https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99 7 en-us 2021-03-11 15:27:53 UTC 2021-03-12 02:52:08 UTC hello@padlet.com sebastianbronk https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298552636 2021-03-11 15:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298552636 sebastianbronk https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298552639 "I'm a storyteller. And I would like to tell you a few personal stories about what I like to call "the danger of the single story."]]> 2021-03-11 15:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298552639 sebastianbronk https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298552640 "Stories matter. Many stories matter. Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign, but stories can also be used to empower and to humanize. Stories can break the dignity of a people, but stories can also repair that broken dignity. "]]> 2021-03-11 15:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298552640 sebastianbronk https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298552644 Power is the ability not just to tell the story of another person, but to make it the definitive story of that person. The Palestinian poet Mourid Barghouti writes that if you want to dispossess a people, the simplest way to do it is to tell their story and to start with, "secondly." ]]> 2021-03-11 15:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298552644 sebastianbronk https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298552646 Too often a storyteller gives just one perspective, so it is important here when the speaker says she will tell the reader "a few personal stories". She provides multiple stories revealing a more complete view of her identity. I believe this is an example of using stories "to empower and humanize". The speaker tells stories to complete our understanding of how various stories together give a more complete picture of a person or place. Putting the good stories together with tales of challenges makes her relate-able and believable. ]]> 2021-03-11 15:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298552646 sebastianbronk https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298552648 2021-03-11 15:27:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298552648 leokoenig2 https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298748927 "I was also an early writer, and when I began to write, at about the age of seven, stories in pencil with crayon illustrations that my poor mother was obligated to read, I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading."

]]> 2021-03-11 16:01:53 UTC https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298748927 cooperguerriere https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298749278 I come from a conventional, middle-class Nigerian family. My father was a professor. My mother was an administrator. And so we had, as was the norm, live-in domestic help, who would often come from nearby rural villages.]]> 2021-03-11 16:01:58 UTC https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1298749278 sebastianbronk https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1301145610 "I come from a conventional, middle-class Nigerian family. My father was a professor. My mother was an administrator. And so we had, as was the norm, live-in domestic help, who would often come from nearby rural villages. So, the year I turned eight, we got a new house boy. His name was Fide. The only thing my mother told us about him was that his family was very poor. My mother sent yams and rice, and our old clothes, to his family. And when I didn't finish my dinner, my mother would say, "Finish your food! Don't you know? People like Fide's family have nothing." So I felt enormous pity for Fide's family. "]]> 2021-03-12 02:51:11 UTC https://padlet.com/sebastianbronk/x91x47d11wqxan99/wish/1301145610