Collection Six: Winter 2024-25

Truth in Untruth: practices of Myth-making

The content of this collection was produced entirely by Cora Lee Oxley, the first graduate of Boise State University’s Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies. She created a playlist that accompanies this mini-collection. Find links to two specific songs to be played in each piece.

In this collection, Oxley moves in and out of personal and literary essays, visual art, and poetry. She introduces it through a personal conversation with good friends, centered on the following guiding questions: 

  • How can we be good stewards of myth?
  • What are we to do with myth-making systems that disrupt, rather than benefit, our shared bodies of wisdom and connection?
  • What myths serve us and which don’t? How can we know and agree upon the difference?

 

 

photo by Kyle Boggs

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The Writing for Change Journal is a multimodal publishing space, and therefore welcomes submissions beyond traditional written texts like essays and other forms of nonfiction writing like prose, interviews, and personal narratives, and can include photography, visual and performance art, podcasts, film, and combined mediums and those yet to be imagined. Creative and collaborative submissions are always welcomed. Look for our call-for-for-submissions twice annually.


 

A note on what we publish: Civility, dignity, and respect for all communities are the minimum. We select submissions for publication that we feel adhere to the collection’s theme and guidelines, and those written in good faith that attempt to make visible that which has been obscured, that meaningfully attempt to bridge understanding and community connection. In the spirit of rising above the narrow and divisive framings of local and national political discourse, this journal thrives on topics of change that recognize our shared humanity. Submissions that maintain ideologies or statements designed to make people feel unwelcome, unsafe, or lesser will not be tolerated and will immediately be rejected. We can and should examine such statements, through a critical framework of inquiry and empathy, but discriminatory language of any kind—based on race, class, gender, sexuality, ability, etc.—does not have any place in this journal.