Sisters' Place
(Stories Around the Home Fires)
By Phyllis A. Lodge
"Sisters' Place" is a recent revelation of Basement Recordings’ Director and Founder, Trevor John. It presents us with perspectives and insights as he has observed them over the years, listening to his women students. He finally decided their views and insights should be written down and submitted as stories for the benefit of a wider audience. To take it a step further, he decided to open up the forum to topics in all areas of interest. So the women who wish to contribute to "Sisters' Place" need not limit their discussion to high or digital technology and engineering. We welcome your commentaries on the topic of your choice that you deem relevant. The main inspiration however is the woman’s perspective in technology.
"Technology impacts every facet of our lives." Trevor reminds us. "You’re either taking advantage of it or being taken advantage of by it." So, Trevor marvels over how his women students in particular, have taken charge of technology. He is even more impressed with the manner in which they respond to it. And all of this comes out in their stories. "Through my interaction with women in the classes over the years, I’ve noticed that they have a different perspective on technology than men…" I think there’s a real need for a place where black women can share experiences and become empowered by that shared experience."
"Sisters' Place" ventures beyond the insights of woman as she interacts with or strives to harmonize with this phenomenon we call technology. "Sisters' Place" demonstrates a consciousness – the collective spirit of woman that opens up the drone of technology by tempering its, sometimes, edge with the gentle hum of feminine wisdom. This goes even double for those women who have had to assume some of the responsibilities generally expected of men, so that they might meet the demands of their work. And even then, the wholesome voice of the feminine beams through even this, and lifts the rest of us in our quest to achieve and, yes, to prosper.
As with any type of forum each piece is an entity unto itself, simply by it being the individual creation that it is. In this respect, "Sisters' Place" does resemble other forums. And yet the bond of black sisterhood floats indelibly within the flow of each woman’s pen (or to be more accurate, I should say from each woman’s PC). To put it plain and simply -- the stories are all wonderful. A story shared by any woman would be wonderful, but there is something so unmistakably touching about the expressions of the black women who are rooted in this Western soil. I got a little "buzz" from each piece I read.
And so within the context of these "shared experiences", we all will detect that little shift in thought and emotion that connects us, leaving us feeling a nice little "buzz". And I’m certain that as each one of us journeys from one these written works into another -- all will sigh in unison in recollection of the words of the great teacher, philosopher, and poet, Maya Angelou when she says: "And Still, I Rise."
Phyllis Lodge is from Chicago, a freelance writer, jazz historian,
musician and works with teenage women …
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