Body of Work

Curator & Producer

  • Produced a Special Series on COVID-19 & the Medical Industrial Complex on Fortification Podcast; co-produced with Auburn Seminary, Anjali Taneja & Susan Raffo (2020)

Performance Installations

  • Page was invited to present new works  at the Asian Pacific American (APA) Institute NYU exhibition of Haunted Files: The Eugenics Record Office, an immersive recreation of the Long Island epicenter of the American eugenics movement.  Drawing from the exhibition’s reproduced materials, which included eugenics lecture notes, hand-drawn pedigree charts, and endless “human trait” files, these creative works engage with the history of scientific racism in the US and its enduring legacy on how we talk about and understand race, immigration, intelligence, and belonging.  She performed the first iteration of, ‘A Poet’s Psalm for the Mismeasured’.  Premiered at the America & Its Unfit: Eugenics Then & Now  Conference envisioned and coordinated by Jack Tchen & Mindi Fullilove, September 2015

Writing

  • Co-authored with Etobssie Wako, “Chapter 9. Depo Diaries and the Power of Stories,” in Telling Stories to Change the World: Global Voices on the Power of the Narrative to Build Community and Make Social Justice Claims, eds. Rickie Solinger, Madeline Fox, Kayhan Irani, New York: Routledge, 2008. 

Interviews

  • “Lifting Up Legacy, Place and Healing,” interview with Cara Page, Transformative Change, February 3, 2011. 

Lectures, Workshops, Conferences  & Podcasts

  • Featured speaker at The 41st Annual Marion Thompson Wright Lecture Series, One Begins Again: Organizing & the Historical Imagination with Alicia Garza and Bill Fletcher Jr., and moderated by Barbara Ransby. February 2021.
  • Hosted by the Open Society Foundation; presented on the role of healing justice on the panel; ‘Can Healing Be our North Star: Reimagining Health, Well-Being and Collective Liberation’ with co-presenters, Professor Jack Tchen, and artist Anicka Yi. November 19th, 2020
  • National Women Studies Association Panel on Care Work & Economy with panelists: Ai-Jen Poo & Linda Oalican, moderated by Premilla Nadasen.  October 19th. 2020.
  • Co-presented on Healing Justice on the National Women’s March Feminist Futures Series with Tamika Middleton & Susan Raffo, moderated by Caitlin Breedlove.  August 2020
  • Spiritual Strategies, curated and co-presented by Adaku Utah, with Erica Woodland; a series for spiritual and healing response for BIPOC frontline healthcare workers, healers and community organizers in the time of COVID. (2020)
  • Curating as Healing with the Emerging Curators Institute (ECI) featuring Cara Page in dialogue with ECI Fellows Amirah Ellison and Adrienne Doyle. Hosted by the Minnesota Museum of American Art.  (April 19th, 2020)
  • Keynote Presenter; Ancient Song Doula 4th Annual Decolonize Birth Conference, ‘Truth & Reconciliation: For a Liberated Reproductive Justice Movement’ (September 21-22, 2019) at the Weeksville Heritage Center, Brooklyn NY
  • CUNY Center for the Study of Women & Society presented, ‘Mapping the Sacred; Transforming the Medical Industrial Complex’ (March 2019)
  • Hampshire College featured speaker on the Medical Industrial Complex and Population Control featuring the MIC Timeline Project (December 2018)
  • Invited guest speaker for seminar on Medical Industrial Complex and Population Control, in conversation with Kara Lynch.  Hosted by Population and the Environment, Hampshire College, Spring/Summer 2018. 
  • Invited instructor for presentation on community-led care and safety strategies, Online Trauma Informed Certificate Program, NYU School of Social Work, Spring/Summer 2018. 
  • Invited guest speaker for seminar on eugenic violence, transformative justice, and cultural work, Human Rights & Oral History: Memory, Testimony, and Trauma, Columbia University, Spring/Summer 2018. 
  • Workshop with Autumn Brown, Adela Nieves Martinez, Cara Page, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Rico, Triana Kazaleh Sirdenis, and Anjali Taneja, Healing Justice Lineages: A History Discussion, Allied Media Conference, June 2018. 
  • The 43rd Annual Scholar & Feminist Conference; “Subverting Surveillance: Strategies to End State Violence” hosted by Barnard College at the Barnard Center for Research on Women. Panel entitled, “Its known and unknown powers / to bind and dissociate”: Forensic Surveillance and the Policing of Biology. Featuring Shoshana Magnet, Cara Page, Rori Rohlfs, and Harriet Washington. Moderated by Anthony Ureña. Featuring a trailer of,  “Psalm for the Mismeasured and Unfit” (Trailer), a testimonial on the Medical Industrial Complex (February 2018)
  • Panelist with Reina Gossett, Cara Page, and Terry Boggis, Gender, Sexuality, HIV, and Reproductive Justice, Invisible Lives, Targeted Bodies Conference, Queer Survival Economies and the Barnard Center for Research on Women, Barnard College, January 23-24, 2015. 
  • Presented on ‘Creative Detoxifying Panel, Pushing Back the New World System Roundtable’, Performance Video of “A Poet’s Psalm for the Mismeasured”, American and Its Unfit: Eugenics Then and Now, NYU APA Institute, September 25, 2015. 
  • Trainer, “Eugenics and the Medical Industrial Complex,” New Leadership Networking Initiative, Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program (CLPP), Hampshire College, June 14-17, 2015.  
  • Panelist with Bridget Tolley (Families of Sisters in Spirit), Clarissa Rojas (INCITE!), Ash Stephens (Chicago Alliance to Free Marissa Alexander), Dominique McKinney (Young Women’s Empowerment Project), Tannia Esparza (Young Women United), “Insurgent Possibilities,” Color of Violence Conference, INCITE!, March 27, 2015. 
  • Workshop facilitator with Rachel Caballero, “Transformative Justice Workshop,” From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom, Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program (CLPP), Hampshire College, 2012. 
  • Caucus facilitator, “Caucus for People of African Descent,” From Abortion Rights to Social Justice: Building the Movement for Reproductive Freedom, Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program (CLPP), Hampshire College, 2012. 
  • Panelist with Piya Chatterjee, Chela Delgado, Emi Kane, Jenny Lee, Karla Mejia, and Kiri Sailiata, “Reflections from Detroit: Reflections,” Allied Media Conference, August 25, 2010. 
  • Curated and conceived by Anjali Taneja, the workshop “Health is Dignity, Dignity is Resistance,” at the Allied Media Conference, 2010.  Panelist with Sonali Sadequee (Kindred Healing Justice Collective), Maryse Mitchell-Brody (Rock Dove Collective), and TK Karakashian.
  • Workshop facilitator with Patty Berne and Mia Mingus: “Re-envisioning the Revolutionary Body: Disability, Race, Queerness and the Possibility of Cross-movement Building,” January 2009. 
  • Facilitator with Adaku Utah, “Balancing Our Own Joy,” New Leadership Networking Initiative, Summer Leadership Institute, Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program (CLPP), Hampshire College, April 16, 2009. March 30, 2007. 
  • Panelist, “The Privatization of Genes and Seeds,” World Social Forum, Porto Alegre, Brazil, 2005. 

Community Advising 

  • Community Advisor, Giving Birth Behind Bars Guide, SPARK Reproductive Justice NOW, 2011.