Sister Solidarity
A writing program focused on love and liberation
Four weeks of writing reflection connection and sisterhood.
Details
This 4-week self-paced writing intensive centers on the experiences, voices, and narratives of cis and trans women and non-cis men as we focus on what lies ahead and fortifying community
All who identify with the message and are looking to center and honor these experiences are welcome to join
Over four weeks, we will work individually and collectively to reflect on our writing prompts and somatic activities imagining a liberatory future
for $99 you get:
- 3 emails a week (M,W,F) for 4 weeks of writing prompts (January 1- January 31)
- One digital workbook with fourteen posts and prompts for writing and reflection.
- One curated reading list on intersectional feminism
- Online community space on Mighty Networks for the month January
If you participated in the past we’ll be covering new territory winter and would love to see you again!
Enrollment Closes December 31st
The Specifics:
This 4 week writing intensive centers on women’s/ nonbinary folks experiences, voices, and narratives.
All who identify with the message and want to center and honor these experiences are welcome to join.
We don’t write for fame we write for freedom we write for survival, solidarity and sisterhood. We know inequality is not by accident but by design.
It would be easy to only focus on the needs of our immediate communities. It is easy to turn our backs on each other in this moment of great fear and dread. We must not.
That is what they want. They will not make me care less about other people because I am worried about myself. They do not get to have me lead from a place of individualism and fear.
We write to build to transform systems and in doing so transform ourselves
We write and reflect to be reborn.
These prompts will push you to question supremacy in your life and the world around you.
They will challenge you while nurturing all that is soft and beautiful waiting to be birthed.
Join us as we write to liberate and fortify ourselves.
Sister Solidarity is a four-week, self-paced writing intensive for the non-cis man who was taught to edit their thoughts and emotions.
This program is open and welcoming to all folks who want to explore the issues of race, class, gender, justice, and liberation to strengthen their ability to stay in difficult conversations
We are still in this fight.
Sister Solidarity isn’t about how you write. It’s about what you write and how you use your distinctly powerful voice to separate bone from marrow as we carve out the time to get clear about what we need to strengthen our lives so we are better able to fight.
Our silence is killing us, not our truths. You’ll be encouraged and supported to connect IRL with friends and community members to share and process your writing and reflections in addition to our optional Mighty Network space.
We belong to each other.
This is a time for us to get clear on what we mean when we say, “we are in community with each other,” not just in theory but in praxis.
What we do, what we seed, what we invest in, and how we lead in this moment matters.
Dates & Times
For $99.00, you’ll get:
3 emails a week (M,W,F) for 4 weeks of writing prompts
One digital workbook with fourteen posts and prompts for writing and reflection.
One curated reading list on intersectional feminism
Online community space on Mighty Networks for the month January
Dates: January 1- January 31
Enrollment Closes: December 31st
Questions: email info@adawaygroup.com
Sister and Sisterhood are political terms for me.
In the vein of feminist teachers like bell hooks, Chela Sandoval, Toni Morrison and Audre Lorde it creates languages and images that create political, and social coalitions. A space being held for our unlearning of the lessons that cis, and trans women and GNC folks are separate or enemies. That we can’t trust and be in solidarity together- that we can’t build or thrive without the male gaze – that we can’t live without male supremacist values.
Lisa Luxx says “Sisterhood is not friendship.”
Sisterhood doesn’t mean we need to be friends with all cis, trans women and non-men. It means we will be in solidarity with them.
SEXISM, RACISM, AND CLASSISM DIVIDE US FROM ONE ANOTHER…
We can choose to live and work for freedom for liberation in ways that create new and revolutionary ways of being in community.
Sister Summer is a summer of writing, reflection, solidarity and sisterhood.
Our survival is a love poem to ourselves
“I believe it’s the writer’s job to tell society
what it pretends it doesn’t know.”
— Mona Eltahawy
Why This:
I started writing Dear Sister posts in 2016…
because I didn’t want my sisters to give up on being free – no matter their circumstances , their experiences, their barriers – I wanted folks to know that I was right there with them, holding their hand and believing in their power to break their chains. Since that moment in 2016, I have written a letter to my family – to you- every day of my life. As non-men our bond is unbreakable, but a forged bond is not something you get from nothing. It takes will, humility, failure, and iteration.
It means using your voice.
Testimonials:
Sister Summer provided an opportunity for me to reflect deeply on my personal practices of liberation and solidarity. Through her weekly writing prompts, Desiree encouraged all of us in the Sister Summer community to examine our minds and hearts, while questioning our socialized perspectives and behaviors. We were invited to grant ourselves grace while also holding ourselves accountable. The questions in the prompts were by no means easy; at times, they compelled me to bear witness to parts of myself that I tend to hide away in shame–and there were also moments when I felt encouraged to acknowledge the aspects of myself that needed compassion and care. All of us were encouraged to go at our own pace, to be gentle with ourselves as we went, and to seek and offer support to one another. The prompts called for both curiosity and courage. Throughout the month, Desiree held the community beautifully, creating a brave space, a compassionate space—a space for growth and healing. In doing so, she demonstrated how the work of liberation and solidarity gets done while allowing us the space and time to practice at it.
– Lauren Rosenfeld
I joined Sister Summer because I was already getting a ton of value from Desiree’s social media content and I knew it would be worth it. Little did we know what would happen between the time I signed up and the first day of prompts, but we now know that the summer of 2020 was a heavy time. Having Desiree’s prompts to help me go within and give my own experience some attention and acknowledgement was a huge piece of navigating that moment in time while also giving me the questions and space to focus on my own accountability in our collective liberation. Desiree has this magical way of asking questions that cut to the core but also feel like the most loving of challenges. I’m stilllll chewing on some of her prompts which tend to just pop into my head as they are relevant to the moment.
Brandy Morris, artist