LGBTQ: Common Lives / Lesbian Lives: A Lesbian Feminist Quarterly 1981-88

[LGBTQ] Common Lives/Lesbian Lives: A Lesbian Feminist Quarterly set of three issues from 1981-88. CL/LL was collectively produced out of Iowa City between 1981-1996. It was the first lesbian quarterly published outside of the main metropolitan areas of New York City, Los Angeles, and Berkeley. The editors focus was on diverse inclusivity and emphasized writings by lesbians of color, varying body sizes, poor and working class, lesbians over 50, lesbians under 20, and differently-abled bodies. Initiated by eight women out of Los Angeles, CL/LL was published because Sinister Wisdom received more submissions than it could handle and they wanted to broaden their audience by collaborating with the Iowa City publishers of 1970s periodical "Ain't I a Woman?" The publishing collective wanted the magazine to be "inclusive, non-academic, diverse and accessible" encouraging submissions from women who have never been published before. At it's peak, Common Lives/Lesbian Lives received about 2500 national subscribers. This collection includes 3 issues:

[1] Common Lives/Lesbian Lives: a lesbian feminist quarterly; #2, Winter 1981. Iowa City: Common lives/Lesbian lives a Collective, 1981. Schenck, Judith, Anne lee, Cindy Friedman, Paula Gottlieb et al. 112p.,, illustrations, poetry, stories. "What Our Mothers Did for Us" by Cindy Friedman, "Seeking My Own Vision: two remembrances by Beth Brant -Making Fry Bread, Moccasins from Home" by Beth Brant.

[2] Common Lives/Lesbian Lives: a lesbian feminist quarterly; #4, Summer 1982. Iowa City: Common lives/Lesbian lives a Collective, 1982. Mushroom, Merrill, Juana Maria Paz, Tee A. Corinne, Paula Gunn Allen, Kitty Tsui, et al. 112p.,, illustrations, poetry, stories, front wrap and spine sunned, rear wrap and top edge of textblock stained, else good first edition trade paperback in pictorial wraps. Magazine.Later mailing of the issue, including a letter apologizing for the admittedly racist bio of Paula Gunn Allen. The editors named her as a Lebanese-American leaving off the fact she was a Laguna Sioux.

[3] Common Lives/Lesbian Lives: a lesbian quarterly; #27, Winter 1988. Iowa City: Common lives/Lesbian lives a Collective, 1988. Villanueva, Chea, Bettianne Shoshone Sien, Lee Lynch, et al. 112p., illustrations, poetry, stories.