StoryTelling and Organizing Project Workshop

You may or may not be familiar with the StoryTelling and Organizing Project, aka STOP.  They are "a community project collecting and sharing stories about everyday people taking action to end interpersonal violence," and their website is linked here.  (And, a heads up that their stories of community interventions into harm contain heavy stuff, and could definitely be triggering for listeners.)

Long story short, they do amazing work documenting community-based responses to harm.  Based in Oakland, they'll be here in New York on March 3rd, holding a workshop/conversation from 6:30-9pm at the Audre Lorde Project in Brooklyn.  Here's some of what they have to say about what they're up to:

"...we will be holding a series of Listening and Discussion Sessions across the country to introduce STOP, share some of the lessons we’ve been learning from the project, and brainstorm ways that local communities can start using some of those lessons right where they live. 

"During listening sessions we have listened to story segments from the STOP story bank, watched video clips of other STOP partners discussing their work, discussed ways to integrate parts of the stories or lessons learned from the stories into ongoing campaigns or projects, and made plans to develop all kinds of STOP-based products from children’s books to visual art, to theater pieces.  Throughout, the primary goal remains the same: how can all of us take steps to prevent, interrupt, and eliminate violence?  By drawing from examples in STOP stories, our own ideas can come to light and add to a growing toolbox of community-based approaches to sexual assault, domestic violence, and other types of harm we face."

Please know that this workshop is meant to build resources and dialogue among folks who are doing work around community-based responses to harm (e.g. accountability, interventions, prevention) or thinking about how to respond to violence without depending on state institutions.  Please feel free to invite your peeps/fam/kinfolk, keeping this in mind.