Voicing Resistance: A Youth-led Media Production Project

Listen Up Youth Radio is a social enterprise nonprofit led by youth-adult partnership, empowering youth to create their own media, develop production skills, and learn critical media literacy. Through our residency at The Hub, our Youth Media Collective (YMC) Member Producers, in collaboration with Dr. Laura Garbes (Sociology), will make use of the University's expertise and resources to partner with students and faculty on a special season of our podcast YouthSoup. This season, called “Voicing Resistance,” will be an in-depth exploration of how communities voice resistance through poetry, song, and other forms of vocal expression. 

YMC Member Producers (ages 14-22 and primarily self-identifying as BIPOC and/or LGBTQIA+) are excited to explore themes of protest songs, oral histories, spoken word, dance/movement, and radio as forms and sites of cultural resistance, and to reflect on their own practices as fledgling media makers. This project takes vocal expression and art seriously as a mode of resistance. We aim to amplify community stories and histories of resistance, with a focus on counternarratives - voices of protestors that are not often placed at the center of dominant media narratives. Episodes will be available on our website and major podcast platforms, as well as broadcast through our partnerships with low-power FM radio stations and community television channels.