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Stories by Kelsey Timmerman
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Bring The Facing Project Model to Your Community The Facing Project works with colleges, universities, and communities to equip citizens with the tools and resources necessary to organize and share the stories of their neighbors through acts of empathy (listening, writing, storytelling, writing, … [Read more...]
Facing Project on Nightly News in Flint
Mott Community College is running a Facing College project focusing on the stories of immigrant students. They recently received coverage on Flint's ABC channel 12. Everyone has an opinion of what should be done politically about immigrants, even people who don't even know or have conversed with … [Read more...]
My wife’s story moved a stranger to tears
She didn’t know the story was mine. That the boy in the story with autism was my son, Griffin, that the narrator was my wife. Yet as Anne, our volunteer reader, read in front of the packed room at Cornell University with a photo of Griffin behind her, she got choked up. I thought she was going to … [Read more...]
Mystery of the Muncie Scarf Leads to Coos Bay, Oregon
Facing Project board member Stephanie Fisher was walking past Muncie Central High School and saw a scarf tied to a chain link fence next to a note that read: “Feeling cold? Take these to warm up and share the love! Happy New Year!” “I smiled when I first saw it,” Stephanie wrote in her … [Read more...]
Does Humans of New York Exploit Humans
Like most humans of the internet we are fans of Humans of New York (HONY). HONY reminds us that everyone has a story as they glide in and out of our own lives as extras, maybe appearing as "couple in coffee shop" or "crying kid on airplane." HONY gives us a glimpse of those lives and hints at the … [Read more...]
Tour our new HQ on Periscope!
Kelsey leads a tour of our new co-working space and talks a bit about Muncie's Facing Racism project. Look there's J.R.! Look there's our poet friend Michael Brockley! … [Read more...]
An ever-expanding circle of compassion
“We imagine . . . this circle of compassion. Then we imagine ourselves close to the margins so that the margins themselves will be erased. We stand there with those whose dignity has been denied. We locate ourselves with the poor and the powerless and the voiceless. At the edges, we join the easily … [Read more...]
Creating together: A Confession of a reluctant collaborator
Kelsey (left) with J.R. (right) and the amazing organizers of Washington & Lee's Facing Sexual Violence project) A few years ago I roped a guy who I barely knew into participating in the very first Facing Project as a writer. Today, he’s the co-founder of the Facing Project, who had … [Read more...]