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Herstory’s Manual: Paper Stranger/Shaping Stories in Community explores the parts of the Herstory technique that have intrigued healers, activists and writers alike. There are many charismatic teachers, but Erika Duncan is one of the few who can deconstruct and articulate their methods. Her manual Paper Stranger: Shaping Stories in Community effectively demonstrates the methodology to teach compassion-based listening and story construction. The tools Erika Duncan has developed are dynamic and versatile, and are based on the simple challenge – to shape each piece of your story so that the reader will care. This book will act as a complete kit for teachers looking for something new because it is a passionate testimonial to the power of well-crafted stories. It is a unique handbook and tool for empowerment! $19.95 single copy/ $15.00 per copy for 10 or more for use in the classroom.
Erin Gruwell - author of Freedom Writers Diary
$19.95
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Introducing the New Herstory Member-Donated Book Series
As of May 2009, we began a new book series by members who began and completed books in our workshops, who chose to self- publish under the Herstory imprint, donating all production costs and all proceeds to help us to offer quality workshops to those who might not otherwise be able to afford them. Watch our calendar of events for book signings and other celebrations.
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The Teller in the Tale: A Half-Jewish Child in Nazi Germany by Elizabeth Heyn is the story of a half-Jewish child growing up in Nazi Germany. It traces its way through her miraculous late escape in 1941 just three weeks before the German borders close, to her coming of age as a refugee in Franco’s Spain, and finally to her attempts to become a typical American teenager. Rich in the not usually documented details of everyday life for one who falls between the cracks —neither Jewish nor Gentile and thus subject to different rules — this is also the story of a mother and daughter who, due to the circumstances in their lives, need to adjust to their too-closeness, even as they find their own ways.
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Love Song at the End of the Day: A Journey into Alzheimer’s by Muriel Weyl- This unexpectedly optimistic memoir is a testimony to living life to its fullest, written with compassion and humor. Throughout this “love song”— which only deepens as we move from diagnosis into daily living with Alzheimer’s— we find remembrances of a sixty-two-year relationship in the everyday moments that weave through this work. It is ultimately a celebration of the human spirit, a bedside book for anyone who is connected to a sufferer from memory loss.
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VOICES: Memoirs from Herstory Inside Suffolk County’s Correctional Facilities, Volume One
Memoir is about the past and nowhere is this shadow more present than in the prisons, where one pays for what cannot be rewritten. Magazine contains excerpts of stories of childhood, of mothering, steps and missteps.
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VOICES: Memoirs from Herstory Inside Suffolk County’s Correctional Facilities, Volume Two
Our second issue of Voices, in expanded journal form, is set up not only to give the women whom our society incarcerates a face, but to raise the most important questions facing families undergoing cycles of imprisonment, rupture of relationships, and closed doors. Through these stories and family letters, a rich picture emerges, not only of the real lives of the women we find behind bars, but of what a compassion-based writing project can do in terms of re-creation of family, new relationships, new directions and the slow building of new skills. This collection provides a wealth of facts for students of criminology, sociology and law – even as it becomes an eloquent outcry for all of us, first to bear witness and then to find ways to act in the interest of restorative justice and granting our proper humanity to all.
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Latinas Write/Escriben, Volume1
The only bilingual magazine on Long Island for Latinas writing about their own lives. Turn the pages and land in a Mexican jail, a Guatemalan earthquake, a filthy bathroom in an opulent mansion in the Hamptons, an alienating kindergarten classroom and a picturesque Mexican village.
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Latinas Write/Escriben, Volume 2
More stories from our Latina writers.
$ 10.00 |
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Note Cards featuring the original work of our artist-in-residence Gwynne Duncan, make perfect gifts at any time of the year and help support the work of Herstory. Eight elegant designs. $14 per package of 16 cards, two of each design in each package.
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| Posters |
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Our Annual Benefit Posters featuring the original work of our artist-in-residence Gwynne Duncan, make perfect gifts at any time of the year and help support the work of Herstory. $10 per poster/ $25 for three.
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Three: $25 |
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