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# 76 

Open Issue

In This Issue

Notes for a Magazine

In this 76th issue of Sinister Wisdom we continue our long legacy of tender, fierce, life-changing words and images. Sinister Wisdom has been sending passionate love letters to the Lesbian community for more than thirty years. As we know so well, we are writing for our lives. In the gynergizing words of Mary Daly, let us keep Spiraling further out, continuing our Intergalactic Voyaging, and charting the Daring way for others (Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Voyage, Harper, 1992).

Special notes of appreciation go to the many Lesbians who, with generosity of spirit, keep Sinister Wisdom alive and well. To name a few: Rose Provenzano (for her amazing intuition, vision, kindness, generosity and solidarity); Susan Levinkind (for steadfast work behind the scenes); Roxanna Fiamma (for listening and courage); Kimba Fusch and Jan Shade (for layout expertise and perseverance); Moire Martin (for coordinating bulk mailings); Stacee Shade (for hard work and tenacity, especially at the post office); Sue Lenaerts (for website magic); Judith Witherow and other board members (for support and advice); Juanita Ramos, Julie Enszer and others past and future (for brilliant guest editing); and many other wise, inspiring Lesbians for believing in the importance of Lesbian words and images (see page * for more names). AND THANK YOU to our gifted writers and artists for making these pages come alive once again.

For those of you wondering how you can help Sinister Wisdom celebrate her 33rd Anniversary and beyond, there are many ways to help us continue our important work:

  • Organize a Sinister Wisdom Reading/Celebration in your area
  • Encourage your friends, libraries, and bookstores to subscribe
  • Give Sinister Wisdom for birthdays, holidays, and special occasions
  • Organize a benefit or subscription drive for Sinister Wisdom in your area
  • Become a sustaining subscriber by adding money to your subscription
  • Put a notice in local papers and newsletters
  • Help spread the word at events, online, etc.

Fran Day
Sebastopol, California

The Front Cover


Cover of Sinister Wisdom #76  

Cover Art:
In the Desert by Jean Weisinger (front)

Contributors
Gaye Adegbalola
Rosita Angulo Libre de Marulanda
Linda Bacci
Lynn Brown
Glorya Cabrera
Cathy Cade
Merina Canyon
Giovanna Capone
Robin Carstensen
Lenore Chinn
Kelly Cogswell
Tee A. Corinne
Ronnisha Crawford
Marva Edwards
Lillian Faderman
Vicki Garcia
Diane Germain
Alix Greenwood
Susan Hawthorne
Azaan Kamau
Sue Lenaerts
Judy Lightwater
Jane Mara
Janet Mason
Mary Meriam
On The Back


Back Cover of Sinister Wisdom #76


Strength by Ellen Williams (back)


Finola Moorhead
Ruth Mountaingrove
Nancy Nau
Marjorie Norris
Erin O'Riordan
PGar
Laura Rifkin
Lilith Rogers
Heather Springer
Jean Taylor
Barbara A. Thomas
Julie Marie Wade
Jean Weisinger
Win Weston
Ellen Williams
Judith K. Witherow
Cindy Zelman

Recent Issues

# 75 

Lesbian Theories/Lesbian Controversies

In This Issue

Notes for a Magazine

For me, the sites and moments of controversy are where some of our most important thinking and forward motion happen. They are also times that require extraordinary personal and community risk-taking. They create discomfort and, inevitably, pain. They also open new opportunities, new futures, and new ways of seeing the world.

When Fran Day asked me to guest edit Sinister Wisdom, I was honored, and in the issue that I agreed to edit I wanted to tackle some of controversies in the Lesbian community. Controversy is an important part of our community and has been no stranger to these pages during their august history. To me, many of the controversies arise out of our theories about the world and Lesbians in the world. Sinister Wisdom has a long been an incubator of important theories in the Lesbian community.

Theory of course is just a word to describe an analysis of a set of facts in relationship to one another. Lesbians have always had a profound stake in theory because we have so often been excluded from analysis. Here at Sinister Wisdom, theories begin, end and are grounded, ultimately, in Lesbians—Lesbian lives, Lesbian experiences, and Lesbian perspectives. Placing Lesbians in the center of theory, that is taking Lesbians as a starting point and the focus of the journey in thinking about theory, is a radical act. This radical act of Lesbian centrality has been repeated, explicitly and implicitly, throughout the history of Sinister Wisdom. The journal is a space where Lesbian ideas and Lesbian theories are expressed and explored by Lesbians and for Lesbians. Here in these pages Lesbian theories have been created, expanded, evaluated, and discussed, and with the Lesbian theories, controversies have also erupted. This issue continues that important dialogue about theories and controversies in our community.

One of the first people I spoke with about the issue is Catherine Crouch. I wanted to include her story about what happened with her film "The Gendercator," which was a flashpoint in the controversy about transgender people and Lesbian communities. Catherine’s interview with Robin Epstein as well as information about her film, "The Gendercator," is included in this issue. Throughout this issue "The Gendercator" is referenced explicitly and implicitly which I found quite gratifying as it is a provocative and important source of discussion in our community.

Also tackling transgender questions are Carolyn Gage and Bev Jo. Carolyn’s one act play, Bite My Thumb, is a provocative exploration of gender and identity. Interestingly, the play has been optioned for a film by Catherine Crouch. Bev Jo’s article “In Love with My Lesbian Community” also grapples with the controversies surrounding transgender people and inclusion. Dianne Post addresses questions of genital mutilation at birth in service to the gender binary in her important piece, “What’s in a Name?”

Three contributions from Australia provide fascinating perspectives on controversies that may be less familiar to North American readers. Jean Taylor writes about Lesbian solidarity with aboriginal people in Australia. Susan Hawthorne raises a series of important questions and synthesizes a great deal of important information from around the globe in her piece, “Do Lesbians have Human Rights?” Finally, Chris Sitka contributes a compelling piece about Parthenogenesis in her article, “Hope is at Hand.”

Of course, creative work is included in the issue as often Lesbian poetry, drama and fiction are a fecund location for exploring the theories and controversies of our lives. I’m pleased to include new poems by Andrea Nicki, Melissa Wilson, Shawn Helmen, and Margo Solod. Carolyn Gage’s one-act play, Bite My Thumb, is included in its entirety and is delightful. I am quite excited about the excerpt from an important book that Undine Pawlowski and Donna Giancola are writing titled Her Underground. This book builds on important work of Mary Daly and others in remembering and envisioning a world in which patriarchy is no longer. Lest I forget, the issue opens with a manifesta from Alix Dobkin reminding us all of “The Importance of Being Lesbian.”

Putting together this issue of Sinister Wisdom was an honor and a wonderful experience. I am grateful to all of the contributors for their work in the journal. I also honor the people who declined to contribute to the journal in solidarity with bisexual and transgender people who do not have a voice in these pages. Finding a space to sit in this work as a writer and activist who cares passionately about both the Lesbian community and also about a broader community that is bi and trans inclusive has never been easy for me, and I appreciate the loving challenges and opportunities given to me while assembling this issue. Finally, I thank Fran Day for the opportunity to participate in this community in this way and for her work in sustaining the visions and commitments of Sinister Wisdom.

Julie R. Enszer
September 2008
The Front Cover


Cover of Sinister Wisdom #75  

Cover Art by Aline Albuquerque

Contributors
Andrea Nicki
Alix Dobkin
Catherine Crouch
Robin Epstein
Melissa Wilson
Jean Taylor
Carolyn Gage
Shawn S. Helman
Bev Jo
Chris Sitka
Susan Hawthorne
Margo Solod
Dianne Post
Donna M. Giancola & Undine C. Pawlowski
On The Back


Back Cover of Sinister Wisdom #75

# 74 

Latina Lesbians

In This Issue

Notes for a Magazine  

This issue of Sinister Wisdom is dedicated to: the memory of all the Latina* lesbians who have come before us; incarcerated women, who comprise a third of Sinister Wisdom’s readership; and those who, inside or outside the closet, continue to struggle around the world for our voices to be heard and our rights respected.

 Twenty-one years have passed since I published the first edition of Compañeras: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology) (1987). While the first issue included the words of 47 women born in 10 countries and the third edition (2004) those of 63 women born in 15 countries, this issue of Sinister Wisdom is equally diverse bringing together 76 women born in 12 Latin American countries and the U.S. It is an honor for me at this time to once again gather together the voices of so many Latina lesbians.  

Much has happened since the first edition of Compañeras was published. Latina lesbian groups have been formed, at one time or another, in the U.S. and in all but a few of the 19 Spanish-speaking countries in the “Western Hemisphere.” Latina lesbians are now visible in a host of local, national, and international civil and human rights struggles of which the lesbian and gay rights movement is only one. They have formed and joined organizations, grassroots coalitions, and international communications networks, participated in the organizing of feminist and lesbian feminist encuentros in Latin America and the Caribbean, and created women’s studies programs, research centers, and NGOs. An increasing number document our histories via the printed media and the arts, thus, increasing the wealth of information available to all of us. While some have run for political office and sought the passage of lesbian and gay rights bills and the elimination of discriminatory laws, others have joined radical revolutionary movements seeking the overthrow of oppressive regimes. Their actions have been as varied as their personalities and personal circumstances allow. Latina lesbian activism has flourished with great enthusiasm, devotion, sometimes anger, but much more frequently, love.  

It is in a spirit of solidarity with all oppressed peoples and the conviction that one day good will triumph over evil, that I and the contributors share our voices with all of you.

Juanita Ramos
Manhattan, NY, August 2008

* As here used, the term includes women of Latin American birth or parentage throughout the world.


Notas para una revista

Este ejemplar de Sinister Wisdom está dedicado a la memoria de todas las lesbianas latinas* que nos han precedido, las mujeres encarceladas que componen una tercera parte de las lectoras de Sinister Wisdom, y a aquellas que, desde dentro y fuera del armario (closet), continúan luchando en el mundo para que nuestras voces sean escuchadas y nuestros derechos, respetados.  

Hace 21 años publiqué la primera edición de Compañeras: Latina Lesbians (An Anthology) (1987). Mientras la primera edición incluyó las palabras de 47 mujeres nacidas en diez países, y la tercera edición (2004), la de 63 mujeres

nacidas en 15 países, este ejemplar de Sinister Wisdom es igual de variado al unir las voces de 76 mujeres nacidas en 12 países latinoamericanos y los Estados Unidos. Es para mí un gran honor una vez más poder exponerles a las voces de tantas lesbianas latinas.  

Mucho ha pasado desde la publicación de la primera edición de Compañeras. Grupos de lesbianas latinas se han formado, en algún momento u otro, en casi todos los 19 países latinoamericanos y en Estados Unidos. Las lesbianas

latinas ahora son visibles en numerosas luchas por los derechos civiles y humanos a nivel local, nacional e internacional, de los cuales el movimiento por los derechos de las lesbianas y los gays es solamente una. Han formado

organizaciones, coaliciones y redes de comunicación. Han participado en la organización de encuentros feministas y lésbico-feministas en América Latina y el Caribe, y han creado programas de estudios de la mujer, centros

de investigación y ONGS. Un número creciente documenta nuestras historias por medio de las artes y la escritura, aumentando la riqueza de información disponible a todas nosotras. Mientras algunas se han postulado para puestos

políticos y han buscado derogar leyes discriminatorias y pasar leyes para proteger a las lesbianas y a los gays, otras han formado parte de movimientos radicales revolucionarios para derrocar gobiernos opresivos. Sus acciones

han variado tanto como sus personalidades y sus circunstancias personales les han permitido. El activismo de las lesbianas latinas ha florecido con gran entusiasmo, devoción, a veces con rabia, pero mucho más frecuentemente con amor.  

Es en este espíritu de solidaridad con tod@s l@s oprimid@s y la convicción de que un día el bien triunfara sobre el mal, que las contribuyentes y yo compartimos nuestras voces con tod@s ustedes.  

Juanita Ramos
Manhattan, NY, agosto 2008

 * El término incluye a aquellas compañeras de nacimiento o descendencia latinoamericana en todo el mundo.

 

 

 The Front Cover


   Cover of Sinister Wisdom #72  

     
"Soy lesbiana"

   mariana pessah  

          Contributors

Mercedes Alba
Nelsy Aldebot Reyes
Erika Almenara
Odette Alonso
Camila (Alvarado)
Janette Álvarez
Rosita Ángulo Libre de Marulanda
Gloria Evangenila Anzaldúa
Renée (Stephens) Araña
Cathy Arellano
Lea E. Arellano
Avotcja
Edith Bucio
Glorya F. Cabrera
Gloria Careaga
Maya Chinchilla
Marta Collazo
Comunidad Mujeres Creando
Patricia Contreras Flores
T. Jackie Cuevas
Dinapiera Di Donato
Mayra Lazara Dole
Andrea Dulanto
Rotmi Enciso
María Teresa Escolán Nuila
Yuderkys Espinosa Miñoso
Nicole Esquibel
Anel I. Flores
Alina Galliano
Alicia Gaspar de Alba
Antonieta Gimeno
Ty González
Soad Grayeb
Yarimee Gutiérrez
Daisy Hernández
Cristina Izaguirre
María Amparo Jiménez
Peri Labeyrie
Ana-Maurine Lara
Anna-Marie López

On the Back



 

"Remeras inteligentes"


   Peri Labeyrie


 


Myra López
Nicole Marie López
Yesiga López
Nancy Lorenza Green
Elena Madrigal
María Ysabel
Lucy Marrero
Lucía Martínez
Zemaya Martínez
Marlene Molina S. (Chispa)
Norma Mogrovejo
Doris Moromisato
Claudia Narváez-Meza
Maritza Nazario
oneangrygirlfag
Miriam Zoila Pérez
mariana pessah
Milka Ramírez
Juanita Ramos
Verónica Reyes
Mónica M. Rivera Colón
Leni Rivera
Gabriela Robledo
Carmen N. Rodríguez
Chastity Rodríguez
Randi M. Romo
Mariana Romo-Carmona
Nadia Rosso
Ana Lilia Salinas
Rose M. Santos-Cunningham
Griselda Suárez
Artemisa Téllez
Lidia Tirado Tirado
Luz María (Luzma) Umpierre
L. Vera
Patricia Karina
Vergara Sánchez


# 73 

The Art Issue

In This Issue

Notes for a Magazine


Fran Day,
Sebastopol, California

 The Front Cover


   Cover of Sinister Wisdom #72  


     
"Winged Pages"

   Jenna Weston  

          Contributors

sierra lonepine briano
Dean Brittingham
Lynn Brown
Cathy Cade
Sandy Calvo
Pandoura Carpenter
Lenore Chinn
Karen Cooper
Tee A. Corinne
Jan Couvillon
Max Dashu
Fran Day
Julie R. Enszer
Roxanna N. Fiamma
Francine
Tina L. Freimuth
Kim Fusch
Pat Gargaetas
Diane F. Germain
Marjorie Greenhut
Morgan Gwenwald

On the Back



 

"Old Oaks"


   Nancy E. Lake


 


Virginia Harris
Harvest
jody jewdyke
Verlena L. Johnson
Nancy E. Lake
Sue Lenaerts
Jane Levin
anna-marie lopez
Virginia May
Stacey McCaig
Janell Moon
Nancy Nau
Old Lesbians Organizing for Change
Sudie Rakusin
Annie Soper
Linda Strega
Batya Weinbaum
Melissa West
Jenna Weston
Judith K. Witherow
zana


# 72 

Utopia

In This Issue

Notes for a Magazine

“The possible shapes of what has not been before exist only in that back place, where we keep those unnamed, untamed longings for something different and beyond what is now called possible, and to which our understanding can only build roads.”  Audre Lorde  (“An Interview: Audre Lorde and Adrienne Rich” Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches by Audre Lorde  p. 101).

“Hopes for a Utopian Lesbian Universe. Dreams of an ideal world. Yearnings for something ‘beyond what is now called possible.’” These were the words we chose for our call for material for this issue of Sinister Wisdom. The response? Once again, we found that we can count on our contributors to inspire, excite, challenge, energize, and affirm. Their powerful words and images will help us leap forward in our quest to, in Mary Daly’s words “Throw off mindbindings/spiritbindings,” in order to “transform a necrophilic world” (Outercourse: The Be-Dazzling Journey, pp. xii, 414).

Many Lesbians have written about their hopes, dreams, and yearnings for a better world. For example, in Gyn/Ecology (and her other books), Mary Daly opens up “a deep and powerful sense of the possibility of our own and all women’s freedom” (p. xxxvii).  She encourages us to “break through the silence and the sounds of phallocentric babble” (p. xx) and live our “lives as freely and furiously as possible” (p. xxxvii). In Wildfire, Sonia Johnson encourages us to free ourselves and build a new world by “disengag(ing) psychically, emotionally, materially, and economically from patriarchy (p. i). Gloria Anzaldúa writes, “For positive social change to occur, we must imagine a reality that differs from what already exists….Activism is the courage to act consciously on our ideas….” (This Bridge We Call Home, p. 5.) Merle Woo states “Those of us who have chosen the path less traveled/Abandoning values of capitalism and patriarchy/Are freedom fighters.” (Yellow Woman Speaks, p. 48). And from Chrystos: “My books are shed snake skins of my fierce journey toward justice and safety for the First Nations, called Indians.” (Resist: Essays Against a Homophobic Culture, p. 227).

Now in this issue of Sinister Wisdom we continue the journey: we reclaim our untamed minds, recover our inventive thoughts and actions, and build roads toward something “beyond what is now called possible.” As Susan Hawthorne writes, “We drive into/ unknown places/ drive off the map of the known world/ into worlds we create for ourselves (The Butterfly Effect, p. 71).

“May we possess the steadfastness of trees/ the quiet serenity of dawn/ the brilliance of a flashing star//may the fires of compassion ignite our hands/ sending energy out into the universe//may the love we share inspire others to act.” Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge We Call Home, pp. 575-576.
 

Fran Day,
Sebastopol, California

 The Front Cover


   Cover of Sinister Wisdom #72  

     
"In This Place"

   Diane Germain  

          Contributors

Margie Adam
Shaba A. Barnes
Dean Brittingham
Lynn Brown
Natasha Carthew
Chicago Women’s Liberation Union
Chrystos
Tee A. Corinne
Martha Courtot
Billie Dee
Alix Dobkin
Julie R. Enszer
Roxanna N. Fiamma
Francine
Diane F. Germain
Alix Greenwood
Jae Haggard
Susan Hawthorne
Shevy Healey
Shawn  Helmen
jody jewdyke
Sonia Johnson
Pelican Lee
Bea Lieberman
Jacqueline Elizabeth Letalien

On the Back



 

"Sisterhood is Blooming"


   CWLU


 

Frances Lorraine
Mary Meriam
Cheryl J. Moore
Ruth Mountaingrove
Nancy Nau
Andrea Nicki
Nicole M.
Marjorie Norris
Mona Oikawa
Jeane Orjas
Pat Parker
Doreen Perrine
Sudie Rakusin
Ida VSW Red
Kim Rivers
Betsy Rose
Chris Sitka
Sharon Stewart
Sunlight
Tanager
Jean Taylor
Batya Weinbaum
Jenna Weston
Ellen Williams
Michelle Wing
Amy E. Winter
Susan Wiseheart



# 71 

Open Issue

In This Issue

Notes for a Magazine

This Open Issue of Sinister Wisdom features many writers and artists new to the pages of the journal; we enthusiastically welcome each of them to the SinisterWisdomhood! These new voices along with those of some of our regular contributors combine to bring us another exciting, empowering issue. Thank you to everyone who helps us celebrate Lesbian words, ideas and images.

A special note of appreciation goes to Judith K. Witherow and Sue Lenaerts for all the love, dedication and energy they devoted to guest editing Sinister Wisdom 68/69 “Death, Grief and Surviving.” They also organized a series of readings held in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Northampton, Massachusetts; Shepherdstown, West Virginia; and Takoma Park, Maryland as well as a radio show on WPFW Pacifica. #68/69 is an immensely profound, magnificent issue! Judith and Sue have given a significant gift to our community and we thank them for their hard work and devotion to Lesbian culture. Judith is an active, supportive member of the Sinister Wisdom board of directors and Sue is doing a beautiful job as our web designer; go to to view her work and to check on our latest updates. Be sure to read the News Page which includes announcements of events, photos of recent readings, and current information of interest to our community.

I was recently interviewed by Kit Kennedy for Betty’s List regarding Sinister Wisdom’s 30th Anniversary. To read the interview go to www.bettyslist.com and look for Conversations with Kit Kennedy (Archives).

*****
For those of you wondering how you can help Sinister Wisdom celebrate her 30th Anniversary and beyond, there are many ways to get involved:

  • Organize a 30th Anniversary Reading/Celebration in your area

  • Encourage your friends, libraries, and bookstores to subscribe

  • Give Sinister Wisdom for birthdays, holidays, and special occasions

  • Organize a benefit or subscription drive for Sinister Wisdom in your area

  • Become a sustaining subscriber by adding money to your subscription

  • Put a notice in local papers and newsletters

  • Help spread the word at events, online, etc

Fran Day,
Sebastopol, California

 The Front Cover


   Cover of Sinister Wisdom #71  

     
"Journey"

   Verlena Johnson  

          Contributors

SDiane Adamz-Bogus
alison
Kathleen Allen
Joan Annsfire
Shaba A. Barnes
Stephanie Barnes
Octavia Butler
Natasha Carthew
Lisa Castro-Smyth
Lenore Chinn
Chrystos
Sasha Churchill
Tee A. Corinne
Anita Cornwell
Marva C. Edwards
Julie R. Enszer
Keli Enzweiler
Matu Feliciano
Roxanna Fiamma
Alix Greenwood
Morgan Gwenwald
Virginia Harris
Susan Hawthorne
jody jewdyke

On the Back



 


"Baby Blue Butterfly"

   Nancy Nau


 


Verlena Johnson
Lenn Keller
Patricia Kimura
Lola Lai Jong
Lori Lake
Bea Lieberman
P. E. MacDavid
Cheryl J. Moore
Nancy Nau
Mona Oikawa
Diane Pfile
Robin Reinach
Francesca Roccaforte
Sandy Tate
Annie Soper
Jean Taylor
Saundra Tignor
Morningstar Vancil
Lily Yuriko
Lovel Waiters
Batya Weinbaum
Jean Weisinger
Win Weston
Merle Woo


# 70 

30th Anniversary Celebration

In This Issue

Dedication, Invitations, Celebrations, and Appreciations

This 30th Anniversary issue of Sinister Wisdom is dedicated with love to the thousands of Lesbians whose lives have been touched by the journal.

As I gathered and arranged the volumes for the photograph on the back cover, an amazing thing happened. I sensed a powerful gynergy flowing, spiraling from the collection of journals on the table. I felt thirty profound years of courage, excitement, connections, resistance, awakenings, hopes, validations, possibilities, laughter, tears, love, creativity, engagement, and stimulation. And yes, hard work, perseverance, angst, resilience and much more. Friends stopped by to admire the collection, to share memories, to celebrate the legacy of the body of work, and to give wishes for the future of Sinister Wisdom. Let these celebrations continue in the homes, communities, hearts and minds of the Sinisterhood everywhere!

Appreciations: Thank you to all Lesbian Sisters, sung and unsung. Appreciations to writers, artists, readers, listeners, advisors, supporters, mailing crews, proofreaders, typists, binders, coordinators, donators, reviewers, board members, bookstore Sisters, designers, layouters, organizers, dreamers, inciters, editors, guest editors, web designers, searchers, sparkers, spinsters, weavers, comrades, friends, lovers, and others. We invite each of you reading or listening to this issue to join us in celebrating thirty inspiring years of survival and to help us continue thriving for many more years.

Let us continue to] be strong of heart; to believe in the importance of lesbian words and images as more than evidence we exist, more than documentation, more than entertainment. To know that the culture we create from our widely various lives is unique, growing as we grow, enriching us and nourishing future lesbians whose roots reach through ourselves back to the lesbians who have come before. We have to believe that what we do now directly affects lesbians to come. To know themselves fully, they must be able to touch, to read, to [feel] the gifts of our hearts.
Common Lives / Lesbian Lives #12 (Summer 1984, p. 4).

Fran Day,
Sebastopol, California

 The Front Cover


   Cover of Sinister Wisdom #70  

     
"Sinister Wisdom"

   Tee A. Corinne  

          Contributors

Ina Auerbach
Sandia Belgrade
Joan E. Biren (JEB)
Diann Bowoman
Cathy Cade
Patricia R. Cardozo
Chrystos
Kelly Cogswell
Tee A. Corinne
Nyla Dartt
Billie Dee
tatiana de la tierra
Julie Enszer
Roxanna N. Fiamma
Robin Fre
Pat Gargaetas
Jae Haggard
Kirsten Hearn
Katherine
Kathe Kirkbride
Alison J. Laurie
Jacqueline Letalien
Lauren Levey

On the Back



 


"Thirty Years of
Sinister Wisdom"

   Roxanna N. Fiamma


 



Bea Loud
Ona Marae
Janet Mason
Avery McGinn
Pat Meller
Ruth Mountaingrove
Marilyn Murphy
Merrill Mushroom
Chase Nascent
Marge Nelson
Marjorie Norris
Kit Quan
Tania Ramalho
Juanita Ramos
Chris Roerden
Ida VSW Red
Lilith Rogers
Esther Rothblum
Jean Sirius
Renate Stendhal
Jean Taylor
rainbow williams
Annie Valva
Xiaoxin Zeng


Thirty Years of Sinister Wisdom

Congratulations to Sinister Wisdom on its 30th anniversary celebration issue, edited by Fran Day. This issue pays homage to SW's history as well as to many lesbian writers, activists, musicians, and artists from throughout SW's thirty years of publication. There are tributes to Gloria Anzaldúa, Tee Corinne, Anita Cornwell, Kay Gardner, Sharon Silvas, Barbara Deming, and many others. The front cover of this special issue is a reprint of Tee Corinne's cover image from SW #3 (later made into a poster which hung in hundreds of lesbian homes), while the back cover is a photograph containing all of the previous Sinister Wisdom covers. Contributors to this special issue include Joan E. Biren (JEB), Cathy Cade, Chrystos, tatiana de la tierra, Merrill Mushroom, Kit Quan, Juanita Ramos, Esther Rothblum, Jean Sirius, Renate Stendhal, JeanTaylor, and Xiaoxin Zeng. For more information see www.sinisterwisdom.org.

Review of Sinister Wisdom #70 "30th Anniversary Celebration"
Books to Watch Out For: The Lesbian Edition: Volume 4, Number 1.

Click here to read Ruth Mountaingrove's review (in pdf format) of
SW#70 30th Anniversary Issue
as it appeared in Rain and Thunder.

# 68/69 

Death, Grief and Surviving

NEW REVIEW OF SW #68/69

In This Issue

If anyone decides that an issue about death, grief and surviving is too depressing to read, she will miss a major chance to understand how this threesome profoundly affects Lesbians. The overwhelming majority of writing on coping with illness or death is geared towards the heterosexual community, neglecting what often are some of the most difficult aspects for Lesbians.

The writing in this issue makes it clear that we need to define what is required to help one another surpass unnecessary mental and physical suffering. Too many times planning is either neglected or done in such a way that the medical establishment won’t adhere to the wishes of either partner.

There is one certainty in life—none of us will escape death of self or numerous loved ones. During the past few years a number of famous women and women activists in our community have passed away. Added to this number are countless family members, partners, friends and pets who loved us as we loved them. Knowing how to ease the ongoing pain requires the input of everyone who has survived such trauma.

No one truly knows what tragedy feels like until it touches her personally. Every individual has to experience loss and recovery at her own pace.

To begin the quest for answers to the countless questions involved, we need to understand what brought each to this place in time. The stories, poetry and artwork woven together in the issue speak in heartbreaking terms about what losing a loved one involves.

Reading about the crushing grief of so many others non-stop brought me to my knees countless times. We know the inner and outer suffering when it’s our own, but when the description of borderline unbearable pain is repeated over and over and over again by strangers, it touches a part of us we never knew existed. If we truly care for each other as a community, we should be willing to share these burdens when they arise.

Judith K. Witherow,
Guest Editor
 

 The Front Cover


   Cover of Sinister Wisdom #68/69  

     
"Grief"

   Sue Lenaerts,   Guest Editor

          Contributors

Janet E. Aalfs
Joan Annsfire
Elliott bat Tzedek
Brenwyn
Lynn Brown
Pat Browne
Shirley Brozzo
Tita Caldwell
Teresa Campbell
Shan Casey
Chelsey Clammer
Tee A. Corinne
Vicki Currier
Fran Day
Carmen de Monteflores
Julie Enszer
Susan Eschbach
Maria Fama
Roxanna Fiamma
Izabela Filipiak
Judy Freespirit
Catherine Friend
Joyce Frohn
Rebecca Frye
Carolyn Gage
Suzanne Gary
Jessica W. Giles
Pat Gowens
Morgan Gwenwald
Silverbear
Kit Kennedy
Lisa Kraft
Esther Leidolf
Sue Lenaerts
Angela Lester
Loonwomon
Jeanne Lupton
P.E. MacDavid
Trena Machado
Hawk Madrone

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"...within the war we are all waging with the forces of death, subtle and otherwise, conscious or not - I am not only a casualty, I am also a warrior."
Audre Lorde



"Bedstead"

   Morgan Gwenwald


 



Jane Mara
Lynn Martin
Janet Mason
Donna Mattucci
Pam McAllister
Mary Meriam
Alice Mohor
Janell Moon
Louise Moore
Ruth Mountaingrove
Peg Neff
Marjory Nelson
Elita Nieri
Laura O'Brady
Marcia Perlstein
Meredith Pond
Rachel Pray
Sudie Rakusin
Judith Rechter
Cynthia Rich
Kamila Rina
Lilith Rogers
Gigi Ross
Maura Ryan
Teya Schaffer
Saskia Scheffer
Carla Schick
Michelle Sewell
Jean Sirius
Lynn Strongin
Sandy Tate
Barbara Taylor
Nancy Taylor
Stacy Traiger
Uncumber
Chocolate Waters
Riggin Waugh
Gabriella West
Chana Wilson
Judith K. Witherow
Linda Zeiser

   

Funding for this issue was made possible through the generosity of Rose Provenzano in memory of Elena Boyd




Read Ruth Mountaingrove's review of
SW#68/69 Death, Grief and Surviving
from
The L Word!


# 67 

Lesbians and Work 

In This Issue

As Lesbians, how do we cope with heterosexism, lesbophobia, ageism, racism, classism, ableism and other oppressive policies and attitudes at work? How do we maintain our integrity (asserting our needs, defending our rights) without being penalized or losing our jobs? How do we cope with work that we find degrading, unethical, boring, stressful, dangerous, disabling, and/or unsatisfying? How do we cope with the myth that there is meaningful, well­-paid  work out there for everyone if we only try hard enough? What experi­ences have we had with successful alliances with other Lesbians at work? What positive experiences have we had at work where we felt we were doing something useful, where we were acknowledged for our unique contribu­tions, and/or where we had a reasonable workload, healthy working conditions, and adequate compensation and benefits?

These were some of the questions we asked in our call for material for this issue on Lesbians and Work. We also suggested other topics which included unions, workaholism, exploitation of workers, having to work as a child, while chronically ill, or while caregiving a sick/disabled partner.

Understandably, many of those who planned to write for this issue found themselves too exhausted from working to do so. Some reported that they had just been laid off and had to put all their energies into finding other work. Nevertheless, many thought-provoking pieces found their way into our mailbox. The contributors to this issue of Sinister Wisdom explore the complex issues Lesbians encounter at work with imagination, creativity, compassion, grit and determination.

"Sisters, let us put our heads together and create ways to improve the world of work for Lesbians and all oppressed people. Let us explore ways to sustain ourselves and each other outside the patriarchal work world. Sisters, take heart, unite, support each other, form alliances, and find courage and solidarity in our love for our kind ... "

Tanager, Sister Courage
(Unpublished manuscript)

Fran Day, Editor
Sebastopol, California
 



 The Front Cover


   Cover of Sinister Wisdom #67: Woman Welder by Cathy Cade  

     
"Woman Welder"

   Cathy Cade

    
 

Contributors

Joan Annsfire
Sierra Lonepine Briano
Lynn Brown
Cathy Cade
Chrystos
Becky Banasiak Code
Fran Day
Nisa Donnelly
Julie R. Enszer
Roxanna N. Fiamma
Kim Fusch
Carolyn Gage
Sheridan Gold
Dianna L. Grayer
Susan Hagen
Lori L. Lake

On the Back




"Lola, Carpenter"

   Cathy Cade 


 



Sue Lenaerts
Lee Lynch
Mary Meriam
Bonnie Morris
Marjorie Norris
Jamie R. Okulam
Meredith Pond
Raven
Ida VSW Red
Lilith Rogers
Susan Saxe
Shewolf
Rose Strong
Jean Taylor
Rainbow williams
Judith K. Witherow


# 66 

Lesbians and Activism 

In This Issue

For positive social change to occur we must imagine a reality that differs from what already exists…. Activism is the courage to act consciously on our ideas, to exert power in resistance to ideological pressure—to risk leaving home.
Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge We Call Home: Radical Visions for Transformation.  Routledge, 2002, p. 5.

     Many of us once believed that activism meant demonstrations, picket lines, protests, street theater, sit-ins and public hearings. Now we realize that activism also includes protest songs, political art, resistance writings, radical teaching, private rebellions and much more.  Some of us can no longer walk in the streets but we can write articles and poetry, give speeches, compose music, create art, and/or inspire others.

     Some of us actively resist by using a very anti-academic voice in our writings, embracing the most unofficial language we can find. In Julia Penelope’s words, we are unlearning the lies of the fathers’ tongues. As activists, we at Sinister Wisdom are committed to providing a forum for diverse Lesbian voices by printing writing (and art) that is often not published by mainstream presses. We know that there are many ways to write; we will not force patriarchal language rules on our contributors. We believe that each writer knows best how she wants to write about her experiences and ideas. We are committed to publishing writing that is readable and interesting to all of us in all our beautiful diversity.

      Some Lesbians have decided to separate from patriarchy, to detach, to refuse to put energy into challenging systems from within. They choose to be actively engaged in building a Lesbian world, devoting their love, energy, and thought into creating new ways of being. Sonia Johnson writes, “I dream of women's world, I remember it, I invent it.  I love it and long for it and live in the memory of it as much as I am able.  Caring profoundly about femaleness, I am loyal only to women, respecting and honoring us, awed by the power that is ours exclusively.  All my thought and attention and energy is for women, and I rejoice constantly that I am one.  Female is my species and my home” (p. 16).

     We need all of us doing whatever works for us, following our own hearts and dreams. Kim River and jody jewdyke write, “We deeply value all the forms of activism of all the Dykes who have worked and continue to work to change the world. We value the many things Dykes have done, and are doing to create and sustain Lesbian culture and community (p. 53).


   The Front Cover

 

       Cover of Sinister Wisdom #65: Self-portrait with children by Marie LaPre' Grabon  

     "Unplugging Patriarchy's    Chains"

   Bea Loud

     Hungry for a better world, Lesbians are (and have been) actively involved in every movement for social change, peace and justice, and global awareness. We refuse to collaborate in our own oppression, the oppression of others, and the destruction of our planet. The contributors to this issue of Sinister Wisdom passionately write (and create art) about their fierce determination to make a difference.

     We call upon all Lesbians of courage: we have important work to do. We know that we must never let us our oppressors define us. We reject destructive behaviors, foundations, philosophies, practices, and values; we separate ourselves from heteropatriarchal thinking and institutions and dedicate our lives to creating earth-loving, life-loving ways of being. We consciously dream of and work toward a peaceful world of equality, harmony, abundance, and safety. 


We are ready for change. Let us link hands and hearts, together find a path through the dark woods, step through the doorways between worlds, leaving huellas (footprints) for others to follow, build bridges, cross them with grace, and claim these puentes (bridges) our “home….” Gloria Anzaldúa, This Bridge We Call Home, p. 576.

 

Fran Day, Editor
Sebastopol, California

On the Back

Lesbians and Activism

Excerpt from an Interview with Rhonda Simmons, Vancouver, Canada

Some people would say I have many strikes against me. I am woman, I am a Lesbian, I am Black, I am a fat Dyke, I have a mental illness, I am a survivor, and I'm poor. But I see all of those strikes as opportunities. For me, not only to lead by example, but to talk about my experiences that have been full of adversity. I have used all those experiences for my highest good. I have what I want. And what I have is being able to communicate through my art of who I am and how I go through the world. Which ultimately connects in some way with whoever is seeing/experiencing my art. I've learned from my experi­ences and transformed them into opportunities for social change. Every time I do a piece in terms of political action, I am given an opportunity to learn more about the issue. This allows me to con­stantly reframe my perspective.

 Excerpt from "Activism from a Lesbian Feminist Perspective" by Jean Taylor, Melbourne, Australia

Whereas writing is my breath (I breathe therefore I write) lesbian activ­ism has been and still is my life's blood. I count myself extremely fortunate that over these past 30 plus years I have had the opportunity not only to participate in one of the most vibrant and politically neces­sary revolutionary movements of our time but the Women's Liberation Movement has enabled me to instigate changes so I can live my life as a radical lesbian feminist in ways that suit my best interests.  

Contributors

Shaba A. Barnes
Tanya Brannan
Cathy Cade
Lenore Chinn
Chrystos
Tee A. Corinne
Martha Courtot
Nisa Donnelly
Elana Dykewomon
Francis Eatherington
Elizabeth Freeman
Judy Freespirit
Sheridan Gold
Tamara Gorin
 

Dianna Grayer
Morgan Gwenwald
Marylou Shira Hadditt
Virginia R. Harris
Patricia Jackson
jody jewdyke
Sonia Johnson
Lori L. Lake
Audre Lorde
Bea Loud
Luna
Rose Marcario
Moire Martin
Vera Martin

 

Mary Meriam
Sasha Merritt
Elaine Mikels
Cheryl J. Moore
Ruth Mountaingrove
Laurie Parsons
Kim Rivers
Lilith Rogers
Rhonda Simmons
Margaret Sloan-Hunter
Jean Taylor
Judith K. Witherow
Merle Woo
zana

 

# 65 

Lesbian Mothers and Grandmothers 

In This Issue


Merry Gangemi
Guest Editor


The Front Cover

Cover of Sinister Wisdom #65: Self-portrait with children by Marie LaPre' Grabon  

"Self-portrait with children"

Marie LaPre' Grabon

On the Back

Back Cover Art #65: Michelle and Paisley by Marie LaPre' Grabon  

"Michelle & Paisley"

Marie LaPre' Grabon

Contributors

Kendra Brooks
Tee A. Corinne
Sara Farrell
Deb Friedman
Victoria Ferrara-Loris
Lisa Figueroa
Amy Gamble
Merry Gangemi
Maggie Harrison
Cherie James
Lori L. Lake
Marie LaPre' Grabon
Sue Lenaerts
Patricia MacAodha
Suzanne Mahue
Jane Mara
Linda Markin
Lynn Martin
Mary Meriam
Kerry McCabe
Janell Moon
Ruth Mountaingrove
Leslea Newman
Marjorie Norris
Minnie Bruce Pratt
Alison Prine
Sudie Rakusin
Lilith Lynn Rodgers
Leah Simpson
Mary Spicer
Judith K. Witherow

# 64 

Lesbians & Music, Drama, and Art 

In This Issue

This issue celebrates Lesbian music, dance, drama, and art. How has your life as a Lesbian been touched by one or all of these creative arts? How has Lesbian culture been impacted? When did you first hear Lesbian music or see a Lesbian play or art exhibit and how did that inspire you to build community? Lesbian musicians, dancers, choreographers, playwrights, actors, artists and others have written about their experiences.

Included in this issue: related interviews, photographs, and
book reviews. 


Fran Day
Sebastopol, California


The Front Cover

Cover of Sinister Wisdom #64: Either/Or by Virginia R. Harris  

"Either/Or"

Virginia R. Harris
Fabric Art

On the Back

Back Cover Art #64: Trombonist Angela Wellman photographed by Jean Weisinger  

"Angela Wellman, Trombonist"

Jean Weisinger
Photograph

Contributors

Laura Aguilar
Tangren Alexander
Kathleen Allen
Jamie Anderson
Kristan Aspen
Sierra Lonepine Briano
Becky Banasiak Code
karen Cooper
Tee A. Corinne
Alix Dobkin
Barbara Ester
Ferron
Roxanna Fiamma
Judy Freespirit
Carolyn Gage
Sheridan Gold
Bethroot Gwynn
Ann Hackler
Virginia R. Harris
Happy/ L. A. Hyder
Sarita Johnson
Susan E. Keleher
Lori L. Lake
Hawk Madrone
Ona Marae
Rose Marcario
Jess McVey
Mary Meriam
Bonnie J. Morris
Ruth Mountaingrove
Marjorie Norris
Sudie Rakusin
Reign
Lilith Rogers
Jean Sirius
Sandy Tate
Jean Taylor
Mary Watkins
Jean Weisinger
Cris Williamson
zana
Sinister Wisdom #64: Lesbians and Music, Drama and Art

Review written by Ruth Mountaingrove (reprinted with permission from The -L- Word Newsletter [June 2005])

 This issue of Sinister Wisdom is a feast. How many of these lesbians have you heard of or know their work? Singer-songwriters Ferron, Cris Williamson, Jamie Anderson, Alix Dobkin? They are all in this issue. How about Mary Watkins? There is an interview with her by Sandy Tate. How about artists Tee Corinne, Sudie Rakusin, Lenore Chinn, photographers Hawk Madrone and Jean Weisinger?

Have you heard of Happy/L.A. Hyder? She founded LVA, Lesbians in the Visual Arts in San Francisco in 1990. You can visit LVA at www.lesbianarts.org. How about Kristan Aspen and her partner Janna MacAuslan and their duo Musica Femina Flute Guitar? Kristan and her partner live in Portland, Oregon and a few years ago came down to Arcata to do a house concert. Her article is on the herstory of the lesbian music of the Northwest. She begins in the year 1970 with an overview of lesbian music.

Ann Hackler writes about the Institute for Musical Arts (IMA) More at www.ima.org. She founded IMA and is the executive director.

Then there is theatre. Carolyn Gage has a one act play, The Drum Lesson which a drumming circle might like to perform. Gage is the author of the play Joan of Arc and forty-eight other plays, musicals and one woman shows, as well as four books on lesbian theatre.

Have you heard of Bethroot Gwynn? Well that depends on whether you were here in Arcata when she performed her one woman show Immaculate Decision, about abortion, at Humboldt State University. She has a new one I would like to see - Women; the Longest Revolution, A Performance Documentary (2003 - 2004)

There are some coming out stories. Tangren Alexander's article is called How Lesbian Music Changed My Life and Lesbian Art Sustained It. Lesbians can attest to that.

Many of these women are multi-talented. Hawk Madrone who took the photograph of Bethroot in performance is also the author of the book Weeding at Dawn. She is land partners with Bethroot and they own Fly-a-Way Home where Bethroot directs Personal Theatre. Tee Corinne is not only an artist but also a photographer of famous lesbian writers and a poet, novelist, and non-fiction recorder and preserver of lesbian herstory in southern Oregon.

Laura Aguilar, a Latina and a lesbian writes about her and other Latinas' invisibility in the Los Angeles gay and lesbian community. She is a photographer and has two photographs in this issue of Sinister Wisdom. One is set in the forest and the other at the beach, These are part of an on going project of self-portraits.

Kathleen Allen writes movingly from her prison cell about her life as a poet and writer and why she destroyed all that work. Music from her harmonica has eased the tensions of her prison life for her. Ruth Mountaingrove writes about Lesbian and Art, about the women's movement and her art in the late sixties, the seventies, the early eighties, first in Philadelphia and then in Oregon and lastly in California.

There are more lesbians creating art and I am pleased to be part of this book. Fran Day, the editor, has done herself proud bringing together so many talented women.

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#63 Lesbians and Nature

Cover by Sudie Rakusin

We hope to have Issue #63 "Lesbians and Nature" available on tape soon.
Cover SW #63 by Sudie Rakusin

#62 Lesbian Writers

Cover by Sudie Rakusin

Thanks to Jody Jewdyke, Issue #62 "Lesbian Writers on Writing and Reading" is now available on tape. Email fran@sonic.net for more information.
Cover SW #62 by Sudie Rakusin
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Past Issues Available

#61 -  Women Loving Women In Prison

#59/60 - Love, Sex & Romance
#58 - An Open Issue
#57 - On Healing - diverse voices explore healing
#55 - Exploring issues of racial and sexual identification
#54 - Lesbians and Religion - questions of faith and community
#53 - Old Dykes/Lesbians - a landmark issue, guest edited by nine lesbians over 60, with work by 39 old dykes/lesbians
#52 - The Allies Issue
#51 - New Lesbian Writing
#50 - Not the Ethics Issue we had planned - read it to find out why! Guest edited by Caryatis Cardea and Sauda Burch
#49 - The Lesbian Body: Where Flesh and Theory Meet
#48 - Lesbian Resistance - including works by dykes in prision
#47 - Lesbians of Color: Tellin' It Like It 'Tis: Special 160 page issue written and produced by lesbians of color
#43/44 - 15th Anniversary Retrospective: 368 pages packed with Herstory - Don't miss this one!
#41 - Special Italian-American Women's Issue, guest edited by Giovanna (Janet) Capone and Denise Leto
#40 - On Friendship
#39 - Disability
#36 - Surviving Psychiatric Assault/Creating Emotional Well Being in Our Communities
#34 - SciFi, Fantasy and Lesbian Visions
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                Two Spirit Women of First Nations 
                         (submissions still being accepted)

 Guest Editor: Chrystos (Menominee)

3250 S 77th #8 Tacoma, WA 98409. Email: creeptoes@yahoo.com.

Colonialization has marginalized Indigenous women (as well as men), making Native Dykes almost completely invisible. We celebrate the survival of Two Spirit women of First Nations in this issue. Submissions may be in any format - taped interviews, dialogues, as well as fiction, poetry, etc. Please respect certain definitions, which have often been violated – ie, we ask for work from lesbians who are Native in this lifetime only, recognized by their tribes or communities (although a BIA number is not required) and willing to use their name rather than a psuedonym (this is to help prevent submissions of non-authentic work). We define Indigenous Dykes as coming from the Americas, as well as the Pacific (Hawaii, New Zealand, Australia), with a land base (ie. reservation, ranchero, etc.) and a tribal affiliation (Maori, Koori, Cree, etc.). Government recognition of tribal status is not necessary (ie. we recognize the Duwamish). We are particularly interested in stories from dykes who were in residential schools, Elders, incarcerated, & in honor of those who have passed on (Barbara Cameron NationShield, Smiley Hillaire). Megwetch.


Issue #77

               Environmental Issues/Lesbian Concerns

                Deadline: December 1, 2008

Guest Editor: Diane Foster

Mother Earth is at risk! Her soul cries for love, nurturing and protection. The veins of her ecosystem are weakening, the air she provides is choked with pollutants, her nutrients providing sustenance for life are poisoned by those with no regard or respect for life itself. Her travails giving life to this planet has found her weeping polluted, agony stained tears. As Mother Earth Lesbians, the 77th issue of Sinister Wisdom relates to what Lesbians around the world feel concerning Environmental Issues. Topics included but not limited to are: lesbian and/or lesbian groups working in the realm of saving/protecting the environment, what efforts are being done, who and where are Earth-Conscious Lesbians. Does your heart cry out, are you angry? Do you feel there is a correlation between patriarchal dominance and the state of our environment? Do Lesbians and/or Lesbian groups face unique challenges and/or oppositions in their quest to protect and save Mother Earth from environmental devastation? This issue welcomes prose, short story, poetry, essays; from the serious to the lighthearted, but they all must deliver a succinct message. Call for Artists: Please submit your artwork for consideration: images sent electronically must have a resolution of 300 dpi for photos and 600 dpi for line drawings.

Send material for #77 only to Diane Foster email:dianefoster683@hotmail.com or mail to: Diane Foster, 5400 Montgomery Blvd. NE, #401 B, Albuquerque, New Mexico, 87109. Emails preferred.
 



Issue #78

                Old Dykes/Lesbians II

                Deadline: March 1, 2009

Editor: Fran Day

Open issue written by Lesbians born in 1949 or earlier. Interviews and photographs taken by Lesbians are encouraged. Please read the guidelines very carefully before sending material: ARTISTS should send B&W photos or drawings (duplicates) of their work (no slides). Images sent electronically must have a resolution of 300 for photos and 600 for line drawings. Please do not send large files electronically – send each photo separately.  Include a 3-5 sentence autobiographical sketch written exactly as you want it printed.

Special Request: Please send donations to help cover the cost of printing and mailing this issue. Make checks payable to Sinister Wisdom, Inc and mail to Fran Day, P. O. Box 1180, Sebastopol, CA 95473 – 1180.
 

Send material to Fran Day, P. O. Box 1180, Sebastopol, CA 95473-1180. Email fran@sonic.net


Issue #79

               Willing Up and Keeling Over:
               A Lesbian Handbook on Death Rights and Rituals

Editors: Anah Holland-Moore, Ardella Tibby, Barbary Clarke, Cathy Wheel, Claudia Huber, Jean Taylor, Lorraine le Plastrier, Rosalinda Rayne, Long Breast Press Melbourne Australia 2007.

Lesbians are discriminated against legally and socially in Australia. This book has been written and published to redress some of the inequities Lesbians face in our daily lives and in particular when it comes to our deaths. Sinister Wisdom is pleased to announce that we will reprint this important book.


Issue #80

               Theme to be Announced

        Due October 1, 2009

Editor: Fran Day


Issue #81

               Call for Guest Editors

        Due February 1, 2010

 

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