Ecosystem for a New American Narrative
The field of documentary impact has officially entered its maturation phase. For over two decades, the documentary film sector has...
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Jul 13, 20237 min read
Imagining Liberation
The Changemaker Authors Cohort, a partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club, is a new, yearlong intensive coaching program supporting...
Jun 29, 20239 min read
Finding the Freedom to Love Through Faith
While faith is not often considered a hallmark of progressive values, you can be a person of faith and a member of the LGBTQ+ community....
Jun 8, 202317 min read
Art is at the Heart of Disability Justice
An estimated 7.5% of the adult population in the United States is now living with long COVID, the long-term or chronic effects of a COVID...
Jun 7, 202310 min read
Storytelling Can Move Mountains
In 2011, Tania Mattos started working with filmmaker Christina Antonakos-Wallace when she was a leader in the fight for the New York...
May 10, 20238 min read
Setting Boundaries in Mission Driven Work
The Changemaker Authors Cohort, a partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club, is a yearlong intensive coaching program supporting...
Dec 7, 202213 min read
Creating Systems of Support
Silky Shah is the Executive Director of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition building power to abolish immigration detention in...
Dec 2, 20227 min read
We Have Always Existed
Emily Ramirez is a queer Dominican woman, born and raised in NYCHA housing in Brooklyn, and is currently contracting with the United...
Nov 21, 20227 min read
Living with Desire & Bipolar Disorder
Adam Nyang is a Gambian who recently completed her Bachelor’s degree in English Studies. She has always been passionate about...
Nov 16, 20229 min read
Busting the “Post-Patriarchy” Myth
Ellen Bravo is a long-time activist and author who’s spent decades organizing among low-wage women from a social justice feminist...
Oct 27, 20229 min read
Organizing: A love story
Beth Howard is the Appalachia Organizing Director for Showing Up for Racial Justice where she is directing transformational basebuilding...
Oct 20, 202210 min read
Mapping the Beaches of Black America
The Changemaker Authors Cohort, a partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club, is a new, yearlong intensive coaching program supporting...
Oct 10, 202213 min read
Wielding Grief to Enact Change
Malkia Devich Cyril, is a writer, public speaker and award winning activist on issues of digital rights, narrative power, Black...
Sep 23, 202210 min read
More Than Words: Trevor Smith connects anti-Black stereotypes to lethal violence
The Changemaker Authors Cohort, a partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club, is a new, yearlong intensive coaching program supporting...
Sep 15, 20229 min read
Worlds of Possibility
The Changemaker Authors Cohort, a partnership with the Unicorn Authors Club, is a new, yearlong intensive coaching program supporting...
Aug 15, 202216 min read
I Just Want to Be Seen: Roula AbiSamra excavates the trauma of her losses as a brown child of the Middle East in the American South
Lebanese-American reproductive justice advocate, Roula AbiSamra is working on a graphic memoir about the traumatic losses she experienced...
Jun 30, 202210 min read
Aishah Shahidah Simmons writes herself whole in memoir on sexual violence and healing
Narrative Initiative is committed to supporting storytellers whose work challenges harmful narratives on complex topics, such as...
Jun 21, 20224 min read
Moving Beyond “Making The Case”: How We Build Narrative Power For Reparations
(This is part 1 of a 2 part series between Liberation Ventures and Narrative Initiative on narrative change and reparations.) “The world...
May 25, 20227 min read
Recognition and invisibility: A conversation with Panthea Lee about AAPI narratives
May is AAPI Heritage Month and we are speaking with women who live, see and share the narrative power of Asian Americans. Last week we...
May 18, 20228 min read
The voices missing from the abortion debate
The imminent repeal of Roe v. Wade has brought public narratives of motherhood and reproductive justice to the forefront. Each side has...
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