Undoing the Silence:

Bringing New Writers to Powerful Voice

Facilitated for WE LEARN by author and teacher

 Louise Dunlap

A writing packet for new writers

To prepare for Women’s Perspectives #3*

Topic: Women & Money

On November 2, 2007, WE LEARN sponsored a workshop in Boston facilitated by Louise Dunlap, author of Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing. Louise shared practical writing tools to help reluctant writers to get past their internal censors. Her “You Can Do It” approach makes social-action writing achievable for everyone.

This packet shares components of the Nov. 2 workshop with WE LEARN members and supporters.

Packet includes:

• Handouts shared by Louise during the workshop
  Learn about pre-writing activities to establish safe space and discover authentic voice
• DVD of the “Panel of Experts”
  Boston-based writers, educators, and activists provide important information and perspectives related to women and money, and their personal experiences of writing about them. These experts include:
  1. Diane Dujon, editor of Survival News…the voices of low-income women, and For Crying Out Loud: Women’s Poverty in the United States
  2. Jane Midgely, author of Women and the U.S. Budget
  3. Rebecca Johnson, founder of Cooperative Economics for Women (http://cooperativewomen.org/index.htm)
• Call for Writings and Lesson Plans from WE LEARN for Women’s Perspectives #3.

Order Packet and/or book from WE LEARN (order form in pdf)

** Proceeds will be designated to WE LEARN's Student Scholarship Fund
to support writing awards for Women's Perspectives. **

About Louise's book...

Undoing the Silence: Six Tools for Social Change Writing, Louise Dunlap

This comprehensive and engaging training book helps both amateurs and professionals influence democratic process through letters, articles, proposals, and more. It's a "You-can-do-it" approach combined with strategies to articulate personal vision and frame messages that are truly heard. Healing as much as teaching, the author uncovers the culture of silence-how gender, race, education, class, and family values work to quiet dissent.

Since the Free Speech Movement of the 1960s, Louise Dunlap, PhD, has been training citizen groups as well as university scholars internationally in writing for social change. She is currently a lecturer at Tufts University.