story now, craft later
Everyone has a story to tell, yet not all stories are told.
Creating more narratives that represent the multiple identities and realities in the world starts with you. The Untold Narratives provides services and supports to help you or people close to you tell their stories and share them with the public. It doesn't matter whether you think you are a good writer or storyteller. We believe in you, so come learn and share with us!
The Untold Narratives provides services and supports to help you release the stories within and share them with others.
For her fellowship project, Kelsey used a multimedia approach to imagine the future Japanese American Community. The storytelling is inventive and brings to life the ideas of Japanese American identity, personal memory, social community and digital technologies. We hope you read more!
-Liz Santiago,
Founder of The Untold Narratives
TUN Fellow: Kelsey Ichikawa
For this project, I started with this question: decades from now, what will the Japanese American community be like? Living in the wake of World War II internment, assimilation, geographic displacement, the model minority myth, and cultural dispersal, what do we hope for, and what do we fear? I think this is where speculative fiction can provide openings for our collective future-making. My goal was to imagine an archive of the future, to create pieces of our future history. During this 6-month fellowship, I’ve created a variety of mediums for this collection, including excerpts from an academic paper, a business pitch, interview transcripts, poetry, and journal entries to explore interactions between Japanese American identity, political and personal memory, social community and mutual aid, and digital technologies.
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Read her complete work here: Kelsey Ichikawa
An Excerpt from TUN Fellow Kelsey Ichikawa's Work
