Author Archives: Christopher Swift

MOTH Workshop for CUNY Women

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Dear students,
I have information for a storytelling workshop with “The Moth” for CUNY students. It’s an excellent opportunity and could help you with your projects if there are any storytelling elements in your project:

Available to all CUNY students who identify as women on Saturday, December 8th, 10am-6pm in lower Manhattan (150 Broadway). It is a day of storytelling and community building with afternoon workshops in storytelling skills for goal-setting and the job search. The Moth has partnered with CUNY to host three of these events so far and each one has been extraordinarily inspiring. Young women from CUNY campuses all over the city come together to gain useful skills and connect with each other as they share their stories and their dreams.
I’ll be among the instructors from The Moth during the morning storytelling sessions and will be leading the afternoon career workshops.
Interested students can find more information and register at the following link: The Porch: A Gathering of CUNY Women (https://themoth.org/cuny) 

Prof. Swift

 

Storytelling and social justice

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I learned today about the “Young Women’s Voices Festival” at CUNY, in association with The Moth.  If you think you might be interested in constructing your final project around storytelling, go to this link to learn more: https://themoth.org/cuny  There’s a sign-up sheet for workshops in how to construct stories from personal experience, but it’s not clear from the website when these workshops will be held. I will follow up and find out more if you are interested. Just let me know.

Prof. Swift

Democracy in action

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Dear students,

I don’t know if you’ve been following the Supreme Court confirmation hearings, but Thursday and Friday were two of the most dramatic and consequential moments in U.S. political history in many, many years. Shortly after these two protesters spoke their minds to Republican Senator Jeff Flake, the senator publicly declared that the nominee Judge Kavanaugh would not have his support without an FBI investigation into charges of sexual assault. Without this statement by Sen. Flake, a potential sexual offender would have been pushed through by the majority party in Congress to serve on the highest court of the nation. Here’s what the protesters said to Sen. Flake before he began negotiating for an FBI investigation:

Victims of sexual assault confront Sen Flake

I share it with you now because we often lose faith that our voices will be heard when we speak out against injustice. This is a moment where live engagement in a public arena lead to change.

Prof. Swift