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Issue 7/8: unabashed Knowing, September 2008

Female twin vessel. Clay, height 32 cm. Hacilar culture/ Anatolia, Turkey, 6th millenium BC Image courtesy of Gabriele Meixner from "Woman-Woman Bonds in Prehistory."

  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.

Issue 6: The Art of the Possible, September 2007

Sotae, a symbol that once acknowledged the presence of the triadic Goddess Mago and her two daughtersA 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.

Issue 5: The Resurrection issue, February 2007

"Carol's Hands," photo by Susan Kullmann and Marvelle ThompsonIn 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.)

Issue 4: The Wonderful and the Terrible, September 2006

Athene

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.

 

Issue 3: Love & Lust, February 2006

Couples, watercolor and pastel by Suzanne Langlois

"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.

Issue 2: Memory, October 2005

Andrea Dworkin

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

Issue 1: The Body, December 2004

Monique Wittig

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.

 

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Print Archives for TRIVIA - A Journal of Ideas

Trivia : A Journal of Ideas began publication in 1982.... A list of the contents of back issues, and how to purchase back issues that are still in print can be found here.

issue 10
February 2010

Mary Daly
Mary Daly
(Oct 16, 1928-Jan 3, 2010)

"Are Lesbians Going Extinct?" #1

 

Lise Weil
Betsy Warland
Editorial


Conversation I

Ruthann Robson
Before and after Sappho: Logos

Elliott Femynye BatTzedek
On Living with a Poem for 20 Years: Judy Grahn’s "A Woman Is Talking to Death"


Conversation II

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


Conversation III

Arleen Paré
Reinvention and the Everyday

Chris Fox
The Personal is Political

Esther Shannon
Notes on Reinvention and Extinction


Conversation IV

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


Conversation V

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