Watch

Faculty Talk: Courtney Thorsson and The Sisterhood, reading and discussion moderated by Ericka Warren and sponsored by the UO Alumni Association, Clark Honors College, and the UO Black Alumni Network. Online, April 2024.

“Black Women's Collectives,” panel, discussion, and book signing with Ethel Morgan Smith, Virginia Festival of the Book. Charlottesville, VA, March 2024.

"Celebrating 40 Years of the History of Black Writing & Black Women's Writing," a conversation with Ayesha Hardison, Angelyn Mitchell, and Danille Taylor, November 2023.

"Creation Is Everything You Do: Shange, The Sisterhood, and Black Collectivity," panel discussion with Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and Patricia Spears Jones ,Barnard College, March 2021.

UO Today Interview by Paul Peppis, April 2014.

Read

"The Sisterhood Celebrates Black Feminist Writing," CAS Connections, University of Oregon, January 2023

"Literary Sisters: Two Years That Changed Our Culture" by Henry Houston, Oregon Quarterly, November 2023.

“The Sisterhood Changed the Literary Landscape in the '70s,” Interview by Catherine Huff for ALL ARTS, November 2023.

“Embracing Life and Literature,” profile by Sofia Daroodi with photos by Ilka Sankari, Clark Honors College, October 2023.

“Three upcoming Columbia University Press publications,” by Howard Rambsy, CulturalFront.org, August 2023.

“Dr. Thorsson receives the Provost Book Publication Award for upcoming book,” by Mackenzie Henderling, University of Oregon, August 2023.