{"id":11392,"date":"2019-12-05T14:38:23","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T22:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/?p=11392"},"modified":"2019-12-06T14:30:21","modified_gmt":"2019-12-06T22:30:21","slug":"sharing-stories-in-real-time-human-library-concludes-fall-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/uncategorized\/sharing-stories-in-real-time-human-library-concludes-fall-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Sharing Stories in Real Time: Human Library Concludes Fall Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/human-lib2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-11393 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/human-lib2.png\" alt=\"Human Library\" width=\"295\" height=\"183\" srcset=\"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/human-lib2.png 904w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/human-lib2-300x186.png 300w, https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/12\/human-lib2-768x475.png 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 295px) 100vw, 295px\" \/><\/a>On the November 21, the Human Library drew Skyline College another step closer as a community as more than 20 participants &#8212; including staff, faculty, students and administrators &#8212; shared personal stories as part of an international movement to \u201cunjudge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At Human Library sessions at Skyline College, \u201chuman books\u201d are \u201cloaned\u201d to readers just as libraries loan physical books to library visitors. Continuing the theme, \u201cdon\u2019t judge a book by it\u2019s cover,\u201d readers are encouraged to ask questions freely for honest answers in return, as books and readers sit down together to engage in conversations.<\/p>\n<p>This month&#8217;s roster of\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/HumanLibraryNov2019\">human books<\/a>\u00a0was wonderfully varied, including<em> The Accidental Activist: A Caterpillar\u2019s Journey, Learning who you are by Learning who you are not<\/em>, <em>I Really Do See Things Differently<\/em>,<em> Being Global, Navigating Life\u2019s Series of Firsts,<\/em> and last but not least, <em>An Akon Storya: Narratives of a Filipino Fulbright Scholar in the US.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Both readers and participants have continued to report back powerful and positive experiences of their time together. For one reader in particular, the impact was especially heartfelt: \u201cI get inspired by the stories; they create new perspectives! [Through stories, we] interpret the meaning of life. I feel like Human Library is a way to give people hope.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Visit the Human Library<a href=\"http:\/\/bit.ly\/PhotosNov2019\"> photo gallery<\/a> on Facebook and mark your calendars for our next session on Tuesday, March 10, 2020! Questions? Contact Pia Walawalkar at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:walawalkars@smccd.edu\">walawalkars@smccd.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Article by Jessica Silver-Sharp | Photo by\u00a0Marisa Thigpen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the November 21, the Human Library drew Skyline College another step closer as a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylineshines.skylinecollege.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}