OHMA is pleased to the announce the 2019 Travel Grant Recipient, Carlin Zia (2017) who will consider questions around transcription and creativity at 2019 Oral History Association annual meeting in Salt Lake City.
Reflections on the 2018 Oral History Association Annual Meeting
In this post, OHMA alumni and recipient of our alumni travel grant Lynn Lewis reflects on her experience presenting at the 2018 Oral History Association annual meeting in Montreal. The 2019 call for papers is now open!
2018 Oral History Association: It’s a Spirit
In this post, OHMA alumni and recipient of our alumni travel grant Svetlana Kitto reflects on her 2018 Oral History Association experience in Montreal.
Michael Roberson and Ballroom Culture
OHMA student Desmond Austin-Miller reflects on Michael Roberson’s contribution to the Fall Workshop Series, A History of Echoes, Pt. 2: Sound of Trans Freedom and the influence Roberson left on him as a Black academic.
Read MoreFrom an act of listening to embodiment - a further step in the path of compassion
Image by Laura Summer
In this post, OHMA student Yiyi Zhang (2017) reflects on E. Patrick Johnson’s performative approach to story-telling and its relation to understanding and compassion between people.
Read MoreRepresentation Matters
OHMA student Samantha Lombard (2018) reflects on E. Patrick Johnson’s theatrical representation of his narrators from oral history interviews he conducted as part of research for his book, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South – An Oral History.
Read MoreA Means to an Endeavor
Stills from Michael Roberson on the Ballroom Freedom School by Shawn Van Sluys on Vimeo.
Current OHMA student Carlin Zia reflects on her experience of the penultimate workshop in our fall series—Michael Roberson’s A History of Echoes, Pt. 2: Sound of Trans Freedom—and shares how the event influences her own approach to oral history.
Read MoreMichael Roberson and Ballroom: The Trans Sound of Black Freedom
In this post, OHMA student Lynn Lewis (2017) describes a recent workshop with Ultra-Red member Michael Roberson. Roberson is a public health practitioner, advocate, activist and leader within the LGBTQ community who created the Federation of Ballroom Houses, and co-created the National Black Gay Men's Advocacy Group.
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