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Sinister Wisdom
Series · 46
books · 1976-2025

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Sinister Wisdom 1

1976

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Sinister Wisdom 4

1977

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Sinister Wisdom 6

1978

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Sinister Wisdom 10

On Being Old and Age

1979

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Sinister Wisdom 12

1980

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Sinister Wisdom 15

Violence

1980

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Sinister Wisdom 26

To Go to Berbir

2025

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Sinister Wisdom 31

1987

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Sinister Wisdom 38

Lesbian Relationships

1989

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Sinister Wisdom 39

On Disability

1989

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Sinister Wisdom 41

Il Viaggio Delle Donne

1990

Large novel size paperback as seen in vg condition (grn). We ship worldwide from San Francisco bay area.
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Sinister Wisdom 47

Tellin' It Like It Tis'

1992

Sinister Wisdom 47: Tellin' It Like It Tis' is edited entirely by a collective of eight Lesbians of Color: Akiba Tiamaya, Aly Kim, Cristy Terese Mei-Ling Chung, Jamie Lee Evans, Laura Orabona-Munter, Maya C. Valverde, Sauda (Lillian) Burch, and Xochipala Maes Valdez. The pieces submitted are clearly with ourselves at the center encompassing many aspects of our lives. Our cultures were integral parts of our work, not tacked on borders framing who we are. This issue reflects our relationships with each other; reclaiming our culturally specific herstories, mythologies, rituals and healing circles; and creating our own spaces rather than pushing our way into places that would have us only marginally.
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Sinister Wisdom 48

Resistance

1992

Sinister Wisdom 48: Lesbian Resistance's writers envision taking power in many ways: some advocate armed struggle, others believe in challenging systems from within, some speak for coalition politics, some for separatism, still others imagine resistance as changing the processes between us. This issue admires and encourages this fantastic lesbian resilience.
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The Lesbian Body

1993

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Sinister Wisdom 57 On Healing

1996

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What Can I Ask

New and Selected Poems, 1975-2014

2015

Drawing on Dykewomon’s impressive body of poetry, What Can I Ask: New and Selected Poems assembles into a single volume poems from Dykewomon’s three published collections, They Will Know Me By My Teeth (Megaera Press, 1976), Fragments from Lesbos (Diaspora Distribution, 1981), and Nothing Will Be As Sweet as the Taste (Onlywomen Press, 1995), as well as a selection of newer, uncollected poems. Dykewomon continues asking questions and reaching for answers, demonstrating the power of poetry to comfort and enrage, inspire and arouse.
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Sinister Wisdom 97

Out Latina Lesbians

2015

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies. OUT LATINA LESBIANS, edited by Nívea Castro with Geny Cabral (also published as Sinister Wisdom 97) features work by Cherríe L. Moraga, Marga Gomez, Diane Solis, Gina Anderson, Carmen Cruz, Alina Galliano, Bessy Reyna, and many others. Visual art from Liliana Wilson, Alixa Garcia, and more.
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Lesbians and Music, Drama, and Art

2005

“This issue of Sinister Wisdom celebrates Lesbian music and art and the role the creative arts have played in building community and in exploring, affirming, and reflecting who we are as Lesbians.”
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Sinister Wisdom 77

Environmental Issues Lesbian Concerns

2009

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Sinister Wisdom 80

Willing Up and Keeling Over - A Lesbian Handbook and Death Rights and Rituals

2010

Here is a practical handbook for Lesbians to help with those financial, emotional and legal details when someone dies. It also helps lessen the impact of eventual death on loved ones left behind.
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Sinister Wisdom 81

Lesbian Poetry - When? And Now!

2010

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Sinister Wisdom 82

In Amerika They Call Us Dykes: Lesbian Lives in the 70s

2011

Sinister Wisdom 82: In Amerika They Call Us Dykes: Lesbian Lives in the 70s is a special issue that documents the conference sponsored by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies (CLAGS) titled In Amerika They Call Us Dykes: Lesbian Lives in the 70s in October 2010. This issue explores the questions: How do we narrate and share history between generations? How can we pass on traditions, ideas, and values to new generations while still giving younger women the space to experiment and formulate their own traditions, ideas, and values? How do we honor the past and think critically about it as a way to refine strategies for change? The goal for this issue is to help lesbians contribute to a productive and on-going conversation about lesbian herstory and its meaning in our lives today.
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Sinister Wisdom 87

Tribute to Adrienne Rich

2019

Tribute to Adrienne Rich. Featuring work by Cheryl Clarke, Rachel Tzvia Back, Elliott batTzedek, Elana Dykewomon, Stephania Byrd, Jocelyn Heath, Jewelle Gomez, Antonia Matthew, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Lynda Koolish, Jenny Factor, Chris Shorne, Bekah Steimel, and Alison Bechdel. Obituary for Leigh Star and more!
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Sinister Wisdom 89

Once and Later

2017

Sinister Wisdom 89: Once and Later troubles the importance of time in lesbian life. Combining temporal designations of what once was, the present, and the future, Once and Later features two interviews; one of Joan Larkin, a veteran poet, by poet Sandra Tarlin, and another of filmmaker Catherine Crouch interviewed by Carolyn Gage. Once and Later also features remembrances of lesbian who have shaped the world and lesbian history to inspire new generations of lesbians. Special Sandra Tarlin Interviews Joan Larkin Carolyn Gage Interviews Catherine Crouch Roberta and Fairfax Arnold Remember Their Mother, June Arnold Merril Mushroom Remembers Julia Penelope Creative Work By Dominika Bednarska Gina Bernard Cassandra Christenson Devi Lockwood Hawk Madrone Wye Marley Liz Moyer Kate Reavis Ebonie Sade Becky Thompson Rachel Stallard And More!
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Living as a Lesbian

1986

Poetry. African American Studies. LGBT Studies. LIVING AS A LESBIAN is Cheryl Clarke's paean to lesbian life. Filled with sounds from her childhood in Washington, DC, the riffs of jazz musicians, and bluesy incantations, LIVING AS A LESBIAN sings like a marimba, whispering "i am, i am in love with you." LIVING AS A LESBIAN chronicles Clarke's years of literary and political activism with anger, passion, and determination. Clarke mourns the death of Kimako Baraka, "sister of famous artist brother"; celebrates the life of Indira Gandhi; and chronicles all kinds of disasters natural and human-made. The world is large in LIVING AS A LESBIAN but also personal and intimate. These poems are closely observed and finely wrought with Clarke's characteristic charm and wit shining throughout. In 1986, LIVING AS A LESBIAN captured the vitality and volatility of the lesbian world; today, in a world both changed and unchanged, Clarke's poems continue to illuminate our lives and make new meanings for LIVING AS A LESBIAN.
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Sinister Wisdom 92

Lesbian Health Care Workers

2016

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 Peggy L. Chinn Elizabeth R. Berrey Maria V. Ciletti Sharon Deevey Kelli Dunham Alma Garcia Sarah Lipkin-Lamay Karen Starr Maida Tilchen Jean Taylor Creative Work By Judith Beckett Cassandra Christenson Joan Cofrancesco Michelle Duford Diane Solis Samn Stockwell And More!
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Sinister Wisdom 93

Southern Lesbian-Feminist Herstory, 1968-1994

2014

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Sinister Wisdom 94

Lesbians and Exile

2014

Fiction. Poetry. Prose. Anthology. LGBT Studies. Living as a lesbian is still a dangerous business in many parts of the world, especially when lesbian lives become enmeshed in agendas of national purification that make scapegoats of lesbians and nonconformists more broadly. In other instances, simply being a lesbian is not necessarily the most pressing issue in one's daily life. This is particularly true if a lesbian lives in, or is closely connected with, war zones, whether such zones result from armed conflict within or across national boundaries or from violence experienced in a socially and economically marginalized community. However, being a lesbian informs and complicates the responses to, and survival strategies developed in, such contexts. Thus the stories lesbians tell are marked by the criss-crossings of all their histories.
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Sinister Wisdom 95

Reconciliations

2015

Sinister Wisdom 95: Reconciliations is filled with creative and nourishing texts. This issue features a new short story by Annmarie Monahan, author of the incredible lesbian-feminist novel, Three; fiction by T. Stores, Janine Mercer, and April Jo Murphy; memoir by Maureen Brady about Adrienne Rich, and more! Reconciling provocative work and opinions, Sinister Wisdom 95: Reconciliations responds to important facets in lesbian life and history. Featuring Poetry by: Kat McAllister Black Diane Furtney Bonnilee Kaufman Cathy Marston Nyk Robertson Maureen Seaton Fiction by: Annemarie Monahan T. Stores Creative Work by: Roberta Arnold Maureen Brady Rona Magy April Jo Murphy Janine Mercer Heather Seggel And More!
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Sinister Wisdom 98

Landykes of the South: Women's Land Groups and Lesbian Communities in the South

2015

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. Women's Studies. LGBT Studies. Landykes of the South is the second special issue of Sinister Wisdom (Sinister Wisdom 98) featuring memoirs, interviews, essays, and artifacts from the Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project, a project of Womonwrites, the Southeast Lesbian Writers' Conference. For some early women's liberationists in the first consciousness- raising groups, forming a women's land group was an outcome of the process, putting theory into action. Some Lesbians came out in the counterculture's back-to-the-land movement, some waking up to feminism after moving to the country with a mixed group or male partner. Our collection of Landyke stories begins in 1969 when Corky Culver's consciousness-raising group in Florida, possibly the first Lesbian land group in the country, began to look for land. We chose to end the storytelling at the end of the twentieth century in 1998 with Maat Dompim, but the Landyke movement continues in some form to this day.
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Sinister Wisdom 99

Pleasure

2017

Sinister Wisdom 99: Pleasure begins the calendar year 2016, which marks Sinister Wisdom’s fortieth publishing anniversary. On July 4, 1976, Harriet Desmoines and Catherine Nicholson published the first issue of Sinister Wisdom, welcoming into the world a lesbian journal to celebrate the many sinister wisdoms of lesbians. Sinister Wisdom 99: Pleasure showcases new and returning writers to Sinister Wisdom. One of my pleasures is publishing our beloved lesbian-feminist writers, like Kitty Tsui and Cherry Muhanji, as well as newer writers like Denise Miller, Allison Berry, Sarah Neal, and many others. In this issue, you will find an array of incredible lesbian and queer writers. Curl up with these words from lesbian writers, with these sparks of lesbian imagination, for your own pleasure and discovery. When you are done reading, share it with a friend. I know every page in Sinister Wisdom 99 will bring you pleasure.
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Sinister Wisdom 101

Variations

2017

Sinister Wisdom 101: Variations celebrates the fortieth anniversary of Sinister Wisdom in 2016. Sinister Wisdom 101: Variations explores different variations of lesbian-feminism. The truth is that women have not stopped loving women, and there is no indication that phenomenon will ever go away, but the language and culture of those women remain as variable today as they were in the twentieth century. Another truth is that patriarchy and its attendant misogyny continue to drive people of all genders to diminish women and those who align themselves strongly with the feminine. What remains less clear today is the political piece of the equation—where and how does feminism link up with lesbianism today? Sinister Wisdom 101: Variations has many voices—old and new—exploring vital questions to our lives today. Creative work in Sinister Wisdom 101: Variations is by Elvis B, Susana Cook, Leah Gilliam, Trish Salah, Stacy Szymaszek, Fran Winant, and many more.
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The Complete Works of Pat Parker

2016

"The Complete Works of Pat Parker gathers all of Parker’s published work from two books (Movement in Black and Jonestown & Other Madness) and three chapbooks (Child of Myself, Pit Stop, and Womanslaughter) with other previously unpublished poems, two plays, and a handful of prose essays. The Complete Works of Pat Parker is the most comprehensive presentation of Parker’s work." — Editor. The Complete Works of Pat Parker is the fourth title in the Sapphic Classics Series, reprint edition of iconic works of lesbian poetry, co-published by A Midsummer Night’s Press and Sinister Wisdom (released as Sinister Wisdom issue #102).
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Sinister Wisdom 103

Celebrating the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival

2017

Sinister Wisdom 103: Celebrating the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival honors the forty-year legacy of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (1976–2015). Sinister Wisdom 103: Celebrating the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival celebrates this embodiment of radical feminist separatist collaboration, transformational self-defined autonomous spaces, a commitment to sisterhood and matriarchal culture, and a musical city sprung from the earth for one week in the woods. A collective of five womyn each with a deep connection to Fest operated by consensus to create this issue. Striving to represent a range of womyn’s voices, values, traditions, and experiences of Fest, the collective highlighted what Fest has meant to generations of womyn, documented its chronology, and bore witness to the power of this community. Sinister Wisdom 103: Celebrating the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival includes womyn from multiple races, geographies, sexualities, generations, and gender and other social identities. Just as Fest brought together womyn from various backgrounds, our collection includes a range of artistic experience, from seasoned authors and photographers to those womyn new to publishing. Sinister Wisdom 103: Celebrating the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival remembers the transformations, possibilities, and hopes for spaces cultivating the ongoing empowerment of womyn.
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Sinister Wisdom 104

Lesbianima Rising: Lesbian-Feminist Arts in the South, 1974-96

2017

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 events, recordings, and distribution outlets. A woman-idnetified consciousness supported this culture, both spiritually and financially. Art was involved by feminist ideals carried by the artists, poets, performers, playwrights, and interwoven into production companies, recording companies, arts organizations, and into the art itself. Sinister Wisdom 104: Lesbianima Rising explores Southern lesbian and women's artistic activities between 1974 and 1996. This issue is a rich tapestry of Southern stories and reflections on the creative arts.
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Sinister Wisdom 105

Passion Fruit and Wet Flowers

2017

Sinister Wisdom 105: Passion Fruit and Wet Flowers includes the best creative writing by lesbians accepted during the past two years through our open submission process. The creative work in Sinister Wisdom 105: Passion Fruit and Wet Flowers is an eclectic mix of poetry, fiction, a play, and creative non-fiction. Sinister Wisdom 105 continues to celebrate revolutionary lesbian-feminist consciousness.
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Sinister Wisdom 106

The Lesbian Body

2017

From the provocative to the mundane, the specific to the metaphorical, the relative to the cliché, this issue of Sinister Wisdom celebrates lesbians and our relationships with and to our bodies, no matter how painful, radically indulgent, seemingly benign, and powerfully personal. Personal narratives tell and explore the very particular lives of lesbians, how they weave, overlap, include and sometimes exclude. Work featured in this special issue is rooted in the body but also simply begins and come back to the body as the writer explores any number of topics. Encompassing as large a range of art and writing as possible, rooted in the very ground metaphor of how we experience the world—through the body—“The Lesbian Body” penetrates deep truths about the lesbian self directly from the source. How might we better explore and accept an expansive, full-range of lesbian identity from the very messy particulars of everyday consumption, digestion, expulsion, and excretion? Where might we enrich and intersect our understanding of sexuality and identity by breaking down a host of barriers and include what we do with our bodies as perhaps even more enlightening than mere rhetoric and discourse? Can the jeans we choose to wear tell a better story of our complex humanity? Can something be a cliché and still be achingly true between the sheets?
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Sinister Wisdom 107

Black Lesbians -- We Are the Revolution!

2018

Black Lesbians—We Are the Revolution! Sinister Wisdom 107: Black Lesbians—We Are the Revolution! lifts up the voices of African-American lesbians for us all to hear, see, and know. The creative work in Sinister Wisdom 107: Black Lesbians—We Are the Revolution! gathers together new writing by an array of emerging and established black lesbian and queer women writers. Sinister Wisdom 107 invites us all as readers, thinkers, activists, and cultural workers to engage in meaningful and productive ways with the voices and works of African-American lesbians as they write and imagine new worlds. Creative Work By Pamela Sneed Charan P. Morris Nikkya Hargrove Vanesa Evers Omotara James Renée Bess Cheryl Boyce-Taylor Arisa White Cheryl Clarke Ifalade TaShia Asanti Linda Bellos
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Sinister Wisdom 109

Hot Spots

2018

Sinister Wisdom 109: Hot Spots explores the Southern spaces where lesbians gathered and organized during the past forty years. The ways that lesbians came together during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s were many and varied. There was no social media, no high-speed communication. Lesbians relied on the US Post Office, telephones, and face-to-face contact. Public advertising such as newspaper ads, flyers, and leaflets, had to be done carefully and discreetly. Learning about events of the past gives templates by which to formulate and support activism in the present and future. Oppression, restriction, discrimination, and disempowerment can take many forms, some more insidious than others, and activism can be especially difficult when one is a member of a despised minority that also is criminalized. Sometimes the most we can do is be ourselves and live the truth in our lives. This issue of Sinister Wisdom, fourth in our series of special issues covering lesbian-feminist activism in the late twentieth-century South, focuses on lesbian gathering places and ways that lesbians created community while continuing activism.
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Dump Trump

Legacies of Resistance

2018

Sinister Wisdom 110, Dump Legacies of Resistance
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Sinister Wisdom 115

Lesbian Learning

2019

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Sinister Wisdom 116

Making Connections

2020

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.
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Sinister Wisdom 118 ; 45 Years Tribute to the Lesbian Herstory Archives

2020

Forty-five years ago movements of liberation made possible the birth of a new project in the world, the Lesbian Herstory Archives. In Sinister Wisdom 118 are some of the founding stories, telling what it meant to walk first into an apartment and later into a four-story limestone building, where shame became history, secrets became shared connections and complex lesbian, queer histories were enriched by maintaining intergenerational community. A grassroots collection, the Archives was intentional about engaging with all facets and complexities of lesbian life, inclusive of diversity in race and gender-identity, from the bar life of the fifties and before, to the lesbian-feminist cultural richness of the mid-twentieth century and beyond, to the gender richness of the twenty-first. This issue honors an Archives that articulates the complexities of how lesbians make our way in the world. Featuring work by Deborah Edel Joan Nestle Ann Allen Shockley Naomi Replansky Irare Sabasu Polly Thistlethwaite Jewelle Gomez Alexis Danzig Fran Winant And many others!
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To Be a Jewish Dyke in the 21st Century

2021

Sinister Wisdom 119: To Be a Jewish Dyke in the 21st Century takes its title from that life-giving stanza in Muriel Rukeyser’s epic poem “letter to the Front” is a gathering of answers, challenges, and opinions directed at questions like: What are Jewish lesbians thinking about? Writing about? Making art about now, here in the first two decades of the 21st Century? Do we see ourselves as Jewish dykes? Jewish lesbians? Genderqueer Jews? How are we thinking about our Jewish lesbian communities and families, natal or invented? How have our relationships to the states of Israel and Palestine changed over time? Can we reconcile the contradictions between our faiths and our politics? Our gender and racial identities? How do we envision our futures and reimagine our pasts, especially in these fractious and dangerous times? With all these questions, one thing is certain: our commitments to making trouble and speaking up are strong.
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Sinister Wisdom, A Multicultural Lesbian Literary & Art Journal, 120, Spring 2021

2021

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Sinister Wisdom 126

Out of Control

2022

Sinister Wisdom 126: Out of Control is a record of the imaginative creations, aspirations, relations, and life histories of the radical lesbian ancestors of our dreams—the organization Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners. In the late 20th century—an era of foreign wars, the rapid growth of the prison industrial complex (PIC), and increasingly alienating consumer culture and technology—this group of self-proclaimed “dykes from hell” convened, bonded, and strengthened. Toward one another, they softened and became steadfast, creating profound friendships and relationships that formed the building blocks for living their politics in the real world. The members of Out of Control shared a radical stance from which they live their lives as lesbian, antiracist, feminist, abolitionists dedicated to the support of their incarcerated comrades. Sinister Wisdom 126: Out of Control celebrates this work.

Authors

Lorrie Sprecher
Lorrie Sprecher
Author · 3 books
Lorrie Sprecher is the author of Pissing in a River, Sister Safety Pin and Anxiety Attack. She was a member of ACT UP/DC, has a PhD in English and American literature, and resides with her dog Kurt in Syracuse, New York. The punk song “It’s a Heteronormative World, No!” recorded by her band Sugar Rat appears on a compilation put out by Riot Grrrl Berlin.
Kate Ellison
Kate Ellison
Author · 4 books
Kate Ellison spent a lot of time as a child, in Baltimore, pretending to be things she wasn't: a twin, a telekinetic, a benevolent witch with a box full of magical stones, a spy, a soccer player. She trained as an actor in Chicago and has walked across the entire country of Spain. She is a painter and jewelry-maker, and has at least one artist friend who really does keep his true name a secret from the world. He told her, but don't ask her to tell you—she's not gonna do it. Kate lives in Brooklyn, New York. The Butterfly Clues is her first novel.
Blanche McCrary Boyd
Blanche McCrary Boyd
Author · 5 books

Blanche McCrary Boyd (born 1945) is an American author whose novels are known for their eccentric characters. Among the awards Boyd has won are a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993–1994, a National Endowment for the Arts Fiction Fellowship in 1988, a Creative Writing Fellowship from the South Carolina Arts Commission in 1982–1983 and a Wallace Stegner Fellowship in Creative Writing from Stanford University in 1967–1968. She was nominated for the Southern Book Award for The Revolution of Little Girls in 1991, and also won the Lambda Literary Award and the Ferro-Grumley Award for Lesbian Fiction that same year. She was nominated for the Lambda Award for Lesbian Fiction again in 1997. (from Wikipedia)

Joan Nestle
Joan Nestle
Author · 6 books
Joan Nestle writes and edits essays, erotic fiction, poetry, and short stories. She is an activist, and among many actions has co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives to preserve records of lesbian lives and communities and currently coordinates the Women in Black protests against Israel's occupation of Palestinian lands.
Morgan M. Page
Morgan M. Page
Author · 4 books
Morgan M Page is a transsexual writer and performance artist in London, England. Her first novel is forthcoming.
Cheryl Clarke
Cheryl Clarke
Author · 8 books
Cheryl L. Clarke is a lesbian poet, essayist, educator and a Black feminist community activist: she lives in Jersey City, New Jersey, and Hobart, New York. With her life partner, Barbara Balliet, she is co-owner of Bleinheim Hill Books, a used and rare bookstore in Hobart.
Sarah Cavar
Sarah Cavar
Author · 2 books

Cavar [sarah] (they/them) is the author of FAILURE TO COMPLY (featherproof books, 2024) and DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS (Northwestern University Press, 2026). Cavar is a PhD candidate in Cultural Studies and Science & Technology Studies at the University of California: Davis, and holds a B.A. in Critical Social Thought from Mount Holyoke College. They teach at the University of California: Davis and the University of Maine: Augusta.

Julie R. Enszer
Julie R. Enszer
Author · 6 books

Julie R Enszer is a scholar and poet. Her scholarship is at the intersection of U.S. history and literature with particular attention to twentieth century U.S. feminist and lesbian histories, literatures, and cultures. By examining lesbian print culture with the tools of history and literary studies, she reconsider histories of the Women’s Liberation Movement and gay liberation. Her book manuscript, A Fine Bind: Lesbian-Feminist Publishing from 1969 through 2009, tells stories a dozen lesbian-feminist publishers to consider the meaning of the theoretical and political formations of lesbian-feminism, separatism, and cultural feminism. Enszer is the author of two collections of poetry, Sisterhood (Sibling Rivalry Press, 2013) and Handmade Love (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2010). She is editor of Milk & Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry (A Midsummer Night’s Press, 2011). Milk & Honey was a finalist for the Lambda Literary Award in Lesbian Poetry. She is the editor of Sinister Wisdom, a multicultural lesbian literary and art journal, and a regular book reviewer for the Lambda Book Report and Calyx.

Elana Dykewomon
Elana Dykewomon
Author · 5 books

Elana Dykewomon is an activist, an author, and a teacher and has a fiercely dedicated readership who have been eagerly awaiting her next novel for a dozen years. One of the finest thinkers—and writers—the women’s movement has produced, she has worked for the last fifteen years as an editor and teacher of composition and creative writing, both independently and for San Francisco State University. (from the publisher's website) Red Room - Elana Dykewomon's Biography

Sarah Schulman
Sarah Schulman
Author · 19 books
Sarah Schulman is a longtime AIDS and queer activist, and a cofounder of the MIX Festival and the ACT UP Oral History Project. She is a playwright and the author of seventeen books, including the novels The Mere Future, Shimmer, Rat Bohemia, After Delores, and People in Trouble, as well as nonfiction works such as The Gentrification of the Mind: Witness to a Lost Imagination, My American History: Lesbian and Gay Life during the Reagan/Bush Years, Ties That Bind: Familial Homophobia and Its Consequences, and Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America. She is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at The City University of New York, College of Staten Island.
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