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Sisterhood Is Beautiful

January 21, 2021 Season 1 Episode 7
Save As: NextGen Heritage Conservation
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.

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Origins of the Alcoholism Center for Women
ACW threatened with demolition
Places Journal summer workshop
"On the Natch" defined