Dedicated to the voices of women, silenced and unsung, or just coming into being . . .
Please join us to participate in a new series of
neighborhood-based bilingual book clubs, featuring
Herstory Latina writers and their words.
For meeting dates and details click here.
To preview plans for sister book clubs around restorative justice, click here.
New DVD takes the Herstory method to a wider circle. For a ready-to-use track-by-track syllabus, click here.
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If your words had the power to change a law or an attitude…
Stories shaped in our prison writing project become required reading for incoming officers in Suffolk County's corrections academy
December 17th was an historical day for the women and teen girls incarcerated in Suffolk County's two correctional facilities, as they learned that their stories had become part of mandatory training for incoming corrections officers in the academy... read more
Youth Empowerment through Guided Memoir Writing
Herstory on air
Every Sunday, 8:30 – 9:30 AM on La Nueva Fiesta WBON 98.5/96.9FM Long Island & Connecticut, 1490AM South Jersey
Un programa literario y cultural que resaltará las voces e historias de mujeres que han escrito con los talleres de escritura Herstory Writers Workshop a través de Long Island.
A literary and cultural program that highlights the voices and stories of women who have written with Herstory Writers Workshop across Long Island.
Starting Sunday, November 7th-- weekly programming made possible through the Suffolk County Office of Film and Cultural Affairs.
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Herstory on NBC News
The sixth anniversary celebration of Herstory prison program (which offers four weekly writing workshops for incarcerated women and more recently teen girls) was filed and aired by NBC News. See it here: http://www.nbcnewyork.com/station/as-seen-on/Women_Behind_Bars_Write_their_Stories_New_York.html
Short of air, water and food, I can't think of anything that's more important than being able to tell our stories, to be heard, and to hear the stories of people around us. In some original cultures, a person who is ill is told, ‘You've lost your song’ or ‘You've lost your story.’ Your project is helping women toward health and community.
— from Gloria Steinem to Herstory Writers Workshop |
“We all know our stories, but it is the act of shaping them that teaches us our journeys.” These are the words of Herstory’s founder and artistic director Erika Duncan, who pioneered an approach to memoir writing that over the past 14 years has touched thousands of women and girls.
Whether we are beginners or seasoned writers, we work with the belief that writing at its best can conquer oppression; indeed it can change hearts and lives. As each writer finds a way to recapture her memories so that others can walk in her shoes, she reaches the hearts of those who have helped her craft her story, and barriers that so often divide us begin to dissolve. Week by week and chapter by chapter, what was relegated to silence begins to be heard. Sometimes the result is deep bonding. Sometimes it is individual healing. But always the writing grows more powerful as blocks are overcome and larger structures emerge. Click for more. |
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