Anastasia Smith: 24, sisterless and searching.
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MY HEART WENT pitter-patter at the end of this speech. I’m elated that our dear President is even discussing the perils modern women and girls face. I’m looking forward to seeing how this council moves forward. For one, nationalized comprehensive sex education for young women (and men!) is long, long overdue. Which women’s issues are you hoping capture more federal focus during this administration?
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W HETHER YOU’VE HAD an abortion, or read a pregnancy test while your friend covered her eyes, or sat for hours in a waiting room watching women come and go, or simply believe in the right to choose, you know that facing the decision to terminate a pregnancy is devastating. There are few other times when we need our sisters more. And not just sisters to hold hands and to drive to clinics, but sisters who meet us at the door of those clinics and sisters who fight to lower the cost of procedures, and sisters who educate us on how to take care of ourselves after abortions. For women around the world, their network of sisters has just grown. [click to continue…]
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THE OTHERWORLDY SISTERHOOD of artist Grete Stern.
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.
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.
TSP’s Galleries were created to show off that outpouring of art and craft, poetry and prose. Come see a show or two—no ticket required, no lines to get in—and suggest others whose work we ought to showcase.
As the suffix of its name suggests, TSP's Sisterpedia is the reference section, one we’re hoping you’ll help us grow to maturity by adding your knowledge in the comments. Turn us on to new facts and figures, whether for the branch of our ‘library’ called Sistory (history from a sister point of view, from the Muses of ancient Greece to 60s Girl Groups and beyond) or the one called Sibling Science (what makes sisters tick, genetically and behaviorally). Or just click around and have a good read. See you there.
