in […]

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The Brick

February 3, 2023February 3, 2023 ohma

The Brick <deep inhale> Tamara Santibañez The brick occupies a singular role in the radical political imagination: not only as an object and tool, but also as a site and […]

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Groundswell (2010)

July 17, 2016August 2, 2016 ohma

Groundswell: Oral History for Social Change, A Synthesis By Sarah Loose, 2010 Found on oralhistoryforsocialchange.org Read more about this project through Groundswell In September 2011, Groundswell: Oral History for Social […]

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