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        • Editorial_11
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        • PrognostiKate
        • Dinosaurs & Haircuts: A Performance Monologue
        • To Be Real
        • Matrices
        • Coming Into Word
        • Prince of Paris
        • Ending Patriarchy
        • The Revolutionary Is the One who Begins Again
        • Always a Lesbian
        • Anti- Rape
        • Walking the Moon
        • Entanglement
        • Women Alone
        • No One Lives Her Life
        • Coming Out of the Straightjacket
        • Oscar of Between
        • Michele Causse
        • Jill Johnston
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        • Before and after Sappho: Logos
        • On Living with a Poem for 20 Years: Judy Grahn's "A Woman Is Talking to Death"
        • And Will Rise? Notes on Lesbian ExtinctionNew Page
        • My Mid-term Exam in Lesbian Theory
        • Letter for Cynthia Rich
        • Dispatches from an Australian Radicalesbianfeminist
        • No Longer Burning
        • Reinvention and the Everyday
        • The Personal is Political
        • Notes on Reinvention and Extinction
        • Dyke on a Haybale: A Lesbian Teen in Kansas Speaks Out
        • Gay Trans and the Queering in Between
        • Lesbian Lament
        • The Inconvenient Truth about Teena Brandon
        • Who Says We're Extinct?
        • She Who
        • Lesbians Going All The Way
        • Trivia Saves Lives
        • Notes on Contributors
      • Issue 9: Thinking of Goddesses >
        • Vulture Medicine Augury
        • When hens were flying and god was not yet born
        • Canoeing our Way back to the Divine Feminine in Taino Spirituality
        • Testify
        • Young Pagan Goddess
        • Goddess is Metaformmic
        • For Want of a Goddess
        • Amaterasu- The Great Eastern Sun Goddess of Peace
        • What is Goddess? Toward an ontology of women giving birth. . .
        • Inanna Comes to Me in a Dream
        • First Blood Well The History of Bleeding
        • The Song of Lilith
        • Freedom Speaks Through Us
        • Dulce's Hands
        • Notes on contributors (9)
      • Issue 7/8: Unabashed Knowing >
        • Bad Manners All That Jazz
        • Hypatia
        • Amerika in 5 Parts
        • Screens: The War at Home
        • Invisible Nature
        • Woman-Woman Bonds in Prehistory
        • I Saw a Woman Dance
        • The Edible Parts
        • The Happy Hooker Revisisted
        • Re-membering an Interrupted Conversation:the Mother/Virgin Split
        • Notes on contributors (7/8)
      • Issue 6: The Art of the Possible >
        • The Aerial Lesbian Body: The Politics of Physical Expression
        • Wanting a Gun
        • Red Poppies Among the Ruings
        • Returning Home with Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia
        • Noah's Wife
        • Reclaiming the Spooky: Matilda Joslyn Gage and Mary Daly as Radical Pioneers of the Esoteric
        • Grand Right and Left
        • Notes on Contributors (6)
      • Issue 5: The Resurrection Issue (2/2007) >
        • Waiting for Sappho
        • A Song of Captain Joan
        • Blue Mojo
        • Why Do Something If it Can be Done
        • In Memoriam: Monique Wittig
        • The Loudest Self
        • Clear and Fierce
        • (B) Orderlands' Lullaby
        • Borderlands
        • akaDARKNESS: on Kathy Acker
        • Remembering Barbara Macdonald
        • The Making of Power
        • Octavia Butler: A note on Xenogenesis as a love story
        • The Essential Angel: Tillie Olsen
        • Carol's Hands
        • Notes on Contributors (5)
      • Issue 4: The Wonderful & The Terrible (9/2006) >
        • Cunctipotence
        • Global Lovers
        • Our Lot
        • Doe a Deer
        • Degendering Sex: Undoing Erotic Alienation
        • Seven Stages of Lesbian Desire (What's Truth Got to Do With It?)
        • That Easter
        • Amazon Grace: Read it Aloud
        • Athene, 2002-2005
        • Notes on Contributors (4)
      • Issue 3: Love & Lust (2/2006) >
        • Conversation with Michele Causse
        • Chloto 1978
        • The Woman with the Secret Name
        • She is Still Burning
        • In the Beginning
        • Sanctuary
        • When Sex is Not the Metaphor for Intimacy
        • Arielle
        • Quotidian Love
        • Leverett
        • After Sappho's Fragments Tips for Natural Disasters Said Before
        • A Lesbian is a Memoir
        • Notes on Contributors (3)
      • Issue 2: Memory (12/2005) >
        • The Lost Days of Columbus
        • Agenesias of the Orld World
        • The Power of the Earth Shake/Rousing
        • Return to Earth
        • Forces of Nature
        • The Beauty Shop
        • The Other Shore
        • Notes on Contributors (2)
      • Issue 1: The Body (10/2004) >
        • Lovesick
        • Guerilla Girl Ponders the Situation
        • The Secret Pornographies of Republicans. What's left? Preferably Knot
        • Communing with Bears
        • TRIVIA LIVES: Division Street
        • After Reading: Les Gueilleres
        • Notes on Contributors (1)
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Issue 11: "Are Lesbians Going Extinct?" Part 2

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In an essay written in 1983, Nicole Brossard wrote: "Une lesbienne qui ne reinvente pas le monde est une lesbienne en voie de disparition." (A lesbian who does not reinvent the world is a lesbian going extinct.) At that time, the phrase made very good sense. As writers, thinkers, activists, and in our day-to-day lives, we felt (many of us) compelled to reinvent a world in which we were for the most part invisible if not unthinkable, a world whose values we largely rejected. Today, over 20 years later, we are accepted, even embraced, by mainstream culture—as co-workers, wives, mothers, as TV talk show hosts and anchorwomen!—in ways we could not have imagined then. But how have we gained this inclusion? Have we gone quiet as lesbians (not denying our lesbianism but seldom foregrounding it)? Are we still reinventing the world? As writers, are we inventing new forms? Is there still a radical edge to the word "lesbian"? Or are we now, by Brossard's definition, a disappearing species? 

Lise Weil and 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 

TRIVIAL LIVES 
  • Lise Weil and Harriet Ellenberger Michèle Causse 
  • Chocolate Waters Jill Johnston: The Audacity of Dyke  



Issue 10: "Are Lesbians Going Extinct?" Part 1, February 2009

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The longest and possibly most thought-provoking issue we've published to date features seventeen writers responding to the question "Are Lesbians Going Extinct?" Edited by Lise Weil and Betsy Warland.






  • Lise Weil and Betsy Warland Editorial
  • Ruthan Robson Before and after Sappho: Logos
  • Elliott BatTzedek Judy Grahn's "A Woman Is Talking to Death"
  • Susanna J. Sturgis And Will Rise? Notes on Lesbian Extinction
  • Deborah Yaffe My Mid-term Exam in Lesbian Theory and Practice
  • Cynthia Rich Letter to Lise Weil
  • Jean Taylor Dispatches from an Australian Radicalesbianfeminist
  • Dolores Klaich No Longer Burning
  • Arleen Paré Reinvention and the Everyday
  • Chris Fox The Personal is Political
  • Esther Shannon Notes on Reinvention and Extinction
  • Natalie G. Dyke on a Haybale: A Lesbian Teen In Kansas Speaks Out
  • Em Williams Gay to Trans and the Queering in Between
  • Seema Shah Lesbian Lament
  • Carolyn Gage The Inconvenient Truth about Teena Brandon
  • Elana Dykewomon Who Says We're Extinct?
  • Lise Weil She Who
  • Margie Adam Lesbian: Going All the Way
  • TRIVIAL LIVES: Arleen Paré TRIVIA Saves Lives
  • Notes on Contributors


Issue 9: Thinking about Goddesses, September 2009

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A canoe trip in New England opens out suddenly into the sacred terrain of the Taíno goddesses of the Dominican Republic; a trip to Kerala India to study menarche rites leads to a profound appreciation of everyday objects; Inanna's appearance in a dream shapes the course of a life and literary career; a dream helps a young wife and mother escape the influence of the Roman Catholic and Black Methodist Church and find her way to the Yoruban goddesses; a devoted midwife finds goddess in birthgiving and comes to see women's bodies as "portals of the divine." In the articles collected in this issue, the scholarly is seamlessly woven with the intensely personal; rigorous thought and deep emotion are indissoluble. To orient oneself to goddess is to liberate oneself from oppressive strictures, to learn from rivers and mountains, to listen attentively to birds, to revel in female sensuality, to honor pots and bowls and candles, to celebrate community, to live more consciously and joyfully. Edited by Lise Weil and Hye Sook Hwang.

  • Lise Weil and Hye Sook Hwang Editorial
  • Deena Metzger Vulture Medicine
                                Augury
  • Luciana Percovich When hens were flying and god was not yet born
  • Marianela Medrano-Marra Canoeing our Way back to the Divine Feminine in Taino Spirituality
  • Vanita Leatherwood Testify
  • Andrea Nico Young Pagan Goddess
  • Judy Grahn Goddess is Metaformic
  • Carolyn Gage For Want of Goddess
  • Shannyn Sollitt Calling Amaterasu – The Great Eastern Sun Goddess of Peace
  • Nane Jordan What is Goddess? Towards an ontology of women giving birth…
  • Betty Meador Inanna Comes to Me in a Dream
  • Katie Manning First Blood
                             Well
                             The History of Bleeding
  • Liliana Kleiner The Song of Lilith
  • TRIVIAL LIVES: Katya Miller Freedom Speaks Through Us
  • Notes on Contributors

Issue 7/8: unabashed Knowing, September 2008

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This is unabashed Knowing climbing into bed with you,
  putting its hands around your throat and squeezing
  until your heart bursts open and its pieces
  scatter over the world like petals.
  Martina Newberry, “Bad Manners”   In this long-awaited double issue you will find thundering outrage, piercing cries from the heart, and a courageous facing-off against the insidious forces of Unknowing. You will also find powerful and diverse voices of healing. Taken together, the material in this issue suggests that unabashed Knowing is itself the beginning of all true healing.

  • Lise Weil Editorial
  • Martina Newberry Bad Manners, All That Jazz
  • Barbara Mor Hypatia
  • Christine Stark Amerika in 5 Parts
  • Laura Tanner Screens: The War at Home
  • Leonore Wilson Invisible Nature
  • Gabriele Meixner Woman-Woman Bonds in Prehistory [Translated by Lise Weil]
  • Beate Sigriddaughter I Saw a Woman Dance
  • Monica J. Casper The Edible Parts
  • TRIVAL LIVES: Carolyn Gage The Happy Hooker Revisited
  • From our archives: Kathy Miriam Re-membering an Interrupted Conversation: the Mother/Virgin Split
  • Notes on Contributors

Issue 6: The Art of the Possible, September 2007   

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A solo aerialist with feminist circuses in Australia takes us with her as she defies gravity and social expectations; a lesbian poet leads us downward into a hell of childhood sexual torture and back out again, transformed; a novelist shares with us her journey to Sardegna, where landscape and ruins evoke ancient memories; a Korean feminist takes us along on the extraordinary life journey that led her to discover the anciently originated gynocentric matrix of the Far East which she has named Magoism; a poet turns an old story into a moment of comic relief; a scholar and practitioner in the women’s spirituality movement explores hidden aspects of feminist history and urges us to breach the taboo on the occult; and a poet explores her childhood friendship with the girl she felt she had always known. Come with us as Trivia contributors practice the art of the possible by leaping across time and space, refusing false choices, and expanding the limits of the real.
  • Harriet Ellenberger and Lise Weil Editorial
  • Susan Hawthorne The Aerial Lesbian Body: The Politics of Physical Expression
  • Elliott Femynye batTzedek Wanting A Gun
  • Mary Saracino Red Poppies Among the Ruins
  • Hye Sook Hwang Returning Home with Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia
  • TRIVIAL LIVES: Ellen M. Taylor Noah's Wife
  • Marguerite Rigoglioso Reclaiming the Spooky: Matilda Joslyn Gage and Mary Daly as Radical Pioneers of the Esoteric
  • Elizabeth Alexander Grand Right & Left
  • Notes on Contributors

Issue 5: The Resurrection issue, February 2007

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In fantastical story, ballad, essays, poetry, visual art, brief reflections, and memorial pieces, contributors honor the work of those who are no longer with us, while interweaving the lives of the departed with those of the living. In the process, they demonstrate that the feminist continuum knows no bounds. (We should point out that not every writer who appears in these pages has departed; in some pieces the dead cavort with the living.)


  • Harriet Ellenberger and Lise Weil Editorial
  • Dolores Klaich Waiting for Sappho
  • Barbara Mor A Song of Captain Joan
  • Marge Piercy Blue Mojo
  • Renate Stendhal Why Do Something If It Can Be Done
  • Julia Balén In Memoriam: Monique Wittig
  • Sue Swartz The Loudest Self
  • Carolyn Gage Clear and Fierce
  • Adela C. Licona (B)Orderlands’ Lullaby
  • Illit Rosenblum Borderlands
  • Barbara Mor akaDARKNESS: on Kathy Acker
  • Lise Weil Remembering Barbara Macdonald
  • Karin Spitfire The Making of Power
  • Illit Rosenblum Octavia Butler: A note on Xenogenesis as a love story
  • Suzanne Montez Adams The Essential Angel: Tillie Olsen
  • Susan Kullmann and Marvelle Thompson Carol's Hands
  • Notes on Contributors

Issue 4: The Wonderful and the Terrible, September 2006

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From a naming of female potency to a questioning of the notion of two sexes, from poems in the voice of a young woman kidnapped into sex slavery to reflections on lesbian desire, from a science-fiction nightmare to a personal meditation on the search for gentleness amidst cruelty, from a most unusual “Trivial Lives” to a review of Mary Daly’s latest, Trivia 4 walks the knife-edge of paradox, balancing between the wonder and terror of our times.




  • Lise Weil Editorial
  • Jane Caputi Cunctipotence
  • Rhonda Pettit Global Lovers
  • Josephine Donovan Our Lot
  • Verena Stefan Doe a Deer
  • Priscille Touraille Degendering Sex; Undoing Erotic Alienation
  • Renate Stendhal Seven Stages of Lesbian Desire (What's Truth Got to Do With It?)
  • TRIVIAL LIVES: Lenore Wilson That Easter
  • IN REVIEW: Harriet Ellenberger Amazon Grace: Read it Aloud
  • Carol Prusa Athene, 2002-2005
  • Notes on Contributors

Issue 3: Love & Lust, February 2006

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"The Meaning of Our Love for Women is What We Have Constantly to Expand" read the title of an essay by Adrienne Rich written in the '70s. Have we expanded the meaning of this love in the years since, and if so, how? Given cultural phenomena like "The L Word" and "Queer as Folk" is it still possible to argue that love between women is a powerful force for healing and political change? That lesbian desire is qualitatively different from heterosexual or homosexual desire? This issue contains essays, poems, and narrative accounts.



  • Harriet Ellenberger and Lise Weil Editorial
  • Lise Weil Conversation with Michèle Causse
  • Michèle Causse Chloto 1978
  • Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg The Woman with the Secret Name
  • Harriet Ellenberger She is Still Burning
  • Eve Fox In The Beginning
  • Riva Danzig Sanctuary
  • Carolyn Gage When Sex Is Not the Metaphor for Intimacy
  • Susan Moul Arielle
  • Bonnie St. Andrews Quotidian Love
  • Deirdre Neilen Afterword
  • Lise Weil Leverett
  • Betsy Warland After Sappho's Fragments. Tips for Natural Disasters, Said Before
  • Lou Robinson A Lesbian is a Memoir
  • Notes on Contributors

Issue 2: Memory, October 2005

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This issue dedicated to the memory of Andrea Dworkin
writer, activist, warrior, visionary
September 26, 1946 - April 9, 2005

"My eyes work. I see. It is not a mystery. If it's in front of you you can see how it works itself out. It's not prophecy; it's simple seeing; what is there; now; naked from the lies." - Mercy

  • Harriet Ellenberger and Lise Weil Editorial
  • Lee Maracle The Lost Days of Columbus
  • Louky Bersianik Agenesias of the Old World
  • Deena Metzger The Power of the Earth: Shake/Rousing
  • Harriet Ellenberger Return of Earth
  • Kay Hagan Forces of Nature
  • Mercy Morganfield The Beauty Shop
  • Juliana Borrero The Other Shore

Issue 1: The Body, December 2004

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This issue dedicated to the memory of Monique Wittig. Wittig was born in 1935 and died January 2003. She was a pioneer in feminist literature. Some of her well known texts include: Les Guérillères, The Lesbian Body, Across the Acheron, and The Straight Mind and Other Essays. The theme of this issue is "the body" and was, in part, inspired by Wittig and the effect she has had on us.



  • Lise Weil and MeLissa Gabriels Editorial
  • Louky Bersianik Lovesick (trans. by Lise Weil)
  • Harriet Ellenberger Guerrilla Girl Ponders the Situation
  • Barbara Mor the secret pornographies of republicans
                               What's Left?
                               Preferably Knot
  • Sara Wright Communing with Bears
  • TRIVIAL LIVES:Elissa Jones Division Street
  • Rhonda Patzia After Reading: Les Guéillères

"We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change.
There are new mountains." (Ursula K. Le Guin, 1986)
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    • Unplugging Your Inner Patriarchy
    • She Who Carries the Seeds
    • Allison Merriweather: A Suite of Images
    • Localized Deafness: A Suite of Poems
    • Naked in the Woods
    • An Interview with Carol Anne Douglas
    • Imagining Differently: Revisiting Radical Feminism
    • Feminism
    • Who the Hell Is Rosie Méndez?
    • First Responder Who Only Fainted During Training Videos
    • Index of Jobs for Women
    • Screwnomics
    • Menstruation
    • Merkin Art: A Suite of Pussies
    • "A Witch, A Cat Woman": Cat Woman's Patriarchal Roots
    • Feminism in the Work of Michele Pred
    • Lucky Girl
    • The Social, Cultural, and Political Necessity of Anne Sexton
    • An Interview with Sharon Doubiago
    • Confrontation with the Rapist
    • Defense Attorney's Lament
    • Entertainment for Men
    • Greve Series / White Works
    • A Review of Donna Prinzmetal's Snow White
    • Laws of Kissing If Newton Were a Woman
    • Two Poems by Judith Terzi
    • One of the Cronettes
    • Inspiration
  • Previous Issues
    • Voices of Feminism >
      • Issue 16: "Feminisms" >
        • Toward a Theory and Praxis of Sustainable Feminism
        • Feminisms: Inclusion as a Radical Act
        • Grace
        • Three Ekphrastic Poems
        • Braids
        • Medusa
        • Who's Coming Along: Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, and Collaboration Today
        • We had rituals we didn't know what for
        • A Brief History of a Feminist Mind
        • Marge Piercy: On Feminism, Politics, and Writing
        • Lack of Cover
        • Refresh
        • Crabby Apples
        • A Place of Storytelling and Sustenance: Molly Sutton Kiefer's Nestuary
        • When She Was Two
        • Margaret Sanger Speaks
        • A Song for Maman Dantor
        • Listen
        • Abiquiu
        • Changing
        • Barbie at Rest
        • When We Crack, Let's Do It Together
        • Duel
        • Domestic Constellation
        • America the Beautiful
        • Death of a Valkyrie
        • Old Woman Who Grieves War
        • I Read My Death in the Winter Stars
        • Femenina Sube: My Aquarian Age
        • The Straight Mind at Work at the Heart of Queer Theory
        • Journal: In the Bois de Vincennes
        • Landlady Emily Carr
        • Scenario For a New Agenda
        • I Could Do That
      • Issue 15: "Animal Instincts" >
        • Women. Horse. Mountain.
        • My Pre-Feminist Animal Instincts
        • Our Animal Selves
        • Presage
        • Animal Self
        • Comings and Goings
        • And the Hawk Flies
        • Birds of a Feather
        • Proper Adornment
        • Reverie
        • Algonquin Anthology
        • Sea Stars
        • Immortal
        • Spirit Horse
        • First Cousins: A Suite of Poems
        • Bird of Prey
        • Crows
        • Harpy
        • Snake I Come
        • Approaching the Gate
        • Horses in Winter
        • "Domestic Terrorist"
        • Homeless
        • Displacement
        • The Mornings After
        • Gust of Win
        • Squirrel Dick
        • Cats
        • Frankie
        • Worms
        • Animal Cracker
        • I Don't Believe in Marriage
        • Drawing on the Dream
        • The Cow with a Human Face
        • Orangutans at the Jardin des Plantes
        • Abattoir
        • In for Life
        • I Am Shark
        • Giving Voice to Bear
        • Threshold Crossing
        • The Mark of the Bear
        • Discernment Is All
        • Bears at Midnight
        • The Musky Scent of Bear
        • Baggage
        • The End of Our Friendship
        • Four Mile River Road: 1 Mile
        • The White Dog
        • White Dog/Blue Pearls
        • Baby Dream #15
        • Baby Dream #39
        • Fish Songs
        • Today I Fished
        • The Surgeon's Territory
        • Boudoir Portrait
        • The First Six Months of Survival
        • P for Patience
        • French Pout
        • My Next Girlfriend
        • Winter Solstice
      • Issue 14: "Preoccupation" >
        • Wheatpastes
        • An Editorial: "It's not time to worry yet."
        • Courage
        • Dispirited
        • Voices
        • Falling
        • Sunset #2
        • Cut You Out
        • Brooding
        • Planetary
        • Sleeping. Dreaming.
        • Drama with the Neighbor
        • Woman to Woman
        • The Conspiracy of Chores
        • Murder
        • White Sunset Through a Mesquite Tree
        • Patricia Cornflake's Lesbian Lifestyle
        • Doldrums, Horse Latitudes, and Tropics
        • A Woman Poet's Critique of Words Too Commonly Spoken
        • Memory's Witness
        • Finding Edges
        • Oh, That Bed! That Bed!
        • Mother, Daughter
        • Here We Are
        • Crazy Jane Addams Occupies Hull's House
        • Virtue
        • The Canary
        • White Sunset #3
        • Flow
        • Citrus
        • The Devil Finds Work for Idle Hands
        • Occupy Wall Street Poster
        • The Tent
        • Occupy Me!
        • (post)Occupation
        • The Poison Our Grandmothers and Mothers Drank
        • Hellish Clout
        • Tangle
        • The Bathing Scene from Marguerite Duras's "The Lover"
        • As I Lie
        • The Therapist
      • Issue 13: "Death" >
        • A Feminist Editorial on Death
        • Plucked
        • Chromosomal Geography
        • The Clinic
        • Offal
        • I Have Come to Show You Death
        • The Making of a Peaceful Death
        • Sayonara
        • Sitting in the Lap of God
        • Cycle
        • My Assailant
        • New Jersey Spring
        • Something Missing
        • Triptych: Art Essay on Death
        • The Heroes of Ecbatana
        • Jane is Dead
        • The Miscarriage
        • A Spiritual Death? The One-Eyed Doe...
        • Black Bears
        • Circus
        • The Road to Nowhere
        • American Jisei
        • Nothing to Lose
        • For Linda
        • For Ryan
        • Mindfall
        • Rest in Peace
        • Love Is Stronger Than Death
        • Twins and M/Others: A Survival Story
        • Due Diligence (A.K.A. Cracking Open Her Case)
        • Empirical Evidence
        • Dissociation
        • 27.2727273 Readers
        • The Nomad
        • Manifesto
        • Baby Island
        • Chinatown, Death, and Women
        • Surrounded by Death
        • Where Sanity Returned
        • Whitney
        • In the Shadow of Mumtaz
        • Of Woods
        • The Egg Broke
        • Playing with Dolls
        • Threadbare
        • Because We Must Lose You
        • Clock Time
        • Gynosis One: Samhain
        • The Last Trimester
        • Crossing
        • Tiny Eve
      • Issue 12: "Southwestern Voices" >
        • Issue 12 Editorial: "Southwestern Voices"
        • Trojan Horses in the Desert
        • You Can See the Silence
        • Fleeing Oklahoma
        • North Rim, Grand Canyon, AZ
        • Mobius Arch, Alabama Hills, CA
        • Vasquez Rocks Natural Area, CA
        • Our Lady
        • Mothers of Beauty
        • Talking Incest
        • Desire
        • Tales from the Health Club
        • Three Years Old Watching the Open Sky
        • The Missing Girls
        • It Has Become Our Will: Onward with Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
        • A Conversation with bell hooks
        • Gertrude Stein, Hitler, and Vichy-France
        • Tinker Tailor Soldier Stein
        • Organic Evolution
        • Eclipse of Hope
        • I Lied
        • First Apartment
        • Translations of Poems by Shez
        • In Memoriam: Christa Wolf
      • Issue 11: "Are Lesbians Going Extinct," #2 >
        • Editorial_11
        • Invisible Outline
        • We Live as Two Lesbians
        • PrognostiKate
        • Dinosaurs & Haircuts: A Performance Monologue
        • To Be Real
        • Matrices
        • Coming Into Word
        • Prince of Paris
        • Ending Patriarchy
        • The Revolutionary Is the One who Begins Again
        • Always a Lesbian
        • Anti- Rape
        • Walking the Moon
        • Entanglement
        • Women Alone
        • No One Lives Her Life
        • Coming Out of the Straightjacket
        • Oscar of Between
        • Michele Causse
        • Jill Johnston
      • Issue 10: "Are Lesbians Going Extinct?" #1 >
        • Editorials
        • Before and after Sappho: Logos
        • On Living with a Poem for 20 Years: Judy Grahn's "A Woman Is Talking to Death"
        • And Will Rise? Notes on Lesbian ExtinctionNew Page
        • My Mid-term Exam in Lesbian Theory
        • Letter for Cynthia Rich
        • Dispatches from an Australian Radicalesbianfeminist
        • No Longer Burning
        • Reinvention and the Everyday
        • The Personal is Political
        • Notes on Reinvention and Extinction
        • Dyke on a Haybale: A Lesbian Teen in Kansas Speaks Out
        • Gay Trans and the Queering in Between
        • Lesbian Lament
        • The Inconvenient Truth about Teena Brandon
        • Who Says We're Extinct?
        • She Who
        • Lesbians Going All The Way
        • Trivia Saves Lives
        • Notes on Contributors
      • Issue 9: Thinking of Goddesses >
        • Vulture Medicine Augury
        • When hens were flying and god was not yet born
        • Canoeing our Way back to the Divine Feminine in Taino Spirituality
        • Testify
        • Young Pagan Goddess
        • Goddess is Metaformmic
        • For Want of a Goddess
        • Amaterasu- The Great Eastern Sun Goddess of Peace
        • What is Goddess? Toward an ontology of women giving birth. . .
        • Inanna Comes to Me in a Dream
        • First Blood Well The History of Bleeding
        • The Song of Lilith
        • Freedom Speaks Through Us
        • Dulce's Hands
        • Notes on contributors (9)
      • Issue 7/8: Unabashed Knowing >
        • Bad Manners All That Jazz
        • Hypatia
        • Amerika in 5 Parts
        • Screens: The War at Home
        • Invisible Nature
        • Woman-Woman Bonds in Prehistory
        • I Saw a Woman Dance
        • The Edible Parts
        • The Happy Hooker Revisisted
        • Re-membering an Interrupted Conversation:the Mother/Virgin Split
        • Notes on contributors (7/8)
      • Issue 6: The Art of the Possible >
        • The Aerial Lesbian Body: The Politics of Physical Expression
        • Wanting a Gun
        • Red Poppies Among the Ruings
        • Returning Home with Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia
        • Noah's Wife
        • Reclaiming the Spooky: Matilda Joslyn Gage and Mary Daly as Radical Pioneers of the Esoteric
        • Grand Right and Left
        • Notes on Contributors (6)
      • Issue 5: The Resurrection Issue (2/2007) >
        • Waiting for Sappho
        • A Song of Captain Joan
        • Blue Mojo
        • Why Do Something If it Can be Done
        • In Memoriam: Monique Wittig
        • The Loudest Self
        • Clear and Fierce
        • (B) Orderlands' Lullaby
        • Borderlands
        • akaDARKNESS: on Kathy Acker
        • Remembering Barbara Macdonald
        • The Making of Power
        • Octavia Butler: A note on Xenogenesis as a love story
        • The Essential Angel: Tillie Olsen
        • Carol's Hands
        • Notes on Contributors (5)
      • Issue 4: The Wonderful & The Terrible (9/2006) >
        • Cunctipotence
        • Global Lovers
        • Our Lot
        • Doe a Deer
        • Degendering Sex: Undoing Erotic Alienation
        • Seven Stages of Lesbian Desire (What's Truth Got to Do With It?)
        • That Easter
        • Amazon Grace: Read it Aloud
        • Athene, 2002-2005
        • Notes on Contributors (4)
      • Issue 3: Love & Lust (2/2006) >
        • Conversation with Michele Causse
        • Chloto 1978
        • The Woman with the Secret Name
        • She is Still Burning
        • In the Beginning
        • Sanctuary
        • When Sex is Not the Metaphor for Intimacy
        • Arielle
        • Quotidian Love
        • Leverett
        • After Sappho's Fragments Tips for Natural Disasters Said Before
        • A Lesbian is a Memoir
        • Notes on Contributors (3)
      • Issue 2: Memory (12/2005) >
        • The Lost Days of Columbus
        • Agenesias of the Orld World
        • The Power of the Earth Shake/Rousing
        • Return to Earth
        • Forces of Nature
        • The Beauty Shop
        • The Other Shore
        • Notes on Contributors (2)
      • Issue 1: The Body (10/2004) >
        • Lovesick
        • Guerilla Girl Ponders the Situation
        • The Secret Pornographies of Republicans. What's left? Preferably Knot
        • Communing with Bears
        • TRIVIA LIVES: Division Street
        • After Reading: Les Gueilleres
        • Notes on Contributors (1)
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