sisterhood

The series was inspired by 2012’s “Sisterhood of Dune,” by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson, but showrunner Alison Schapker has expanded the characters and events to “tell stories in a fresh way.”

For Williams, the Sisterhood, which eventually becomes the Bene Gesserit, reveals how difficult it is to allow women to have authority.

She says the idea of the Sisterhood choosing to be chaste and not have men around is something considered “intensely mysterious and threatening.”

Ann and Nancy Wilson exemplify the complex power of sisterhood.

And the power of sisterhood hangs like a veil over histories of resistance and change.