“Stories have been used to dispossess and to malign.

But stories can also be used to empower, and to humanize.”

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Stories must remain a portal to freedom rather than a dead-end to entrapment. Should someone choose to disclose a story or internalize it as a part of themselves, they must also hold the desire for liberation close.

Storytelling is instructive for anyone interested in social change, both because of the arcs that narratives form and because every storyteller has to summon up a convincing world, with forces and pressures working on their characters. Many manuals, classes and schools help people to create the fictional worlds into which they insert their

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