What happens to our law and to our democracy when judges, politicians, and other powerful institutions ignore the voices of women, people of color, LGBTQ folks, and indigenous people?
When judges and politicians silence the voices of women, girls, and other marginalized individuals and groups, where do those voices go?
What happens to our law and to our democracy when judges, politicians, and other powerful institutions ignore the voices of women, people of color, LGBTQ folks, and indigenous people? When judges and politicians silence the voices of women, girls, and other marginalized individuals and groups, where do those voices go?
The Sound Justice Lab is a space for exploring creative and everyday responses to legal failures and erasures. We use research, advocacy, and creative practice to amplify and support the voices often omitted by formal legal processes.
What’s New
Cville Tulips is awarded a Global Programs of Distinction Grant!
We are so grateful to the Ruth Young/Indar-Riyukhe Fund of the Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation at UVA.
The Center for Global Inquiry and Innovation (CGII) was founded to encourage and fund global research throughout the University of Virginia.
CGII's mission is to stimulate inquiry in all fields and disciplines (arts, humanities, social sciences, STEM), to promote interdisciplinary and collaborative practices, and to address challenges of global scale, scope, concern, perspective, and impact.
We are especially interested in projects that extend the range of methodologies and expand possibilities for collaboration among UVa colleagues and colleagues beyond UVa and outside the U.S.
Technologies of Silence Participant,
Jackie Cox
featured in V Mag
Photo by Domenick Fini for V Mag at UVA
Cville Tulips is an emerging group of refugee women and children in the Charlottesville area. We gather for English lessons, conversation, art, and youth programming. Transportation provided for those who need it.
Mark your calendars! Fall 2024 gatherings will be tentatively be held on September 8, September 22, October 6, October 20, November 10, November 24, December 8.
The Sound Justice Lab was honored to meet with the 2024 Mandela Fellows
The Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders brings accomplished innovators and leaders to the United States for six weeks to study civic engagement and share about their work. We hosted a panel on the theme of “Creative Activism” highlighting the work of Cville Tulips and PVCC’s Higher Education in Prison Program and we learned about a variety of programs from the fellows, including creativity in environmental activism in Ethiopia, international gender justice legal work in Nigeria, and programming for young refugees in Tanzania.
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Cville Tulips Teens Host Radio Show on WXTJ 100.1 FM
Seven middle and high school students involved in Cville Tulips took to the airwaves on Monday, February 19th and Wednesday, July 31st to share some of their favorite songs with the public. The playlists included music by artists from Afghanistan, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, Tajikistan, and even a little Taylor Swift.
Watch: Danait Haddish discusses Cville Tulips and Teen Radio Show on NBC 29!
Thank you to the UVA Parents Program for supporting this project!
The Sound Justice Lab is a program of the