Your Voice; Your Stories

I invite you to reflect on your stories and share them with a broader audience; stories that your great grandparents, grandparents or even parents may have shared with you. The goal is to come together and gather our collective learning, appreciate and cherish our elders who went through a time in history that shaped our present.

Please note

You do not need to give your name to submit.
If you do not tick the consent box, your story will not be submitted for public reading/publication online.
If you wish, you are welcome to submit your story privately through Contact Us by email and we will add it to the unpublished archives instead of making it publicly available on this site.
Feel free to withdraw your publication. Contact us and it will be removed from the public page or the archive, as you request. Please note that we cannot remove text from anyone else’s database if they may have already saved or shared.
In providing your stories and making them as part of this archive, you allow other readers to use your work for academic and literary pursuits.
Any information you provide to this archive will belong to the archive upon publication solely for the purpose of historical reference. Your personal information or stories will not be sold or used for any commercial purpose.

To share privately instead, contact us.

Please feel free to share what you feel comfortable making public reading material. In sharing your story, I ask you to please provide your consent below.

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I consent to my story being published on this archive. I understand that it will be publicly visible on this website and may be read by researchers, students and the general public. I confirm that the story is my own, or that I have permission from the person it belongs to.

Thank you. Your story has been received. Every voice deserves respect.

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