Researching Lesbian Herstory

Sites Useful for Researching Lesbian Herstory

  • Such feminist publications as Lesbian Connection, Feminist Bookstore News, New Directions for Women, and WomaNews (out of New York, not Gainesville, FL) can be searched online through Independent Voices, from Reveal Digital, https://www.jstor.org/site/reveal-digital/independent-voices/ : “an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals, drawn from the special collections of participating libraries.”
  • Maize, a Lesbian Country Magazine, first published in New York in 1983, has been publishing stories of lesbians on women’s land ever since, sponsored by Woman, Earth, and Spirit, https://womanearthandspirit.org/ For many years now, Maize has been published from Outland, women’s land near Santa Fe, NM, and Women, Earth, and Spirit lists as one of their projects a library, archives, and media center at Outland.