Books

How to Sleep Faster is published as part of the collaborative discussion that form the critical direction of the gallery. and sits alongside the first two exhibitions – Sleep Faster (February), and How to Carve Totem Poles (March). It has been put together as an open ended continuation of this dialogue through which we seek to understand the contradictions / complexities that define and form our experience, existence and participation in a contemporary digital-analogue creative environment.

Arcadia Missa Publications; Rozsa Farkas, Tom Clark, Jammie Nicholas, Laura Farley (eds).

How to Sleep Faster 2 is the second of our biannually published journals that form the backbone of Arcadia Missa’ critical collaborative discourse on participation, post-digital visual-production and institutional subjectivity.This issue explores moments of collapse, shift and potential in a cultural moment framed by economic, political and societal disturbance.

Arcadia Missa Publication; eds Rozsa Farkas, Tom Clark et al.

How is survivalism mediated in contemporary culture? . . . For this issue we asked the semi-speculative question: is it possible that survivalism is our only remaining ideological position. This was in part to see how we might be able to understand a hyper, hysterical, hyperbolic moment of cultural production as either indicative of, or (more hopefully) creating the momentum for an escape from, an age of contemporary ‘cynical reason’.

Arcadia Missa Publications; Rozsa Farkas, Tom Clark, Harry Burke (eds).

With the fourth issue of How to Sleep Faster we asked our contributors four interconnected questions: What now is a radicalised, networked, subjectivity? How can we build a commons through and from this subjectivity? Is it self-critical in its understanding of the ‘we’ it talks for? And lastly, how do, and how must, these subjectivities engage with globalised material realities?

At root, the exploration of these ideas — as connected themselves – is about a critique of readings of the network through Multitude. We are looking to think beyond immanence, and look to something else, by asking what ‘something else’ is, or could be.

Contributors: Megan Kelly Rooney, Eleanor Weber, William Kherbek, Hannah Black, Harry Sanderson, Georgina Miller, Paul Kneale, Candice Jacobs, Aimee Heinemann, Ann Hirsch, Harry Burke, Rosa Aiello, John Bloomfield, Maja Malou Lyse (Boothbitch), Holly White, Martina Miholic, Felix Petty, Huw Lemmey, Julian Molina, Rachel Schofield Owen, Charlie Woolley, Jesse Darling, KERNEL.

Rozsa Farkas, Tom Clark (eds).

What are our politics of refusal? Sleep? Catatonia? Hedonism? Transgression even? #hustle? 

[Can refusal can be performed as resistance and not operate as preemptively fucked. . .]

Arcadia Missa Publications; Rózsa Farkas, Holly Childs, Leila Kozma, Tom Clark (eds)

“How can we fuck in a way that doesn’t support a patriarchal prism and standard for sex to reflect capitalist relations? Can sex be a site for identity politics, after we are imbued with the lore and failure of the sexual ‘revolution’?”

the body in pain

The platform, free speech and contempt

The book transcribes a body broken by American empire, that of ex-con Rafael Luis Estrada Requena, hacking itself away from contemporary society. Johanna Hedva, author of Sick Woman Theory, takes the ferocious compulsion to escape (from capitalism, from the limits of the body-machine, from Earth) and channels it into an evisceration of oppression and authority. Equal parts tender and brutal, romantic and furious, On Hell is a novel about myths that trick and resist totalitarianism.

A post-anime sapphic gurowave trauma-romance. 

A multimedia survival kit for another dimension. 

A terrible disease afflicts a disgraced biomech pilot and an ex-magical girl. 

View additional slutty artifacts at the PSYCHO NYMPH EXILE site.

Edited by Alice Brooke, Giulia Smith & Rózsa Farkas

WHAT TO EXPECT IN THIS BOOK:
* tentacle sex
* Kathy Acker
* the violent deaths of male genius artists, philosophers and theorists
* zombies
* sirens
* biohacking
* rampant plagiarism
* cop killing
* spells you can use at home

Sinister Wisdom 33: Wisdom asks the questions: How do we express the wisdom we've come to have, the wisdom we still seek? How has wisdom been passed on to us? What's stayed through time - from family, other womyn, from what we've read, from experience?

Creative Work By

Adrienne Rich
Gloria Anzaldúa
Chrystos
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
Leslita Williams
Barbara Ruth
Paula Brooks
Teya Schaffer
Lynn Crawford
Jan Hardy
Judy Meisksin
Margaret Tongue
Rose Romano
Nancy Humphreys
Patricia Filipowska

And More!

Sinister Wisdom 34: Sci-Fi, Fantasy & Lesbian Visions creates worlds with wild imaginings of past present and future as we'd want it: from forms of government to forms of sex. When we name what we want, we create the road towards it. This issue infuses our present with all manner of fabulous images in order to challenge our habits of thought.

Creative Work By

Judith Katz
Tara Danaan
Beth Povinelli
Sarah Lucia Hoagland
Anna Livia
Laura Hershey
Nicky Morris
Marjory Nelson
Sawnie Morris
zana
Catalina Ríos
Donna Allegra
Christian McEwen
Sheila Ortiz Taylor
Bernice Mennis
Michelle D. Williams

And More!

Sinister Wisdom 46: Dyke Lives is dedicated to be a community space for dykes all over. This issue wants to see trouble, sharpen the edges of dissatisfaction into action, suspect its own comfort and compromises, and see the patriarchy end in its lifetime.

Creative Work By

Janet Aalfs
Terri Jewell
Deb Parks-Safferfield
olga Krause
Teya Schaffer
Susan Hawthorne
Joanna Kadi
Lorrie Sprecher
Elana Dykewomon
Elizabeth Clare
Deborah Schwartz
Lorrie Sprecher
Lierre Keith
Renee Hahn
Sharon Lim-Hing
Diane Fraser
Patt Kelly

And More!

Sinister Wisdom 48: Lesbian Resistance's writers envision taking power in many ways: some advocate armed struggle, others believe in challenging systems from within, some speak for coalition politics, some for separatism, still others imagine resistance as changing the processes between us. This issue admires and encourages this fantastic lesbian resilience.

Creative Work By

Kathleen O'Donnell
Janice Gutman
Naomi Guilbert
Amber L. Katherine
Sauda Burch
Lisa kenney
Susan Rosenberg
Laura Whitehorn
Jo Ann Starr
Sheila Gilhooly and barbara findlay
L.A. Dyer
Lenore Baeli Wang
Jasmine Marah

And More!

Sinister Wisdom 49: The Lesbian Body talks about the ways we experience and perceive our own Lesbian bodies, and the anti-lesbian/lesbian-feminist backlash. The idea of a lesbian body can be a kind of a labyrinth - a series of chambers in which it is difficult to find our way, though we can hear her heartbeat through the walls.

Creative Work By

Deborah
Alejandra Laurenz
Kadeth Pozzesi
Caroline Halliday
Peg O'Connor
Sheila J. Packa
Janet Mason
Kate Berne Miller
Laura Hershey
Naja Sorella
Lisa Edmonds
Judith P. Stelboum
Cherie Bowers
Suzanne
Donna Tanigawa
Arl Spencer Nadel
Elissa Raffa
Kelly Jean Cogswell
Chaia Zblocki heller

And More!

Sinister Wisdom 51: New Lesbian Writing is a resource to connect Lesbian communities from far and wide. This issue allows for self-expression through a variety of Lesbian intersectionalities such as race, class, age, experience, etc.

Creative Work By

tatiana de la tierra
Akiko Carver
Victoria Lena Manyarrows
Teresa Ortega
Elliott
Janet Mason
Sima Rabinowitz
Suzanne
Jeannie Witkin
Josi Mata
C.E. Atkins
Anna Livia
Carellin Brooks
Reggie W. Brewster
Pamela Gray
Lois DeWitt
Kathryn Eberly

And More!

Sinister Wisdom 52: Allies adresses what lesbians what from our allies. We say we're a community dedicated to changing conditions and attitudes around race, class, age, ability, size, appearance. As allies, how are we making that happen?

Special Features

Interviews of Andrea Calderón,
Lynne Scott, Lisa Rudman,
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz,
Kit Yuen Quan, Mattie Richardson,
Hadas Weiss, Akiba Onada-Sikwoia,
Gloria Anzalduá, and Barbara Smith

Creative Work By

Rachael Rosen
Judith K. Witherow
Lisa Huebner
Caryatis Cardea
Jamie Lee Evans
Neta C. Crawford
Aspen
Sadie Green

and More!

Sinister Wisdom 77: Environmental Issues Lesbian Concerns lets our Earth Mother know our fears, concerns, anger and our need to take care of her for we are her. AS daughters of Earth Mother we honor our female bond through song and praise, and respect her as she cycles through our lives. Like a daughter who is connected to her Mother, Mother Earth Lesbians throughout the world are sensitively aware of what is happening to her. In Sinister Wisdom 77, our praise has turned to please and cries for mercy that she continues to sustain us.

Special Features

Book Reviews of Shedding Grace,
Sex Variant Woman, and Elsa:I Come with my Songs

Music Review of Heartsongs

Creative Work By

Fran Day
Ruth Zachary
Jeanne Neath
Ellen Williams
Brenwyn
Mary Oishi
Jan Shade
Natasha Carthew
Carole Gale
Alma
Judith K. Witherow

And More!

Sinister Wisdom 57: On Healing is about unequivocal survival, courage, creativity, vision, alchemy and, unfortunately, the systematic matter-of-fact violence most girls and wimmin are born into. The Courage these wimmin found to speak, to continue living and loving gives all Lesbians so much strength to pull from.

Creative Works By

April Citizen Kane
Chrystos
Cheryl Jones
Joan Annsfire
Rivka Mason and Jan Thomas
Elizabeth N. Evasdaughter
Mariah L. Richardson
A. Miriasiem Barnes
Laura C. Luna
Christina Springer
Adrienne Y. Nelson
Marianne Hewitt
K. Linda Kivi
Debby Earthdaughter
and more!

Sinister Wisdom 32: Special Issue on Death, Healing, Mourning, and Illness is a special issue on death, healing, mourning, and illness. This issue demonstrates that lesbians need to not only be remembered while they are with us, but also after they are long gone. We need to keep their voices heard in order to document our existence on this Earth.

Creative Work By

Maia
Barrie Borich
Lynn Crawford
Susan Hansell
Hilary Mullins
jillian wilkowski
Norma Fain Pratt
Lynn Martin
Donna Allegra
Nancy Barickman
Pamela Pratt
Vicki Sears
Maude Meehan
Lauri J. Hoskin
Elana Dykewomon
Beth McDonald
Diana Rivers
Rose Romano

And More!

Sinister Wisdom 91 is a joint release: an issue of Sinister Wisdom and a trade paperback book. Living as a Lesbian, co-published with A Midsummer Night’s Press, is issue 91 of Sinister Wisdom and the second book in a new series, Sapphic Classics.

Living as a Lesbian is Cheryl Clarke’s paean to lesbian life. Filled with sounds from her childhood in Washington, DC, the riffs of jazz musicians, and bluesy incantations, Living as a Lesbian sings like a marimba, whispering “i am, i am in love with you.”
Living as a Lesbian chronicles Clarke’s years of literary and political activism with anger, passion, and determination. Clarke mourns the death of Kimako Baraka (“sister of famous artist brother”), celebrates the life of Indira Gandhi, and chronicles all kinds of disasters—natural and human-made. The world is large in Living as a Lesbian but also personal and intimate. These poems are closely observed and finely wrought, with Clarke’s characteristic charm and wit shining throughout.

In 1986, Living as a Lesbian captured the vitality and volatility of the lesbian world; today, in a world both changed and unchanged, Clarke’s poems continue to illuminate our lives and make new meanings for Living as a Lesbian.

Sinister Wisdom 103: Celebrating the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival honors the forty-year legacy of the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival (1976–2015). Sinister Wisdom 103: Celebrating the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival celebrates this embodiment of radical feminist separatist collaboration, transformational self-defined autonomous spaces, a commitment to sisterhood and matriarchal culture, and a musical city sprung from the earth for one week in the woods.

A collective of five womyn each with a deep connection to Fest operated by consensus to create this issue. Striving to represent a range of womyn’s voices, values, traditions, and experiences of Fest, the collective highlighted what Fest has meant to generations of womyn, documented its chronology, and bore witness to the power of this community. Sinister Wisdom 103: Celebrating the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival includes womyn from multiple races, geographies, sexualities, generations, and gender and other social identities. Just as Fest brought together womyn from various backgrounds, our collection includes a range of artistic experience, from seasoned authors and photographers to those womyn new to publishing.
Sinister Wisdom 103: Celebrating the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival remembers the transformations, possibilities, and hopes for spaces cultivating the ongoing empowerment of womyn.