by Shannon Turner | Jul 9, 2020 | alternative realities, Blog, personal is political, personal narrative
Where last we lay our scene, we were discussing how, history, as its taught to us and spoken about, is often not the full picture. So many things have echoes from …the personal…..to the organizational……to the community …….to the...
by Shannon Turner | Jun 29, 2020 | Blog
“Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past.” George Orwell, 1984 History is not a fact. When I said the words to him, full of conviction and indignation, it took him aback. “What do you mean history is not a...
by Shannon Turner | Jun 22, 2020 | Blog
When I was maybe about eleven or so, I used to come home after school, a latchkey kid, and skulk around the house trying to be quiet as my mom slept a few more hours before dinner and then going to her job as a nurse. One of my favorite things during that time was to...
by Shannon Turner | Jun 9, 2020 | black lives matter, Blog, mental illness, police brutality, walks with grief
I had just emerged from one of those evocative performance experiences that leaves you buzzing. I stepped out from 7 Stages in Little 5 Points onto the sidewalk into a noxious mix of sour-sweet smells on a hot summer night. Most folks were still hanging around in the...
by Shannon Turner | May 29, 2020 | Blog
The Wylde Center, April 2020.These days, walking has become one my best ways to literally move through my feelings. When I was at Virginia Tech when September 11th happened, we who were in student life/student engagement had our jobs cut out for us. These young people...
by Shannon Turner | May 21, 2020 | Blog
The times we’re living through now will become the stories we tell each other for generations to come… Moving forward. There’ve been times lately when how to move forward felt like an inscrutable thing. There are a lot of people out there who believe they have...
