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And the range of stories are varied and diverse, but they also make up a universal tapestry.
However, our stories are much more than this rigid dichotomy of strength and resilience.
KKM: There are so many queer and trans people who have come before us, whose stories we will never get to hear.
Similar stories are playing out everywhere, where people are reclaiming not only old railroads, but also degraded urban waterways and obsolete roadways, reinventing all of the infrastructure in their lives.
Now, if you've ever seen a soap opera, you know the stories and the characters can be exaggerated, larger than life, and if you're a fan, you find that exaggeration fun, and if you're not, maybe you find them melodramatic or unsophisticated.
And we can use those lessons to craft our own life stories.
I told my sister we had probably been doing the same thing, carting around made-up stories in our heads that kept us separate.
We looked at and released years of stories and assumptions about each other and blame and shame until all that was left was love.
And these stories were highly diverse, but they all had one thing in common: it was a tale of longing for a child and a quest for that child.
But we don't even need the studies to prove it, because I ask you, how many of us are surprised today when we hear the stories of a bombing or a shooting, when we later find out that the last word that was uttered before the trigger is pulled or the bomb is detonated is the name of God?
What I remember today from this is that objects tell stories, so storytelling has been a really strong influence in my work.
Love is powerful and at times painful, and we express this in our words and stories, but then our words and stories prime us to expect love to be powerful and painful.
I found endless stories of young people who are lost to all of us, who are invisible to all of us but who are suffering, and they are suffering alone.
So I started making films, and I started telling these stories.
I want to talk to you about the power of stories, of course, but I also want to talk about their limitations, particularly for those of us who are interested in social justice.
Stories are everywhere, and if there was a danger in the telling of one tired old tale, then I think there has got to be lots to celebrate about the flourishing of so many stories and so many voices.
Stories are the antidote to bias.
In fact, today, if you are middle class and connected via the internet, you can download stories at the touch of a button or the swipe of a screen.
Stories make us fall in love.
Stories can even make it easier for us to talk about the deaths of people in our societies who don't matter, because they make us care.
And my job is to help to tell stories that challenge mainstream narratives about what it means to be black or a Muslim or a refugee or any of those other categories that we talk about all the time.
It's not uncommon to hear people say that stories make the world a better place.
Increasingly, though, I worry that even the most poignant stories, particularly the stories about people who no one seems to care about, can often get in the way of action towards social justice.
Still, good intentions can have unintended consequences, and so I want to propose that stories are not as magical as they seem.
Firstly, stories can create an illusion of solidarity.
There are a million angry-boy-on-a-bike stories and we can't afford to ignore them simply because we don't like their protagonists or because that's not the kid that we would bring home with us from the orphanage.
The third reason that I think that stories don't necessarily make the world a better place is that too often we are so invested in the personal narrative that we forget to look at the bigger picture.
The most important stories, especially for social justice, are those that do both, that are both personal and allow us to explore and understand the political.
But it's not just about the stories we like versus the stories we choose to ignore.
Increasingly, we are living in a society where there are larger forces at play, where stories are actually for many people beginning to replace the news.
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