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Writing stories and lives: Documenting women connecting, communing and coming together
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Writing stories and lives: Documenting women connecting, communing and coming together

Sarah Loch, Alison L Black, Gail Crimmins, Janice Jones and Julianne Impiccini
Embodied and walking pedagogies engaging the visual domain: Research creation and practice, pp.165-180
Transformative Pedagogies in the Visual Domain, Common Ground Publishing
2018
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Curriculum and Pedagogy Performing Arts and Creative Writing Specialist Studies in Education
This chapter is about a group of women who write. We are women whose homes are scattered along the eastern coastline of Australia. We are writers, performers, visual artists, stage-crafters, collage-makers and potters as well as researchers, teachers and academics-not surprisingly then, we are interested in aesthetic, contemplative and sensory ways of knowing and recognise the importance of reflecting, responding and acknowledging experience. Developing alternate pathways for considering and writing on/of self, we are establishing relationships and feedback loops that create spaces and outputs for women to both offer and respond. In our writing and responding we are un-learning boundaries and actively valuing, inhabiting and sharing the embodied, the storied, the lived and the visual. Through poetry, image, song and story, our personal and private qualities are captured and brought into being. Using these methods, we are privileging contemplation and aesthetic ways of knowing over analysis and interpretation, and exploring shared experiences of connection and empowerment through writing and narrative processes. Publishing, performing and presenting our work has sensitised us to a range of inclusive gestures which prompt continued dialogue amongst our group and others with whom we interact. We are interested in the role publication, and making public, is playing in acknowledging the personal, and sanctioning what can be told and presented as knowledge. By making public the stories and qualities of our lives, the things we know-and the ways we know-are growing more tactile. Individually, and as a connected community of women who write, our real and lived worlds are physical and embodied and offer a place from which to listen, to perform scholarship and to connect to our/others' collective voice(s). We invite readers to contemplate, respond, share and collaborate with us, with a view to adapting, adopting and extending our explorations.

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