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				<title>From the Lesbian Issue Collective</title>
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					<persName>Eowyn Andres</persName>
					<resp>Editor (2024-Present)</resp>
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					<persName>Haley Beardsley</persName>
					<resp>Editor (2021-2024)</resp>
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					<persName>Lyndon Beier</persName>
					<resp>Editor (2023-Present)</resp>
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					<persName>Erica Delsandro</persName>
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					<persName>Mia DeRoco</persName>
					<resp>Editor (2023-Present)</resp>
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					<persName>Margaret Hunter</persName>
					<resp>Editor (2021-2024)</resp>
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					<persName>Diane Jakacki</persName>
					<resp>Invesigator, encoder</resp>
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					<persName>Sophie McQuaide</persName>
					<resp>Editor (2021-2023)</resp>
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					<persName>Olivia Martin</persName>
					<resp>Editor, encoder (2021)</resp>
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					<persName>Zoha Nadeer</persName>
					<resp>Editor (2022-2023)</resp>
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					<persName>Bri Perea</persName>
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					<persName>Carrie Pirmann</persName>
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					<persName>Valeria Riley</persName>
					<resp>Editor (2024-Present)</resp>
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					<persName>Ricky Rodriguez</persName>
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					<persName>Valeria Riley</persName>
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					<persName>Olivia Wychock</persName>
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				<funder>Bucknell University Humanities Center</funder>
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					This issue of Heresies was edited, designed, and put together by lesbians, four of whom are members of the Heresies collective. All
					contributors to the issue are lesbians. The Collective statement appears below; individual statements by the editors appear on pages
					Third issue collective: Cunthia Carr, Betsy Crowell, Betsy Damon, Rose Fichtenholtz, Louise Fshman, Su Friedrich,
					Harmony klammond., Marty Pottenger, Amy Silman, Christine Wade, Kathy Webster.
				
				
					This issue of Heresies arises out of our need to challenge the heritage of secrecy, silence, and isolation
					which has been a necessity for lesbians who make art.
					Because we have no recognizable community with a
					sense of history, we seek to begin one by affirming and
					making visible the excellence of our efforts. As lesbians,
					we choose to create an issue devoted exclusively to work
					by lesbians in the context of a feminist publication. We
					understand that in this decision there exists an implicit
					danger of tokenism: that this may be the only issue of
					Heresies in which a substantial amount of lesbian material will appear. At the same time, the decision reflects
					our belief that feminist aesthetics and politics would not
					exist and willnot continue to develop without the vision
					and energy of women whose sole commitment is to
					women.
				
				
					Perhaps our greatest challenge as a collective has been
					to remain faithful to the truth of our experience, its
					beauty and its pain, as we present it to an audience
					which has punished us for our verv existence within it.
					Because of our position within a predominately heterosexual feminist journal, we had to struggle against the
					desire to make the definitive lesbian art issue. We resisted this pressure and created an issue which quite
					frankly reflects the volitical and esthetic bias of the majority of the collective. We share no single political position, vet biases which informed our choice of material
					were certainly conditioned by the fact that we are all
					lesbians. white, college-educated, and mostly middle
					clas women who live in New York and have a background in the arts. Unique constraints governed our
					choice of selections: the unavailability of material by
					lesbians not ready to come out, or not willing to participate in a heterosexual journal; our own protectiveness
					dangerous, either because it presented ideas offensive to
					which forced us to exclude material which we saw as
					our personal experience, or presented ideas in an undeveloped manner, or because it invaded our privacy in
					such a way as to expose us to abuse and misunderstanding. In each and everv instance in the selection of work,
					we insisted on a clear and responsible exposition of
					ideas.
				
				
					The difficult process of selection of material always
					took us to a confrontation with our vulnerability, self-doubt, confusion and personal pain. We wish to thank
					the hundreds of contributors who, by submitting their
					work, risked a similar difficulty. It is clear to us that
					lesbians have merely begun an exploration of their
					unique experience throuch making and talking about
					their art.
				
				
					An important responsibility rests with lesbians and
					with the feminist community; to vigorously seek out
					and publish lesbian art work in lesbian publications and
					in feminist journals such as Heresies. Without this effort, a feminist world view cannot be created.
				
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					HERESIES is an idea-oriented journal devoted to the examination of art and politics from a feminist perspective. We believe that
					what is commonly called art can have a political impact, and that in the making of art and of all cultural artifacts our identities as
					women play a distinct role. We hope that HERESIES wil stimulate dialogue around radical political and aesthetic theory, encourage
					the writing of the history of femina saviens, and generate neu creative energies among women. It will be a place where diversity can be
					articulated. We are committedto the broadening of the definition and function of art.
					HERESIES is structured as a collective of feminists, some of whom are also socialists, marxists, lesbian feminists or anarchists;
					our fields include painting, sculpture, writing, anthropology, literature, performance art history, architecture and filmmaking, While
					the themes of the individual issues will be determined by the collective, each isue will have a different editorial staff made up of
					women who want to work on that issue as well as members of the collective. Proposals for issues may be conceived and presented to
					the HERESIES Collective by groups of women not associated with the collective. Each issue will take a diferent visual form, chosen by
					the group responsible. HERESIES will try to be accountable to and in touch with the international feminist community. An open
					evaluation meeting will be held after the appearance of each issue. Themes will be announced well in advance in order to collect
					material from many sources. (See inside of back cover for list of projected isues.) Posibly satellite pamphlets and broadsides will be
					produced continuing the discussion of each central theme.
				
				
					As women, we are aware that historically the connections between our lives, our arts and our ideas have been suppressed. Once
					these connections are clarified they can function as a means to dissolve the alienation between artist and audience, and to understand
					the relationship between art and politics, work and workers. As a step toward a demystification of art, we reject the standard relation-
					ship of criticism to art within the present system, which has often become the relationship of advertiser to product. We will not
					advertise a new set of genius-products just because they are made by women. We are not commited to any particular style or
					aesthetic, nor to the competitive mentality that pervades the art world. Our view of feminism is one of process and change, and we feel
					that in the proces of this dialogue we can foster a change inthe meaning of art.
				
				
					THE COLLECTIVE. Ida Applebroog, Patsy Beckert, Joan Braderman, Mary Beth Edelson, Su Friedrich, Janet Froelich, Harmony
					Hammond. Sue Heinemann, Elizabeth Hess, Joyee Kozloff. Arlene Ladden, Lucy Lippard. Marty Pottenger, Miriam Schapiro, Amy
					Sillman, Joan Snyder, Elke Solomon, Pat Steir, May Stevens, Susana Torre, Elizabeth Weatherford, Sally Webster, Nina Yankowitz.
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