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Jimmie Briggs, a member of our Testimony & Transformation team and a co-founder of Man Up. |
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It’s time to tell a new story about mass incarceration. |
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Through the support of the Illinois Humanities Council and the Chicago Fund for Safe and Peaceful Communities at the Chicago Community Trust, The Voices and Faces Project is launching an all-new program: Testimony & Transformation: Telling a New Story About Mass Incarceration.
Building on the model of The Voices and Faces Project's Stories We Tell workshops for survivors of gender-based violence, Testimony & Transformation will bring together a community of previously incarcerated men and boys who want to use their stories to change the public understanding of the ways that violence has shaped their lives.
The workshop will provide an opportunity for participants to reflect on their experiences of incarceration and shape those experiences into story. Participants will also reflect on the ways that "toxic masculinity" shapes social assumptions about men and women, while thinking in new ways about the intersectionality of poverty, homelessness, police brutality, interpersonal and gender-based violence, and mass incarceration.
Testimony & Transformation is a collaboration between The Voices and Faces Project, Brothers Standing Together, and The Goldin Institute. Special thanks to the leadership team that conceived it: Jimmie Briggs, Anne K. Ream, Travis Rejman, Brother Raymond Richard, and R. Clifton Spargo.
Applications for our workshop are due by Noon on Friday, October 11th.
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Testimony & Transformation:
A writing workshop for returning citizens
Saturday, October 12 — Sunday, October 13, 2019
Chicago, Illinois
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| Questions? Email janet@voicesandfaces.org
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Can a social movement be marketed? We think the answer is yes. |
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In partnership with World Without Exploitation, with the support of NoVo Foundation, and at the invitation of our allies at George Washington University and the National Jewish Women's Council, The Voices and Faces Project recently brought its Marketing a Movement Training to St. Louis, MO. An advocacy training for those seeking to use marketing, media, and strategic communications to create social change, our interactive half-day program has traveled across the US and Canada and trained over 1,500 advocates to date. To bring Marketing a Movement to your organization or community, email katie@voicesandfaces.org.
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Our Stories We Tell alums will be making their mark at the JTDC Gala in Chicago. See you September 27th! |
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Three years ago, through the support of the Cook County Juvenile Temporary Detention Center Foundation (JTDC Foundation), The Voices and Faces Project launched a unique edition of its Stories We Tell writing program for girls whose lives have been impacted by gender-based violence and the criminal justice system. That program served as ground zero for a series of workshops that our team has brought to girls across the North American and African continents. Now, two of our workshop alums, Jala Williams and Kadasha Williams, will be featured in a short film about the work of the Foundation that will debut at "Converging on the Positive," the JTDC Foundation 10th anniversary gala, which is chaired by Chicago Mayor Lori E. Lightfoot.
Launched in 2009 and currently directed by its co-founder, Dr. Sharon Grant, the JTDC Foundation focuses on developing systems and programs to enhance the future of children at risk. We are grateful to Sharon and the foundation for supporting our Voices and Faces Project work, and indebted to the team that has made it possible: Anna Buckingham, Cami DiMauri, Sharon Grant, Marline Johnson, Anne K. Ream, R. Clifton Spargo, Jala Williams, and Kadasha Williams. See you at the gala on the 27th! |
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Sharing their stories to change the story:
Discover the World Without Exploitation Survivor Story Archive. |
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A unique collaboration between survivors of human trafficking and sexual exploitation, writers from our Voices and Faces Project "Stories We Tell" testimonial writing program, and New Abolitionists, the World Without Exploitation Survivor Story Archive introduces readers to a powerful, purposeful community of survivor-leaders who are sharing their testimonies in order to challenge damaging stereotypes about who is bought, sold, and trafficked in America. Visit the WorldWE Archive and you'll see why we are so moved and inspired by the women and men at the heart of this unique storytelling project.
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| Support The Voices and Faces Project’s Stories We Tell Scholarship Fund. |
| We've launched a drive to support our 2019 Stories We Tell Scholarship Fund. Every $650 raised provides a full, two-day scholarship to a workshop applicant ready to take part in our groundbreaking writing program. Thanks, in advance, for giving the gift of change.
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