The Human Library ›

A Human Library is just that—a library where the “books” are living people who volunteer to share their stories with “readers”—members of the community. … Structured to mimic real library browsing, participants would search the card catalog, apply for a library card, and then check out one of the 35 books as they became available. The book titles, chosen by the “books” themselves, included “Custodian,” “Evangelical Christian,” “Fat Woman,” “Feminist,” “Iraq War Veteran,” “LDS Missionaries (Mormon),” “Olympic Athlete,” “Orphanage Boy,” “Psychiatrist,” and “Queer,” among others. Readers and books engaged in one-on-one conversations that lasted 30 minutes.

(Source: squashed, via thousandmilesfromnowhere)

3 months ago on February 18, 2012 at 01:14pm with 22 notes
  1. hotmarcus reblogged this from ragdoll and added:
    We should do this here.
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    Oh, what a wonderful idea. I’d love to participate in something like this.
  3. ragdoll reblogged this from squashed and added:
    Whoa, that’s an interesting format.
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