Telling Stories to Change the World

Rickie Solinger is a historian and curator, author of books including Pregnancy and Power: A Short History of Reproductive Politics in America and Wake Up Little Susie: Single Pregnancy and Race before Roe v. Wade.Madeline Fox is an educator and researcher currently pursuing her PhD in Social Personality Psychology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.Kayhan Irani is a community arts practitioner who in 2007 was awarded a certificate of recognition by New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg for her arts work in immigrant communities.

"It is difficult to underscore the importance of books like Telling Stories to Change the World. Indigenous Peoples are now revealing prophesies about an immanent end to dominant systems that are based on greed, corruption, materialism and an artificial separation from Nature, the very things that cause social and ecological injustice....Books like this one remind us that we are all related and that an arts-based dialogue that allows oppressed people to tell their stories can help with this awakening." -- Teachers College, Record, October 16, 2008

• I "The Language of the People Was Born:" Stories in the Service of Healing, Tradition, Cultural Vitality, History1. Zuni River – Shiwinan K’yawinanne: Cultural Confluence, Edward Wemytewa and Tia Oros Peters2. The Memory Book Project in Kampala, Uganda: "We’re Not Going to Die Today or Tomorrow," Magaret Ssweankambo, Naome Kuteesa, Margaret Nabuma, and Joyce Kasujja ; edited by Madeline Fox3. Telling the Truth: How Breaking Silence Brought Redemption to One Mississippi Town, Susan M. Glisson4. Our Ancestors Danced Like This: Maya Youth Respond to Genocide Using Ancestral Arts, Czarina Aggabao Thelen5. An Unlikely Alliance: Germans and Jews Collaborate to Teach the Lessons of the Holocaust, Deborah Roth-Howe, Herbert L. Roth, Gabrielle Schmitt, Dr. Annegret Wenz-Haubfleisch, and Rabbi Robert Sternberg6. Storytelling in SisterSong and the Voices of Feminism Project, Loretta J. RossII "This Needs Urgent Attention:" Stories in the Service of Protecting, Defending, Building Audience and Allies7. "Our Stories Told By Us": The Neighborhood Story Project in New Orleans, Rachel Breunlin, Abram Himelstein, and Ashley Nelson8. A Story of Suicide and Social Change in Contemporary China, Sharon R. Wesoky9. Depo Diaries and the Power of Stories, Etobssie Wako and Cara Page10. Immigrant Stories in the Hudson Valley, Jo Salas11. Our Stories, Their Decisions Voter Education Project, Natasha Friedus12. Drawing Attention to Darfur, Annie Sparrow13. INSAN NATAK: Phoenix or Dodo in Lahore, Muhammad Mushtaq 14. Everyone Needs to Know: Five Stories About AIDS and Art in India, Nandita Palchoudhuri, David Gere, Monimala Chitrakar, Samiran Panda, and Mithu JanaIII "Weaving Freedom into New Tongues:" Stories in the Service of Challenging and Transforming Beliefs15. The We That Sets Us Free: Imagining a World Without Prisons, Alice do Valle16. Hearing the Great Ancestors and "Women Living Under Muslim Laws", Aisha Lee Fox Shaheed17. Creating a Forum: LGBTQ Youth and THE HOME PROJECT in Chicago, Megan Carney18. From Storytelling to Community Development: Jaghori, Afghanistan,Wahid Omar 19. Sins Invalid: Disability, Dancing, and Claiming Beauty, Patty BerneIV The Power and the Limits of Stories20. Anne Braden, Fannie Lou Hamer, and Rigoberta Menchu: Using Personal Narrative to Build Activist Movements, Catherine Fosl21. Trafficking Trauma: Intellectual Property Rights and the Political Economy of Traumatic Storytelling in South Africa, Christopher J. Colvin22. Imagining Cuba: Storytelling and the Politics of Exile, Myra Mendible 23. Stories in Law, Martha Minow