Living Story Book – Addressing Gender in Forestry
The idea of the living story book is to provide a platform where both IFSA members and non-IFSA members can share their stories and experiences they have made with regards to gender in the forestry sector or in forest education. A welcoming sharing space where all are provided the opportunity to impact from their stories likewise learn from that of others.
Different from scientific articles and reports, stories are memorable and relatable. In storytelling, we connect, inspire and share experiences with others. Stories allow us to learn from the experiences of others and in a familiar perspective thus, we (the Gender sub-commission) use the term ‘living’ as to say that these stories are brought to life in the mind of the reader in an interactive and dynamic way as we hope to get stories from a diverse community.
Your stories will be collected and published online, making them available to everyone who would like to read them. Of course, you can stay anonymous and choose for yourself if your e.g., your name, gender or region should be published alongside the story. The IFSA Gender Sub-Commission will highly appreciate the stories to get a better impression of gendered experiences people within the forestry sector currently make. The stories will support the Sub-Commission’s work and might lead to future activities.
On this note, we invite you all to take part in this ongoing project .
INSTRUCTIONS & SPECIFICATION
- The stories should talk about aspects of gender in forestry or forestry related topics.
- We encourage you to write stories that are non-fictional and based on personal experiences..
- We appreciate stories with a minimum of 1,500 words and maximum of 5,000 words. However, any type of contribution is welcomed, e.g., poems, songs, short write-ups, etc.
- Pictures can be part of the contribution, but are not necessary. Pictures can be uploaded via the form as well. Please make sure you provide the credits and have the authorisation to use them.
- The last page of each writer could be a space for either questions or motivations or both for the writer and reader.
- Name and contact of the author can be submitted, but the author can also choose to stay anonymous.
- Participation is open to everyone, including non-IFSA members and groups (e.g., LCs).
- Stories can be submitted via the form below.
- Each submission will undergo a short review by members of the Gender Sub-Commission to ensure its appropriateness for publication. We are committed to maintaining a respectful and inclusive platform, and as such, any content containing racist, homophobic, or offensive language will not be published.
Please share amongst friends, students, colleagues, lecturers, teachers, policy makers, the more diverse, the more interesting stories we will have 🤗
👉📃Here is the article template:
docs.google.com/document/d/1nru_aB1cdsuHrMHtZhZD_5T2DzIXysnEHmicPEYsDv4/edit?usp=drivesdk
👉📃Here is the form for submission:
For ideas, feedback or questions contact: gender@ifsa.net
