Sisterhood Rising: Forming Friendships and Empowering Women

The Power of Stories is an archive of projects submitted every year to Building Healthy Communities (BHC) Statewide Convening. It showcases work created throughout California highlighting the power of individual and collective efforts to promote health and demonstrates how stories have the power to re-imagine and transform our communities. Produced in partnership with the California Endowment.

Project Submitted by: Diana Castellos

Project Summary: The Sisterhood 2014 gathering inspires a young women to write about the new bonds of friendship she now feels with all the young women who attended.

BHC Site: Eastern Coachella

by Diana Castellanos

We came from the hood and we are now sisters, we created sisterhood
Our voices are louder and more beautiful than Carrie Underwood
5 days? Make it longer if you could.
We are not someone's tool, we are one.
Thank you to the shakers and the organizers,
Thank yourselves because we are now sisters
Let your voice roar, be heard, make noise & take the power to move like a twister
We rose
From our head to our toes
We let that negative energy decompose
Don't judge us by our clothes
You don't know the power we bestow
We don't need "Caballeros", we need us. We rise as one
We are sisters, from the planet to the sun
We shine bright
And this here tonight , is the last of us being together
And let me be the first to say it was my pleasure.
I made sisters, not just for the past 5 days but forever
Aside from our amazing bonds like Oakchella
We did learn each others struggles at home
We are one because we share so many problems
WE ARE NOT ALONE
These problems are known
And this here space is our zone
This sisterhood will make people mind-blown
Congrats sisterhood Rising 2014
We're the first and not the last
Now let's make next year another blast.
Love Yall!