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Sisterhood Is Beautiful
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In 1974, Brenda Weathers came across a century-old home in Pico-Union, an early Los Angeles neighborhood that had seen better days. She decided to use the rundown residence to help people like her: lesbians with alcoholism. Ever since, the Alcoholism Center for Women has served as a treatment center for women in recovery--most of them lesbian; many of them women of color, living in poverty and/or formerly unhoused. This sisterhood has faced more than the obvious challenges along the way, including an old-fashioned demolition threat with an eye-rolling resolution. In this episode, grad student Lindsay Mulcahy talks with co-host Trudi Sandmeier about the many facets of this fascinating story.
Chapters
1. Sisterhood Is Beautiful (00:00:00)
2. Origins of the Alcoholism Center for Women (00:03:37)
3. ACW threatened with demolition (00:09:24)
4. Places Journal summer workshop (00:12:27)
5. "On the Natch" defined (00:14:09)
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