Maya Scott-Chung and Shirin Bridges
Recorded
November 8, 2012
40:22 minutes
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Id:
SFB002042
Description
Maya Scott-Chung and Shirin Bridges talk about Maya's involvement with StoryCorps and Shirin's work as a writer.Subject Log / Time Code
Maya talks about her involvement with StoryCorps
Maya talks about how having her "Winter of Love" marriage annulled fueled her activism
Maya talks about working on "The Loving Quilt"
Maya talks about the importance of listening
Maya talks about her mentor Audrey Lorde and the impact she had on her.
Maya talks about piloting the SC National Teachers Initiative at Kaiser Elementary School in Oakland
Maya talks about mobilizing parents and teachers a Kaiser to keep it from closing
Shirin talks about being from a family of storytellers
Shirin talks about writing childrens books
Participants
- Maya Scott-Chung
- Shirin Bridges
Recording Locations
CJMVenue / Recording Kit
Partnership
Partnership Type
OutreachKeywords
- 2008 California legalization of same sex marriage
- anullments
- audio recordings
- California Proposition 8
- Center for digital storytelling
- Childrens Books
- conception of StoryCorps
- Digital Storytelling
- Fertility
- fertility clinics
- HIPAA privacy rule
- importance of storytelling
- Kaiser Elementary School
- LGBTQ
- Loving Quilt
- marriage anullment
- marriage equality
- Melanie Tervalon
- Oral History
- Prop 8
- Proposition 8
- Winter of Love