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Conditions (full title:Conditions: a feminist magazine of writing by women with a particular emphasis on writing by lesbians) was a lesbian feminist literary annual founded in 1976 in Brooklyn, New York by Elly Bulkin, Jan Clausen, Irena Klepfisz and Rima Shore.[1]
Contents
Publishing Collective
Conditions was a magazine which emphasised the lives and writings of lesbians, and, throughout its history, the magazine maintained an all-lesbian collective.[2] This collective expressed a "long standing commitment to diversity; of writing style and content and of background of contributors", within the lesbian and feminist communities.[3] Conditions was especially dedicated to publishing the work of lesbians, in particular working class lesbians and lesbians of color.[2][3]
The Black Women's Issue
The journal's fifth issue, published in November, 1979, was edited by Barbara Smith and Lorraine Bethel. Conditions 5 was "the first widely distributed collection of Black feminist writing in the U.S.",[1] and was later to be the basis for the anthology Home Girls, one of the first books released by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.[4] Conditions 5: The Black Women's Issue was hugely popular, and set a record in feminist publishing by selling 3000 copies in the first three weeks it was available.[5]
Publication ceases
Conditions ceased publication in 1990.[2][6]
Conditions Editors
- Barbara Smith
- Lorraine Bethel
- Dorothy Allison
- Cheryl L. Clarke
- Jewelle Gomez
- Nancy Clarke Otter
- Debbi Schaubman
- Elly Bulkin
- Jan Clausen
- Irena Klepfisz
- Rima Shore
- Melinda Goodman
- Paula Martinac
- N. Quintanales
Conditions Contributors
(partial list)
- Joy Harjo
- Cherríe Moraga
- Joan Nestle
- Amber Hollibaugh
- Donna Allegra
- Becky Birtha
- Audre Lorde
- Ann Allen Shockley
- Beverly Smith
- Gloria Anzaldúa
- Joan Larkin
- Paula Gunn Allen
- Jacqueline Lapidus
- Adrienne Rich
- Michelle Cliff
- Hattie Gossett
- Chrystos
- Marilyn Hacker
- Mitsuye Yamada
- Jo Carillo
- Toi Derricotte
- Minnie Bruce Pratt
- Bonnie Zimmerman
- Elly Bulkin
- Cheryl Clarke
- Dorothy Allison
- Irena Klepfisz
- Jewelle Gomez
- Honor Moore
- Luzma Umpierre
- Ramina Mays
- Barbara Banks
- Mab Segrest
- Sapphire (author)[7]
See also
References
- ^ a b Smith, Barbara. The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom, Rutgers University Press 1998, ISBN 0813527619 p ix
- ^ a b c Busia, Abena P. A. Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women, Routledge, 1993, ISBN 0415073367, p225n
- ^ a b Allison, Clarke, Schaubman editorial. Conditions 11/12, p3
- ^ Glinn.com
- ^ Smith, Barbara. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press 1983 p1
- ^ Armstrong, David. Trumpet to Arms: Alternative Media in America, South End Press, 1985 ISBN 0896081931 p240
- ^ English.asu.edu
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