Written for Oregon's FisherPoets Gathering 2019, shared at the KALA Gallery.

Coming Home

What does it mean to be a woman working in Alaska's male-dominated commercial fishing industry? In The Sis­ter­hood, Tele considers the very different perspectives that various women have on their experiences in the same fishery, salmon trolling in Southeast Alaska.  

This essay was first shared at the 2012 Fisher Poets Gathering. (www.fisherpoets.org) An audio version also appeared in the Uni­ver­sity of Oklahoma’s School of Art and Art His­tory exhi­bi­tion, “FISH,” Octo­ber 23 — Novem­ber 7, 2012. To view more of Tele's writings, please visit www.teleaadsen.com. 

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