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Super Sisters Unite!

by paige on May 20, 2010

YouTube Preview ImageBECAUSE WE LOVE us some Brontës here on TSP. And more, because sometimes, we all need a hefty dose of barrier-breaking feminist vision…What sisters, literary or otherwise, would you like reimagined as superheroes? Do tell.

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A work from Karen Arp-Sandel's collaborative art project, FE-MAIL

LATE LAST YEAR, in the throes of a long and somewhat dark winter, I wrote about my new year’s revolutions. Allowing myself to make art was one of the key changes I made last  year, and I owe it to my amazing teacher and gifted artist Karen Arp-Sandel. Amid reawakening my creative spark and her own myriad projects, Karen was kind enough to work with me on a profile of her and her art for TSP. Read the results here, and let me know how your creative endeavors are going. Me? Inspired by Karen and her current collaborator, Suzi Banks Baum, I’m tackling a round of mail art. Watch your mailboxes, sisters.

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Sister Murray in Character

by paige on March 4, 2010

YOU PROBABLY KNOW by now that here at The Sister Project, we can’t resist a good sister story, and we love the sisters known as nuns, but this particular piece of news took us by surprise. Bill Murray is one of our favorite actors and comedians (if you haven’t seen his hilarious turn as himself in last year’s Zombieland, rent it. Now.) but we didn’t know that one of his eight siblings is a Catholic nun. [click to continue…]

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March’s Many Sisters

by paige on March 3, 2010

WE TRY to keep track of notable sisters’ birthdays, so that we can remind ourselves (and you, of course) of all the women we admire, and acknowledge them on their special days. But as we were putting together our plans for this month, we noticed that an awful lot of spectacular sisters were born this month. This Friday is the birthday of Indy car racing pioneer Janet Guthrie, and next week, we’ll be celebrating actress Lynn Redgrave, Civil War heroine Harriet Tubman, singer Liza Minnelli and photographer Diane Arbus. That’s a whole lot of talent packed into seven days. As with everything around here, we’ve got theories about why. [click to continue…]

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SOMETIMES WHEN I’M HOMEBOUND with cabin fever, I find my friends in unlikely places…or at least I find their words and their wisdom, even if they can’t actually sit down for a cuppa. Now that I’m buried under nearly two feet of snow, I have to find places to go for my does of sisterhood when, truthfully, I really can’t go anywhere. My rural existence would be a whole lot lonelier without the internet. [click to continue…]

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