WE CAN’T GET ENOUGH of this enchanting vintage photo, sent to us by reader Elizabeth Edwardsen as an addition to Anastasia’s “We Match” photo gallery. Contribute your matching family photos to claimingsisterhood [at] gmail [dot] com.
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From the category archives:
Genealogy: Family History
A late Soviet postcard honoring the March 8th holiday
TO MARK THIS CENTURY-OLD celebration of women, rooted in the early demonstrations in textile and garment factories and now a global celebration, each TSP sister is naming names of women she admires. For Marion, it’s all about historical hair–specifically those red roots. Paige is paying tribute to some serious sorcery, while Anastasia reflects on her eclectic inspirations. Please come add your honorees.
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T HE RECENT TWIN-REDHEAD MYSTERY here on TSP got Marion Roach Smith (a redhead herself) remembering her start down the genealogy trail, searching for her roots. Find out where it led.
By Marion Roach Smith
WHEN NEWS OF ROZ LEIBOWITZ’S recently acquired collection of 18 vintage photos of twins Maurine and Noreene went up on TSP last week, we experienced a grand collective “Oh!” That quickly expanded into an “Oh, my goodness,” as one photo after the other built upon the sisters’ story. But it was a story we were making up, each of us, in response to what we saw. What was the real story? We all began to wonder. [click to continue…]
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WHEN WE SAW ROZ LEIBOWITZ’S set of vintage photos of twins Maurine and Noreene this week on Flickr, we had to know more: Who were these red-headed sisters, and how had they come to live with Roz, a New York City-based artist and writer who uses found paper and imagery in her personal work? [click to continue…]
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First time here? Here's the idea: TSP is a network of blogs about the many facets of the word sister, and the concept of sisterhood. A sisterhood of sister blogs, you could say. Whatever sister means to you, from identical twin to sister-in-law (or in-friendship or in-feminism), we’ll make room to listen in about it or express it on TSP. Like the slogan up top says, “Don’t you have something to say to your sister?” We've got galleries of art and literature by and about sisters, and a Sisterpedia of sisterly trivia...but now we're getting ahead of ourselves. The quick study: 
As the suffix of its name suggests, 
No surprise, really, that sisterhood, often life’s longest relationship and always one of its most important, has been the Muse for so much creative self-expression by women, and also by men. 
