Anastasia Smith: 24, sisterless and searching.
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M ONDAY NIGHT during Fresh Air, I found myself completely caught up in Terry Gross’s interview with Liza Mundy, a longtime staff writer for The Washington Post and author of the book Everything Conceivable: How Assisted Reproduction Is Changing Our World. I think you will be, too, and here’s why: [click to continue…]
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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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LONGTIME FAVORITE: Two Sisters (on the Terrace) by Pierre Auguste Renoir
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.