The fourth issue of Heresies, "Women's Traditional Arts: The Politics of Aesthetics" (1978) represents the challenges that the Collective was beginning to face - that producing a journal wasn't always aligned with their principles, and the recognition that there are tensions between collaboration and publication: "How could we collectively make a magazine that represented us all? How comfortable were we with each other's voices, with each other's images, with each other's ideas?" (From the Editorial Group)
The Heresies Project serves to curate and analyze Heresies, a pioneering work of feminist art and criticism. This collaborative, student-centered project researches the lives and work of the hundreds of women who were involved in the journal’s publication during the years of feminist activity (1977-1993) and, through an intersectional framework, brings the reading of Heresies into the 21st century.
This recovery, recuperation, and preservation work will include annotated readings of selected essays in Heresies, biographical information and interviews with the women involved in the journal’s publication, and commentary on the feminist context that gave rise to Heresies.
Our goal is to establish a long-running, collaborative, interdisciplinary research project.