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TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism

TRIVIA: A Journal of Ideas

Archives/Back issues of Trivia: A Journal of Ideas are available at $8.00 each, including postage and handling. Discounts are available for multiple issues. Issues #1 and #2 are out of print, but articles can be copied and mailed for a fee. To inquire or order contact lweil22@gmail.com.

Contents of Back Issues


Issue 1, Fall 1982
  • Janice Raymond, A Genealogy of Female Friendship
  • Natalia Malachowskaja, Terra Incognita: On Women and Writing
  • Kate Clinton, Making Light: Notes on Feminist Humor
  • Anne G. Dellenbaugh, She Who Is and Is Not Yet: An Essay on Parthenogenesis
  • H. Patricia Hynes, Active Women in Passive '80
  • Kathleen Barry, "Sadomasochism": The New Backlash to Feminism
  • Bonnie St. Andrews, Trivial Lives: Nelly Sachs: The Enduring Epitaph

Issue 2, Spring 1983

  • Andrea Dworkin, Antifeminism
  • Cynthia Rich, The Women in the Tower
  • Kathy Newman, Re-membering an Interrupted Conversation: The Mother/Virgin Split
  • Andrée M. Collard, Rape of the Wild
  • Denise D. Connors, Trivial Lives: Florence Nightingale, A Radical Genius Re-membered
  • Lise Weil, In Review: The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

Issue 3, Fall 1983

  • Debbie Alicen, Intertextuality: The Language of Lesbian Relationships
  • Camille Norton, "Tomb-Breakers": The Case Against Willa Cather
  • Mary Daly, On Lust and the Lusty
  • Gloria F. Orenstein, Towards a Bifocal Vision in Surrealist Ethics
  • Kathy Newman, Trivial Lives: Susan Glaspell and Trifles

Issue 4, Spring 1984

  • Jeffner Allen, Looking at Our Blood: A Lesbian Response to Men's Terrorization of Women
  • Erika Wisselinck, Anna – One Day in the Life of an Old Woman
  • Nancy Breeze, Who's Going To Rock the Petri Dish? For Feminists Who Have Considered Parthenogenesis When the Movement Is Not Enough
  • Elizabeth Denny, Daughters of Harpalyce: Incest and Myth
  • Katherine Kleitz, Madame Matisse and the Roman Ruins
  • Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos, Colette, Clairvoyance, and the Medium asSibyl: Another Step Towards a Female Metaphysics
  • Camille Norton, Trivial Lives: The Naming of George Eliot
  • Pauline E. Kayes, In Review: The Mirror Dance: Identity in a Women's Community, by Susan Krieger

Issue 5, Fall 1984

  • Nicole Brossard, From Radical to Integral
  • Harriet Ellenberger, The Dream Is the Bridge: In Search of Lesbian Theatre
  • Jane Meyerding, On Nonviolence and Feminism
  • Bonnie St. Andrews, Trivial Lives: Selma Lagerlöf
  • Deirdre Neilen, In Review: Teaching a Stone To Talk, by Annie Dillard
  • Jane Caputi, In Review: Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy, by Mary Daly
  • Hannah Quillet, Gadfly to the Sacred Cows

Issue 6, Winter 1985

  • Emily Erwin Culpepper, Simone de Beauvoir and the Revolt of the Symbols
  • Tremor, The Hundredth Lezzie
  • Luce Irigaray, Any Theory of the "Subject" Has Always Been Appropriated by the "Masculine
  • Juliet A. Langley, Audacious Fancies: A Collection of Letters from Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Martha Luther
  • Ruthann Robson, A Son: Nightmares and Dreams of a Radical Feminist
  • Lise Weil, Trivial Lives: Christa Wolf and Cassandra

Issue 7, Summer 1985

  • Lise Weil, Imaging Our Freedom: Thoughts on the Pornography Debate
  • Andrea Dworkin, Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography, and Equality
  • Louky Bersianik, Agenesias of the Old World
  • Baba Copper, The View from Over the Hill: Notes on Ageism Between Lesbians
  • Heide Göttner-Abendroth, Thou Gaia Art I: Matriarchal Mythology in Former Times and Today
  • Erika Wisselinck, Trivial Lives: Notes from a Death Cell

Issue 8, Winter 1986

  • Nicole Brossard, Access to Writing: Ritual of the Written Word
  • Luisah Teish, She Who Whispers
  • Micheline Grimard-Leduc, The Mind-Drifting Islands
  • Jeffner Allen, Lesbian Economics
  • Mab Maher, Feminism and Life-Memory
  • Paula Gunn Allen, Haggles
  • Betty La Duke, Trivial Lives: Artists Yolanda López and Patricia Rodríguez

Issue 9, Fall 1986

  • Sonia Johnson, Telling the Truth
  • Anna Lee, Therapy: The Evil Within
  • Bonnie Mann, The Radical Feminist Task of History: Gathering Intelligence in Nicaragua
  • Marisa Zavalloni, An Ego-Ecological Analysis of the Representation of Women: The Sartre-Beauvoir Interviews
  • Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Moral Agency Under Oppression
  • Michelle Jacobs, Trivial Lives: The Forgotten Woman
  • Lorine M. Getz and Barbara Walsh, In Review: The Journey Is Home, by Nelle Morton

Issue 10, Spring 1987

  • Andrée M. Collard, Freeing the Animals
  • Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Moral Agency Under Oppression: Beyond Praise and Blame
  • Bonnie Mann, Validation or Liberation? A Critical Look at Therapy and the Women's Movement
  • I. Rose, A Passion for Revolution: Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919)
  • Heide Göttner-Abendroth, Urania – Time and Space of the Stars: The Matriarchal Cosmos through the Lens of Modern Physics and Hagia – Academy and Coven for Matriarchal Research and Experience
  • Joyce Contrucci, Trivial Lives: Andrée M. Collard (1926-1986): A Biophilic Journey

Issue 11, Fall 1987

  • Nicole Brossard, Certain Words
  • Baba Copper, Mothers and Daughters of Invention
  • Mary Daly in cahoots with Jane Caputi, Selected Words from Websters' First New Intergalactic Wickedary of the English Language
  • Diane R. Holman, The Penis as Problematic: Feminist Observations on the Anatomical Distinctions Between the Sexes
  • Sarah Lucia Hoagland, Moral Agency Under Oppression: Playing Among Boundaries
  • Bonnie St. Andrews, Trivial Lives: Writing the Revolution: Frederika Bremer (1801-65)
  • Jane Caputi, In Review: This Is About Incest, by Margaret Randall
  • Karen Elias, In Review: Forbidden Fruit: On the Relationship Between Women and Knowledge in Doris Lessing, Selma Lagerlöf,
  • Kate Chopin, Margaret Atwood, by Bonnie St. Andrews
  • Lise Weil, In Review: Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation, by Sonia Johnson

Issue 12, Spring 1988

  • Margaret Lew, Relocating the Hedge Transforms the House: Monique Wittig and Pueblo Architecture
  • Lou Robinson, Menstrual Extraction: A Mystery
  • Nicole Brossard, Kind Skin My Mind
  • Jewelle Gomez, Imagine a Lesbian . . . a Black Lesbian . . .
  • Christina Thürmer-Rohr, From Deception to Un-Deception: On the Complicity of Women
  • Anne G. Dellenbaugh, In and Out of Hell: Where Desire Meets Terror
  • Gloria F. Orenstein, Trivial Lives: Interview with the Shaman of Samiland: The Methodology of the Marvelous
  • Linda L. Nelson, In Review: A Restricted Country, by Joan Nestle

Issue 13, Fall 1988 Special issue: The Third International Feminist Book Fair, Part I

  • Lise Weil, Memory/Transgression: Women Writing in Québec
  • Louise Cotnoir, Québec Women's Writing: A Space-In-Between Theory and Fiction
  • Gail Scott, A Feminist at the Carnival
  • Lou Robinson, "our litanies, our transfusions": After Reading Heroine by Gail Scott
  • Nicole Brossard, Memory: Hologram of Desire
  • Shirley Hartwell, Words Speaking Body Memory: After Reading Don't: A Woman's Word, by Elly Danica
  • Mary Meigs, Memories of Age
  • Erin Mouré, Poetry, Memory, and the Polis
  • Michèle Causse, Interview: For a Sea of Women and L'Interloquée
  • Betsy Warland, the breasts refuse
  • Alice Parker, In Review: The Aerial Letter, by Nicole Brossard

Issue 14, Spring 1989 Special Issue: The Third International Feminist Book Fair, Part II

  • Linda Nelson and Lise Weil, Language/Difference: Writing in Tongues
  • Lee Maracle, Moving Over
  • Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, I Write Le Body Bilingual: a love affair-e in nomad's land
  • Jeannette C. Armstrong, Cultural Robbery, Imperialism: Voices of Native Women
  • Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, Conversations at the Book Fair with Gloria Anzaldúa and Lee Maracle
  • Gloria Anzaldúa, Border Crossings
  • Marion Kraft, Between Aversion, Alibi and Acknowledgement: White Feminism and Black Women's Literature in Germany
  • Catherine Gonnard, Interview with Michèle Causse
  • Ruthann Robson, Nightshade: After Reading Trivia 13
  • Verena Stefan, Literally Dreaming
  • Jewelle L. Gomez, In Review: Not Vanishing, by Chrystos
  • Linda L. Nelson, After Reading Borderlands/La Frontera, by Gloria Anzaldúa

Issue 15, Fall 1989

  • Ruthann Robson, Historicity
  • Carol LeMasters, S/M and the Violence of Desire
  • Christina Thürmer-Rohr, Turning Thoughts/Turning Away
  • Carolyn Gage, No Dobermans Allowed: A Dramatic Argument for Separatist Theater
  • Amy Elman, Sexual Subordination and State Intervention: Lessons for Feminists from the Nazi State
  • Joan Chevalier, Notes on the Weather
  • Camille Norton, The Music of Wolves: After Reading Spaces Like Stairs, by Gail Scott
  • Laurel Rust, Trivial Lives: Anna, the Moon and the Stars

Issue 16/17, Fall 1990 Special Double Issue: Breaking Forms

  • Kirsten Backstrom, Rogue
  • Marlene Nourbese Philip, The Absence of Writing, or How I Almost Became a Spy and Universal Grammar
  • Dyana Werden, Women's Languaging: An Image/Word Conjunction
  • Jane Caputi, Interview with Paula Gunn Allen
  • Shirley Hartwell, The Lie of the Feminist Right Wing Ethic
  • Rena Rosenwasser, Berlin Nights
  • Jennifer Weston, "Thinking in Things": A Women's Symbol Language
  • Susanna J. Sturgis, Mimi's Revenge
  • Lee Maracle, Nobody Home
  • Sheila Pepe, To Soar: Interview with Nancy Spero
  • Lou Robinson, Rapport
  • Toni Mirosevich, Do Muscles Have Memories?
  • Carolyn Gage, Louisa May Incest: A One-Act Play

Issue 18, Fall 1991 Special Issue: Collaboration

  • Lise Weil, Linda Nelson, Kay Parkhurst, and Erin J. Rice, "The Knots and Lines Between Us": an editorial in four voices
  • Christine Ianieri and Susan Stinson, Rough Fat
  • Kathryn Kirk, Linda Nelson, and Lise Weil, Interview with Martha Fleming and Lyne Lapointe
  • Gillian Hanscombe and Suniti Namjoshi, Heavenly Enough
  • Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland, Subject to Change
  • Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal, Between Intimacy and Passion, a Collaboration
  • Lise Weil, Lowering the Case: After Reading Sex and Other Sacred Games, by Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal
  • Joli Sandoz, The Stakes of the Game: After Reading Grey Is the
  • Color of Hope, by Irina Ratushinskaya

Issue 19, Spring 1992

  • Lorrie Sprecher, Lesbian Crimes Against the State
  • Lou Robinson and Ellen Zweig, Centrifugal nineteen
  • Lee Maracle, The Lost Days of Columbus
  • Barbara Mor, aWoman Drums on MEN and Letters
  • Anne Witten, Blue Water
  • Anne Witten with Martha Mickles, Speaking About My Life
  • Michèle Causse and Nicole Brossard, Correspondance, 1986
  • Concetta Principe, March Cantos
  • Monica Sjöö, The New World Order
  • Robin Parks, Meditations on Form
  • CB Sundance, Strabismus: A Trivial Challenge
  • Helen Barolini, Trivial Lives: Bianca, the Gulf War, Saroyan, and Me
  • Mary Meigs, After Reading Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism, by Barbara Macdonald with Cynthia Rich
  • Ruth West, Explanation of Thea's Tarot

Issue 20, 1992 "10 Years: A Retrospective"

  • Ruthann Robson, authenticity and excerpt from historicity
  • Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, Manu Opera: Fragments of a Lovers' Dis-Course and excerpt from I Write Le Body Bilingual
  • Linda Nelson, What They Have Left
  • Linda Nelson and Lise Weil, excerpt from Language/Difference: Writing in Tongues
  • Lise Weil and Erin Rice, Talking Eds
  • Harriet Ellenberger, Communique and excerpt from The Dream Is the Bridge
  • I. Rose, Report and excerpt from A Passion for Revolution
  • Rena Rosenwasser, HER forwards and Berlin Nights
  • Lise Weil, Conversation with Michèle Causse
  • Michèle Causse, excerpt from For a Sea of Women
  • Anne G. Dellenbaugh, Of a Wild Kind and excerpt from She Who Is and Is Not Yet
  • Betsy Warland, excerpt from The Bat Had Blue Eyes
  • Betsy Warland and Daphne Marlatt, excerpt from Subject to Change
  • Daphne Marlatt, Salvaging: The Subversion of Mainstream Culture in Contemporary Feminist Writing
  • Leah Halper, Trivial Lives: The Tiger Reminds Me of Myself
  • Barbara Mor, the mirrors of her ice/eyes: After Reading Vagabonding: Feminist Thinking Cut Loose, by Christina Thürmer-Rohr (Part I)

Issue 21, 1993

  • Ann Stokes, This Fresco Stuns Me
  • Patricia Webb, A Benign Case of Writing Flu
  • Myrna Elana, Differently
  • The Kiss and Tell Collective, Artists Talk: An Interview with the Kiss and Tell Collective
  • Penelope J. Engelbrecht, Re/viewing Kathy Acker
  • Ann Veronica Simon, Friendship, 1989 and Friendship, 1990
  • Naomi Riches, Crop Circles
  • Lorraine Schein, Angel of Anarchy
  • Mykel Johnson, Wanting To Be Indian
  • Louie Galloway, Crone Comes Calling on Zus!
  • Jennifer Drake, Four Poems
  • Liz Waldner, Thinking of Petra Kelly
  • Nancy Goldhar, After Viewing: Correspondences
  • Cara J. MariAnna, The Seven Mythic Cycles of Thelma and Louise
  • Barbara Mor, the mirrors of her ice/eyes: After Reading Vagabonding: Feminist Thinking Cut Loose, by Christina Thürmer-Rohr (Part II)

Issue 22, 1995


Part I: "A journal of Rejected Ideas"
  • Rita Reese, Skin
  • Marilyn Murphy, The Lesbian as Hero
  • Jennifer Kramer, The Method of Exhaustion
  • Rena Rosenwasser and Kate Delos, Hand
  • Slick Harris, Shrink Rap
  • Judith K. Witherow, Goddess or Godawful? An Interview with Camille Paglia
  • Diana L. Fowlkes, Descending on Heptonstall: Between Sylvia Plath and the Yorkshire Ripper
  • Linda Hooper, Ain't Love a Drag
  • Eunice Scarfe, Pillar of Salt: The Song of Miriam
  • Linda A. Bell, Do You, or Does Someone You Know, Have Vaginal Fortitude?
  • Amani Kali Obike, athene of androgyny and the immortal
  • Lynne Taetzsch, On My Way to Sparrow's

Part 2: "Our Regularly Scheduled Program"

  • Lilian Friedberg, Undine's Valediction: A Translation of the Story by Ingeborg Bachmann and A Liberal Translation of Bachmann's "Undine Geht": Transposing Literature in the Spirit of a Common Language and In the Society of the Dead Poet
  • Charlotte Templin, Webs and Goddesses: The Art of Cristina Biaggi
  • Jodi Lundgren, Ini-SHE-ating & Re-Acting; or, What Happened When I Hugged Her
  • Erin Rice and Trystan Skeigh, Pillow Talk: An Interview with Buddhist Editor Helen Tworkov
  • Barbara Mor, the mirrors of her ice/eyes: After Reading Vagabonding: Feminist Thinking Cut Loose, by Christina Thürmer-Rohr (Part III)

Issue 11
October 2010

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"Are Lesbians Going Extinct?" #2

Lise Weil
Betsy Warland
Editorials

Conversation I

Sima Rabinowitz
INvisible OUTline

Verena Stefan
We Live as Two Lesbians

Kate Clinton
PrognostiKate

Lauren Crux
Dinosaurs & Haircuts

Sarah Schulman
To Be Real


Conversation II

Susan Hawthorne
Matrices

Arleen Paré
Coming into Word

Renate Stendhal
Matteo—Prince of Paris


Conversation III

Urvashi Vaid
Ending Patriarchy: Political Legacies of the 1970s Lesbian Movement

Erin Graham
The Revolutionary Is the One who Begins Again

Bev Jo
Always a Lesbian

Christine Stark
Anti-Rape

Elana Dykewomon
Walking on the Moon


Conversation IV

Sharanpal Ruprai
Entanglements

Elizabeth X
Women Alone…

Lyn Davis
No One Lives her Life

Monica Meneghetti
Coming out of the Straitjacket: Sapphism as Creative Space

Betsy Warland
Oscar of Between


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Harriet Ellenberger
Michèle Causse

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