'This is a book written about our hair roots, our patterns, our heartland, our bloodlines, our past lives and our connections. Some structured, synopsised, intellectualised, and meticulously sculpted into scientific and historical understandings, as Western ideology so often has us grappling for meaning and logic. Yet in my travels, I’ve often ended up wondering why we never consider how, often, the power of the sometimes unexplained can so easily offer us the belonging our souls yearn for. And while in this collection, equation is offered, so, and most importantly, is wonder.'
In The Immortal Sisterhood, Gemma Cairney delves into the lives of some extraordinary women – including Mary Seacole, Grace Jones, Nanny of the Maroons, Jeanne Duval, Maya Angelou, Wang Zhenyi, Audre Lorde – many of whom have been reflected upon negatively or even written out of history.
Along the way she encourages the reader to learn from other women’s stories, and celebrates and spotlights the work of those remarkable pioneers.