HERSTORY IN ACTION

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

HERSTORY IN ACTION

VIDEO HIGHLIGHTS

If your words had the power to change hearts, minds and policies, what would they say?

If Your Words Had the Power...

We invite you to watch this 4 minute video created

by middle and high school students, teachers,

school administrators, and Herstory facilitators

in the Uniondale summer program,

to see what they had to say.

This is the dare that begins every Herstory workshop,

whether in a school or a jail, or community setting.

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(4:19 minutes)

HERSTORY BEHIND BARS

We share this ten-minute video to illustrate how Shamah ShaRize, a formerly incarcerated teacher, joins our founder in modeling "If Your Words Have the Power," as we welcome two new members to jump out of their own modeling of “If Your Words Had the Power” to image the shape that their writing journey will take.

The Dare That Began it All

(1:53 minutes)

HERSTORY BEYOND BARS
(Almost two decades later)

Playacting the Page One Moment Using the Herstory Curriculum in Front of an Audience of Strangers

Listen to the way Rich Paul from STRONG Youth takes us up on this command.

(2:47 minutes)

Engaging the Group in Helping Each Other Go Deeper

See how Marcellus Morris from Reign 4 Life is already advising his daughter on the first day that they share their writings using the Herstory technique.

(2:04 minutes)

Moments of Reckoning The Harm We Have Caused

Finally, listen to Ivan Kilgore, incarcerated founder of the United Black Family Scholarship Fund, speak about the Lifers With Optimistic Progress writing circle for men serving life sentences at the Correctional Facility in Solano, California.

(2:55 minutes)

Playacting the Page One

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HERSTORY AT HEMPSTEAD HIGH SCHOOL

Please enjoy this 16-minute film produced by Kevin Ross with Antillana Films

The Herstory pedagogy pushes the boundaries of writing in school settings beyond English courses amplifying its impact to Spanish, Social Studies, and Math classes alike. Since 2010, the Herstory Writers Network school program has been working in lockstep with passionate teachers, administrators, and school counselors. Herstory facilitators act as catalysts for transformational experiences in an expanding number of school districts. The stories that have sprung to life illuminate the real immigrant experience-- one of dreams, compassion, sacrifice, determination, and unwavering courage-- in ways that no reader will ever forget.

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