Rebecca Walker and Lily Diamond’s “What’s Your Story?”
journal invites you to practice activism through your daily entries.
But journaling to further your activist pursuits?
Those goals arent often front-of-mind when you turn to a blank page.InWhats Your Story?
Walker and Diamond first met each other atWalkers Art of Memoir Masterclassa seven-day seminar that teaches fierce introspection.
A great deal of the practices and guided exercises in the book stem from that very class.
writer and educator
Many of the students who came out of Rebeccas Art of Memoir course wanted to continue the work.
(Meaning: Without the activism sections,yourstory cant be completed.)
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To us, thats inextricable from the work of revisioning and remaking our own identities, says Walker.
Below, the dynamic journaling duo offer two writing exercises to get you started.
Take up all the space you need.
Write for at least five minutes.
Then move on to the next question, or take a break.
Whatever feels right in the moment.
Prompt 1:Whose stories are uplifted and spoken in your communities, and whose are diminished or silenced?
Prompt 2.Where does your story place you within each community?
These questions were excerpted fromWhats Your Story?with permission from the authors.
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