![]() In 1975, an estimated fifty lesbian publications were in print. Contributors to the lesbian publications The Ladder and The Furies believed that lesbianism was a culture and state of mind: “Becoming a lesbian was not a matter of sexual orientation but a political choice every thinking woman had to make if she homed to end male supremacy.” Sinister Wisdom would later echo this sentiment in its own statement-of-purpose. The view Catherine Nicholson and Harriet Desmoines had of lesbians and a “lesbian sensibility,” along with an acute sense of isolation, led them to create and publish the periodical in order to spread their own view of the “lesbian consciousness.”Ī Background of Lesbian Feminism Publishing ![]() ![]() Sinister Wisdom is still in print and being published in California. In 1981 the periodical was sold and moved to Amherst, Massachusetts. The first six issues were published out of North Carolina between 19 after which the original editors moved to Nebraska. Sinister Wisdom came from the imaginations of Catherine Nicholson and her partner, Harriet Desmoines, two lesbians residing in North Carolina. ![]() Photo of the front cover of Sinister Wisdom' s first issue. ![]()
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