Super Sisters

The Documentary Podcast

BBC

Society & Culture, Documentary, Personal Journals

4.3 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2019

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

In 1979 a young girl named Melissa Rich asked her mother Lois why there were no women trading cards. So Lois decided to produce her own set called “supersisters”, 72 trading cards highlighting inspirational women, many of whom were athletes. Exactly forty years later we reunite Melissa, Lois and some of the supersisters together for a discussion based on the cards and the importance - and establishment - of icons in women’s sport in front of a live audience at the Lower Eastside Girls Club of New York.

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0:00.0	Hello from me Caroline Barker from the Lower East Side Girls Club here in New York.
0:07.0	Forty years on from the creation of the Super Sisters trading cards featuring some truly inspirational female icons.
0:14.4	We're asking if it's as necessary now as it was back in 1979.
0:19.4	We've got some real strong independent inspirational women that we're going to hear from over the next hour.
0:26.0	The Lower East Side Girls Club represents all of that.
0:29.1	We're here in New York just a block or so west of the East River. Some of these inspirational female icons
0:34.7	that we will talk about you might never have heard of, but their impact you will
0:38.9	have felt. 1979, 40 years ago, 72 brilliant women and their stories were made into SuperSisters Trading Cards.
0:47.5	The first of their kind, the series featured those women from the arts, from academics, from business, and there were 19 athletes amongst them.
0:55.6	That's why we're here.
0:56.8	They were created to teach the next generation about the accomplishments of women.
1:02.3	We've brought together the creators of Super Sisters
1:05.0	and two of the original 72 to make it on those cards.
1:09.0	We're asking about the importance of female icons.
1:12.4	This is Super Sisters the making of a sporting icon.
1:16.2	Our starting point then is from a young girl from New York, Melissa Rich, who in the
1:22.0	1970s with the innocence of youth, asked her
1:25.9	mum why there no female trading cards. Her mother, Lois, unable to offer a suitable explanation and I'm willing to simply leave the issue
1:35.5	at that set about alongside her actual sister in creating what would be the first trading cards
1:41.3	to feature women. I'm delighted to say they're both on our
1:44.6	panel today.
1:47.0	Melissa can you remember that moment?
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