shero

[Beverly Flanigan]

This is a great word!

At 10:56 AM 6/2/2004 -0700, you wrote:
>today's Fresh Air had a long interview with Donna Brazill (Al Gore's
>campaign manager in 2000).  interesting sociolinguistically, since
>she's a public and powerful woman who's preserved lots of features of
>informal southern AAVE: piles of -in', medial glottal stop in "sudden"
>as well as "didn't", the occasional unmarked 3rd sg present, etc.
>stunning contrast to, say, Condi Rice.
>
>along the way, she talked about the "heroes and sheroes" of the civil
>rights movement.  "shero" isn't in our archives (though some of you
>might already have collected it).  there are a fair number of shero
>sites on the web -- feminist, african american, often both.  a small
>sample:
>
>Sistapower - Shero - Highlighting an African American Shero
>(http://www.sistapower.com/shero.htm)
>
>My Shero: Mature Lesbians Making a Difference
>(http://www.classicdykes.com/sheroes.htm)
>
>Who is YOUR Shero?
>(http://www.girlsinitiativenetwork.org/shero.htm)
>
>Black Women Today - Shero of the Week
>(http://www.tbwt.com/blackwomentoday/shero.asp)
>
>arnold (zwicky at csli.stanford.edu)