carolyn gage;
Once you see Carolyn Gage in action you will understand why she has become a cult figure among many lesbians intent on learning more about Lesbian Culture, Lesbian Herstory, and the Lesbian Underground.
Playwright, Performer, Activist
Carolyn Gage is the author of twelve books and more than fifty-plays, including musicals, one-acts, one-woman shows and dramas. The winner of numerous awards, her work is widely published and performed. She tours in her own shows, offering lectures and workshops on lesbian culture and history.
LESBIAN TENT REVIVAL with CAROLYN GAGE:
Sisters ! 
Are you feeling tired, lonely, bored, anxious, depressed… and think that it's your fault?
Do you feel there is something missing in your sex life… something you can’t quite put your finger on?
Does your life feel like a metaphysical hairball
you can’t manage to cough up?
Good news!!!
Sister Carolyn and Sister Tara of the Sisterhood of the Sacred Synapse are on the road with THE LESBIAN TENT REVIVAL bringing back the evangelical exhilaration of that old-fashioned, feel-good, radical feminism…
The smash-hit of the 2008 and 2009 Michigan Womyn’s Music Festivals, THE LESBIAN TENT REVIVAL brings women together with irreverent, hilarious, rabble-rousing sermons and songs, designed to save us from our S.I.N.s...the "Synaptically Inadequate Networking" that has been imposed on us all
by a pornographized, dumbed-down, corporate, racist, misogynist, militarist, consumerist culture!
Sister Carolyn Gage, in her other incarnation, is a lesbian-feminist playwright, author, and performer. She is this year’s winner of the Lambda Literary Award in Drama… the top LGBT book award in the US! Sister Tara Ayres, in her other incarnation, is the artistic director of Stage Q in Madison, and she has performed with DykeAppella, the Murder Sisters, and Mixolydian Mode.
FMI; www.carolyngage.com www.lesbiantentrevival.weebly.com
Lesbian Connection, connecting lesbians worldwide since 1974 Much as things have changed over the years, so have they stayed the same. Lesbian Connection is still a free worldwide forum of news and ideas for, by, and about lesbians. FMI; PO Box 811, East Lansing, MI 48826
(517)371-5257, fax telephone (517) 371-5200
www.LConline.org elsiepub@aol.com Remember to pick up a copy at Something Special A Lesbian Venture |
connie & mary @ Michfest
Common Lives/Lesbian Lives was a collectively produced lesbian quarterly which published out of Iowa, City, Iowa from 1981-1996.
CL/LL was initiated by eight lesbians who were living in the Los Angeles area in the fall of 1980;
Catherine Nicholson and Harriet Desmoines, co-founders of periodical Siinister Wisdom encouraged the women by stating that more lesbian journals were needed because Sinister Wisdom received more submissions than it could print. Cindy Cleary, Anne Lee, and Tracy Moore (Moore had been involved in the collective that published Iowa City’s feminist newsletter Ain’t I a Woman? from 1971-1974) formed the core group of the journal, and all worked on the magazine after their move to Iowa City later that year.
The existence of the Iowa City Women's Press and a typesetting firm owned and operated by women made Iowa City an inviting home for the new journal.The first issue of Common Lives/Lesbian Lives was published in 1981, and the journal eventually reached a peak circulation of about 2500 national and international subscribers When the journal's main distributor, Inland, declared bankruptcy in 1995, CL/LL was no longer able to continue publication
The University of Iowa printing department refused to print Issue 20 (1982) because it contained photographs of lesbians making love, and the magazine sued the University and won. The 1995 fall issue was not published, and eventually Issue 56, which was to be the last, was published as the 1995-1996 issue. Despite efforts to raise money, Common Lives/Lesbian Lives officially closed in 1997.The Iowa Women's Archives in the University of Iowa Libraries now hosts Cl/LL archival material. The Lavender Library, Archives and Cultural Exchange in Sacramento, California holds a substantial collection of the magazines.
LA MAS BELLA by Paty
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ..
a past juicy enough that she's
looking forward to retelling it
in her old age.... Maya Angelou
HARD TIMES REQUIRE.. furious Dancing...Alice Walker Wemoon '09
The Mazer Archives is the largest major archive on the West Coast dedicated to preserving and promoting lesbian and feminist history and culture. By creating a safe place for women to explore the richness of lesbian history, perhaps adding to it themselves, we are paving the way for future generations to understand more fully their own identity and history and help maintain this vital link to their own past. Help us build a better future for generations to come: step inside the Mazer Archives.
West Hollywood, CA 90069
(310) 659-2478
The NEW YORK LESBIAN HERSTORY ARCHIVES
Two consciousness- raising groups were formed and one of them, which included Joan Nestle and Deborah Edel, became the founding site of the Lesbian Herstory Archives. In 1975, the Archives found its home for the next 15 years in Joan Nestle's Upper West Side Manhattan apartment on 92nd St. Deborah Edel and Joan shared these years with the Archives in this home. And so did thousands of volunteers and visitors. By the late 1970s, to save wear and tear on the more fragile artifacts, they created the Archives' slide show. A version of the slideshow still exists today, custom fitted to whomever is showing it. We purchased our new home, in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in 1990 and officially opened it in June 1993. On this web site you will see the ever-growing face of the archives, the work of tireless coordinators and volunteers who make all possible, and of the continuing donations, both financial and material, of our communities. FMI: www.lesbianherstoryarchives.org
DO YOU KNOW THIS WOMON?
Alix Dobkin Considered by many wimmin to be the Mother of Modern-Day Lesbian Music, Alix has a devoted audience, has been called a "womyn's music legend" by Spin Magazine, "pithy" by The Village Voice, "Biting . . . inventive . . . imaginative" by New Age Journal, "uncompromising" in the New York Times Magazine, and "a troublemaker" by the FBI.
Alix is a member of the OLOC (Old Lesbians Organizing for Change) Steering Committee, and her memoirs will be published in the summer of 2010 by Alyson Books. She loves living in New York's Hudson Valley.
Her memoir, "MY RED BLOOD” will be published by Alyson Books in October, 2009. Alix will be appearing here at Something Special in MARCH 2010. Watch our EVENTS page !!
SUGARLOAF WIMMIN'S VILLAGE
THE SUGARLOAF WIMMIN'S VILLAGE AT SUGARLOAF KEY: Established in the early 70's by Barbara Deming (radical activist, journalist, writer, poet) and her partner, Jane Verlaine Gapen (artist, poet, radical activist, defender of wimmin).Be sure to visit them the next time you're in the Keys. www.sugarloafwomensvillage.com
Sugarloaf Wimmin's Village is a Land Trust - no one owns the land or the houses. Visitors welcome to camp on the land or stay in one of the houses.
photos by Bonnie N.
