Desire On The Line:Oral Histories of Absence and Return
Desire On The Line: Oral Histories of Absence and Return is a multimodal thesis on how people sustain attachment when bodies cannot be together. It centers on Humsafar, a listening […]
creative non-fiction
Heirlooming: Rethinking Memory and Relationality through Embodiment and Collapsed Time
In this thesis, Hilary Seeley presents an intervention into the standard scholarly practice of oral history and an invitation to holistic memory work. Confronting the limitations and losses of the […]
Memory Work & Shifting Lens: What Remembering Makes New (Methodological Statement & Reflection)
This thesis employs oral history methods to document the educational journey of the interviewer’s mother, contributing to a broader effort to recover and center often unrecorded stories of women’s lives […]
Waiting for the Wind to Change: Oral Histories in the Post-Soviet Diaspora, Brighton Beach
This thesis, Waiting for the Wind to Change, is a documentary novel that examines how individuals navigate uncertainty. It is based on six oral history interviews with people the author […]
LAKOU SEKRÈ // SAKRE
LAKOU SEKRÈ // SAKRE is an altar to the queer Haitian experience in Brooklyn. The participatory, oral history installation is inspired by el secreto abierto, or the open secret ~ […]
Artmaking As Intervention in Oral History Methodology: Painting Portraits of Queer/Trans South Asian Chosen Family
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 […]
RE-ROOTING ORALITY: ON PLANT ORAL HISTORIES IN PAREDONES, MICHOACAN, MEXICO
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 […]
Embodied Storytelling: A Reality of Barriers to Abortion Access
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 […]
COLLAPSING TIME: INDIGENOUS STORYTELLERS AND THE ‘EVERYWHEN’
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 […]
Reframing Archives – Individuals & Imaginative Inventories
Reframing Archives – Individuals & Imaginative Inventories Dharini Chand We all tend to share a curated version of ourselves with the world. In doing so, the rest of us—our identity […]
Purged out of Chinese Internet: An Oral History of Individuals Who Experienced “Digital Death” on Social Media
Purged out of Chinese Internet: An Oral History of Individuals Who Experienced “Digital Death” on Social Media Caiwei Chen As social media platforms become increasingly important sites for civic engagement […]
Umubano mu Bantu: Love Among People
Umubano mu Bantu: Love Among People Ornella U. Baganizi During one of our interviews, I asked my father what his favorite song was. He answered, Umubano mu Bantu by Francois […]
A Cute and Nice Oral History of Dave’s Lesbian Bar
A Cute and Nice Oral History of Dave’s Lesbian Bar Kae Bara Kratcha A Cute and Nice Oral History of Dave’s Lesbian Bar follows the mutual aid origins of Astoria’s […]
This Is Not My Beautiful House
This Is Not My Beautiful House Casey Dooley This Is Not My Beautiful House is an oral history of the life, death, and rebirth of a turn-of-the-century home. Buttressed by interests in […]
Roots of Silence: How Retracing My Family’s WWII Escape Routes and Bearing Witness to Their Breaking of Long-Held Silences Unexpectedly Led Me to Compassion, an Open Heart, and My Voice
Roots of Silence: How Retracing My Family’s WWII Escape Routes and Bearing Witness to Their Breaking of Long-Held Silences Unexpectedly Led Me to Compassion, an Open Heart, and My Voice […]
The Queens Night Market Vendor Stories Oral History Project in 2020: Pandemic Pivots, Media Moments, and Narrator Care Questions
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 […]
Finding Uncle Cesar
Finding Uncle Cesar Tyler Brady After Angel learned of his long-estranged Uncle Cesar’s death to COVID-19, he was unable to locate his body. I spoke with Angel in early 2022 […]
The Brick
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 […]
the tidal flats
the tidal flats: a documentary-collage on east asian american queer kinship By liú méi z.b. chen 劉梅智文苑陳粱 When this project began, Liú intended to make an oral history-based audio documentary […]