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Tuesday, November 26, 2024, at 6 P.M. ET

Sinister Wisdom November Volunteer Hangout

Join Sinister Wisdom for a Zoom volunteer hangout to catch up on life, books, reading, and everything happening at Sinister Wisdom. Register for the hangout on November 26, 2024, at 6 P.M. ET, and come ready to chat, swap stories, and hang out with other cool folks volunteering and interning at Sinister Wisdom.

Password: VOLUNTEER

Tuesday, December 10, 2024, at 7 P.M. ET

A Celebration with Petra Kuppers and Friends: A Queer/Crip Poetry Event

Join Sinister Wisdom and Petra Kuppers, Su Zi, and Heidi Andrea Restrepo Rhodes for a queer/crip poetry event to celebrate Kuppers’s new poetry collection, Diver Beneath the Street. The collection from author, disability culture activist, and performance artist analyzes the entanglement of life and death, joy and horror, natural and artificial processes in lyrical writing through the lenses of feminist, queer, and disability studies. Register for the Zoom event on Tuesday, December 10, 2024 at 7 P.M. ET, and purchase your copy of Diver Beneath the Street.

Password: DIVER

Tuesday, January 21, 2025, at 7 P.M. ET

Launch of Sinister Wisdom 135: Hunger Heart

Celebrate the launch of Sinister Wisdom 135: Hungerheart, an exciting re-publication of Christabel Marshall’s coming-of-age novel. Originally published in 1915 under the pseudonym Christopher St. John, Hungerheart is regarded as the first Catholic lesbian novel written amidst censorship and sexual oppression. Standing apart from other lesbian novels of the fin de siècle and The New Woman Movement, the protagonist’s journey of sapphic spirituality and sexuality isn’t a phase but rather marks the beginning of a lifelong reverence of women. Register for the Zoom event highlighting Marshall’s work on January 21, 2025, at 7 P.M. ET.

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Sunday, February 2, 2025, at 4 P.M. ET

Sinister Wisdom Book Club: Housemates

Join Sinister Wisdom's book club host, Yeva Johnson, author Emma Copley Eisenberg, and fellow readers for an engaging discussion of Housemates. Eisenberg’s coming-of-age queer novel follows housemates, friends, and artists Bernie and Leah as they embark on a three-week road trip across the United States to discover themselves and make sense of the fractured world around them. Register for the Zoom book club on February 2, 2025, at 4 P.M. ET.

Password: HOUSEMATES

Tuesday, February 4, 2025, at 7 P.M. ET

Celebrating S/HE and Remembering the Life and Work of Minnie Bruce Pratt

Join event co-sponsors Sinister Wisdom and Charis Books & More to celebrate the publication of S/HE by Minnie Bruce Pratt as a Sapphic Classic, with readings from the book done by a range of people who love the book and Pratt’s work. We will have a special moment to celebrate and remember Minnie Bruce and her life and legacy. Register for the Zoom event on February 4, 2025, at 7 P.M. ET.

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Tuesday, February 18, 2025, at 7 P.M. ET

More Love!: Lesbian and Feminist Publishing in the 2000s and 2010s

Do not believe the myth that feminist and lesbian publishing stopped after the 1990s! Join Julie R. Enszer from Sinister Wisdom and Marisa Crawford, curator of Weird Sister, the book and the blog, along with other special guests, including Carmen Rios from Autostraddle, Eesha Pandit of the Crunk Feminist Collective, Alyse Knorr from Switchback Books, and Stephanie Andrea Allen from BLF Press, to celebrate lesbian and feminist publishing in the 21st century. Sinister Wisdom is proud to continue these conversations about the vibrant lesbian and feminist publishing scenes from the past—and continuing today. Register for the Zoom event on February 18, 2025, at 7 P.M. ET.

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Sunday, March 2, 2025, at 7 P.M. ET

Come Out to the Bar with Sinister Wisdom!

Sinister Wisdom is working on a special project for the spring. More details about the project will be provided soon, but for now, you are invited to register for a special celebration on Zoom on March 2, 2025, at 7 P.M. ET. Think of it as spending Sunday night at a lesbian bar, queer party, and/or trans hang out with all of your friends from Sinister Wisdom. Stay tuned for more information, but mark the date on your calendar—you will not want to miss this event!

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Sunday, March 9, 2025, at 4 P.M. ET

Sinister Wisdom Book Club: Pomegranate

Join author Helen Elaine Lee, Sinister Wisdom's book club host, Yeva Johnson, and fellow readers for an engaging discussion of Pomegranate. A gripping and powerful novel of healing, redemption, and love, Pomegranate follows a queer Black woman who works to stay clean, regain custody of her children, and heal after being released from prison. Register for the Zoom book club on March 9, 2025, at 4 P.M. ET.

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Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at 7 P.M. ET

Launch of Sinister Wisdom 136: Icons–Past and Present

Celebrate the launch of Sinister Wisdom 136: Icons–Past and Present, a tribute to past and present lesbian and feminist icons. The event, co-sponsored by Charis Books & More, will feature readings by Susan Sherman, Shariananda Adamz, Dartricia Rollins, and Linda Bryant, as well as a slide show of some of the amazing artwork from this issue. Join Sinister Wisdom for our final event of the season, a celebration of lesbian and queer women’s icons that you don’t want to miss. Register for the Zoom event on April 22, 2025, at 7 P.M. ET.

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