Her first book, MAID, Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother’s Will to Survive A Memoir is available starting in January 2019 from Hachette. Stephanie Land’s work has been featured in The New York Times, the New York Review of Books, The Washington Post, The Guardian, Vox, Salon and many other outlets. She calls her story “Setting the Missing Piece Down”. Stephanie Land does the best she can as she navigates escaping and surviving domestic violence while keeping her young daughters safe and writing and promoting her first book and memoir. Get Chris’ new book: One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large Chris is Chippewa-Cree Métis, and is an enrolled member of the Little Shell Tribe of Chippewa Indians. His first book, One-Sentence Journal: Short Poems and Essays from the World at Large, was recently released via Riverfeet Press.
His freelance writing and photography has appeared in various regional and national publications. Chris calls his story “How’s It Going, Chief?””.Ĭhris La Tray is a writer, a walker, and a photographer. As Chris becomes an adult, he begins exploring this heritage, seeking understanding of who he is and where he comes from. Our first story comes to us from Chris LaTray, whose father wants nothing to do with his Native American heritage. Today we hear from four of those storytellers. 8 storytellers shared their true personal story on the theme “It’s Complicated”. Our podcast today was recorded in front of a live audience on October 2, 2018, to a sold-out crowd at The Wilma in Missoula, MT. In this week’s podcast you’ll learn about a man’s exploration of his family’s ancestry, you’ll hear a young woman’s struggle to keeping her young daughters safe while writing and promoting her first book and memoir while surviving domestic abuse at home, you’ll descend into addiction and come out on the other side, before finally making friends with a person with whom you once vehemently disagreed. Touching, funny, honest, and totally heartwarming, you’re guaranteed to leave feeling uplifted (and a whole lot less bewildered) about love today-no matter how it works for you.Activist, addiction, ancestry, changing the story, community, cop, crime, domestic violence, fairytale, family, felony, heritage, humanity, Indian, Missoula, Montana, narcotics, Native American, peace, police, poverty, racism, rehabilitation, Shel Silverstein, single mother, storytelling, Vietnam Veteran, white priveledge By weaving stories and song, It’s Complicated opens a window into the lives of some fascinating people whose stories will forever change the perspective of your own relationships. The modern world has spawned new types of relationships, new ways of finding love, and even new ways of expressing it, but some of the most challenging and magical parts of relationships are timeless.
A year on from achieving marriage equality, It’s Complicated celebrates love in the 21st century, in all of its magical, messy, mad, and magnificent splendor. Love is alive and flourishing, but perhaps not in the way fairy tales and romance novels would have us believe. When we find someone with weirdness that is compatible with ours, we team up and call it love.” NYU Skirball Center for the Performing Artsĥ66 LaGuardia Pl, NYC “People are weird.
It's Complicated Stories and songs celebrating love in the 21st century
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