MyStory2009

The Earth edition has hit newsstands and mailboxes across the US and Canada! It is our pleasure to officially announce to the group the seven My Story participants who were published in this edition. … Read More»

The story of the Mayan Q’eqchi women and men of Northern Guatemala is one of a proud and marginalized people, many of whom have been violently forced from their land to make way for cattle ranching, A … Read More»

I gave birth in silence—an unconventional labor induced by the shiver of self-recognition and midwifed by subdued breath. … Read More»

Living in a city, sometimes “land” sounds like something other, something not us. Our house sits on a humble square of land, 4690 square feet near downtown Denver. My husband and I don’t own it. … Read More»

I’ve always enjoyed gardening. As a UK native in San Francisco, USA, it took several years for me to adapt my knowledge to the new climate. … Read More»

"At the beginning the seed of Life was in the Heart. Then it went further down. We created you from Our Heart." Said the stone I was holding … Read More»

A small piece of land in Europe invaded so many times by Tatars, Huns, Russians, Avars and by so many different civilizations. … Read More»

I was uprooted 6 times by the time I was 9 years old, by war and extreme poverty. … Read More»

Rural African women are expected to feed the family but culturally denied the right to own land. Even the ownership and use of land is a gendered phenomenon. … Read More»

It’s from above all lands that I am getting these thoughts: my mother and I are flying to Morocco. It has been 24 years since my mother get back to her birth land with her mother. … Read More»