safety is another word...
Poem by Anne Mulvey / Calligraphy & Book Design by Susan Kapuscinski Gaylord
Anne's poem was written as part of the Lowell Growing Safer Project (LGS). Workshops used creative writing and conversation to encourage community members (most of whom were women or girls) to share their experiences and explore assumptions related to gender, safety and class. Using spontaneous or “rough” writing, participants completed the sentence, Safety is another word for . . . . A discussion of what safety meant to us and ways that we might make our community and ourselves feel and be safer followed. Seven workshops were conducted in Lowell, and another at a conference in England.
Although the Lowell Growing Safer Project and workshops were completed 20 years ago, they seem more relevant today than they did then. Writings from the workshops were published in Safety is . . . : Creative Writings from Lowell, MA edited by Anne Mulvey and Krista Nadir (Grow Press, 1998). The press was a short-lived initiative designed to “Give Real Opportunity to Women.”
Although the Lowell Growing Safer Project and workshops were completed 20 years ago, they seem more relevant today than they did then. Writings from the workshops were published in Safety is . . . : Creative Writings from Lowell, MA edited by Anne Mulvey and Krista Nadir (Grow Press, 1998). The press was a short-lived initiative designed to “Give Real Opportunity to Women.”
make your own book
We used legal size paper for Safety is.... Follow the directions in the video. If you make printed copies, the writing should be on the outside when you fold it in half like a hot dog. When you fold the hot dog in half, the inside of the book should be on the outside.