Writings by Women Learners

Do you like to write? Do you have something you'd like to share with other women? This is your page. Please send your writings to WE LEARN and we will post them on this page.

Also, do you like to draw or do other artwork? This site needs some pictures. You may send your artwork as well.

Listing of Student Writings in The Change Agent Issue 19, Women & Literacy (September, 2004)

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WE LEARN collaborated with the New England Literacy Resource Center (NELRC) to produce The Change Agent Issue #19 on Women and Literacy. It provided us with our first opportunity to publish writings by students and teachers on some of the issues related to women's literacy. This will be the first of many such efforts. We are interested in your comments. We have listed the student writing on this page. Click Here for the full issue.

Women's Literacy Matters, pages 1-12 Women & Literacy Kaleidoscopic Image, Kinnari Sutariya Women’s Adult Education, Agnes Nansubuga Welfare Reform & Women’s Education It’s Never Too Late, Crecelia Jaurequi My Life As a Teen Mom, Darlene Paulino How Much Education Do You Get? Women Making a Difference, pages 13-36 Fighting for My Rights, Stephanie Edma Blood, Sweat, and Tears, Ana Gonzalez Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How?, Barbara Carreira Surviving the Education and Judicial Systems, Monica Nowos Education Helps Women, Idalina Barbosa Love for People and for Education, An Interview with Klare Allen Striving Women, Nadine Lovemore Women with Disabilities Women Who Paved the Way, Delores Martin Sojourner, Barbara Bland Women in History: A Timeline Women in History (poem), Nadine Lovemore Using the Web-based Version of the Timeline Against All Odds My Life Story, Emma Steele Brown Surviving & Thriving, pages 37-56 My Literacy Story, Ting Zhang A Slave to No One, Cassandra Grant Loves Herself Regardless Creating Sacred Space Intergenerational Women Students Women’s Health in the Classroom Stella’s Story My Father’s Child, Elizabeth Robles Adult Education & Domestic Trauma Daisy’s Ambition Taking Up the Impact of Violence in Literacy Expanding Boundaries 57-67 Expanding Boundaries AND Resources, pages 68-71 Homophobia in the Classroom Coming Out to Students VozMujer: Querer es Poder Expressive Arts in Prison Women Reading Together The Dirty Girls Social Club (Book Review), Ivette Rivera Reading Changed My Life WE LEARN; A Resource for Women The SUPPLEMENT ISSUE The collaborative effort with NELRC (New England Literacy Resource Center) provided WE LEARN our first opportunity to publish writings by students and teachers on some of the issues related to women and literacy. This effort created far more energy and enthusiasm than we anticipated. We received many more high quality writings than would fit in the print version of the issue. Due to our mission and vision, WE LEARN is able to use our website to make available the additional writings not published. Click here to download the complete supplement. Supplement: Women's Literacy Matters ……....1-9 The Name of a Tree Women and Literacy, Tonya Wallace My Education, Africa Tavarez Everyday Literacy: Three Voices Who Says We Need Women's Literacy Materials Women Are Used to Prisons, Kathleen Thornton Supplement:Women Making a Difference ….10-11 Standing Up for What I Believe, Tonya Kordonis The Personal Is Political Supplement:Surviving & Thriving ……….…….11-13 Getting My Education Is Difficult, Pelli Tozay I Will Keep Trying, Jeannette Rosario Emerging Woman, Vivian Miller Starting Over Is Hard, Cindy Nieves Supplement:Expanding Boundaries ……….…14-24 Si Se Puede: Yes, It's Possible, Emma Banuelos de Banuelos My Transition from Student to Staff Affirmations for Myself, Tewania Blacknall Storytelling: A Key Aspect of Literacy Remembering Ourselves To My Own Self Be True? Literacy Programs Offer the Gift of Possibility

 

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These stories were sent to WE LEARN by student writers: last updated April, 2004 Wende Archer, Me Cat, Me Hong Ha, Memoir Zeta Kennedy, The Old Man Students in the Family Learning Program, South St. Paul, MN, 365/24/7 -- Moms on Duty with NO Pay: A Radio Program for International Women's Day, March 8, 2002,

 

For a complete list of learner writings,
please go to the Resource List
or go to Writings by Women Learners.

 

PLEASE NOTE: At this time we are NOT able to make any payment for writings or artwork.

For now, anything you send will be a donation. We will, however, give you full credit for your words and creativity.

WE LEARN has recently established the Elizabeth Morrish Memorial Student Scholarship Fund. We will do fundraising. In the future, we hope to offer small honorariums (payment) to adult women learners for their work that gets placed on the website. Thanks for your understanding.

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