our mission and history


Trivia: A Journal of Ideas
was born in 1982 out of a group of women thinkers and writers in western Massachusetts who met every other week to discuss literature and philosophy in a feminist context. It went on to become an international, award-winning publication that endured for over a decade.

Over twenty years of feminist activism have passed since the founding of Trivia in its original version; despite our gains, the war on women, in all its overt and subliminal forms, has continued and even accelerated. So has the war on the non-human world, and on the earth itself. We believe that "a place where women's ideas can assume their original power and significance" is more needed now than ever.

We founded the new Trivia: Voices of Feminism as a public forum for the creative and critical thinking of that great diversity of women who insist on our primacy, and who in league with and in the name of all the other endangered species on this planet, refuse to accept the life-destroying status quo. May we find the forms we need to meet the urgencies of this time. And may we encourage each other.

-- Lise Weil, editor

acknowledgements

The editors of Trivia: A Journal of Ideas (1982-95) include Lise Weil (issues 1-11 and 13-18), Anne Dellenbaugh (issues 1-5), Linda Nelson (issues 10-18), and Erin Rice and Kaye Parkhurst (issues 19-22).

Trivia's rebirth on the web was initiated by MeLissa Gabriels, who also designed the original website for Trivia: Voices of Feminism. The editorial collective for issue 1 was MeLissa Gabriels, Elizabeth Waller, Layla Holguin-Messner, Elissa Jones, and Lise Weil. The collective responsible for issue 2 included Lise Weil, Harriet Ellenberger, Elizabeth Waller, and J. Emily Bandru.

Lise Weil and Harriet Ellenberger were co-editors for Trivia: Voices of Feminism issues #3-8.
Hye Sook Hwang was guest co-editor for issue #9.

Publication of this issue, Trivia #10, was made possible by a generous grant from Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal in the name of EdgeWork Books.

Thanks to our intern Brittany Shoot for production and webmail assistance.

We are deeply grateful to Susan Kullmann, www.doctorgeek.net, who donated her time to redesign our site and serve as web publisher for issues #3-9.

 

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issue 10
February 2010

Mary Daly
Mary Daly
(Oct 16, 1928-Jan 3, 2010)

"Are Lesbians Going Extinct?" #1

 

Lise Weil
Betsy Warland
Editorial


Conversation I

Ruthann Robson
Before and after Sappho: Logos

Elliott Femynye BatTzedek
On Living with a Poem for 20 Years: Judy Grahn’s "A Woman Is Talking to Death"


Conversation II

Susanna J. Sturgis
And Will Rise? Notes on Lesbian Extinction

Deborah Yaffe
My Mid-term Exam in Lesbian Theory and Practice

Cynthia Rich
Letter to Lise Weil

Jean Taylor
Dispatches from an Australian Radicalesbianfeminist

Dolores Klaich
No Longer Burning


Conversation III

Arleen Paré
Reinvention and the Everyday

Chris Fox
The Personal is Political

Esther Shannon
Notes on Reinvention and Extinction


Conversation IV

Natalie G.
Dyke on a Haybale: A Lesbian Teen In Kansas Speaks Out

Em Williams
Gay to Trans and the Queering in Between

Seema Shah
Lesbian Lament

Carolyn Gage
The Inconvenient Truth about Teena Brandon


Conversation V

Elana Dykewomon
Who Says We’re Extinct?

Lise Weil
She Who

Margie Adam
Lesbian: Going All the Way


TRIVIAL LIVES
Arleen Paré
Trivia Saves Lives


Notes on Contributors