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"The Visit" by Victoria Roberts

PDF version of "The Visit," a story by Herstory Writers Workshop author, Victoria Roberts

Tags: Addiction, Children and Families of Prisoners, Drug Addiction, Herstory Writings, Homelessness, hope, Incarceration, mass incarceration, Neonatal abstinence syndrome, Prison Visitation, Remorse, Victoria Roberts

An excerpt from Herstory Writers Workshop author Pat Gorman's memoir, "Red Medicine."

Tags: Biracial Identity, Dakota Access Pipeline, Disease, Herstory Writings, Indigenous, Lakota, Lakota Culture, Medical Justice, Medicine, Mortality, Native American, Native American Health, Native American Health Research Inequality, Pat Gorman, Poverty, Progressive Disease, Racially Inherited Disease, Research/Inequality, Tribal/Cultural erasure

PDF of version of "Wanda," a story by Herstory Writers Workshop author Barbara Levin

Tags: Barbara Levin, Cancer, Drug Addiction, Education, Health Care Inequality, Herstory Writings, Inequality, Poverty, Prostitution, Race/Racism, Sex Work, Welfare

Spanish version of "And Now it is My Turn" written by an anonymous Central Islip High School student

Tags: Anonymous High School Student, border crossing, Brave Journeys/Pasos Valientes, Central America, child abuse, Domestic violence, Family separation, Herstory Writings, Hispanic, Immigrant Rights, immigrants, Immigration reform, Latino/Latina, Long Island Wins, Motherhood, Rio Grande, Stories for Liberation, Teen Pregnancy, Unaccompanied Immigrant Children

PDF version of “Bus ticket to Balochistan,” a story by Herstory Writers Workshop author, Zainab Shah

Tags: Herstory Writings, mother-daughter relationships, multicultural identity, religious identity, Social class inequality, Zainab Shah

PDF version of “No puedo” by Herstory Writers Workshop author Helen Dorado Alessi

Tags: American Dream, Cuba, Cuban-American, Family separation, Forced migration, Helen Dorado Alessi, Herstory Writings, Hispanic, Human Cost of Migration, immigrants, immigration, Latino/Latina, Latino/Latina Literature, Mexico, Oaxaca, Roots of Migration

PDF copy of "He Didn't Want to Kill Me" in English by an Anonymous High School Student Herstory author.

Tags: Anonymous High School Student, border crossing, Central America, Central islip High School, El Salvador, gang violence, Herstory Writings, Hispanic, immigration, Latino/Latina, Latino/Latina Literature, Long Island Wins, San Jorge, San Miguel, Stories for Liberation

PDF copy of "The Perfect Basket" in English by an Anonymous High School Student Herstory author.

Tags: Anonymous High School Student, Central America, Family separation, Herstory Writings, Hispanic, Hispanic culture, Immigrant students, Latino/Latina, Latino/Latina Literature, Long Island Wins, mother-daughter relationships, Patchogue/Medford High School, Stories for Liberation

PDF version of an except from "Voices: Memoirs from Herstory Inside Long Island’s Correctional Facilities" featuring the work of Melody Roker Sims

Tags: Bedford Hills, Coalition for Women Prisoners, Herstory Writings, Incarceration, Manslaughter, Melody Roker Sims, Prison reform, Riverhead Correctional Facility, Victims of Domestic Violence

PDF version of an except from "The Teller in the Tale: A Half-Jewish Child in Nazi Germany" by Herstory Writers Workshop author, Elizabeth Heyn

Tags: Anti-Semitism, Elizabeth Heyn, Eugenics, Half-Jewish Child, Herstory Writings, Holocaust, Identity, miscegenation, Mischling, Nazi Germany