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Enjoy this week’s Sinister Snapshot, Sinister Wisdom’s biweekly newsletter with a featurette and lots of links. If you have suggestions for future editions of Sinister Snapshot, send them to info@sinisterwisdom.org.
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Naiad co-founder Donna McBride reading one of the oral history interviews at the Naiad exhibition.
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The Museum of Fine Arts at Florida State University has a wonderful exhibition about Naiad Press installed through October 29, 2022. Organized around a series of wonderful oral history interviews about Naiad Press, the exhibition highlights the important books published by Naiad and the cultural work it did for lesbians in the 1980s and 1990s. The interviews are available for folks to listen at the exhibit. In addition, the library at FSU has acquired a large collection of books published by Naiad Press.
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The discovery panel of the Naiad exhibition.
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Naiad editor Katherine Forrest has contributed an essay about her work for the exhibition catalogue as well as scholar Stephanie Andrea Allen, who Sinister Wisdom readers may recognize as the publisher of BLF Press and a guest editor of Sinister Wisdom 122. You can read their essays online.
This fall, there will be a zoom roundtable about the exhibition and lesbian-feminist publishing in the 1980s. We will share the link to join that conversation when it is available. In the meantime, I encourage everyone in Tallahassee or driving distance to go see it.
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Sinister Wisdom editor and publisher Julie R. Enszer at the beginning of the Naiad exhibition in Tallahassee in July 2022.
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On September 27, Sinister Wisdom book club will discuss Big Girl. The event will include a special thirty minutes with the author, Mecca Jamilah Sullivan! Register here.
Read a review by Cleyvis Natera published in The New York Times: “Big Girl triumphs as a love letter to the Black girls who are forced to enter womanhood too early.”
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Recharge your creative process and writing at a workshop, hosted by The Black Lesbian Literary Collective, on October 22. Almah Lavon Rice, Krystal A. Smith, and Stephanie Andrea Allen, will spread words of encouragement and lead exercises on creative nonfiction, list poems, and writing the fantastical. Register here.
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Thank you to everyone who came to or watched Mecca Jamilah Sullivan and Beverly Guy-Sheftall talk about Big Girl. We hope you enjoyed the surprise cameo from Sinister Wisdom Board member Shromona Mandal. If you missed us, watch the conversation on Charis Books and More’s youtube channel.
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Irena Klepfisz has a few beautiful pieces in The Georgia Review's Fall 2022 issue. This issue's "To Our Readers" also includes a lovely discussion of Adrienne Rich's “What Kind of Times Are These.”
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Zanele Muholi’s work documents South Africa’s Black Lesbian, Gay, Trans, Queer and intersex communities. Their work, Sabelo Mlangeni’s, and other African photographers, explore how ‘A queer person can be anybody.’ Listen to Eric Gyamfi talk about “Just Like Us,” capturing Lesbian and Gay love in Ghana, where it is illegal, here.
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In an article posted on them, Naveen Kumar makes that case that Queer bars aren’t dissappearing, but heading in a more inclusive direction.
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Searching for a new podcast? Look no further! Produced by Sinister Wisdom Creative Endeavors Fellow, Caitlyn (KT) Abadir-Mullally, the latest episode of Enduring Value discusses an artist’s responsibility to preserve their work, astrology, Kate Bush and how we respond to the conditions of the universe. Listen here.
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Ivy Marie reflects on Life Isn’t Binary, Hood Feminisms, and broader women’s and gender studies in “The Future of Feminism.”
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A new documentary series on Shudder called Queer for Fear, releasing on September 30, will chronicle the history of the relationship between the Queer community and horror. The cast includes Jewelle Gomez and Leslye Headland, among many. Read the full cast list here.
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Did you know that 0.5% of your amazon purchases can be directly donated to Sinister Wisdom when you purchase your amazon orders through amazonsmile? Orders must be placed through amazonsmile to support Sinister Wisdom.
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Curated with community, history, and an understanding that every present moment is a nexus of many pasts. May these stories of queer culture inspire, enthuse, and rouse you to lesbian actions. We hope you've enjoyed the seventeenth installment of Sinister Snapshot! Have a lovely weekend.
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