2022 AWP Conference at Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, PA

Sophia Stid, Kathryn Nuernberger, Chet-la Sebree, Jennifer Loyd, Josina Guess

“I do not intend to speak about, just nearby,” Trinh T. Minh-ha says in her film Reassemblage, critiquing the documentary genre. What does it mean to speak nearby, as women writers who practice archival research and make work in conversation with difficult histories? How do we reclaim and remake the act of research itself? How do we speak with, without speaking for? Join us for a conversation on the joys, challenges, ethics, and possibilities of research as creative practice and reparative act.