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Dear friends of TRIVIA: Voices of Feminism

I have decided it's time to unload the cartons of Trivia: A Journal of

Ideas that remain in my garage and am now offering them to you

readers of online Trivia at rock-bottom prices.

Trivia: A Journal of Ideas, the foresister of Trivia: Voices of

Feminism , was born in 1982 in Western Massachusetts and went onto become an international, award-winning publication that enduredfor over a decade. Though some articles have aged better thanothers, there are gems in each issue and much of the writing, in itsraw passion and boldness of thought, is unlike anything publishedbefore or since.

I would like to see these issues get out of my garage and into theworld!

a brief list of some of the writers/artists featured in these issues:Paula Gunn Allen, Gloria Anzaldua, Jeffner Allen, Louky Bersianik,Nicole Brossard, Jane Caputi, Michele Causse, Kim Chernin, MaryDaly, Martha Fleming, Heide Gottner-Abendroth, Lyne Lapointe, LeeMaracle, Mary Meigs, Barbara Mor, Erin Moure, Marlene Norbese

Philip, Ruthann Robson, Gail Scott, Verena Stefan, Nancy Spero,Renate Stendhal, Christina Thurmer-Rohr, Betsy Warland

A Table of Contents for each issue is attached.

There are 22 issues in all. Issues 1 to 2 are out of print, but can bexeroxed at a price of $5 each.

Prices are as follows:Single issues: $5 includes postage and handling to anywhere in theU.S. or Canadaup to 5 issues $12 "up to 10 issues $20 "up to 15 issues $26 "full set of 20 issues(3-22) $30 "



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then send check made out to me;Lise Weil1028 Laurier E.Montreal QC H2J 1G6



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TRIVIA: A JOURNAL OF IDEAS

1982-1995

Issue1,Fall1982[Issues1-18areeditedbyLiseWeilandaseries

ofassociateandassistanteditors.Issue12iseditedbyLinda

Nelson] • Janice Raymond, A Genealogy of Female Friendship • Natalia Malachowskaja, Terra Incognita: On Women and Writing

• Kate Clinton, Making Light: Notes on Feminist Humor • Anne G. Dellenbaugh, She Who Is and Is Not Yet: An Essay on Parthenogenesis

• H. Patricia Hynes, Active Women in Passive '80 • Kathleen Barry, "Sadomasochism": The New Backlash to Feminism

• Bonnie St. Andrews, Trivial Lives: Nelly Sachs: The Enduring Epitaph

Issue2,Spring1983 • Andrea Dworkin, Antifeminism • Cynthia Rich, The Women in the Tower

• Kathy Newman, Re-membering an Interrupted Conversation: The Mother/VirginSplit

• Andrée M. Collard, Rape of the Wild • Denise D. Connors, Trivial Lives: Florence Nightingale, A Radical Genius Re-

membered • Lise Weil, In Review: The Color Purple, by Alice Walker

Issue3,Fall1983 • Debbie Alicen, Intertextuality: The Language of Lesbian Relationships

• Camille Norton, "Tomb-Breakers": The Case Against Willa Cather

• Mary Daly, On Lust and the Lusty • Gloria F. Orenstein, Towards a Bifocal Vision in Surrealist Ethics

• Kathy Newman, Trivial Lives: Susan Glaspell and Trifles

Issue4,Spring1984 • Jeffner Allen, Looking at Our Blood: A Lesbian Response to Men's Terrorization

of Women

• Erika Wisselinck, Anna – One Day in the Life of an Old Woman • Nancy Breeze, Who's Going To Rock the Petri Dish? For Feminists Who Have

Considered Parthenogenesis When the Movement Is Not Enough • Elizabeth Denny, Daughters of Harpalyce: Incest and Myth



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• Katherine Kleitz, Madame Matisse and the Roman Ruins • Stephanie A. Demetrakopoulos, Colette, Clairvoyance, and the Medium asSibyl:

Another Step Towards a Female Metaphysics • Camille Norton, Trivial Lives: The Naming of George Eliot

• Pauline E. Kayes, In Review: The Mirror Dance: Identity in a Women's

Community, by Susan Krieger

Issue5,Fall1984 • Nicole Brossard, From Radical to Integral

• Harriet Ellenberger, The Dream Is the Bridge: In Search of Lesbian Theatre

• Jane Meyerding, On Nonviolence and Feminism • Bonnie St. Andrews, Trivial Lives: Selma Lagerlöf

• Deirdre Neilen, In Review: Teaching a Stone To Talk, by Annie Dillard • Jane Caputi, In Review: Pure Lust: Elemental Feminist Philosophy, by Mary Daly

• Hannah Quillet, Gadfly to the Sacred Cows

Issue6,Winter1985 • Emily Erwin Culpepper, Simone de Beauvoir and the Revolt of the Symbols

• Tremor, The Hundredth Lezzie

• Luce Irigaray, Any Theory of the "Subject" Has Always Been Appropriated by the"Masculine

• Juliet A. Langley, Audacious Fancies: A Collection of Letters from Charlotte Perkins Gilman to Martha Luther

• Ruthann Robson, A Son: Nightmares and Dreams of a Radical Feminist • Lise Weil, Trivial Lives: Christa Wolf and Cassandra

Issue7,Summer1985 • Lise Weil, Imaging Our Freedom: Thoughts on the Pornography Debate

• Andrea Dworkin, Against the Male Flood: Censorship, Pornography, and Equality

• Louky Bersianik, Agenesias of the Old World • Baba Copper, The View from Over the Hill: Notes on Ageism Between Lesbians

• Heide Göttner-Abendroth, Thou Gaia Art I: Matriarchal Mythology in Former Times and Today

• Erika Wisselinck, Trivial Lives: Notes from a Death Cell

Issue8,Winter1986 • Nicole Brossard, Access to Writing: Ritual of the Written Word • Luisah Teish, She Who Whispers



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• Jane Caputi, In Review: This Is About Incest, by Margaret Randall • Karen Elias, In Review: Forbidden Fruit: On the Relationship Between Women

and Knowledge in Doris Lessing, Selma Lagerlöf,• Kate Chopin, Margaret Atwood, by Bonnie St. Andrews

• Lise Weil, In Review: Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation,

by Sonia Johnson

Issue12,Spring1988 • Margaret Lew, Relocating the Hedge Transforms the House: Monique Wittig and

Pueblo Architecture

• Lou Robinson, Menstrual Extraction: A Mystery • Nicole Brossard, Kind Skin My Mind

• Jewelle Gomez, Imagine a Lesbian . . . a Black Lesbian . . . • Christina Thürmer-Rohr, From Deception to Un-Deception: On the Complicity of

Women • Anne G. Dellenbaugh, In and Out of Hell: Where Desire Meets Terror • Gloria F. Orenstein, Trivial Lives: Interview with the Shaman of Samiland: The

Methodology of the Marvelous

• Linda L. Nelson, In Review: A Restricted Country, by Joan Nestle

Issue13,Fall1988Special issue:TheThirdInternationalFeminist

BookFair,PartI • Lise Weil, Memory/Transgression: Women Writing in Québec

• Louise Cotnoir, Québec Women's Writing: A Space-In-Between Theory and

Fiction

• Gail Scott, A Feminist at the Carnival • Lou Robinson, "our litanies, our transfusions": After Reading Heroine by Gail

Scott

• Nicole Brossard, Memory: Hologram of Desire • Shirley Hartwell, Words Speaking Body Memory: After Reading Don't: A

Woman's Word, by Elly Danica • Mary Meigs, Memories of Age

• Erin Mouré, Poetry, Memory, and the Polis• Michèle Causse, Interview: For a Sea of Women and L'Interloquée

• Betsy Warland, the breasts refuse • Alice Parker, In Review: The Aerial Letter, by Nicole Brossard

Issue14,Spring1989SpecialIssue:TheThirdInternational

FeministBookFair,PartII • Linda Nelson and Lise Weil, Language/Difference: Writing in Tongues

• Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, I Write Le Body Bilingual: a love affair-e innomad's land

• Jeannette C. Armstrong, Cultural Robbery, Imperialism: Voices of Native Women



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• Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, Conversations at the Book Fair with Gloria Anzaldúa and Lee Maracle

• Gloria Anzaldúa, Border Crossings • Marion Kraft, Between Aversion, Alibi and Acknowledgement: White Feminism

and Black Women's Literature in Germany •

Catherine Gonnard, Interview with Michèle Causse • Ruthann Robson, Nightshade: After Reading Trivia 13• Verena Stefan, Literally Dreaming

• Jewelle L. Gomez, In Review: Not Vanishing, by Chrystos • Linda L. Nelson, After Reading Borderlands/La Frontera, by Gloria Anzaldúa

Issue15,Fall1989 • Ruthann Robson, Historicity

• Carol LeMasters, S/M and the Violence of Desire

• Christina Thürmer-Rohr, Turning Thoughts/Turning Away • Carolyn Gage, No Dobermans Allowed: A Dramatic Argument for Separatist

Theater • Amy Elman, Sexual Subordination and State Intervention: Lessons for Feminists

from the Nazi State • Joan Chevalier, Notes on the Weather

• Camille Norton, The Music of Wolves: After Reading Spaces Like Stairs, by Gail Scott

• Laurel Rust, Trivial Lives: Anna, the Moon and the Stars

Issue16/17,Fall1990SpecialDoubleIssue:BreakingForms • Kirsten Backstrom, Rogue • Marlene Nourbese Philip, The Absence of Writing, or How I Almost Became a Spy

and Universal Grammar • Dyana Werden, Women's Languaging: An Image/Word Conjunction

• Jane Caputi, Interview with Paula Gunn Allen • Shirley Hartwell, The Lie of the Feminist Right Wing Ethic

• Rena Rosenwasser, Berlin Nights • Jennifer Weston, "Thinking in Things": A Women's Symbol Language

• Susanna J. Sturgis, Mimi's Revenge • Lee Maracle, Nobody Home

• Sheila Pepe, To Soar: Interview with Nancy Spero • Lou Robinson, Rapport • Toni Mirosevich, Do Muscles Have Memories? • Carolyn Gage, Louisa May Incest: A One-Act Play

Issue18,Fall1991SpecialIssue:Collaboration • Lise Weil, Linda Nelson, Kay Parkhurst, and Erin J. Rice, "The Knots and Lines

Between Us": an editorial in four voices



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• Christine Ianieri and Susan Stinson, Rough Fat • Kathryn Kirk, Linda Nelson, and Lise Weil, Interview with Martha Fleming and

Lyne Lapointe • Gillian Hanscombe and Suniti Namjoshi, Heavenly Enough

• Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland, Subject to Change •

Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal, Between Intimacy and Passion, aCollaboration • Lise Weil, Lowering the Case: After Reading Sex and Other Sacred Games, by

Kim Chernin and Renate Stendhal • Joli Sandoz, The Stakes of the Game: After Reading Grey Is the

• Color of Hope, by Irina Ratushinskaya

Issue19,Spring1992[Issues19-22areeditedbyKayParkhurst

andErinRice] • Lorrie Sprecher, Lesbian Crimes Against the State

• Lou Robinson and Ellen Zweig, Centrifugal nineteen • Lee Maracle, The Lost Days of Columbus

• Barbara Mor, aWoman Drums on MEN and Letters • Anne Witten, Blue Water

• Anne Witten with Martha Mickles, Speaking About My Life • Michèle Causse and Nicole Brossard, Correspondance, 1986

• Concetta Principe, March Cantos • Monica Sjöö, The New World Order

• Robin Parks, Meditations on Form • CB Sundance, Strabismus: A Trivial Challenge

• Helen Barolini, Trivial Lives: Bianca, the Gulf War, Saroyan, and Me • Mary Meigs, After Reading Look Me in the Eye: Old Women, Aging and Ageism,

by Barbara Macdonald with Cynthia Rich • Ruth West, Explanation of Thea's Tarot

Issue20,1992"10Years:ARetrospective" • Ruthann Robson, authenticity and excerpt from historicity

• Susanne de Lotbinière-Harwood, Manu Opera: Fragments of a Lovers' Dis-Course and excerpt from I Write Le Body Bilingual

• Linda Nelson, What They Have Left • Linda Nelson and Lise Weil, excerpt from Language/Difference: Writing in

Tongues • Lise Weil and Erin Rice, Talking Eds

• Harriet Ellenberger, Communique and excerpt from The Dream Is the Bridge • I. Rose, Report and excerpt from A Passion for Revolution

• Rena Rosenwasser, HER forwards and Berlin Nights • Lise Weil, Conversation with Michèle Causse

• Michèle Causse, excerpt from For a Sea of Women



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• Anne G. Dellenbaugh, Of a Wild Kind and excerpt from She Who Is and Is Not Yet

• Betsy Warland, excerpt from The Bat Had Blue Eyes • Betsy Warland and Daphne Marlatt, excerpt from Subject to Change

• Daphne Marlatt, Salvaging: The Subversion of Mainstream Culture in

Contemporary Feminist Writing • Leah Halper, Trivial Lives: The Tiger Reminds Me of Myself • Barbara Mor, the mirrors of her ice/eyes: After Reading Vagabonding: Feminist

Thinking Cut Loose, by Christina Thürmer-Rohr (Part I)

Issue21,1993 • Ann Stokes, This Fresco Stuns Me

• Patricia Webb, A Benign Case of Writing Flu • Myrna Elana, Differently

• The Kiss and Tell Collective, Artists Talk: An Interview with the Kiss and Tell

Collective • Penelope J. Engelbrecht, Re/viewing Kathy Acker • Ann Veronica Simon, Friendship, 1989 and Friendship, 1990

• Naomi Riches, Crop Circles • Lorraine Schein, Angel of Anarchy

• Mykel Johnson, Wanting To Be Indian • Louie Galloway, Crone Comes Calling on Zus!

• Jennifer Drake, Four Poems • Liz Waldner, Thinking of Petra Kelly

• Nancy Goldhar, After Viewing: Correspondences • Cara J. MariAnna, The Seven Mythic Cycles of Thelma and Louise

• Barbara Mor, the mirrors of her ice/eyes: After Reading Vagabonding: FeministThinking Cut Loose, by Christina Thürmer-Rohr (Part II)

Issue22,1995 PartI:"AjournalofRejectedIdeas"

• Rita Reese, Skin

• Marilyn Murphy, The Lesbian as Hero • Jennifer Kramer, The Method of Exhaustion

• Rena Rosenwasser and Kate Delos, Hand • Slick Harris, Shrink Rap

• Judith K. Witherow, Goddess or Godawful? An Interview with Camille Paglia • Diana L. Fowlkes, Descending on Heptonstall: Between Sylvia Plath and the

Yorkshire Ripper • Linda Hooper, Ain't Love a Drag

• Eunice Scarfe, Pillar of Salt: The Song of Miriam • Linda A. Bell, Do You, or Does Someone You Know, Have Vaginal Fortitude?

• Amani Kali Obike, athene of androgyny and the immortal • Lynne Taetzsch, On My Way to Sparrow's



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Part2:"OurRegularlyScheduledProgram" • Lilian Friedberg, Undine's Valediction: A Translation of the Story by Ingeborg

Bachmann and A Liberal Translation of Bachmann's "Undine Geht": Transposing

Literature in the Spirit of a Common Language and In the Society of the Dead Poet

• Charlotte Templin, Webs and Goddesses: The Art of Cristina Biaggi

• Jodi Lundgren, Ini-SHE-ating & Re-Acting; or, What Happened When I Hugged Her

• Erin Rice and Trystan Skeigh, Pillow Talk: An Interview with Buddhist Editor Helen Tworkov

• Barbara Mor, the mirrors of her ice/eyes: After Reading Vagabonding: FeministThinking Cut Loose, by Christina Thürmer-Rohr (Part III)

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