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Ain't I A Woman? newspapers, June 1970-July 1971
1971-04-02 "Ain't I a Woman?" Page 8
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love to our leviathan sisters LEVIATHAN PUBLICATIONS, INC 968 Valencia San Francisco, Ca. 94110 Sisters and Brothers, Leviathan has not published an issue since September, (Vol. II, #14); we are writing to tell you of our plans and sending along the enclosed broadside as a fare well "issue". We hope you will find it useful and will want to distribute it -- we felt it important to provide information about the Indochina war that you might use in many ways. Over the last several months Leviathan, like many other groups and organizations, has undergone much internal struggle and change. What began as discussion of the magazine's format and conception led to questions of working relationships among the staff, in particular relationships between men and women who put out the magazine. As a result of that process our staff is now made up entirely (our decision) of women and among us are only two who had been with the magazine before September. We understand that analysis and practice cannot be separated and therefore we envision a new magazine expressing analysis within the context of practice. Specifically, this means writing more about the movement in this country: what we are doing, what problems we have and the ways we are trying to deal with them. Hopefully, groups/collectives around the country would write about their work, making the magazine an outgrowth of people's work and thoughts. It also means that we do not see ourselves as journalists but as part of the women's movement putting together a magazine and at the same time being involved in other activities. In the next few months we will be working on getting together a collective , (not collection), of women who will be able to put out issues on a regular basis. We're excited about starting all over again on what we think is a new and better basis, and hope that people will give us suggestions and information which could help us. In the Spring. look for a new name and some new thoughts. til then, Leviathan sisters a graphic notebook on feminism [?] [hand drawing] the family Our apology to Su Negrin and Times Change Press for using the above graphics with out giving credit. They were taken from A Graphic Notebook on Feminism by Su Negrin, published by Times Change Press, 1023 Sixth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10018. IT costs $1.25 floating.... and holding and touching I feel like my mind is mostly floating & all the important things are stacked up over a mythical foundation that I have not found, that I did not make on purpose don't know what it looks like but I probably saw it on a television or front page don't know its shape but I know what it feels like a lump in my throat partial paralysis. and I'm floating again all my floating-arounds: dreams and poligtics wounds and images drives and fetishes poems and diatribes music and sylllables feminine endings floating isn't freedom [photo collage] On a blackboard in the bathroom of a gay women's bar in Berkeley is written, "Why isn't holding and touching as important as coming?" Yet it isn't. We were raised in a society with fucked up sexual standards and none of us seem able to handle sex in any other terms. We radical lesbians who want to make revolution for all women continue to fuck each other over because are heads are so full of shit about sex. Sex is exclusive; there's no getting around it unless we can handle sexually relating to others in groups of threes, fours or more. How many of us haven't experienced being in a room where the sexual vibrations between two people increase and we want to look for someplace to run because the "couple" emanates "leave us alone"? What about trying to visit a friend and never so much catching a glimpse of her because she's closeted up with her lover in an exclusive one-to-one sexual relationship? We set up hierarchies of importance , of priorities. K. is more important to me than P. or N. because she's my lover. We tend to spend our time with those in priority, high on the list of sexual choice. Sex is more important almost anytime than talking to another sister, walking in the country, or just holding another sister. Why isn't holding and touching just as important as coming? I don't know. I'm not knocking sex. Sexual intimacy with a woman is a beautiful thing. But we who would have a total revolution should try to develop new ways, unexploitive to other women, of relating sexually to our sisters. Our tight one-to-one relationships should be broken down. Sexual jealousy needs to be struggled with constantly. We should work on ways of relating sexually with more than just one person at a time. We need to re-examine our priorities just as this fucked up society does. page 8 volume 1 no 14 ain't I
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love to our leviathan sisters LEVIATHAN PUBLICATIONS, INC 968 Valencia San Francisco, Ca. 94110 Sisters and Brothers, Leviathan has not published an issue since September, (Vol. II, #14); we are writing to tell you of our plans and sending along the enclosed broadside as a fare well "issue". We hope you will find it useful and will want to distribute it -- we felt it important to provide information about the Indochina war that you might use in many ways. Over the last several months Leviathan, like many other groups and organizations, has undergone much internal struggle and change. What began as discussion of the magazine's format and conception led to questions of working relationships among the staff, in particular relationships between men and women who put out the magazine. As a result of that process our staff is now made up entirely (our decision) of women and among us are only two who had been with the magazine before September. We understand that analysis and practice cannot be separated and therefore we envision a new magazine expressing analysis within the context of practice. Specifically, this means writing more about the movement in this country: what we are doing, what problems we have and the ways we are trying to deal with them. Hopefully, groups/collectives around the country would write about their work, making the magazine an outgrowth of people's work and thoughts. It also means that we do not see ourselves as journalists but as part of the women's movement putting together a magazine and at the same time being involved in other activities. In the next few months we will be working on getting together a collective , (not collection), of women who will be able to put out issues on a regular basis. We're excited about starting all over again on what we think is a new and better basis, and hope that people will give us suggestions and information which could help us. In the Spring. look for a new name and some new thoughts. til then, Leviathan sisters a graphic notebook on feminism [?] [hand drawing] the family Our apology to Su Negrin and Times Change Press for using the above graphics with out giving credit. They were taken from A Graphic Notebook on Feminism by Su Negrin, published by Times Change Press, 1023 Sixth Ave., New York, N.Y. 10018. IT costs $1.25 floating.... and holding and touching I feel like my mind is mostly floating & all the important things are stacked up over a mythical foundation that I have not found, that I did not make on purpose don't know what it looks like but I probably saw it on a television or front page don't know its shape but I know what it feels like a lump in my throat partial paralysis. and I'm floating again all my floating-arounds: dreams and poligtics wounds and images drives and fetishes poems and diatribes music and sylllables feminine endings floating isn't freedom [photo collage] On a blackboard in the bathroom of a gay women's bar in Berkeley is written, "Why isn't holding and touching as important as coming?" Yet it isn't. We were raised in a society with fucked up sexual standards and none of us seem able to handle sex in any other terms. We radical lesbians who want to make revolution for all women continue to fuck each other over because are heads are so full of shit about sex. Sex is exclusive; there's no getting around it unless we can handle sexually relating to others in groups of threes, fours or more. How many of us haven't experienced being in a room where the sexual vibrations between two people increase and we want to look for someplace to run because the "couple" emanates "leave us alone"? What about trying to visit a friend and never so much catching a glimpse of her because she's closeted up with her lover in an exclusive one-to-one sexual relationship? We set up hierarchies of importance , of priorities. K. is more important to me than P. or N. because she's my lover. We tend to spend our time with those in priority, high on the list of sexual choice. Sex is more important almost anytime than talking to another sister, walking in the country, or just holding another sister. Why isn't holding and touching just as important as coming? I don't know. I'm not knocking sex. Sexual intimacy with a woman is a beautiful thing. But we who would have a total revolution should try to develop new ways, unexploitive to other women, of relating sexually to our sisters. Our tight one-to-one relationships should be broken down. Sexual jealousy needs to be struggled with constantly. We should work on ways of relating sexually with more than just one person at a time. We need to re-examine our priorities just as this fucked up society does. page 8 volume 1 no 14 ain't I
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