6 Roadblocks to Shared Sisterhood

Since the summer of 2020, we have interacted with thousands of people online about Shared Sisterhood—on Facebook, Twitter, and Clubhouse. During this time, we introduced people to the practices of Dig and Bridge and spent time working through cases and reflections much like what we have introduced to you in this book. We have had many success stories of Dig, Bridge, and collective action, but we have also identified a number of roadblocks that can derail Shared Sisterhood at any of these stages.

Let’s take a woman we’ll call Joy, for example. Joy, a White woman, attended a public Shared Sisterhood dialogue and engaged with us many times. During one session, she publicly asked a question that stoked racial ...

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