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Each year, SpiritHouse's programs include a SisterAll. SisterAlls bring women, especially African-American women, together to renew our roles as a community of activists, spiritual guides, and leaders that stand and work on the front lines for non-violence, as well as economic, racial, and social justice. Click the links below to learn more about past SisterAlls.
Limited to forty women, the I Have the Light of Freedom™ SisterAll was a community-building project that called together black female scholars, activists, artists, students, workers, practitioners, and lay and ordained spiritual leaders between the ages of 18 and 35 who have worked for justice, or who felt called upon to build up a non-violent movement that advances democracy in our community and in other communities.
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The Our Name is Our Own™ SisterAll presented women of color who are turning popular culture on its head by refusing to root our voices and images in the slanderous and long-standing stereotypes created by mainstream society. SisterAll Two: Our Name is Our Own™ was an interlocking event that weaved together a collage of individual and communal voices, which humanize women of color's lives by raising our names out of the muck and mire of mainstream popular stereotypes. Our voices, coming from authentic and diverse corners of our lives, break through the demeaning shackles and popular stereotypes of whores, mammies, immoral and amoral bitches, welfare cheats, passive love slaves, hoochie mamas, ghetto women and angry females.
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SisterAll Three showcased the
talents of several young black
women, by way of SpiritHouse's 2009 Young Artists Series. Staceyann Chin
inaugurated SisterAll III on April
22, 2009 with readings from her
new and highly acclaimed
memoir, The Other Side of
Paradise. Alexis Caputo, a gifted
writer and performance
artist from Miami, followed her on May 7, 2009.
Bettina Judd, Spelman graduate,
visual artist and writer, came to
Columbus in July for a reading
and a week-long residency at
SpiritHouse. Shontina Vernon, a
talented singer, also appeared in
July. Yasmeen ended the series in
August, as the elder/mother
medium who sang songs
spanning black women's history in
America.
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