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| Anne K. Ream, Hannah Sward and Brenda Myers-Powell are featured speakers at Printers Row Lit Fest 2022. |
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Resistance, resilience and surviving the sex trade: Memoirists Brenda-Myers-Powell and Hannah Sward in conversation with Anne K. Ream at Printers Row Lit Fest.
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On September 10th at Printers Row Lit Fest — the Midwest's largest literary and ideas festival — The Voices and Faces Project founder Anne K. Ream, author of Lived Through This, her memoir of a global journey spent listening to survivors of sexual violence and trafficking, will moderate a conversation with two extraordinary memoirists whose books about life in the sex trade are moving — and "must-read."
Activist, author and Dreamcatcher Foundation founder Brenda Myers-Powell's Leaving Breezy Street is a powerful account of Brenda's life in and journey out of prostitution. Praised by Peabody award-winning journalist Alex Kotlowitz as "Remarkable… Myers-Powell emerges on the other side not only intact but as an inspiration," Brenda's book is at once beautiful and painful.
Hannah Sward's Strip is brutally honest and bawdily humorous, exploring a bohemian childhood that evolved, less idyllically, into a life in the sex industry and a struggle with addiction. Called "Touchingly honest" by Nobel Prize winning author J.M Coetzee, and "A memoir that captures pain with wisdom and hilarity" by New York Times bestselling memoirist Christina McDowell, Strip challenges us to rethink who enters the sex trade — and why they do.
Join us for a conversation we know will be as eye-opening as it is inspiring. Brenda, Hannah and Anne, we cannot wait to hear from you!
Resistance, resilience and surviving the sex trade:
Brenda-Myers-Powell, Hannah Sward & Anne K. Ream in conversation at
Printers Row Lit Fest
4 pm. September 10, 2022
731 South Plymouth Court, Chicago, IL
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Applications due Friday 9/9 for The Stories We Tell, The Voices and Faces Project's testimonial writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence.
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| Over 1,000 writers and advocates from across the North American and African continents have taken part in The Stories We Tell, The Voices and Faces Project's two-day testimonial writing program. These are just a few of our graduates!
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The Stories We Tell, The Voices and Faces Project's two-day testimonial writing program for survivors of gender-based violence and other social injustices, is being offered virtually October 1-2, 2022. Through generous support from the Van Otterloo Family Foundation, and in partnership with USC's Suzanne Dworak-Peck School of Social Work and Center for Justice and Reconciliation, this award-winning storytelling program isn't just training writers. It's changing lives.
During The Stories We Tell workshop a cohort of between 13-15 emerging and established writers and activists come together to read and discuss culture-changing literature and representation… take part in a series of innovative, real time writing exercises… share creative work in moderated, trauma-informed feedback sessions… and strategize on how to use our personal narratives to create political change. Applications are due September 9, 2022; accepted participants are given full tuition scholarships; must be able to attend both days.
Meet our workshop facilitators and instructors Anne K. Ream and R. Clifton Spargo.
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| UPCOMING EVENTS |
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RESISTANCE, RESILIENCE AND SURVIVING THE SEX TRADE: Brenda-Myers-Powell, Hannah Sward & Anne K. Ream in conversation at
Printers Row Lit Fest
September 10, 2022 at 4p CST
731 South Plymouth Court,
Chicago, IL
FIND OUT MORE
OUR STORIES, OUR POWER, AND OUR MOMENT:
Using survivor narrative to address human trafficking and commercial sexual exploitation.
An interactive workshop with Anne K. Ream
at the
National Center for Youth Law
September 14, 2022
EVERY VOICE MATTERS:
A moderated conversation with the support of IL Humanities Council
September 21, 2022 at 3p CST
Simmons Center for Global Chicago
Email abravo@voicesandfaces.org
THE STORIES WE TELL:
A writing workshop for survivors of gender-based violence
Saturday & Sunday, October 1-2, 2022
VIRTUAL
APPLY
A STORY CHANGES EVERYTHING:
How survivor narratives are changing the movement to end commercial sexual exploitation.
A keynote presentation by Anne K. Ream at The Laura Bush Institute for Women's Health
October 29, 2022
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Our stories are our power.
At The Voices and Faces Project we’re using them to create change. |
The Voices and Faces Project is an award-winning non-profit storytelling initiative created to bring the names, faces, and testimonies of survivors of gender-based violence to the attention of the public. Through our educational and advocacy trainings, survivor story archive and signature program, The Stories We Tell — an immersive, two-day testimonial writing workshop for those who have lived through or witnessed gender-based violence or other human rights violations — we seek to change minds, hearts, and public policies through the power of personal testimony. The Voices and Faces Project has been named one of America's Best Charities by the board of Independent Charities of America, and is a registered 501c3 organization.
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