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Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal that publishes four issues each year. Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian space. Sinister Wisdom seeks to open, consider and advance the exploration of lesbian community issues. Sinister Wisdom recognizes the power of language to reflect our diverse experiences and to enhance our ability to develop critical judgment as lesbians evaluating our community and our world.

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Crime Against Nature by
Price: $6.95 USD. Words: 24,720. Language: English. Published: June 28, 2017 by Sinister Wisdom. Categories: Poetry » LGBTQ+
Minnie Bruce Pratt’s Crime Against Nature was the 1989 Lamont Poetry Selection from the Academy of American Poets, which recognizes a poet’s second collection of poetry. This new edition includes an introduction by Julie R. Enszer, a new afterword by Pratt, a reprint of Pratt’s speech at the Lamont award ceremony, photographs of Pratt and her family, and a bibliography.
The Pagoda: A Lesbian Community by the Sea by
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 91,060. Language: English. Published: January 15, 2024 by Sinister Wisdom. Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » History
In The Pagoda: A Lesbian Community by the Sea, Rose Norman expertly synthesizes interviews and extensive archival research to tell the story of the women who made that community a place for lesbian culture to bloom and grow.
A Sturdy Yes of a People: Selected Writing by Joan Nestle by
Price: $25.95 USD. Words: 114,200. Language: English. Published: January 11, 2023 by Sinister Wisdom. Categories: Essay » Political, Fiction » Erotica » Lesbian
Vital new collection of iconic essays by writer, activist, and community herstorian Joan Nestle
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Fire-Rimmed Eden: Selected Poems by Lynn Lonidier by
Price: $6.99 USD. Words: 80,030. Language: English. Published: December 28, 2023 . Categories: Poetry » LGBTQ+
Fire-Rimmed Eden: Selected Poems gathers poems from Lynn Lonidier’s rich and varied collections. Her poetry links multiple poetic constellations of the 1970s and 1980s demonstrating linguistic innovations and radical reconfigurations sexuality and gender.
Sinister Wisdom 103: Celebrating the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 53,170. Language: English. Published: August 24, 2023 . Categories: Essay » Literature, Fiction » Literary collections » LGBTQ+
Sinister Wisdom 103: Celebrating the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival honors the forty-year legacy of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (1976–2015).
Sinister Wisdom 124: Deeply Held Beliefs by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 57,820. Language: English. Published: April 16, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » General
Sinister Wisdom 124: Deeply Held Beliefs Spiritual/Political Activism of Lesbian Feminists in the South brings together the sixth and last issue of stories collected by the Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project (SLFAHP).
Sinister Wisdom 122: Writing Communities by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 55,330. Language: English. Published: April 16, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » Short stories - multi-author
Sinister Wisdom 122: Writing Communities gathers a selection of work edited by Stephanie Andrea Allen and Lauren Cherelle under the rubric Writing Communities. These important pieces reflect on how writers--and readers--build communities of shared interest. The issue also includes selections from the best new lesbian writing that lesbians submit to Sinister Wisdom.
Sinister Wisdom 116: Making Connections by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 47,930. Language: English. Published: April 16, 2023 . Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Essays
Sinister Wisdom 116: Making Connections is the fifth issue of Sinister Wisdom's series of work edited by the Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project, documenting the vital lesbian-feminist activism that proliferated in the US South during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s.
Sinister Wisdom 121: Eruptions of Inanna by
Price: $6.95 USD. Words: 49,480. Language: English. Published: April 16, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » General
Sinister Wisdom 121: Eruptions of Inanna is a new book from iconic lesbian poet and author Judy Grahn. In her trademark lusciously erotic writing, Judy Grahn illuminates eight dramatic stories exploring the Mesopotamian goddess Inanna’s power and relevance for contemporary queer feminist audiences.
Sinister Wisdom 126: Out of Control by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 47,150. Language: English. Published: March 12, 2023 . Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » History
Sinister Wisdom 126: Out of Control is a record of the imaginative creations, aspirations, and life histories of the radical lesbian ancestors of our dreams-the organization Out of Control: Lesbian Committee to Support Women Political Prisoners.
Sinister Wisdom 104: Lesbianima Rising by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 60,080. Language: English. Published: March 12, 2023 . Categories: Nonfiction » History » Essays
Sinister Wisdom 104: Lesbianima Rising celebrates the arts and cultural contributions of lesbian-feminists. Arts played an important role in building lesbian community and providing venues for social activism given the political and social fervor of the times.
Sinister Wisdom 93: Southern Lesbian-Feminist Herstory 1968-1994 by
Price: $4.98 USD. Words: 40,070. Language: English. Published: March 12, 2023 . Categories: Fiction » Anthologies » General, Nonfiction » History » Essays
This special issue of Sinister Wisdom, guest edited by Rose Norman and Merril Mushroom, is a profound expression of Sinister Wisdom’s lesbian-feminist literary and activist traditions.
Sinister Wisdom 120: Asian Lesbians by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 71,190. Language: English. Published: January 29, 2022 . Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » Erotica » Lesbian
Sinister Wisdom 120: Asian Lesbians is a thick issue with over 300 pages and contributors from the United States and around the world!
Sinister Wisdom 119: To Be a Jewish Dyke in the 21st Century by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 64,530. Language: English. Published: January 18, 2022 . Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » General
Sinister Wisdom 119: To Be a Jewish Dyke in the 21st Century takes its title from that life-giving stanza in Muriel Rukeyser’s epic poem “letter to the Front” is a gathering of answers, challenges, and opinions directed at questions like:
Sinister Wisdom 118: Forty-Five Years / A Tribute to the Lesbian Herstory Archives by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 53,970. Language: English. Published: January 18, 2022 . Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Essays
Sinister Wisdom 118: Forty-Five Years / A Tribute to the Lesbian Herstory Archives offers some of the founding of the Lesbian Herstory Archives, describing what it meant to walk into an apartment and later into the four-story limestone building where shame became history, secrets became shared connections and complex lesbian, queer histories were enriched by maintaining intergenerational community
Sinister Wisdom 117: Lesbians in the City by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 48,630. Language: English. Published: November 16, 2020 . Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Essays, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
How do lesbians live in the city, whether they live in the city by themselves or within intentional community? How does the city change what being a lesbian means? This issue also includes SPORTS----a selection of work from the Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project, edited by Rose Norman and Merril Mushroom. Plus a great selection of new lesbian writing!
Sinister Wisdom 110: Dump Trump by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 76,760. Language: English. Published: November 16, 2020 . Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Biographies, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
Sinister Wisdom 110: Dump Trump features serious, satirical, and humorous writing in varied genres and forms, e.g., email correspondence, essay, poetry, short fiction, blog entries, novel excerpt, and interview—all reflecting lesbian ideas, notions, and actions of/for what it will take to unseat the Trump regime.
Sinister Wisdom 112: Moon & Cormorant by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 40,670. Language: English. Published: May 28, 2020 . Categories: Poetry » LGBTQ+, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
Sinister Wisdom 112: Moon and Cormorant features an eclectic array of contemporary poetry, prose, and art by lesbians from around the world, including new work by: Marilyn Hacker Rita Mookerjee Christina M. Wells Mie Astrup Jensen Julie Weiss Chanice Cruz Emel Karakozak Lila Tziona Kaye Lin Kuphal and a tribute to writer and editor Michelle Cliff.
Sinister Wisdom 113: Radical Muses by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 29,820. Language: English. Published: May 28, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Poetry » LGBTQ+
Sinister Wisdom 113: Radical Muses features an eclectic array of contemporary poetry, prose, and art by lesbians from around the world, including new work by: Andrea Assaf Tara Shea Burke Cheryl Clarke Marina Chirkova Estela González Barbara Haas Nancy E. Lake Vi Khi Nao H. Ní Aódagaín and much more!
Sinister Wisdom 115: Lesbian Learning by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 49,100. Language: English. Published: May 14, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » LGBTQ+, Poetry » LGBTQ+
Sinister Wisdom 115: Lesbian Learning features creative work assembled by LB Johnston asking important questions about lesbians and learning. What do lesbians learn from one another? How do we learn from each other? What is the role of learning in our lives?
Sinister Wisdom 111: Golden Mermaids by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 42,090. Language: English. Published: May 14, 2020 . Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » LGBTQ+, Poetry » LGBTQ+
Sinister Wisdom 111: Golden Mermaids features some of the best work from lesbian writers and artists working today. This issue of Sinister Wisdom offers testimony of lesbian lives today; they are a whisper and a promise to a future when lesbians are interested in reading the stories from these pages.
Sinister Wisdom 114 / A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant by
Price: $12.95 USD. Words: 64,960. Language: English. Published: October 8, 2019 . Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
a new volume of the work of Native American writer Beth Brant, edited by Janice Gould. A Generous Spirit: Selected Work by Beth Brant collects the writing of Beth Brant, Mohawk lesbian poet, essayist and activist. During her life, Brant’s work gave voice to an often unacknowledged Two-Spirit identity, and today, her words represent continued strength, growth, and connection.
Sinister Wisdom 87: Tribute to Adrienne Rich by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 30,030. Language: English. Published: March 22, 2019 . Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Essays, Essay » Literature
Tribute to Adrienne Rich. Featuring work by Cheryl Clarke, Rachel Tzvia Back, Elliott batTzedek, Elana Dykewomon, Stephania Byrd, Jocelyn Heath, Jewelle Gomez, Antonia Matthew, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Lynda Koolish, Jenny Factor, Chris Shorne, Bekah Steimel, and Alison Bechdel. Obituary for Leigh Star and more!
Sinister Wisdom 109: Hot Spots by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 47,520. Language: English. Published: November 20, 2018 . Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » History
Sinister Wisdom 109: Hot Spots explores the Southern spaces where lesbians gathered and organized during the past forty years. This issue of Sinister Wisdom, fourth in our series of special issues covering lesbian-feminist activism in the late twentieth-century South, focuses on lesbian gathering places and ways that lesbians created community while continuing activism.
Sinister Wisdom 105: Passion Fruit and Wet Flowers by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 52,670. Language: English. Published: September 13, 2018 . Categories: Essay » Literature, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
Sinister Wisdom 105: Passion Fruit and Wet Flowers includes the best creative writing by lesbians accepted during the past two years through our open submission process. Creative work in Sinister Wisdom 105: Passion Fruit and Wet Flowers is an eclectic mix of poetry, fiction, a play, and creative non-fiction. Sinister Wisdom 105 continues to celebrate revolutionary lesbian-feminist consciousness.
Sinister Wisdom 100: Anniversary by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 43,710. Language: English. Published: September 13, 2018 . Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Essays, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
Sinister Wisdom 100: Anniversary celebrates the fortieth anniversary of Sinister Wisdom in 2016. Sinister Wisdom is one element of a long history of lesbian culture—and a bold reach to the future with each issue published. Sinister Wisdom 100: Anniversary has many voices—old and new—singing in harmony. Together we can imagine another forty years of sinister lesbian imagination.
Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989 by
Price: $14.95 USD. Words: 31,350. Language: English. Published: May 11, 2018 . Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Essays
Pat Parker and Audre Lorde first met in 1969; they began exchanging letters regularly five years later. Over the next fifteen years, Lorde and Parker shared ideas, advice, and confidences through the mail. Sister Love: The Letters of Audre Lorde and Pat Parker 1974-1989 gathers this correspondence for readers. A rare opportunity to glimpse inside the minds and friendship of two great poets.
Sinister Wisdom 106: The Lesbian Body by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 56,380. Language: English. Published: March 14, 2018 . Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Sex & health
Sinister Wisdom 106: The Lesbian Body maps the body through poems, prose, essays, and stories. The Lesbian Body navigates elegance, vulnerability, and endurance found in the flesh. These poems and narratives connect bodies and how lesbians live through them; they express how lesbian bodies become both literal expressions of a truly lived life and the ground metaphor for lesbian being.
Sinister Wisdom 97: Out Latina Lesbians by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 51,560. Language: English. Published: July 24, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Essays
It is an enormous pleasure to present Sinister Wisdom 97: Out Latina Lesbians, edited by Nívea Castro with Geny Cabral. Castro and Cabral have assembled an extraordinary collection of writing by Out Latina Lesbians including work by Janis Astor del Valle, Susana Cook, Alina Galliano, Alixa García, Marga Gomez, Cherríe Moraga, Monica Palacios, Bessy Reyna, and many more.
Sinister Wisdom 99: Pleasure by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 35,330. Language: English. Published: July 17, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Essays
Sinister Wisdom 99: Pleasure showcases new and returning writers to Sinister Wisdom. One of my pleasures is publishing our beloved lesbian-feminist writers, like Kitty Tsui and Cherry Muhanji, as well as newer writers like Denise Miller, Allison Berry, Sarah Neal, and many others. In this issue, you will find an array of incredible lesbian and queer writers.
Sinister Wisdom 95: Reconciliations by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 47,450. Language: English. Published: July 12, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Essays
Sinister Wisdom 95: Reconciliations is filled with creative and nourishing texts. Reconciling provocative work and opinions, Sinister Wisdom 95: Reconciliations responds to important facets in lesbian life and history.
Sinister Wisdom 89: Once and Later by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 29,670. Language: English. Published: June 29, 2017 . Categories: Fiction » Literary collections » LGBTQ+
Sinister Wisdom 89: Once and Later troubles the importance of time in lesbian life. Combining temporal designations of what once was, the present, and the future, Once and Later features two interviews; one of Joan Larkin, a veteran poet, by poet Sandra Tarlin, and another of filmmaker Catherine Crouch interviewed by Carolyn Gage, as well as great poetry, prose, and art.
Living as a Lesbian by
Price: $6.95 USD. Words: 22,350. Language: English. Published: June 29, 2017 . Categories: Poetry » LGBTQ+, Poetry » Female authors
Living as a Lesbian chronicles Clarke’s years of literary and political activism with anger, passion, and determination. The world is large in Living as a Lesbian but also personal and intimate. These poems are closely observed and finely wrought, with Clarke’s characteristic charm and wit shining throughout.
What Can I Ask: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014 by
Price: $6.95 USD. Words: 113,090. Language: English. Published: June 28, 2017 . Categories: Poetry » LGBTQ+, Poetry » Female authors
Drawing on Dykewomon’s impressive body of poetry, What Can I Ask: New and Selected Poems 1975-2015 assembles into a single volume poems from Dykewomon’s three published collections as well as a selection of newer, uncollected poems. Dykewomon continues asking questions and reaching for answers, demonstrating the power of poetry to comfort and enrage, inspire and arouse.
The Complete Works of Pat Parker by
Price: $14.95 USD. Words: 74,660. Language: English. Published: May 25, 2017 . Categories: Poetry » American poetry » African American
The Complete Works of Pat Parker includes Parker’s masterwork, Movement in Black, as well as Jonestown & other madness. Parker’s prose writing is collected in The Complete Works along with two unpublished plays and a number of previously uncollected poems.
Sinister Wisdom 90: Catch, Quench by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 29,140. Language: English. Published: February 4, 2016 . Categories: Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian, Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Essays
Let Sinister Wisdom 90: Catch, Quench catch you and quench your love of lesbian literature and culture! Catch, Quench explores the complexity of lesbians through stories on love, family, and conflict to conjure up your hunger for more—and satisfaction.
Sinister Wisdom 92: Lesbian Health Care Workers by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 31,730. Language: English. Published: January 20, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Sex & health
Sinister Wisdom 92: Lesbian Healthcare Workers is a special issue that focuses on lesbian healthcare workers, and particularly nurses. Workers and recipients of lesbian healthcare come together to share their personal experiences through essays, poems, and other imagery that highlight systemic issues, and express gratitude to the healers within the lesbian community.
Sinister Wisdom 94: Lesbians and Exile by
Price: $4.99 USD. Words: 43,150. Language: English. Published: January 20, 2016 . Categories: Nonfiction » LGBTQ+ » Essays, Fiction » LGBTQ+ » Lesbian
Sinister Wisdom 94: Lesbians and Exile confronts the challenges that face lesbians living where lesbian identity is still dangerous. Considering the many facets of exile and its relationship to lesbian identity, Lesbians in Exile, coedited by Joan Nestle and Yasmin Tambiah, addresses topics such as law and human rights, gender, ethnicity, culture.
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