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As one of you said, "[Snapshot] is like reading the bulletin board at our now defunct dining club or bookstores." Sinister Snapshot is 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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Sierra created a great guide to managing your email preferences for Sinister Wisdom emails. Do check it out if you are feeling overwhelmed by emails.
Sierra is seeking a tech savvy dyke to help them set up an RSS feed for a future Sinister Wisdom project. Email them at sierra@sinisterwisdom.org if you think you could help!
Summer intern season is approaching quickly! If you are interested in interning at Sinister Wisdom, email Julie today! Email her at julie@sinisterwisdom.org
Julie recently saw Carolyn Gage’s wonderful new play In McClintock’s Corn in its world premier at Powerstories Theatre in Tampa. It is a wonderful play about scientist Barbara McClintock and her genetic discoveries that earned her the Nobel Prize. She also saw the film “Women Talking,” based on the book by Miriam Toews; it is an extraordinary film, intense, provocative, and with multiple layers of meaning. Both the play and the film are highly commended.
Claudia just finished After Sappho by Selby Wynn Schwartz (this debut "novel" was long-listed for the Booker prize). This work is the most lyrical synthesis of the thoughts, loves, contributions and bravery of lesbians from the time of Sappho to the current day. And for pure fun she is watching the series "Recipes: Lost and Found" on Discovery+. What a delight to see a young butch chef as the star!
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Talking With Trailblazers
by Ruby Cromer
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Sabrina Mussieux has given Sinister Wisdom permission to share her capstone project for her MA in gender and social justice studies, “Talking With Trailblazers: Engaging In a Dialogue With the Contributors’ Notes Of the Lesbian-Feminist Periodical Sinister Wisdom.” Using content analysis and discourse analysis, this paper examines a selection of contributor notes from issues of Sinister Wisdom ranging from 1976 to 1994. This paper aims to contextualize itself within contemporary feminist thought through the writing of former Sinister Wisdom co-editor Adrienne Rich.
By analyzing what information contributors chose to share and what words they used to describe themselves, Mussieux offers insight into contributors’ lives, experiences, and politics as encoded in the notes. Identifying the notes as “small-scale autobiographies,” Mussieux asserts each note is an opportunity for agency and self-definition that defies patriarchal limitations. Additionally, she highlights the “contributors’ notes” as an overlooked site of Lesbian community across place and time that facilitates connection between writers and readers, including herself. Mussieux writes, “I went into this project with the goal of finding trends, commonalities, and identities that the contributors of Sinister Wisdom shared. I found these, but what was even more potent and surprising were the connections I felt with these women… I wonder if they thought about the future feminist generations who would find them, read them, love them, and learn from them.”
Read the paper here.
Ruby Cromer is a photographer and "contributors’ notes" appreciator from Minneapolis.
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Join Sinister Wisdom and the Lesbian Herstory Archives for a zoom panel, "Still in Love: Multicultural Lesbian Publishing in the 80s, 90s, and Beyond!" On March 28, at 7 P.M. E.T., the founders and authors of Aunt Lute Books and Firebrand Books will explore this exciting period in lesbian-feminist literary communities. Register here.
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Join members of the editorial collective and contributions to Sinister Wisdom 128: Trans/Feminisms on April 18 for a celebration and launch of the issue. Register here. This issue features important writing and images about the intersections of feminist and trans thought curated with a particular Lesbian perspective.
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Sinister Wisdom hosted an intergenerational conversation between young readers, Lesbians, Queer academics and activists. They discussed various essays in A Sturdy Yes of a People, the sex wars, independent feminist publishing, independent archives and much much more! Listen at the bottom of this page.
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The home of Michelle Cliff and Joan Nestle's apartment are featured as a part of "1970s Lesbian Activism and Community," a curated theme of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.
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Poets in Vouge, an exhibit at The National Poetry Library in London, England, explores the relationship between poets and their wardrobes. Curator Sophie Oliver states that in the case of Audre Lorde, “clothes were also a 'form of action.'" Poets in Vouge will show until September 10.
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Zara Toppin's first solo show, Coming Out, takes inspiration from the 1930s Lesbian bar Le Monocle. Read about it here. Also read about Lydia Garnett's exhibition of photos of butch hairstyles, photographed in Zara Toppin's studio, Close Shave.
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Marcella Althaus-Reid was a queer theologian who sparked controversy with books such as Indecent Theology and The Queer God. Born and raised in Argentina, she became the first woman appointed to a chair in the School of Divinity at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland in 2006. Read about her on Q Spirit.
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Also on Q Spirit, read about North African women friends and "patron saints of same-sex couples" Perpetua and Felicity who lived in the third century.
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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 this installment of Sinister Snapshot! Have a lovely weekend.
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