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Who Gets to Tell Our Stories: Analyzing Power & Ethics of Storytelling

122AB, Pennsylvania Convention Center, 100 Level
Thursday, March 24, 2022
12:10 pm to 1:25 pm

 

Responding to the controversy over American Dirt, author Jeanine Cummins claimed she wanted "to humanize 'the faceless brown mass' of Mexican migrants coming to the US." Literary critics defended her despite community outcry that it wasn’t her story to tell. This panel asks: Who gets to tell whose stories? The goal of the conversation is to develop an onsite ethics of authorship that considers the agency of racialized and gendered subjects within the field of storytelling.



Outline & Supplemental Documents

Event Outline: Event_Outline.pdf

Participants

Moderator:

Marcos Damián León

Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodriguez got her masters of divinity from Vanderbilt University. The bulk of her work is around making the theories and heavy material that is oftentimes only taught in racist/classist institutions accessible through storytelling.

Ashia Ajani is a Black queer environmental storyteller and educator hailing from Denver, Colorado (unceded territory of the Cheyenne, Ute, Arapahoe, and Comanche peoples). They have been published in Frontier Poetry, World Literature Today, Them.us, and Sierra magazine, among others.

Raquel Reichard is an Orlando-based award-winning storyteller with an editorial objective to engage, educate, and empower. As a journalist, she centers her reporting on body politics and Latinx culture. She has a bachelor's degree in journalism from the University of Central Florida and a master's degree in Latinx media studies from New York University.

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