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Sinister Wisdom 136 pays tributes to past and present lesbian and feminist icons. Opening with a tribute to the feminist journal IKON including a robust history of the journal by editor Susan Sherman and reflections on it by Jan Clausen, Gale P. Jackson, Demetria Martinez, and Margaret Randall, Sinister Wisdom 136 also features incisive essays by Shariananda Adamz on Aretha Franklin and Vagia Kalfa on lesbian literature in Greece as well as a selection of writing about lesbian pulp novels....

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"Tell your truth."With this mantra, these three powerful words, trailblazer extraordinaire Dorothy Allison challenged us to follow her path and seize our identity in our own individual ways, our own truth. In the books she wrote with piercing honesty, in the example of the lesbian life she led with uncompromising fierceness, she continues to reverberate among us in the legacy she has bequeathed. A legacy embodied in the eighteen extraordinary writers who lay bare for us their own tr...

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Sinister Wisdom 125: Glorious Defiance features a selection of creative works from disabled lesbian writers edited by award-winning poet Valerie Wetlaufer. Wetlaufer asks of the dis/abled lesbian experience, "How can we inhabit the joy of our lesbian selves when chronic pain keeps us away from the party? What does it mean to find happiness in bodies that are too often medicalized and dissociated? How can these bodies soci...

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Sinister Wisdom 127: On Transfer is a transition, a change, a movement, a shift, a relocation. Consider the physical ways lesbians transfer ourselves and our artifacts through space, time, life, and death. Ponder the ways our identities and views shift and morph over time, transferring into us new understandings of ourselves, our communities, and the worlds around us. Sinister Wisdom 127: On Transfer, sm...

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Sinister Wisdom 134: Lives of Common Lesbians pays tribute to the iconic lesbian journal Common Lives / Lesbian Lives that published fifty-six issues between 1980 and 1994. The editorial collective for this issue of Sinister Wisdom, Sinister Wisdom 134: Lives of Common Lesbians, included members involved with Common Lives / Lesbian Lives during its run. Editors Cindy Cleary, Jo Futrell, Rowan Harvey, Papusa Molina, Tracy Moore, and Aaron Silander have gathered new writing that reflects the...

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Sinister Wisdom 92: Lesbian Healthcare Workers is a special issue that focuses on lesbian healthcare workers, and particularly nurses. Workers and recipients of lesbian healthcare come together to share their personal experiences through essays, poems, and other imagery that highlight systemic issues, and express gratitude to the healers within the lesbian community.Essays by:• Peggy L. Chinn & Elizabeth R. Berrey• Maria V. Ciletti• Sharon Deevey• Kelli ...

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It is an enormous pleasure to present Sinister Wisdom 97: Out Latina Lesbians, edited by Nívea Castro with Geny Cabral. Castro and Cabral have assembled an extraordinary collection of writing by Out Latina Lesbians including work by Janis Astor del Valle, Susana Cook, Alina Galliano, Alixa García, Marga Gomez, Cherríe Moraga, Monica Palacios, Bessy Reyna, and many more. Special thanks to the Open Meadows Foundation for a grant to support this issue.

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Sinister Wisdom 116: Making Connections is the fifth issue of Sinister Wisdom's series of work edited by the Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project, documenting the vital lesbian-feminist activism that proliferated in the US South during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. Making Connections details the extensive networking of lesbian booksellers, publishers, writing groups, and newsletter through engaging interviews, first person narratives, and innovative graphic timelines. All of ...

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Sinister Wisdom 122: Writing Communities gathers a selection of work edited by Stephanie Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle under the rubric Writing Communities. These important pieces reflect on how writers--and readers--build communities of shared interest. The issue also includes selections from the best new lesbian writing that lesbians submit to Sinister Wisdom. Sinister Wisdom 122: Writing Communities features a wonderful collection of writing about the life of Frances Clayton, an impo...

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Issue editor Vi Khi Nao describes it as "designed to be highly ambitious, all-encompassing and inclusive, tender and provocative, experimental and cliché, fragile and resilient, vulnerable and hardcore, dynamic and demonstrative, embarrassing and awkward, perfect and incomplete, tantalizing and boring, garrulous and reticent, overwhelming and microscopic, cosmic and delirious, emotional and cephalic, erotic and mundane, and mostly Asian and female and queer and specific, just for you. I wa...

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Sinister Wisdom 104: Lesbianima Rising celebrates the arts and cultural contributions of lesbian-feminists. Arts played an important role in building lesbian community and providing venues for social activism given the political and social fervor of the times. In the way that the civil rights movement produced songs and cultural events that supported ending discrimination against African Americans, so did the feminist movement spark empowered lesbian artists to produce their own cultural e...

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Sinister Wisdom 100: Anniversary celebrates the fortieth anniversary of Sinister Wisdom in 2016. When Meg Christian and Cris Williamson sang "Anniversary" at Carnegie Hall on November 26, 1982, they were celebrating the tenth anniversary of Olivia Records—and the launch of the womyn's music movement. Then, Olivia and the womyn's music movement had flowered beyond anyone's wildest expectations. Williamson said about the concert, "History was made that night in that legendary hall filling up...