Keynote: Does this feel dignifying? Considering, telling, and sharing more ethical stories for social and systems change.
Session Description
Stories shape our imaginations and, therefore, the realities we live in. Some are narratives that are dominant and that dominate. These often serve to perpetuate, reinforce, and entrench stereotypical and stigmatising narratives and norms: that is, the ways we understand social issues and the people experiencing them. There are power dynamics inherent in how stories are told: whose worldviews are being shared, and the frames through which we receive them. If people are the sum of the stories told about them and the stories they then internalise about themselves, whose imaginations are we living in, and what does it take to challenge this?