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"Wanda" by Barbara Levin

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

"The Will: An Excerpt from 'Red Medicine,' a memoir in progress"

3a The Will, an excerpt from Red Medicine by Pat Gorman.pdf

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

"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

"The Emptiness that we Carry in our Hearts" by Anonymous (Spanish version)

10b- The Emptiness We Carry in Our Hearts by an anonymous writer from of Long Island HIgh School--Spanish Version.pdf

Spanish version of Herstory Writers Workshop story, "The Emptiness that we Carry in our Hearts" written by an anonymous Long Island High School student.

Tags: Bereavement, Central America, childhood, El Salvador, Family of victim's of violent crime, gang violence, Grief/grievung, Gun violence, Herstory Writings, Hispanic, immigrants, immigration, Latino/Latina, Long Island Wins, murder, Stories for Liberation, Violent Crime

"The Emptiness that we Carry in our Hearts" by Anonymous

10a The Emptiness We Carry in Our Hearts ENG by an anonymous writer from a Long Island High School--English Version.pdf

English version of "The Emptiness that we Carry in our Hearts" by an anonymous Long Island High School student written for the Herstory Writers Workshop.

Tags: Bereavement, Central America, childhood, El Salvador, Family of victim's of violent crime, gang violence, Grief/grievung, Gun violence, Herstory Writings, Hispanic, immigrants, immigration, Latino/Latina, Long Island Wins, murder, Stories for Liberation, Violent Crime