Documenting the Latinx/Chicanx Experience: A Free Oral History Workshop

131 North Avenue 50,Los Angeles CA 90042

27 September, 2022

Description

This oral history workshop is the first in a series of Wild Tongue: A Latinx Oral History Archive events hosted by Virginia Espino in collaboration with the Avenue 50 Studio and the California Latinas for Reproductive Justice. Wild Tongue is an oral history project made possible through a fellowship program offered through the NEH American Rescue Plan issued through the Oral History Association. Wild tongue is inspired by the works of #gloriaanzaldúa and #saidyahartma and seeks to document, preserve, and make available the intimate histories of working class Latinx/Chicanx, Afro-Latinx and Indigenous women, trans and non-binary people in the U.S. The goal of Wild Tongue is to recover, rescue and record the experiences and rebellious ideas that inform the ordinary, yet beautiful lives of a community that is often invisibilized. In this workshop you will learn oral history methodology that focuses on a "do no harm" ethics in story collection, and together, we will begin to build the question bank for the Wild Tongue interview. Virginia Espino is is the daughter of Mexican parents. She grew up in the barrios of northeastern Los Angeles where she currently resides. She holds a PhD in 20th Century U.S. History with a focus on the Chicanx experience from Arizona State University. She is an oral and public historian whose interests include the intersection of race, class, and gender in working class culture and identity formation. Espino is a co-producer and lead historian on the award winning documentary, No Más Bebés. Based in part on her dissertation research, No Más Bebés investigates the history of coercive sterilization at the Los Angeles-USC Medical Center during the 1970s. She currently lectures for Chicana, Chicano and Central American Studies and Labor Studies at UCLA and serves on the board of the California Latinas for Reproductive Justice. Space is limited and priority will be given to Latinx/Chicanx Afro-Latinx and Indigenous women, trans and non-binary people who feel they have experienced gender oppression. Follow Wild Tongue Archive on Instagram here.