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♡ Intersectional lesbian literary & arts journal
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Happy New Year! As we give thanks for the old and look forward to the new, let’s take a look at the first piece of art from the Sinister Wisdom 2026 calendar. Pictured is Arden Eversmeyer's pin collection by Meghan McDonough @mmcdonough3 The piece is a film still from Old Lesbians, shown this past October in New York City at the 2025 Lesbian Lives Conference. About the history of the film, Meghan says, “Old Lesbians honors Arden's legacy by animating the resilient, joyful voices she preserved in the Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, from first crush to first love, from the closet to coming out, and finally from loss to connection.” Meghan McDonough is a filmmaker and journalist who directs and edits documentary shorts and series to better understand our world. She won Aesthetica/Audible’s Listening Pitch in 2023 to fund her documentary short Old Lesbians, which was featured on the 2024 IDA Documentary Awards Best Short Documentary Shortlist, commissioned by The Guardian, and has screened at institutions, community centers, and film festivals around the world, including the California State Capitol, the British Film Institute, and the American LGBTQ+ Museum. Meghan has worked as a staff video journalist at Quartz and a producer/editor at NBCUniversal Local. Her freelance work has also appeared in Scientific American, Thomson Reuters Foundation, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and more, and has been supported by the Pulitzer Center. She received her BA in Film and Media Studies from Amherst College. Please follow Meghan and support her beautiful art! by @sinister_wisdom
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Here’s a bit about us, what we do, how to subscribe to the journal, and get involved! To learn more about Sinister Wisdom, read the archives, and subscribe, visit sinisterwisdom.org Don’t forget to subscribe and get four issues of Sinister Wisdom in your mailbox every year 🌱 Subscriptions are sliding scale and we also offer sustainer rates for folks who can give a bit more Free issues for incarcerated women and community members, as well as youth centers, LGBTQ studies and programs, libraries, and more! To submit your work, intern or guest edit email our editor and publisher Julie R. Enszer at julie@sinisterwisdom.org by @sinister_wisdom
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Since our inception in 1976, Sinister Wisdom has remained committed to amplifying the voices of all marginalized people and speaking out against injustice everywhere. This support has always included the Palestinian people. As we bear witness to the atrocities happening to the Palestinian people in Gaza at the hands of the Israeli Occupation Forces, it is important we reaffirm our support and speak out against this oppression. This post aims to show our solidarity by sharing materials published by Sinister Wisdom either written by Palestinians, about the occupation, or about the necessity of protest as a tool for liberation. We hope you will take the time to read through these materials and take action to show your support and call for an immediate ceasefire and end of the occupation of Palestine. All of the materials included in these slides can be found at SinisterWisdom.org/Archive. Cover image credit: @TheDykeProject The comments will be left off for this post — emails can be directed to our editor and publisher Julie R. Enszer at julie@sinisterwisdom.org Text reads: Sinister Wisdom stands with Palestine Below the text is an image of a protest sign that shows a Palestinian flag painted with the words, “Dykes for a free Palestine.” The text below the image reads: A protest sign originally shared by @TheDykeProject on Instagram. by @sinister_wisdom
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Explore Sinister Wisdom editor and publisher Julie Enszer's bookshelf in honor of #LitMagWeek ! Watch this video to see how Sinister Wisdom has changed over the years and to hear from Julie on why literary magazines like Sinister Wisdom remain important in the digital age. Celebrate Lit Mag Week by subscribing to Sinister Wisdom at sinisterwisdom.org/subscribe! Learn more by visiting litmagweek.com or @litmagweek #lesbian #literarymagazine #lesbianliterature #litmagweek2026 by @sinister_wisdom
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i am so excited to share the completed, beautiful, 2027 sinister wisdom calendar!! 🌟❤️‍🔥💧🌀 this is my fourth and final year curating/designing the calendar and i couldn’t be more ecstatic that this year’s celebrates new lesbian photography while paying homage to The Blatant Image, a magazine of feminist photography that published three issues between 1981 and 1983. Published by Rootworks, a womyn’s land group in Oregon, The Blatant Image challenged photographers to create images that explored lesbian-feminist issues and resisted heteropatriarchal stereotypes. The images within this calendar expand on these ideas by exploring both lesbian imagination and lesbian reality. Some experiment with abstraction, materiality, and invention. Others document our communities plainly: life in its ordinary, mundane beauty. Collectivley, these artists remind us that photography is never a fixed medium— and lesbianism is never a fixed category. Truly thank you endlessly to all of the included artists @jsp_icer @yvelizra @sophiabcutino @morgan__elena @thechromaticsheep @andinamarieosorio @alinabalseiroart @a8lia @shiaconlon @camille.lenain @photofelli @tomorrowblakechapman 🩷🩷🩷 thank you to JEB (Joan E. Biren) @jebmedia for allowing me to include a wonderful quote from her essay “Seeing Through Our Own Eyes” which was originally published in The Blatant Image no. 1 (and of which ive included two screenshots in this spread). lastly i have to, of course, give thanks to Julie Enszer @julierenszer for her trust and to everyone at Sinister Wisdom who has helped produce, layout, promote, and celebrate the calendar. If you’re interested copies are available for purchase via the link in @sinister_wisdom’s bio or their website :-) by @sinister_wisdom
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The contributions of Latina/e lesbians along borders have critically reshaped the ways we think, write, mobilize, and create around our lived experiences as queer people who exist across multiple intersections. We recognize that lesbian and queer borderlands legacies go beyond the U.S.-México borderlands to places like the Dominican Republic/Haiti, Palestine, and other regions with histories of settler colonialism. Our Malflora members have distinct roots to Texas-México fronteriza/e communities, where the works of lesbianas like Lucía Martinez, Yolanda Chávez Leyva, Nancy Lorenza Green, Anel I. Flores (@aneliflores), Fabi Reyna (@suavecito_91), Gloria Anzaldúa, and so many others have radically modeled to us what art, care, and queer liberation can look like. We honor them in our work and in our commitments to imagining our homelands beyond the borders that have been imposed upon them. ⋆˚꩜｡ - Malflora Collective #fronteriza #lafrontera #elpaso #juarez #RGV by @sinister_wisdom
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Thrilled to see this feature of @sinister_wisdom in @autostraddle ‘s print magazine. Check it out and enjoy these vibrant lesbian conversations! by @sinister_wisdom
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Today’s Malflora Collective takeover post focuses on Black/Afro-Latina, Latin American, and Caribbean lesbians whose collective histories, lives, and bodies of work center decolonial Afro-feminist struggles and radical visions for liberation. While visibility is only a small fraction of this work, we uplift the lives and work of Juanita Díaz-Cotto (Ramos), Ochy Curiel, Cidinha Da Silva, Ana-Maurine Lara, and Lidia Rodrigues together to emphasize a transborder lineage of Black/Afro-Latina lesbians devoted to anti-imperialist, anti-capitalist, and decolonial liberation informed by ancestral African traditions and migration across borders. We encourage viewers to read and engage the works of each writer and artist briefly introduced here and challenge mainstream representations of Latinidad and lesbianism formed around whiteness. - Malflora Collective #afrolatina #lesbianas #lesbianhistory #lesbianactivism #lesbianart by @sinister_wisdom
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In honor of #LitMagWeek we are delighted to share a publication that we love reading AND wish them a happy 50th birthday! We love sharing a golden jubilee year with Sinister Wisdom 💛 Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal that has been publishing quarterly since 1976, just like Lilith! Learn more about them @sinister_wisdom and stay tuned for another collab with them later this fall ;) by @sinister_wisdom
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In honor of the first ever #LitMagWeek Sinister Wisdom's editor and publisher Julie R. Enszer sat down to chat the importance of literary magazines and to share some recommendations of periodicals to check out this Lit Mag Week. Celebrate Lit Mag Week by subscribing to Sinister Wisdom at sinisterwisdom.org/subscribe ! If you are already a subscriber, check out one (or all!) of the other literary magazines recommended by Julie. Stay tuned for more content from Sinister Wisdom to celebrate Lit Mag Week and learn more by visiting litmagweek.com or @litmagweek #lesbian #literarymagazine #lesbianliterature by @sinister_wisdom
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Malflora Podcast is a podcast series of pláticas, or community dialogues, with Latina/e lesbians and queers co-hosted by Meagan Solomon, Alexandra Nichole Salazar, and Mariana Meriqui Rodrigues of Malflora Collective. Episodes serve as oral histories of featured guests, who share their stories in conversation with one or more co-hosts. The practice of exchanging stories and knowledge through conversation (plática y roda de conversa) is an ancestral tradition familiar to many Indigenous, African, Chicane, Latine, Caribbean, and Latin American communities. Malflora Collective activates this cultural, dialogic practice to archive Latina/e lesbian and queer histories online. Swipe through for previews of published episodes featuring Lydia Otero (lydiaotero.com) and Fedella Lizeth (@fedellalizeth). 🎧 Listen to full podcast episodes at malflora.org/podcast or your favorite podcast streaming platform, and reach out to us @malfloraco or malfloracollective@gmail.com if you want to be featured on the podcast! - Malflora Collective #lesbianpodcast #queerpodcast #lesbianhistory #queerhistory by @sinister_wisdom
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As a podcast about the history of lesbian* bars, Our Dyke Histories has to chime in on the drama surrounding the viral closure of Last Ditch in Massachusetts. The response to the closure reveals something about our current political climate. In the long history of lesbian life in America – aka since and before the U.S. was founded – lesbian spaces are often targeted by various political regimes as the enemy. Lately, it’s been trans people who are the true targets of annihilation by Republicans and, lately, many Democrats too. But lesbians are a target to mock and kick, to close down and out, to belittle in the meantime for trying to live a politics that doesn’t suck and, in the meantime, not being able to sustain even a bar. by @sinister_wisdom
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