Unsung Heroines
55m
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ColumCreations
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When was the last time you told a story? What are those stories that your family tells at every gathering? Life stories are not only fascinating, but they are important because they reinvent, reform and refashion personal and collective identities. Stories bring to light different communities, practices and purpose women-identified people inhabit, create and participate in. Produced by students in the UnSung Heroines Class in the Spring 2020, these stories provides us the opportunity to reflect upon cultural assumptions, to consider similarities and differences between diverse cultures and our own experiences And to question issues of identity, power and marginalization. Through these we rely on the wide range of Women’s life stories in Chicago and Beyond establishing between the local and the global, the personal and the collective generation to generation. Students worked throughout the semester to define heroism, Identifying unknown heroines and bringing them to the forefront by telling their stories. The result is an eloquent testament to many facets in which creativity, love, determination and strength manifests.
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