Welcome to Wild Shrew Literary Review! 📖✒️

A project of Sinister Wisdom, Wild Shrew Literary Review (WSLR) publishes online book reviews. While WSLR is book-focused, we are open to accepting reviews of other media such as films, art exhibits, and author Q&As. (1/2)

Happening tonight!

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Available for pre-order!
The Swagger anthology is a celebration of the butch experience.

Curated by Rae Theodore (she/they) 🌈 Edited by @nattyburns

📣Upcoming Event: 50 Years of Combahee - A Conversation w/ DemitaFrazier & Barbara Smith

🗓️: Wednesday, May 22
⏰: 6:30 PM EDT
📍: Zoom
🔗: bit.ly/Combahee50

📣The event will be recorded. ASL interpretation will be provided.

#blackwomenradicals   #50YearsofCombahee

Nonfiction for #JewishAmericanHeritageMonth :

A STURDY YES OF A PEOPLE (✨Sinister Wisdom✨) features Joan Nestle’s “persistent involvement in liberation movements, LGBTQ histories, erotic writing, and archives” that document LGBTQ lives. sinisterwisdom.org/joannestle

MY takeover week flew by! For my last post, here are five of my favorite recent book that center lesbian life. Thanks for tagging along with me on this trip of archival nostalgia. I hope you felt my love for lesbian life! And for all things @sinisterwisdom xo, mairead sullivan

The Lesbian Avengers threw great parties! Source: @lesbianherstoryarchives holdings of @lesbian_avengers. - post by @msullivanphd #DykeParties #Lesbian Avengers #Lesbian HerstoryArchives #Lesbian 90s #Lesbian #WeRecruit

In the summer of 2014, I traveled to the Atlanta Feminist Alliance Periodicals Archive at the Sally Bingham Center for Women's History and Culture at Duke University. - mairead sullivan #LesbianDeath #lesbian #feminist #LesbianFeminist #SallyBinghamCenter #AtlantaFeministAlliance

The WCRC is still going strong today advocating for and supportin people touched by cancer. Jackie Winnow Papers, GLBT Historical Society, San Francisco, CA. Accessed: 5 Feb 2014. #JackieWinnow #LesbianHealth #LesbianCancer #LesbianBreastCancer #HIV /AIDS #LesbianAidsActivist

I'm Mairead Sullivan (mairead sullivan) and I am taking over the Sinister Wisdom social media channels this week. Willshare: archival findings from writing my book, #LesbianDeath , my love for the HQ section of academic libraries, and my appreciation for #SinisterWisdom .

Check out this lovely Audre Lorde poem from the Sinister Wisdom archive (fall 1976)! -Alyse #lesbian #lesbian literature #audrelorde #lorde

Love this cover art from 1979! Makes me want to wear tails. -Alyse #lesbian #lesbian literature

Good news from Bon Appétit magazine this week! -Alyse #lesbian #lesbian bars #lesbian bar

Join us as we launch a new edition of Judy Grahn’s landmark lesbian literary history! This event will feature Judy and six contemporary writers responding to her work. -Alyse #lesbian #lesbian literature #judygrahn

Today, we honor all transgender people who are no longer with us, lost to hate violence, suicide, and the immense hardships of systemic oppression. #transgender #transgender dayofremembrance

Hello, Sinister Wisdom fans! My name is Alyse Knorr, and I’m very excited to be taking over Sinister Wisdom’s feeds this week! I’m a longtime lover of all things lesbian literature, especially poetry. Stay tuned for more! -Alyse
#lesbian #queerliterature