"Tell your truth."
With this mantra, these three powerful words, trailblazer extraordinaire Dorothy Allison challenged us to follow her path and seize our identity in our own individual ways, our own truth. In the books she wrote with piercing honesty, in the example of the lesbian life she led with uncompromising fierceness, she continues to reverberate among us in the legacy she has bequeathed. A legacy embodied in the eighteen extraordinary writers who lay bare for us their own truth in this landmark issue of Sinister Wisdom.
Published at the beginning of Sinister Wisdom's fiftieth anniversary year, Sinister Wisdom 138: Lesbian Stories adds new texture to the continuing mosaic of lesbian lives, lesbian cultures, and lesbian literatures.
Featuring a collection of photographs by Morgan Gwenwald and stories by Andrea Hairston, Anna Watson, Carla Trujillo, Carolyn Gammon, Cleo Varra, Elaine Shelley, Esther Shifra bat Avraham v'Sarah, Felicia Carparelli, Jaylani Loveday, Katilin D'Avella, Kristy Bell, Marina Ramil, Merril Mushroom, Sophie Warrick, Roos van der Velden, Ruthann Robson, and Virginia Black.