Sister Spit Archived Website
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Sister Spit was an all woman, spoken word and performance series in San Francisco, founded by Sini Anderson and Michelle Tea. The website mostly contains information about their 1997, 1998, and 2001 Ramblin' Road Show tours, including biographies of performers, poems and writings by the performers, images from the tour, and tour diaries.
Historical Note
Sister Spit was an all woman, spoken word and performance series in San Francisco, founded by Sini Anderson and Michelle Tea. It ran weekly from 1994-2006, in opposition to the male dominated slam-poetry scene. Members included Lynn Breedlove, Tara Jepsen, Eileen Myles, Anna-Joy Springer, and Sash Sunday. Sister Spit went on tour as the Ramblin' Road Show in 1997 with tours through 2001. In 2007, the tour was revived as Sister Spit: The Next Generation annual tour. In 2022, the tour changed its name to Resplendent to be more inclusive of all genders.
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Arranged chronologically.
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the website of Sister Spit. The website mostly contains information about their 1997, 1998, and 2001 Ramblin' Road Show tours, including biographies of performers, poems and writings by the performers, images from the tour, and tour diaries. It also includes information about the 2007 Sister Spit: The Next Generation tour. Sini Anderson's 2002-2005 website is also part of the Sister Spit website and features her tour dates in 2004, mp3s, photos, biography, and tech rider.
Sister Spit performers included Sini Anderson, Michelle Tea, Eileen Myles, Samuael Topiary, Ali Liebegott, Sara Seinberg, Marci Blackman, Tara Jepsen, Harry Dodge, Cooper Lee Bombardier, Sarah West, Sash Sunday, Shoshana Von Blanckensee, Lynn Breedlove, Ida D. Acton, Beth Lisick, Shar Rednour, Stanya Kahn, Miranda Mellis, Alessandra Ogden, Carina Gia Sarrero, Nomy Lamm, Robin Akimbo, Rhiannon Argo, Nicole Georges, Tamara Llosa-Sandor, and Cristy C. Road.
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Conditions Governing Access
Open to researchers without restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
This collection is protected by copyright and/or related rights. You are free to use materials in the collection in any way that is permitted by the copyright and related rights legislation that applies to your use. For other uses you need to obtain permission from the rights-holder(s).
Preferred Citation
Identification of item, date; Sister Spit Archived Website; MSS 618; Wayback URL; Fales Library, New York University.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
http://www.sisterspit.com/index.html was selected for capture by Lisa Darms in December 2015 through the use of Archive-It. Archive-It uses web crawling technology to capture websites at a scheduled time and displays only an archived copy, from the resulting WARC file, of the website.
Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
Due to technical or privacy issues, archived websites may not be exact copies of the original website at the time of the web crawl. Certain file types will not be captured dependent on how they are embedded in the site. Other parts of websites that the crawler has difficulty capturing includes Javascript, streaming content, database-driven content, and highly interactive content. Full-Text searches of archived websites are available at https://archive-it.org/organizations/567.
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Archived websites are made accessible for purposes of education and research. NYU Libraries have given attribution to rights holders when possible; however, due to the nature of archival collections, we are not always able to identify this information.
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Processing Information
Intial crawling of this collection was performed by Lorena Ramirez-Lopez. Description related to the website was written in Fall 2022.
