Essence of Sisterhood in Relationships

The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines sisterhood as the relationship between female siblings. But also as solidarity between women based on a community of circumstances, experiences or problems. Typically, sisterhood in relationships is viewed from a lens of being blood relatives. For example, the sisterhood relationship my baby sister, Gwen and I possess from childhood years- still signifies an electric, strong sister-relationship bond. However, sisterhood in a relationship is not limited to being blood relatives. For incident, during my undergraduate years at Elizabeth City State University (ECSU), five females who were not related to each other, Lorene (DST), and Eunice (DST). Christie (AKA), Diane (AKA), and Ida (Zeta) formed a strong bond of a lasting sisterhood relationship.

The essence of sisterhood in relationships is a natural phenomenon. An electric internal charge that ignites a bond between individuals of different backgrounds, whether education, ethnicity, cultural, social, faith/religious, and so forth, consequently generating an interconnectedness despite individual differences. The outcomes of such a bond is exemplary of “ties that bind” through life’s experiences of joy, laughter, sadness, loss, hurt, pain, recovery-yet unbroken.