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Everyone has a story to tell, yet not all stories are told.
Creating more narratives that represent the multiple identities and realities in the world starts with you. The Untold Narratives provides services and supports to help you or people close to you tell their stories and share them with the public. It doesn't matter whether you think you are a good writer or storyteller. We believe in you, so come learn and share with us!
The Untold Narratives provides services and supports to help you release the stories within and share them with others.
For her fellowship project, Jordan delved into deep, abstract topics like double consciousness and inconsistent realities by placing characters in a dark, atmospheric environment to highlight these concepts. The result is a fantastic blend of character, theme and vibe that will keep you riveted.
-Liz Santiago,
Founder of The Untold Narratives
TUN Storytelling Fellow: Jordan Richo
The title "The Strange Lamp” is in reference to the phenomenon in which people are snapped out of their perceptions of reality by a single, out of place object, thus revealing the horrific dreamlike state they had previously been living happily within. To exist in this world as a person of color is to be both subconsciously aware and willfully unaware of both a real and imagined identity. The black body has often been a stand-in for inherent monstrosity. And when you are contending with a violent history, while consuming media and language that seeks to dehumanize you until you believe that your own nature is comparatively disturbed, there is a third point of view that manifests as dreams or fantasy. The out of body experience that Dubois coined as "double consciousness." I wanted to explore these out of body experiences with identity. I wanted to explore how fear and violence manifest in third spaces of reality. How histories of violence and hatred can burrow deep into even our most comfortable spaces and in turn infect our perceptions of our relationships and ourselves.
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Read her complete work here: Jordan Richo
An Excerpt from TUN Fellow Jordan Richo's Work
