The world is alive with stories.

I feel a huge part of collective liberation is examining stories - Who is writing them? Who is editing and shaping, erasing, controlling, timing, codifying, circulating, affirming, profiting, hiding, and setting stories on fire?

Story work is the process of researching, gathering and sharing fuller stories. It is a practice of getting to know a person, place or thing. Story work is an act of recovering stories and bringing those to the surface that have been buried, ignored, erased, distorted over time and purposely misrepresented. When we do Story work, we shine a light on false, made up and manipulated stories, break story trances and balance who is telling stories (i.e. whose voice is being heard the most). What I am calling Story work isn’t new; people have been doing community work around narratives, perception, language, consciousness and memory for a very long time.