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STORYCENTER Blog

We are pleased to present posts by StoryCenter staff, storytellers, colleagues from partnering organizations, and thought leaders in Storywork and related fields.

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Challenging Stigma Online: The Impact of Being Forever Known for Your Private Tale – by Aspen Baker, Founder & Executive Director, Exhale

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We don't always want to be known for the most vulnerable or emotional story of our lives. New York Times best-selling author of How to Be Black, Baratunde Thurston, once asked his live audience not to tweet or record his telling of a personal story at a public venue because he's "not interested in that story blowing up and getting lots of YouTube hits. I'm not interested in being KNOWN for it...the idea of people streaming and live-tweeting and uploading this personal, intimate tale felt like a violation."

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categories Voices from Around the Table
tags huffington post, new york times, how to be black, baratunde thurston, youtube, the texas observer, carolyn jones, private, privacy, trauma, abortion, stigma, online, aspen baker, myths, stereotypes, public, isolation, sensitive experiences, viral, vulnerable, personal, bruce ackerman, behavior, the new jim crow, michelle alexander, david braman, cope, community, abortion wellbeing month, EXHALE ABORTION PRO-VOICE, witness, center for digital storytelling, digital storytelling, storytelling, story, writing, advocate, social justice blog series

Sexual Assault Awareness Month: Personal Stories and Policy Education in Nepal

StoryCenter Admin

From the moment I met Bandana Rana in 2008, I sensed that we would work together. She runs SAATHI Nepal, which has for nearly twenty years been challenging violence and injustice against women at all levels of Nepalese society. We talked about the importance of bringing stories told by survivors into human rights dialogues, about the power of visual media, about the possibilities for storytelling in Nepal. It took time, but three years later the vision became a reality, when I traveled this past October to Kathmandu to begin a SAATHI – Silence Speaks Digital Storytelling partnership on the Voices for Justice project.

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categories Voices from Around the Table
tags sexual assault awareness month, sexual assault, vaw, endVAW, women's rights, nepal, witness, #30daysofSAAM, SAATHI Nepal, by Amy Hill - Silence Speaks Director, ViolenceAgainstWomen