Unlike the word feminism, which has engendered new concepts like womanism and Third World feminism, for example, sisterhood has not generated alternative terms of political solidarity. Rather, African American feminists, in particular, have pointed out the limitations of the term sisterhood, attempting...
Men's scepticism about sisterhood was also often attributed to their own mothers, whom they blame for their own mistrust of women: 'My mother has the advantage of being a woman and therefore, as a woman, she knows there are lots of vixens out there […] And she prefers that we stay ...
I submitted the piece above to the San Francisco School of Needlework and Design for its World’s Longest Band Sampler project. The saying is a riff on Robin Morgan’s classic work,Sisterhood is Powerful.I posted the message on a few Needlepoint Facebook pages and sent it to those on my...
Sisterhood is at the core of Eisai’s awareness campaign for endometrial cancer. The digital and social effort "Spot Her" encourages women to not only look for the signs themselves—spotting and cramping, for instance—but also watch out for friends and talk more openly to break the stigma ar...
They need to worry about not being obese, soon, so that the “long-term” even matters for them.And for those people, people who are overwhelmed with the conflicting information out there and don’t know where to even begin, our blog posts and articles that trash one diet in favor of ...
If I don’t underestimate my own rate of change, I’ll probably decorate next Christmas with garland left to me by a friend. For now, I accept my place in the middle – still a newcomer to my local friends (who never quite trust that I won’t jump ship), a long-term expat to ...
Most smaller ships in Traveller are of the belly lander variety which like the term indicate land and take-off on their belly, all of this is accomplished by the floater ability of all grav thrust vehicles great and small. When ships get into space however, the depictions of Traveller ships...
noun(n.) Intermission of judicial proceedings; the space of time between the end of one term and the beginning of the next; nonterm; recess. noun(n.) The intermission of the regular studies and exercises of an educational institution between terms; holidays; as, the spring vacation. ...
China ware, which is the modern popular term for porcelain. See Porcelain. concertina noun (n.) A small musical instrument on the principle of the accordion. It is a small elastic box, or bellows, having free reeds on the inside, and keys and handles on the outside of each of the ...
“You wish there was an adequate term for what you are—like orphan or widower—a term that says ‘I once meant something to somebody。’” The only thing 6-year-old Kait Leddy wanted in life was a sister。 When Kyleigh finally arrived, the two were inseparable—until Kait hit ...