Feminist storytelling creates space for stories that push back, drive change and refuse silence. It centers lived experience while challenging narratives and structures that can exclude, diminish or silence people.
Dominant narratives can erase, silence or stereotype women and LGBTQI+ people. Through grants, storytelling and shared learning, Exile Hub supports people to reclaim authorship, preserve collective memory and challenge systems that depend on invisibility and silence.
Storytelling can shift who gets to speak, who gets to be seen and what futures become possible.
Telling our stories can challenge narratives built against us.
Lived experience can become a force that resists silence and erasure.
FROM BUSINESS SUCCESS TO grassroot's resistance: Ma Khaing Yin Mon's STORY
Ma Khaing Yin Mon’s work shows the power of feminist storytelling to challenge silence, reclaim narratives, and turn lived experience into collective strength. By speaking openly about displacement, resistance, women’s health, cultural identity, and life in exile, she creates space for experiences that are often overlooked or silenced.
Her storytelling is not only about telling her own story—it is about amplifying the voices of other women, preserving culture, and building solidarity within communities affected by conflict. Through her work in community radio, cultural education, and feminist storytelling, she demonstrates how women’s stories can become a tool for healing, resistance, and social change.
“Talking with other women who were also navigating war, displacement, and activism helped me realize we all carry similar burdens. But sharing those stories makes them lighter.”
“These topics are rarely discussed openly, especially in displaced communities. But health is power. If women don’t understand their own bodies, how can they protect themselves?”
- Ma Khaing Yin Mon
learning from feminism before knowing its name: VERSE'S STORY
Verse’s work demonstrates how feminist storytelling can challenge gender bias, make women’s experiences visible, and create empathy. Through film, she brings women’s emotions, struggles, and resistance into focus, using storytelling to question the systems and attitudes that silence or diminish women.
Her own experiences of discrimination and harassment inform her commitment to telling stories that centre women’s realities. Her films create space for women to be seen with dignity, complexity, and agency, while challenging violence, stigma, and patriarchal norms.
Her grandmother’s example also holds an important place in Verse’s understanding of gender: she grew up seeing a woman who refused to accept gender as a limitation. Together with her experiences as a journalist, filmmaker, and advocate, this perspective informs her belief in the power of women to define their own lives. Through her work, Verse shows how feminist storytelling can become an act of resistance, empathy, and reclaiming whose stories are heard.
“Through film, I want people to feel empathy to see women’s emotions, existence, and oppression in new ways. My mind is always thinking for them.”
“Women deserve equality, dignity, and the freedom to define their own lives.”
- Verse
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