page 8 - Out in the Mountains

Integrity is a fellowship of Gay
'.Episeopalians and their friends. We .
would welcome you at our celebration 7
—‘. of the Holy Eucharist and fellowship
_;' the first and third Saturday of each
5month at 7:55 pm, St. Paul’s Cathedral,
‘Two Cherry St., Burlington. ,-

This May, Integrity/Burlington

begins its eighth year of existence.
2‘ What started in 1979 with a small

group of people has grown into a vital -
;,organization with one of the largest
" memberships of any Integrity chapter _
,- outside a major urban area. We seem 
.to have connected with a deep hunger ,1

_-in the
' sustenance.
Let us pray that in the coming
‘years Integrity can continue to grow";-.-
and reach out to more of those in the 
lesbian and gay community who seek a 
deeper meaning to their lives. 

community for spiritual

by Marianne Milton

Recently, Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz
moved from Maine to the Montpelier
area of Vermont, and Sinister Wisdom

lesbian be restricted to repeating what
some people said it meant ten years

on

January 1986) Melanie refuted Julia

Penelope’s assertion that Sinister
Wisdom was "once focused on radica ago"

travelled with her.

Sinister Wisdom is a lesbian
feminist journal, which in the ten years
since it was founded has published
stories, poems, essays, narratives,
interviews, plays. reviews and art. It
was founded in 1976 by Harriet
Ellenberger (aka Desmoines) and
Catherine Nicholson; in 1981, Michelle
Cliff and Adrienne Rich took over ‘as
editors and publishers; and from 1983
until I984, Michaele Uccella and
Melanie co-edited the journal. Now
Melanie is the sole editor and publisher,
with Gloria Anzaldua, Beth Brant, and
Irena Klepfisz serving as contributing
editors.

Since Melanie began editing
Sinister Wisdom, there has been a
strong emphasis on Jewish women's
experience: each issue contains some
representation of Jewish women's
concerns, and the upcoming double issue
(#29/30), "The Tribe of Dina,” co-edited
by Melanie and Irena Klepfisz, is an
anthologyy focused entirely on Jewish
women's identity and experience
According to Melanie, Sinister Wisdom
differs from other lesbian feminist
journals such as Common Lives/Lesbian
Lives and Conditions in that it is less
focused inside what are commonly seen
as the parameters of the feminist and
women's movement.

"I am interested in material on the
periphery of what I already know,“
Melanie said.

In a recent exchange of letters in
off our backs (October 1985 and

lesbian issues."

"Sinister Wisdom remains a radical
lesbian journal, offering a radica
perspective from (mostly) lesbian
writers. We don't print overtly
heterosexual material, but we also don't
ask writers or artists for names of
their lovers or content of their
fantasies," Melanie answered. She went
on to explain that since lesbians have
certain concerns that we share with no
others and have other concerns that are
not uniquely ours, Sinister Wisdom will
cover a broad range of topicsand will
not “let the definition of radical

  

STEPHEN
&
BURNS

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Williston,
Vermont 05495
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"The Tribe of Dina" differs from
other regular issues of Sinister Wisdom
in that the policy for this anthology
was to include material by women other
than lesbians. A similar policy was
followed for A Gathering of Spirit, an
anthology focused on the writing and
art of Native American women, edited
by Beth Brant and recently reissued as
an expanded second edition.

"The Tribe of Dina” is envisioned
by the editors as a means to convey
the diversity of Jewish women's
experience. It builds on the work

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