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"The Sisterhood, 1977" photograph -- episode by Courtney Thorsson Remarkable Receptions
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A brief take on a photo titled "The Sisterhood, 1977," which has been a source of inspiration for countless readers and viewers.
Episode by Courtney Thorsson. Read by Kassandra Timm.
Courtney Thorsson, an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels and The Sisterhood: Black Women's Literary Organizing, an interpretive cultural history of The Sisterhood forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Courtney is grateful to poet and scholar Harryette Mullen for her work to correctly identify the women in the photo.
A brief take on a photo titled "The Sisterhood, 1977," which has been a source of inspiration for countless readers and viewers.
Episode by Courtney Thorsson. Read by Kassandra Timm.
Courtney Thorsson, an associate professor in the English Department at the University of Oregon. She is the author of Women’s Work: Nationalism and Contemporary African American Women's Novels and The Sisterhood: Black Women's Literary Organizing, an interpretive cultural history of The Sisterhood forthcoming from Columbia University Press. Courtney is grateful to poet and scholar Harryette Mullen for her work to correctly identify the women in the photo.
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