Paige Smith Orloff invents sisterhood from scratch.
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MY GOOD FRIEND told me that Mary Karr’s Lit was the best non-fiction she’d read in years, that while she couldn’t bear to put it down, the prose was so divine it made her want to stop after each passage just to savor it. This friend is no easy sell when it comes to writing and reading, so ok: add that book to my reading list, stat. [click to continue…]
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I WROTE BEFORE OF MY DECEMBER VOW to do a little more, err, shaking of my booty. I’ve kept it up, save during “vacation,” when I was without childcare (or school). Now that school’s back in session (thank heavens), I’m back at the gym, dancing up a storm. But this isn’t your ordinary cardio class. [click to continue…]
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IAM NOT MUCH for New Year’s resolutions. They mostly just make me feel like a slacker by the time March rolls around, one more thing for me to beat myself up for not doing well enough. (And don’t we all have enough of those already?) This year, instead of chaining myself in the guilt of unkept resolutions, I’ve decided to take a more, uh, aggressive approach. [click to continue…]
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HOW CAN YOU NOT love a man in an “ear brassiere”? That’s the other name that the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence use for their headpieces, or wimples, worn along with traditional and often non-traditional habits, riotous makeup and a spirit of boisterous and good-humored community service. The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, founded in San Francisco in 1979, dress in convent-inspired drag, but do serious work; their mission is to “expiate guilt, promulgate joy, and serve the community.” [click to continue…]
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W E LOVE IT WHEN readers, unprompted, send emails or leave comments about the ways they’re celebrating sisterhood, of any stripe, in their own lives. The communication we got from reader Laela last week was particularly exciting, as it combined three things we absolutely love: cinema, sisterhood, and doing something for women in need.
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MY BUDDING ARTISTS? How the kids see me.
First time here? Here's the idea: The Sister Project 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 on our homepage 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: Learn more about TSP, and how to find your way around. And oh—a giant, sisterly welcome.