Items

• Lavender Woman: Volume 5, Number 1
  This is the final issue of the lesbian feminist newspaper Lavendar Woman. Publications of Lavendar Woman typically included articles on lesbian and feminist issues, illustrations, interviews, news, and poems, with a particular focus on arts and culture. This issue contains articles about women and lesbians in the arts, poetry and fictional writing, information about other feminist lesbian periodicals, and news coverage of a recent presentation held in New York City and sponsored by the International Tribunal on Crimes Against Women. Interestingly, the creators of this issue explain their reasons for discontinuing the publication, stating "it's time to face the fact that we're dying" (p. 1). They explain the lack of staff, time, and energy required to continue to produce the newspaper, and describe being "out of touch" with the lesbian feminist identity and movement.
• The Leaping Lesbian: Volume I, #7
  The Leaping Lesbian sought to fill the needs of the Ann Arbor lesbian community. This issue contains reflections on the second annual Michigan Womyn's Music Festival and the fourth annual National Women's Music Festival. Also included is an article written by the feminist collective behind Womanspace, a local Ann Arbor bookstore with a women-only policy, an interview with a local lesbian struggling for child custody, instructions for a wiccan spell to pass the Equal Rights Amendment, and an ad for the local lesbian-feminist record label Olivia Records.
• Ain't I A Woman?: Volume III, Number 4
  This June 1973 issue of Ain't I A Woman?--described on page 1 as a "publication reflecting the opinion of...a small collective of radical gay women" in Iowa City--contains material related to the feminist self-defense movement, childcare and motherhood, violence against women, and anti-capitalism. Also included is Jane Alpert's Mother Right: A New Feminist Theory, a manifesto which Alpert originally mailed to Ms. Magazine, denouncing "the sexual oppression of the left" and detailing her conversion from militant leftist to radical feminist.
• Lesbian Connection: Volume VI, Issue 1
  This issue of Lesbian Connection contains articles and forums discussing the experiences of incarcerated women, sexual abuse survivors, Jewish lesbians, and bisexual women, as well as news clippings submitted by readers across the nation relevant to LGBT and women's rights. This issue also includes reports on the seventh annual Womyn's Music Festival, both celebrating the feminist music festival and critiquing the festival as disorganized and exclusionary to women with disabilities.