Since the beginning of the Digital Storytelling Unit at Hacettepe University in 2009, the ideas about organizing digital storytelling workshops and the related research, emerged in the dialogues among the Digital Storytelling Unit facilitators and colleagues who are supporters of digital storytelling for community empowerment and who share similar concerns regarding issues like gender, discrimination, politics, etc. The Stories Without Visa Digital Storytelling and Research Project is the outcome of such a dialogue between the team and Hakan Ergül from the Faculty of Communication, Hacettepe University. In this brief paper, I talk about the project and what we share