Merril Mushroom

Rose Norman

Barbara Esrig

Creating Lesbian Space in the South

Sinister Wisdom 109 : Hot Spots

Kate Ellison

Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. Fiction. Women's Studies. Gay, Lesbian and Transgender Studies. Landykes of the South is the second special issue of Sinister Wisdom (Sinister Wisdom 98) featuring memoirs, interviews, essays, and artifacts from the Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project, a project of Womonwrites, the Southeast Lesbian Writers' Conference. For some early women's liberationists in the first consciousness- raising groups, forming a women's land group was an outcome of the process, putting theory into action. Some Lesbians came out in the counterculture's back-to-the-land movement, some waking up to feminism after moving to the country with a mixed group or male partner. Our collection of Landyke stories begins in 1969 when Corky Culver's consciousness-raising group in Florida, possibly the first Lesbian land group in the country, began to look for land. We chose to end the storytelling at the end of the twentieth century in 1998 with Maat Dompim, but the Landyke movement continues in some form to this day.

Landykes of the South: Women's Land Groups and Lesbian Communities in the South (Sinister Wisdom 98)

Logan Knight

Ed Madden

Beth Richards

Jeff Mann

James Villanueva

Elizabeth Craven

Thom Koch

Jack

Christina Holzhauser

B. Andrew Plant

Suzanne Lea

Susan Benton

Stephanie Woolley-Larrea

Vickie Spray

Louie Crew

Crooked Letter i offers a collection of first-person nonfiction narratives that reflect the distinct 'coming out' experiences of a complex cross-section of gay, lesbian, and transgendered Southerners from all walks of life and at different stages in their lives. The experiences represented here pivot around a central theme -- finally finding language to understand one's identity, and then discovering we were never the only ones. Revealing a vibrant cross-section of Southerners, the writers of these narratives have in common the experience of being Southern and different, but determined against all odds.

Coming Out in the South

Crooked Letter i

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