Inaugural issue of Journal 188, edited by Meredith Allen, Joan Ratajack, and Lynette Diaz. Contents include: "Cutting," by D. Travers Scott; "Invisible Girls," by Barbara Seyda; "(excerpt from) The Double Standard," by Kathe Burkhart; "Poetry," by Kathleen McShane, John Hosford, Robert Monda, Nancy Taylor, Leslie Ladds, Catherine Jackson; and "Art," by Jude Schwendenwien, Chuck Agro, Joel Peter Johnson, Ebon Fisher, Lisa Haney, Terry Corgey, Susan Cowles, Robin Locke Monda, Alfred Stuart, Carol Sun, Doug Aitken, Rebecca Bailen, Guerrilla Girls, Joyce Roeutter, Madonna Dunbar, Yael Routtenberg, Kerr & Malley, and Deborah Whitney; and "Bios. ... [details]
Sixteen cutting-edge performance artists discuss critical questions such as: how can you have a revolutionary feminism that encompasses wild sex, humor, beauty and spirituality plus radical politics? How can you have a powerful movement for social change that's inclusionary - not exclusionary? How is language based on dualisms (male/female, gay/straight, black/white, mind/body, personal/political) obstructing out visualization of a "better world"? [details]