What is and why in-sister?
My name is Liz Mackinlay and I am delighted that you have taken time to visit In-sister.
“In-sister” is a website and blog which aims to share and explore the words and worlds of inspiring feminist thinkers and writers.
The word “in-sister” is used deliberately to invoke the writing of intellectually rebellious women whose writing resists, moves dangerously, speaks willfully and loudly insists on movement towards the kinds of radical change we want to see in the world.
In-sister celebrates the worlds and worlds of such rebellious women writers as Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Ursula K. Le Guin, bell hooks, Emily Dickinson, Kathleen Stewart, Shirley Jackson, Sylvia Plath, Jeanette Winterson, Rebecca Solnit and Sara Ahmed – as well as the truly daring women in my own family – and gives readers ways to engage, enjoy, embrace, extend and enact the revolutionary and freeing potential of their writing for writing our own words and worlds differently.
In-sister is written and published entirely by me. I’m an interdisciplinary Australian academic in the Faculty of Education at Southern Cross Universtiy who teaches, researches across the fields of Gender Studies, Critical Autoethnography, and Arts Education.
In-sister,
who are I to you?
Feminist heartlines
Writing words, because they matter
Liz (Elizabeth) Mackinlay
In-sister writer