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Body Mapping Initiative: A Success!
A Telling Collective
Mapping Individual Truth, Drawing Collective Power
Recently added: open letter about Bodymapping success in Cape Town, South Africa with Hoops4Hope Organization and a call for donation of paintbrushes and money to support the continuation of bodymapping in five township communities with inspired youth!
Our vision is a development paradigm based on listening. This promotes healing, education, politicization and education. It galvanizes communities through women. We will support the sharing of oral histories as a way to influence policy and give agency to those who have been silenced by western notions of development. Honoring these stories will also enable healing as women reclaim their experiences and find their own path of transformation. We will use body mapping, an artistic outlet for expressing internal and external dynamics, as our technique of bringing out these stories, learning from women and sharing what we have learned.
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Canadian Student Takes a Stand
The beautiful thing about education is that no one can take it away from you. It is the right possession that goes with you to your grave
- Michael Panom Koryom
Leora Smith is working with a team of Canadian students to bring Michael to the United States for graduate school. Do you want to get involved? ...[Read More]