Name
Organizing with Oral History
Date & Time
Thursday, September 29, 2022, 6:30 PM - 8:00 PM
Description

Ashby Combahee & Dartricia Rollins, Georgia Dusk

As a method for memory work, how can oral history be used in our organizing strategies? This political education workshop is a listening session where we interrogate the power of narratives and share resources for conducting oral histories.

Ashby Combahee is an education team member at Highlander, working in the Septima Clark Learning Center.

Dartricia Rollins is a Queer, Black, Southern organizer and cultural worker. She works as a Bookseller at Charis Books and More and Assistant Director of Charis Circle, the nonprofit programming arm of Charis Books and More. She is on the Board of Directors of Access Reproductive Care-Southeast and an individual member of the National Network for Abortion Funds. Dartricia is an organizer with the Atlanta Chapter of the Black Alliance for Peace and the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Dartricia's latest project is Georgia Dusk: a southern liberation oral history project connecting the intersections of Black movement and cultural work in Atlanta, Georgia across generations.

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