Visions After Violence

2021-2023

The Visions After Violence Collection is the culmination of each Visions After Violence Community Fellowship Program cohort. Each year, three fellows are selected to document their community’s lived experience with state sanctioned violence. As members of communities who also share personal experiences with state sanctioned violence, fellows are able to provide a safe and trusting space to facilitate oral histories of impacted community members. Fellows and narrators are actively included throughout the interview and documentation process to ensure community agency, direction, and representation.

There are currently 26 oral histories in the Visions After Violence Collection that consist of video and audio files. These oral histories describe the lives of individuals impacted by state sanctioned violence and their experiences with deportation, police brutality, incarceration, and its subsequent issues within reentry processes, interpersonal relationships, mental health, and survival. The collection provides an in-depth look at how state sanctioned violence impacts all facets of life.