July 30, 2015 - National Storytelling Network

Changing Skins: Folktales about Gender, Identity and Humanity

HSA, LGBTQIA Resources / July 30, 2015 / By Healing Stories SIG

Selected Bibliography for the Show Compiled by Milbre Burch, PhD www.kindcrone.com Folktales Told in Changing Skins Boas, Franz. “Coyote, Fox, and Panther” in Memoirs of the American Folk-lore Society, Volume 11. Lancaster, PA: American Folklore Society, 1917 (pp. 75-76). Braid, Donald. “The Lad and the Black Laird” in Scottish Traveller Tales: Lives Shaped through […]

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Vasilissa, The Priest’s Daughter or Vasilisa Poponov

HSA, Traditional Tales / July 30, 2015 / By Healing Stories SIG

Summary: “Vasilissa, the Priest’s Daughter,” is in the Afanase’ev collection. The title character is not at all interested in “womanish” things. She has dressed in male clothes since childhood, goes hunting with the guys and calls herself Vasily Vasilyevich, which means Basil, son of Basil. The tsar hears a rumor that this guy is a

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Tales of a Parrot: Of a Brahmin Falling in Love

HSA, Traditional Tales / July 30, 2015 / By Healing Stories SIG

When the sun sunk into the west and the moon appeared in the east, Khojisteh went to the parrot to ask leave and said, “O thou wise bird, whose counsels are prudent and who acts the part of a friend! If you think it adviseable, delay not today in giving me permission, or else speak

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Princess Who Becomes a Man

HSA, Traditional Tales / July 30, 2015 / By Healing Stories SIG

This droll story is of Hindu extraction, and in much the same form is still current in Southern India. In the “Exposition” prefixed to the Dubois’ French translation of the Tamil version of the Panchatantra, p. 15, it is given with a few unimportant variations: The name of the king is Nihla-Keton, his country is

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The Girl Who Pretended to be a Boy

HSA, Traditional Tales / July 30, 2015 / By Healing Stories SIG

Once upon a time there lived an emperor who was a great conqueror, and reigned over more countries than anyone in the world. And whenever he subdued a fresh kingdom, he only granted peace on condition that the king should deliver him one of his sons for ten years’ service. Now on the borders of

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Ivan E. Coyote Speak Out!

HSA, Personal Stories / July 30, 2015 / By Healing Stories SIG

Live Performance 2010 Ivan tells the story of losing the local barber without notice and the hunt for a new one.

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That Really Happens?

HSA, Personal Stories / July 30, 2015 / By Healing Stories SIG

This edition of Tell Us Something was recorded on August 19th, 2014 at the Top Hat Lounge in Missoula, MT. The theme was “Busted!” This week’s story comes to us from Ingrid Beihl and is titled “That Really Happens?” Ingrid Biehl is a 16 year old high school student trying to figure out her sexuality.

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Reclaiming God, Reclaiming Ourselves

HSA, Personal Stories / July 30, 2015 / By Healing Stories SIG

“We’re very clear in our teaching. We believe every single person born on this planet is created by God out of love . . . in the image and likeness of the Holy One. And so our struggle to understand and accept gay people is a human problem, not some flaw or error in God’s

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Honoring the Inner Feminine

HSA, Personal Stories / July 30, 2015 / By Healing Stories SIG

Once upon a time, in a land just a few blocks away, I had the unrequited desire to be a drag queen. The lesbians could make no sense of it. “You can’t be a drag queen. You’re a girl.” I was undeterred. I had had a lifetime of people telling me what I could not

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The Best Of Both Worlds

HSA, Personal Stories / July 30, 2015 / By Healing Stories SIG

I have been able to tell my own story in schools, anti-homophobia conferences, storytelling festivals, and other venues. Of all the places where I tell this story, schools have been the most challenging. I believe it is important to go into schools and do this work because if there is even one student questioning his

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