Telling Stories To Change The World

EDUCATION "Telling Stories to Change the World collects moving and powerful essays from across the globe that speak to the power of storytelling and the resilience of the human spirit. It proves that telling stories, and listening to one another carefully, does have the power to change the world. It's a terrific collection!" --Dave Isay, Founder of StoryCorps and MacArthur Fellow "Reading this book, we add ourselves to the host of witness-bearers as the vivid, compelling, and unimpeachable testimony of lived and reimagined experience opens new vistas for direct action and creative collective response. This collection inspires, instructs, and sets some terrific examples. This is a rare and beautifully curated resource of hard-won joy and deeply flowing currents of renewal." --Peter Sellars, Professor of World Arts and Culture, UCLA and Cultural Activist "The enormity of this collection's claim is, rather astonishingly, supported by first-person accounts of story's capacity to sustain, catalyze, comfort, challenge, personalize, and organize. Inviting a broad public, the book unfolds as if the reader were sitting in the writers' living rooms, listening to what they've experienced." --Dr. Jan Cohen-Cruz, Director of Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life "Telling Stories to Change the World accompanies readers into sites of intimate outrage and global hope. You will want to find a quiet space to read Telling Stories to Change the World cover to cover. Ultimately these stories provoke, in readers, a demand for justice." --Michelle Fine, Distinguished Professor of Psychology, Graduate Center at CUNY Telling Stories to Change the World is a powerful collection of essays about community-based and interest-based projects where storytelling is used as a strategy for speaking out for justice. Contributors from locations across the globe offer compelling accounts of resistance, hope, and vision, showcasing the power of the storytelling form to generate critique and collective action. Together, these projects demonstrate the contemporary power of stories to stimulate engagement, active citizenship, the pride of identity, and the humility of human connectedness. Rickie Solinger is a historian and curator, author of books including Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America and Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade. Madeline Fox is an educator and researcher currently pursuing her PhD in Social Personality Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Kayhan Irani is a community arts practitioner who in 2007 was awarded a certificate of recognition by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg for her arts work in immigrant communities.Solinger, Rickie is the author of 'Telling Stories To Change The World', published 2008 under ISBN 9780415960793 and ISBN 0415960797.