Are Lesbians Going Extinct?
TRIVIA 11, edited by Lise Weil and Betsy Warland, is the longest issue we've published to date. It features twenty-one writers responding—in powerful, often edgy prose and poetry—to the question "Are Lesbians Going Extinct?"
As an organizing principle for this issue, we decided to cluster texts which we (as the editors and first readers) see in some kind of conversation with each other. These clustered conversations pace your reading experience and enable you to easily enter the conversations that appeal to you. Some of our conversational clusters have a lot in common yet approach the shared topics from distinct perspectives. In other conversations, the pieces appear to have less in common, yet their adjacency brings a more faceted understanding to the subject at hand. It's rather like a party—which we wish we could host with all of you attending!
PUBLICATION OF THIS TWO-PART SERIES WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY A GENEROUS GRANT FROM KIM CHERNIN AND RENATE STENDHAL IN THE NAME OF EDGEWORK BOOKS.
For a whirlwind tour of our site, first check out our current issue with its wealth of writing and imagery dedicated to the question "Are Lesbians Going Extinct?" If you’re intrigued, next try the TRIVIA archives, which is divided into two sections. In the first section, TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism, you'll be able to read the past seven issues of our online journal, in their entirety. In the second section, TRIVIA: A Journal of Ideas, you'll find a list of authors and titles for each of the 22 issues of TRIVIA published from 1982 to 1995, with information on how to order.
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Archives
TRIVIA: A Journal of Ideas was born in 1982 out of a group of women thinkers and writers in western Massachusetts who met every other week to discuss literature and philosophy in a feminist context. Publishing essays, translations, reviews, and experimental writing, it quickly acquired a reputation as a home for serious and embodied feminist thought. It went on to become an international, award-winning publication that endured for over a decade. Though often in dialogue with current events, much of the writing in TRIVIA is ageless, and marked by a radical energy and vision that have become all too rare in this day and age.
Archive of Print Issues (1982 - 1995)
TRIVIA: A Journal of Ideas began publication in 1982, a time of conservative retrenchment in the U.S. Reagan was riding a wave of popularity that would soon sweep him into a second term in office and the religious right was beginning to make itself felt as a political presence. At the same time, in part thanks to readily available federal and state grant monies for alternative publications, relatively low printing costs, and thousands of independent bookstores, the country was also home to a highly politicized counter-culture. TRIVIA was one of several dozen radical feminist magazines already in existence or about to spring up.
Archive of Online Issues (2004 - present)
TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism was born into a very different world than her foresister. This site archives the electronic journal that came online since December 2004.
Archive of Print Issues (1982 - 1995)
TRIVIA: A Journal of Ideas began publication in 1982, a time of conservative retrenchment in the U.S. Reagan was riding a wave of popularity that would soon sweep him into a second term in office and the religious right was beginning to make itself felt as a political presence. At the same time, in part thanks to readily available federal and state grant monies for alternative publications, relatively low printing costs, and thousands of independent bookstores, the country was also home to a highly politicized counter-culture. TRIVIA was one of several dozen radical feminist magazines already in existence or about to spring up.
Archive of Online Issues (2004 - present)
TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism was born into a very different world than her foresister. This site archives the electronic journal that came online since December 2004.
