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Issue 7/8: unabashed Knowing, September 2008
This is unabashed Knowing climbing into bed with you,
putting its hands around your throat and squeezing
until your heart bursts open and its pieces
scatter over the world like petals.
Martina Newberry, “Bad Manners”
In this long-awaited double issue you will find thundering outrage, piercing cries from the heart, and a courageous facing-off against the insidious forces of Unknowing. You will also find powerful and diverse voices of healing. Taken together, the material in this issue suggests that unabashed Knowing is itself the beginning of all true healing.
- Lise Weil, Editorial
- Martina Newberry, Bad Manners, All That Jazz
- Barbara Mor, Hypatia
- Christine Stark, Amerika in 5 Parts
- Laura Tanner, Screens: The War at Home
- Leonore Wilson, Invisible Nature
- Gabriele Meixner, Woman-Woman Bonds in Prehistory [Translated by Lise Weil]
- Beate Sigriddaughter, I Saw a Woman Dance
- Monica J. Casper, The Edible Parts
- TRIVAL LIVES: Carolyn Gage, The Happy Hooker Revisited
- From our archives: Kathy Miriam, Re-membering an Interrupted Conversation: the Mother/Virgin Split
- Notes on Contributors
Issue 6: The Art of the Possible, September 2007
A solo aerialist with feminist circuses in Australia takes us with her as she defies gravity and social expectations; a lesbian poet leads us downward into a hell of childhood sexual torture and back out again, transformed; a novelist shares with us her journey to Sardegna, where landscape and ruins evoke ancient memories; a Korean feminist takes us along on the extraordinary life journey that led her to discover the anciently originated gynocentric matrix of the Far East which she has named Magoism; a poet turns an old story into a moment of comic relief; a scholar and practitioner in the women’s spirituality movement explores hidden aspects of feminist history and urges us to breach the taboo on the occult; and a poet explores her childhood friendship with the girl she felt she had always known. Come with us as Trivia contributors practice the art of the possible by leaping across time and space, refusing false choices, and expanding the limits of the real.
- Harriet Ellenberger and Lise Weil, Editorial
- Susan Hawthorne, The Aerial Lesbian Body: The Politics of Physical Expression
- Elliott Femynye batTzedek, Wanting A Gun
- Mary Saracino, Red Poppies Among the Ruins
- Hye Sook Hwang, Returning Home with Mago, the Great Goddess from East Asia
- TRIVIAL LIVES: Ellen M. Taylor, Noah's Wife
- Marguerite Rigoglioso, Reclaiming the Spooky: Matilda Joslyn Gage and Mary Daly as Radical Pioneers of the Esoteric
- Elizabeth Alexander, Grand Right & Left
- Notes on Contributors
Issue 5: The Resurrection issue, February 2007
In fantastical story, ballad, essays, poetry, visual art, brief reflections, and memorial pieces, contributors honor the work of those who are no longer with us, while interweaving the lives of the departed with those of the living. In the process, they demonstrate that the feminist continuum knows no bounds. (We should point out that not every writer who appears in these pages has departed; in some pieces the dead cavort with the living.)
- Harriet Ellenberger and Lise Weil, Editorial
- Dolores Klaich, Waiting for Sappho
- Barbara Mor, A Song of Captain Joan
- Marge Piercy, Blue Mojo
- Renate Stendhal, Why Do Something If It Can Be Done
- Julia Balén, In Memoriam: Monique Wittig
- Sue Swartz, The Loudest Self
- Carolyn Gage, Clear and Fierce
- Adela C. Licona, (B)Orderlands’ Lullaby
- Illit Rosenblum, Borderlands
- Barbara Mor, akaDARKNESS: on Kathy Acker
- Lise Weil, Remembering Barbara Macdonald
- Karin Spitfire, The Making of Power
- Illit Rosenblum, Octavia Butler: A note on Xenogenesis as a love story
- Suzanne Montez Adams, The Essential Angel: Tillie Olsen
- Susan Kullmann and Marvelle Thompson, Carol's Hands
- Notes on Contributors
Issue 4: The Wonderful and the Terrible, September 2006
From a naming of female potency to a questioning of the notion of two sexes, from poems in the voice of a young woman kidnapped into sex slavery to reflections on lesbian desire, from a science-fiction nightmare to a personal meditation on the search for gentleness amidst cruelty, from a most unusual “Trivial Lives” to a review of Mary Daly’s latest, Trivia 4 walks the knife-edge of paradox, balancing between the wonder and terror of our times.
- Editorial
- Jane Caputi, Cunctipotence
- Rhonda Pettit, Global Lovers
- Josephine Donovan, Our Lot
- Verena Stefan. Doe a Deer
- Priscille Touraille, Degendering Sex; Undoing Erotic Alienation
- Renate Stendhal, Seven Stages of Lesbian Desire (What's Truth Got to Do With It?)
- TRIVIAL LIVES: Lenore Wilson, That Easter
- IN REVIEW: Harriet Ellenberger, Amazon Grace: Read it Aloud
- Carol Prusa, Athene, 2002-2005
- Notes on Contributors
Issue 3: Love & Lust, February 2006
"The Meaning of Our Love for Women is What We Have Constantly to Expand" read the title of an essay by Adrienne Rich written in the '70s. Have we expanded the meaning of this love in the years since, and if so, how? Given cultural phenomena like "The L Word" and "Queer as Folk" is it still possible to argue that love between women is a powerful force for healing and political change? That lesbian desire is qualitatively different from heterosexual or homosexual desire? This issue contains essays, poems, and narrative accounts.
- Editorial
- Lise Weil, Conversation with Michèle Causse
- Michèle Causse, Chloto 1978
- Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, The Woman with the Secret Name
- Harriet Ellenberger, She is Still Burning
- Eve Fox, In The Beginning
- Riva Danzig, Sanctuary
- Carolyn Gage, When Sex Is Not the Metaphor for Intimacy
- Susan Moul, Arielle
- Bonnie St. Andrews, Quotidian Love
Deirdre Neilen, Afterword - Lise Weil, Leverett
- Betsy Warland, After Sappho's Fragments. Tips for Natural Disasters, Said Before
- Lou Robinson, A Lesbian is a Memoir
- Notes on Contributors
Issue 2: Memory, October 2005
This issue dedicated to the memory of Andrea Dworkin
writer, activist, warrior, visionary
September 26, 1946 - April 9, 2005
"My eyes work. I see. It is not a mystery. If it's in front of you you can see how it works itself out. It's not prophecy; it's simple seeing; what is there; now; naked from the lies." - Mercy
- Harriet Ellenberger and Lise Weil, Editorial
- Lee Maracle, The Lost Days of Columbus
- Louky Bersianik, Agenesias of the Old World
- Deena Metzger, The Power of the Earth: Shake/Rousing
- Harriet Ellenberger, Return of Earth
- Kay Hagan, Forces of Nature
- Mercy Morganfield, The Beauty Shop
- Juliana Borrero, The Other Shore
Issue 1: The Body, December 2004
This issue dedicated to the memory of Monique Wittig. Wittig was born in 1935 and died January 2003. She was a pioneer in feminist literature. Some of her well known texts include: Les Guérillères, The Lesbian Body, Across the Acheron, and The Straight Mind and Other Essays. The theme of this issue is "the body" and was, in part, inspired by Wittig and the effect she has had on us.
Download the entire issue here in PDF format.
- Lise Weil and MeLissa Gabriels, Editorial
- Louky Bersianik, Lovesick (trans. by Lise Weil)
- Harriet Ellenberger, Guerrilla Girl Ponders the Situation
- Barbara Mor, the secret pornographies of republicans, What's Left?, Preferably Knot
- Sara Wright, Communing with Bears
- Elissa Jones, TRIVIAL LIVES: Division Street
- Rhonda Patzia, After Reading: Les Guéillères
Courtesy of the Internet Archives WaybackMachine, Issue 1 as it first appeared online can be viewed here
Print Archives for TRIVIA - A Journal of Ideas
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