our mission and history
Trivia: A Journal of Ideas was born in 1982 out of a group of women thinkers and writers in western Massachusetts who met every other week to discuss literature and philosophy in a feminist context. It went on to become an international, award-winning publication that endured for over a decade.
Over twenty years of feminist activism have passed since the founding of Trivia in its original version; despite our gains, the war on women, in all its overt and subliminal forms, has continued and even accelerated. So has the war on the non-human world, and on the earth itself. We believe that "a place where women's ideas can assume their original power and significance" is more needed now than ever.
We founded the new Trivia: Voices of Feminism as a public forum for the creative and critical thinking of that great diversity of women who insist on our primacy, and who in league with and in the name of all the other endangered species on this planet, refuse to accept the life-destroying status quo. May we find the forms we need to meet the urgencies of this time. And may we encourage each other.
-- Lise Weil, editor
acknowledgements
The editors of Trivia: A Journal of Ideas (1982-95) include Lise Weil (issues 1-11 and 13-18), Anne Dellenbaugh (issues 1-5), Linda Nelson (issues 10-18), and Erin Rice and Kaye Parkhurst (issues 19-22).
Trivia's rebirth on the web was initiated by MeLissa Gabriels, who also designed the original website for Trivia: Voices of Feminism. The editorial collective for issue 1 was MeLissa Gabriels, Elizabeth Waller, Layla Holguin-Messner, Elissa Jones, and Lise Weil. The collective responsible for issue 2 included Lise Weil, Harriet Ellenberger, Elizabeth Waller, and J. Emily Bandru.
Lise Weil and Harriet Ellenberger were co-editors for Trivia: Voices of Feminism issues #3-8.
Hye Sook Hwang was guest co-editor for issue #9.
| Publication of this issue, Trivia #10, was made possible by a generous grant from Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal in the name of EdgeWork Books. |
Thanks to our intern Brittany Shoot for production and webmail assistance.
We are deeply grateful to Susan Kullmann, www.doctorgeek.net, who donated her time to redesign our site and serve as web publisher for issues #3-9.
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