Sisterhood is a balm, and Audre Lorde and Pat Parker enjoyed it's healing powers throughout their decades long friendship. A portion of their dynamic is captured in the archived letters between the two friends, and they contain a swirl of vulnerable moments, goofy delights, and nudges of tough love that only a close friend could deliver with next to no stinging sentiment in their delivery, or reception.

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Audio Credits: Music by Scott Buckley; Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974 - 1989, Edited by Julie R. Enszer; Spelman College; Schlesinger Library at Radcliffe’s Institute for Advanced Studies; Audre Lorde at UCLA; Woman Slaughter by Pat Parker; Debra Wilson, Cathy Cade, Ollie, Lisbet Tellefsen