Cheryl Clarke

Red Washburn

Morgan Gwenwald

Stevie Jones

Featuring the best lesbian political writing including work by Joan Nestle, Anne Maguire, Lorrie Sprecher, Claire Bond Potter, Sarah Schulman, Adriana de Luiza, Jewelle L. Gomez, Denise Conca, Blanche McCrary Boyd, and many others.

Dump Trump

Sinister Wisdom 110

Marci Blackman

Cecilia Gentili

Talia Bettcher

Claudia Sofía Garriga-Lopez

Kris Grey

Shereen Inayatulla

Nadine Rodriguez

Cassidy Scanlon

Catalina Schliebener Muñoz

Fitch Wilder

Sara Youngblood Gregory

Sinister Wisdom 128: Trans/Feminisms features writing and artwork by folks across the gender spectrum, including trans, nonbinary, genderqueer, genderfluid, two-spirit, gender-nonconforming, and intersex. We celebrate writers and artists who trouble gender. What perspectives do trans lives bring to the field of feminist thought and practice? What does it mean to hold a conversation about being trans? What does it mean to be a part of that conversation? How do the crossroads of difference affect the conversation? Sinister Wisdom 128: Trans/Feminisms is dedicated to exploring and celebrating transness. Included work appeals to and from transness in a range of mediums: interdisciplinary, genre-bending poetry, fiction, transcribed interviews, manifestos, essays, historical and theoretical deep dives, comic strips, visual art, photography, oral histories, speeches, intergenerational conversations, and collaborations.

Trans/Feminisms

Sinister Wisdom 128

This book explores 50 years of Irish women’s prison writing, 1960s–2010s, connecting the work of women leaders and writers in the Six Counties of Ireland during the Troubles. This volume analyzes political communiqués, petitions, news coverage, prison files, personal letters, poetry and short prose, and memoirs, highlighting the personal correspondence, auto/biographical narratives, and poetry of the following key women: Bernadette McAliskey, Eileen Hickey, Mairéad Farrell, Síle Darragh, Ella O’Dwyer, Martina Anderson, Dolours Price, Marian McGlinchey (formerly Marian Price), Áine and Eibhlín Nic Giolla Easpaig (Ann and Eileen Gillespie), Roseleen Walsh, and Margaretta D’Arcy. This text builds on different fields and discourses to reimagine gender and genre as central to an interdisciplinary and intersectional prison archive. Centering Irish women’s prison writings, in order to challenge canonization in history and literature, this volume argues that women’s lives and words offer a different view of gender and nation as well as offer a fuller and more inclusive archive of Irish history and literature. Additionally, this book will point to the ways in which their politics of everyday life and their cultural work is a form of anti-colonial civil rights feminism, for it speaks truth to power in a world in which compliance and silence are valued. Overall, this text focuses on rethinking and recasting women’s voices and words in order to document and promote the ongoing Irish freedom struggle from an abolitionist feminist perspective.

Mother Ireland’s Rebels, 1960s–2010s

Irish Women's Prison Writing

Red Washburn

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