The Power of Sisterhood: For Black Girls in White Spaces
SISTERHOOD noun sis·ter·hood / ˈsistərˌho͝od / : They met in the 4th grade and later became best friends; remained connected when distance and relocation separated them; traversed the self-defining trials of teenhood together; held each other accountable, making them upset with each other at times, but loved each other authentically, advocating for each other's needs all the way through high school graduation. I didn't attend an all-girls high school, or any all-girls school for that matter. And while I absolutely loved my high school experience, I have come to recognize the power of an all-girls education through the transformation and grounding I have witnessed in my own daughter through her friendships, her sisterhood. With a brilliantly creative neurodivergent mind, she grew up as an only child in a divorced single parent home, blessed with both social and educational opportunities in awesome institutions, traveling to countries around the world, ...