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In celebration of International Day of Rural Women: The Voices and Faces Project and Justice for Migrant Women are proud to announce “I Am Rural America,” a call for poetry submissions.
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October 15th is the United Nations' International Day of Rural Women and we proudly join them in celebrating and honoring the women and girls living in rural areas. On this day, the Louder Together team at The Voices and Faces Project is joining with Justice for Migrant Women, an organization that protects and advances migrant women's rights through education, public awareness and advocacy, to solicit poetry submissions that speak to the statement "I Am Rural America."
We are seeking poetry that helps us shine a light on outdated notions of who represents rural North and South America…confront the economic, racial, and social injustices too often experienced by immigrant and farmworker persons…and highlight aspects of rural life that are too often ignored by the media and the public. We seek especially to elevate the writing of Black, Brown and Indigenous persons, and other communities of color from across North and South America, whose stories are too often disappear in conversations about rural populations.
We welcome poetry that speaks hard truths. But we also seek writing that focuses on your hopes for a more just and equitable rural America.
We hope you will celebrate with us and submit your poem by December 1, 2021!
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Don’t miss this special evening!
October 21, 2021 @ 7p EST
JOY AS AN ACT OF RESISTANCE:
A book celebration and conversation with: author of "Leaving Breezy Street" Brenda Myers-Powell and Anne K. Ream
November 13 & 14, 2021
TESTIMONY & TRANSFORMATION:
A writing workshop for returning citizens
Chicago, IL
December 11 & 12, 2021
THE STORIES WE TELL:
A virtual writing workshop for survivors and witnesses of gender based violence
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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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