What does 2025 hold for you? Hopefully, it will be filled with connections to the Earth and many opportunities to look at Sinister Wisdom’s gorgeous monthly calendar celebrating the theme of Out Dykes, Outside! and lifting up lesbian visual art and culture.

About the 2025 Calendar:

With inspiration from past issues including Sinister Wisdom 63: Lesbians and Nature and Sinister Wisdom 77: Environmental Issues, Lesbian Concerns, this calendar explores the unique relationships we as lesbians and queer people share with the Earth. What profound connections do we share with the rivers, oceans, mountains, and deserts of our planet? With the animals and plants who share the natural world with us? How do we commune with nature? How does this affect us spiritually? Creatively? As a community? How does this inspire us to continue protecting and honoring the Earth?

Throughout the curatorial process, Bell was interested in bringing together queer and lesbian artists of a range of backgrounds, experiences, mediums, and relationships with the natural world. The calendar features contributions from the following artists: Jillian Abir MacMaster, Vani Aguilar, Alexa Alexiades, Cass Arrington, Ree Artemisia, Pico del Hierro-Villa, Genevieve Kuzak, Lenn Keller, Josie Licavoli, Jenny Irene Miller, MJ Sanqui, Willa Smart, Alejandra Zamudio, and zana.

The image on the cover comes from Sinister Wisdom 63: Lesbians and Nature. Sinister Wisdom published the issue in the winter of 2004-2005, and it was edited by Fran Day. The image is untitled and was created by zana, a self-described "Jewish, disabled, landdyke." It was redrawn and reinterpreted by Bell for the 2025 Calendar and Badge.

We hope you’ll spend 2025 reflecting on your relationship with the natural world, putting out new roots, and cultivating new connections. Like a garden, we hope we bloom together, creating new visions for our communities and ourselves.