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Conditions (full title:Conditions: a feminist magazine of writing by women with a particular emphasis on writing by lesbians) was a lesbian feminist literary annual founded in 1976 in Brooklyn, New York by Elly Bulkin, Jan Clausen, Irena Klepfisz and Rima Shore.[1]
[edit] Publishing Collective
Conditions was a magazine which emphasised the lives and writings of lesbians, and, throughout its history, the magazine maintained an all-lesbian collective.[2] This collective expressed a "long standing commitment to diversity; of writing style and content and of background of contributors," within the lesbian and feminist communities.[3] Conditions was especially dedicated to publishing the work of lesbians, in particular working class lesbians and lesbians of color.[4][5]
[edit] The Black Women's Issue
The journal's fifth issue, published in November, 1979, was edited by Barbara Smith and Lorraine Bethel. Conditions 5 was "the first widely distributed collection of Black feminist writing in the U.S."[1], and was later to be the basis for the anthology Home Girls, one of the first books released by Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press.[1] Conditions 5: The Black Women's Issue was hugely popular, and set a record in feminist publishing by selling 3000 copies in the first three weeks it was available.[6]
[edit] Publication ceases
Conditions ceased publication in 1990.[7][8]
[edit] Conditions Editors
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[edit] Conditions Contributors
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[edit] References
- ^ a b Smith, Barbara. The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom, Rutgers University Press 1998, ISBN 0813527619 p ix
- ^ Busia, Abena P. A. Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women, Routledge, 1993, ISBN:0415073367, p225n
- ^ Allison, Clarke, Schaubman editorial. Conditions 11/12, p3
- ^ Allison, Clarke, Schaubman editorial. Conditions 11/12, p3
- ^ Busia, Abena P. A. Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women, Routledge, 1993, ISBN:0415073367, p225n
- ^ Smith, Barbara. Home Girls: A Black Feminist Anthology, Kitchen Table: Women of Color Press 1983 p1
- ^ Armstrong, David. Trumpet to Arms: Alternative Media in America, South End Press, 1985 ISBN 0896081931 p240
- ^ Busia, Abena P. A. Theorizing Black Feminisms: The Visionary Pragmatism of Black Women, Routledge, 1993, ISBN:0415073367, p225n
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