By Eryn Wise | Project Leader
Dear Relatives,
We won't wax poetic on the issue that is impacting our global community at this time. Our collective, like everyone around us, is taking extremely preventative measures and sheltering-in-place. Because of this, our ability to travel, train, and congregate has been unforeseeably paused but we remain vigilant in our commitment to sharing lived experiences.
Now, more than ever, we need Storytellers. We need to hear the voices of our young folx who are seeing their senior years, campus support networks, physical protests, and levels of access reduced significantly. Our young people have been/are being mercilessly displaced from dorm rooms and host families, and outside of the realm of academia, are experiencing an unprecedented world as the rest of the global community is, but with less power within it.
We need to continue investing in our young media makers, writers, creatives, and those continuing to organize on behalf of other young folx, those of us who qualify as their olders and elders, and all those yet to come. We are making the conscious decision to not delay our efforts, but rather find ways to efficiently move our work online and create dynamic stories that will continue to showcase the grassroots work, mutual aid, community service, and real issues our young people are dealing with.
For those among us who aren't considered youth anymore, our program will continue to uplift and amplify the experience of Indigenous, Black, people of the global majority who are feeling this global shift and crisis more deeply than most.
We send our smoke to each of you for protection and ask that you all continue to join us in staying home. If you know folx traveling out to national parks/landscapes at this time, please remind them that they are treading on Indigenous territories and posing a threat to our communities and themselves.
With love and in service to our world, one another, and our oral traditions,
Eryn Wise
Storytellers Project Leader
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