Fighting stigma and finding community: storytellers share their experiences with poverty, illness and domestic violence - Peterborough Currents

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Fighting stigma and finding community: storytellers share their experiences with poverty, illness and domestic violence
Our Stories Our Voices program trains those who have experienced poverty, racialization, criminalization, disability or substance use to advocate through oral storytelling.
Zara Syed
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November 11, 2021
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In photos: Community mourns for children lost to residential schools
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