Sinister Wisdom is a multicultural lesbian literary & art journal that publishes four issues each year. Publishing since 1976, Sinister Wisdom works to create a multicultural, multi-class lesbian space. Sinister Wisdom seeks to open, consider and advance the exploration of lesbian community issues. Sinister Wisdom recognizes the power of language to reflect our diverse experiences and to enhance our ability to develop critical judgment as lesbians evaluating our community and our world.

Sinister Wisdom 112: Moon and Cormorant features an eclectic array of contemporary poetry, prose, and art by lesbians from around the world, including new work by: Marilyn Hacker Rita Mookerjee Christina M. Wells Mie Astrup Jensen Julie Weiss Chanice Cruz Emel Karakozak Lila Tziona Kaye Lin Kuphal and a tribute to writer and editor Michelle Cliff.

Sinister Wisdom 111: Golden Mermaids features some of the best work from lesbian writers and artists working today. This issue of Sinister Wisdom offers testimony of lesbian lives today; they are a whisper and a promise to a future when lesbians are interested in reading the stories from these pages.
Featured writers and artists include: Tai Farnsworth Savannah Slone Lynette Yetter Lahl SarDyke Lynn Martin Kinnery Chaparrel Kai Coggin Lee Lynch Nora Beck Patty Willis Deborah Miranda Sara Koppel and many more!

Sinister Wisdom 110: Dump Trump features serious, satirical, and humorous writing in varied genres and forms, e.g., email correspondence, essay, poetry, short fiction, blog entries, novel excerpt, and interview—all reflecting lesbian ideas, notions, and actions of/for what it will take to unseat the Trump regime.
This issue of Sinister Wisdom emphasizes the ways in which struggle is a lifelong vision and commitment to realizing a better world, even if we argue that the Trump era represents a particularly urgent call to action. And to echo Morgan Gwenwald, lesbians have been doing this work a long time. As always, we include a range of lesbians/ queer voices of all races, ethnicities, ages, abilities, religions, and gender identities. We explore what Trump politics has meant to us as lesbians/queers, document its chronology, reflect on historical resistance, and commemorate the power of lesbian/queer art and activism against a hostile state. And finally this issue is an issue against forgetting that, lesbian resistance is, as Joan Nestle says, older than the Trump era and will last longer.
Featured writers include: Joan Nestle Anne Maguire Lorrie Sprecher Claire Bond Potter Sarah Schulman Adriana de Luiza Jewelle L. Gomez Denise Conca Blanche McCrary Boyd and many others.

Sinister Wisdom 109: Hot Spots explores the Southern spaces where lesbians gathered and organized during the past forty years. The ways that lesbians came together during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s were many and varied. There was no social media, no high-speed communication. Lesbians relied on the US Post Office, telephones, and face-to-face contact. Public advertising such as newspaper ads, flyers, and leaflets, had to be done carefully and discreetly. Learning about events of the past gives templates by which to formulate and support activism in the present and future. Oppression, restriction, discrimination, and disempowerment can take many forms, some more insidious than others, and activism can be especially difficult when one is a member of a despised minority that also is criminalized. Sometimes the most we can do is be ourselves and live the truth in our lives.
This issue of Sinister Wisdom , fourth in our series of special issues covering lesbian-feminist activism in the late twentieth-century South, focuses on lesbian gathering places and ways that lesbians created community while continuing activism.

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Nature Study On Lonesome Island

2017 English 164 pages Hardcover, 20 x 27 cm ISBN 9788867492886

Karen Kelly, Fabian Schöneich, and Barbara Schroeder, eds. Texts by Yve-Alain Bois and Manuela Ammer, interview by Fabian Schöneich.

Fabian Shöneich: “What do you think abstraction offers today?” Amy Sillman: “OMG!” This book provides an overview of American artist Amy Sillman’s most recent bodies of work, including diagrams, drawings, animations, sculpture, and large-scale abstractions that combine painting with digital prints on canvas, shown serially in panoramic installations. Layering and dynamic movement pervades these works, whose concerns shift between the tragic-comic and the vexed histories and techniques of painting. Co-published with Portikus, Frankfurt, and Dancing Foxes, New York

Amy Sillman: The All-over

Dean Daderko speaks with Elaine Reichek about the art, life and legacy of Nicolas Moufarrege.
Nicolas Moufarrege (1947–1985) was an artist, art critic and curator who died of AIDS related complication at the age of thirty-six. During his lifetime, he was best known for being a critical champion of the East Village art scene. He was born in Egypt, lived in Beirut and Paris, before moving to New York. He molded a complex mixture of cultures into a distinct sensibility - his idiosyncratic embroidered works confirms that he deserves to be remembered for his art.
Dean Daderko is curator at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston who curated Nicolas Moufarrege's art into his 2008 Visual AIDS exhibition "Side X Side."
Elaine Reichek is a fiber-based artist based in New York City who was close friends with Nicolas Moufarrege during his lifetime.
Foreword by LJ Roberts. Afterword by Sur Rodney.
Featuring artwork by Nicolas Moufarrege.
DUETS is a series of publications that pairs artists, activists, writers, and thinkers in dialogues about their creative practices and current social issues around HIV/AIDS.
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DUETS: Dean Daderko & Elaine Reichek In Conversation on Nicolas Moufarrege
72 pp, 29 color images, perfect bound
Softcover, 7.5” x 5.5”
Published by Visual AIDS, September 2016

Duets: Dean Daderko & Elaine Reichek In Conversation On Nicolas Moufarrege

This book is about homes that are larger than

A surfing institution based in San Francisco, Silver Lake and Venice Beach.

Mollusk Surf Shop

Small Homes, The Right Size

West Street
West Street is an accordion fold artist's book that combines Emily Roysdon's recent photographic work with images from the estate of Alvin Baltrop. The setting for both sets of photographs is the deteriorating industrial architecture of the Hudson River piers. Roysdon views this book as part of her ongoing interest in the cultural history of the piers and an opportunity to reflect on Baltrop's spectacular, and unheralded oeuvre of photographs. Along with the collection of folding images, the book contains a text by Roysdon as an extended meditation on these ideas that reverberate through the photographic pairing and the historic context of the Baltrop works.
West Street limited edition of 400 20 special editions (with a solar plate etching printed by Marina Ancona/ 10 Grand Press) available at printedmatter.org
Published on the occasion of Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair and the Contemporary Artists’ Books Conference at MoMA PS1, November 4-7, 2010.
coordinated by: David Senior Production by: David Senior & Carl Williamson design by: Circle & Square Design and Emily Roysdon

West Street

Cajsa von Zeipel March 2015
Pro Anatomy is the first catalog of Swedish artist Cajsa von Zeipel’s work from 2007 to 2015. Divided into three parts, the book presents the artist’s obsession with her own body as it relates to her diverse practice, from her signature sculptures to her most recent work, 1:1, a project that represents a new direction for the artist in her engagement with the human form. Using a CAT scan of her body, von Zeipel 3D-printed a replica of her own skeleton, continuing her investigation into the body’s aesthetic—and scientific—complexities when it is stripped to muscle and bones. Whereas much of her work has dealt with the surface of the body, 1:1 cuts to the bone.
Featuring new essays by writers Andrew Durbin, Chris Ford, Stefanie Hessler, Sarah Nicole Prickett, and Lyndsy Welgos, Pro Anatomy also includes an introductory text by the artist as well as A-Z, a poetic script for a 2009 sound piece. In her introduction to the book, “Bad Sad Mad Glad,” the artist writes intimately about her practice, covering her range of interests, from installation work and classical sculpture to Tom of Finland and new media. “I have always fed on the border,” she writes, “where things are simultaneously appealing and scary—works that move from the attractive to the repulsive, grotesque, and studied.” Von Zeipel’s sculpture deals directly with the cosmetic and social discourses that influence how the body is imaged and actualized. In Pro Anatomy, she introduces the myth of Narcissus as integral to how she conceptualizes her practice. In doing so, von Zeipel presents her work as it relates—and responds—to the ways our bodies are idealized, altered, and presented in life and in media. Threading in images from a CAT scan of her body throughout the book, von Zeipel offers a new perspective in her continuing engagement with the human form. Pro Anatomy presents von Zeipel’s story—what Chris Ford writes is a “story of self and narcissism, techne, and courage, and audacity and hermeneutics and talent and heart and soul, deep intelligence, epistemology, too”—in a dynamic, comprehensive format.
CAJSA VON ZEIPEL (b. 1983, Sweden) exhibited at the Gothenburg Museum of Art, the Stockholm Museum of Modern Art, the Royal Institute of Art, Västerås Konstmuseum, Eskilstuna Konstmuseum, Millesgården in Sweden; M/L Artspace in New York; and Galleri F 15 and Buntelabo Kunsthall in Norway, to mention a few. Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Art Foundation in Mallorca, Spain, Eskilstuna Museum of Art, Gothenburg Museum of Art, Borås Museum of Art, Gävleborg County Museum, S.A.O. Foundation of Research and Culture, and the Västerås Museum of Art in Sweden. She has also exhibited at Capricious 88 in New York.

Cajsa Von Zeipel, Pro Anatomy

New York–based artist Paul Ramírez Jonas investigates how publics are constituted and convened through the exploration of public forms like the equestrian statue, the bronze plaque and the key to the city. Published to accompany the artist’s first survey exhibition in the Americas, Atlas, Plural, Monumental is the most comprehensive publication on the artist’s work to date, including sculptures, photographs, videos, drawings, public actions and participatory works made from 1991 to 2016.

Paul Ramírez Jonas: Atlas, Plural, Monumental

Wee Gallery Soft Organic Baby Book . Friendly Face In The Forest / Bunny

▲ An organic cotton book with black and white forest animals inside - meet Bunny and her five forest friends; Deer, Fox, Owl, Bear, and Squirrel in this delightful cloth book.
▲ With high contrast black and white bold line illustrations on soft, padded tactile pages, this soft cloth book features adorable friendly animal faces that babies will love and respond to.
▲ Ideal for reading in prams, cots and changing areas, this is the perfect gift for new born babies.
▲ Babies will be captivated with the contrasting black and white vibrant images which are great for their development. It will also give busy hands something to grasp, perfect for when out and about and during tummy time. We especially love the crinkly page.
▲ Each eco cloth book is presented in a sweet presentation box, so would make the perfect gift for a newborn baby. No plastic packaging and organic cotton, this is a great eco option too.
Explore more of the Wee Gallery range here.

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Size: - Height: 12cm. Width: 12cm.
Material: - Now with all cardboard packaging (no acetate) and organic cotton fabric.
Care: - Wipe clean with a damp cloth.
About This Brand: - Wee Gallery creates bold, illustrative art, on mobiles, blankets, decals, and more - to awaken the imaginations of newborns, toddlers and kids. The secret ingredient to this creative prowess? Two pint-sized muses: Sid and Anya.

Offering hand-picked modern decor for babies, kids and the home. Our ethos is to offer products that can grow with your children and look great in the modern home.

This Modern Life

Soft Organic Baby Book . Friendly Face In The Forest / Bunny

A collection of the lavish and iconic gowns of Christian Dior, from the 1950s and ’60s, captured by the legendary photographer Mark Shaw. Iconic photographer Mark Shaw documented the ultra-exclusive Parisian fashion world, focusing on Paris’s long-standing top couturier Christian Dior. Shaw’s photographs—some of the first fashion photographs ever shot in color—capture the most stunning and extraordinary fashion of the era.

A curated collection for life lived in the in-between.

Happily Grey

Dior Glamour

ADULT CONTEMPORARY is an experimental non/fiction salon series featuring readings, lectures, performances and interviews with and by established and emerging writers. We seek out first person perspectives characterized by the urgent and the everyday; true stories that connect us to the big by way of the small, uneventful, and unexpected. Readings will be followed by informal conversations.
organized by Katherine Brewer Ball & Svetlana Kitto

Adult Contemporary

Leave No Trace is a poem and an experimental audio project. The record has two unlabeled tracks, one per side, that combine ambient environmental recordings, vocalizations, an old electric guitar and sounds generated from found materials. The poem printed on the album cover speaks to the common code of wilderness ethics known as “Leave No Trace.” It further unpacks this term, questioning what is natural or naturalized. The project considers the desire to disappear and the subjugation of those who go undocumented.
Leave No Trace 2016 Vinyl record, zip-bag, nitrile gloves 31min 8sec Edition of 300

Leave No Trace (vinyl + Poem)

K-Y is a speculative archive that recounts a truly lubricated free market that occurs in the early 21st century. GenderFail is a publishing and programming initiative that seeks to encourage projects that foster an intersectional queer subjectivity. The All Worlds series is an ongoing collection of queer sci-fi and speculative fiction.
C. Klockner is an artist and writer. They wrote this text in 2018.

K-y By C. Klockner

A complete guide to the surfing spots of California. Complete with lots of photos, maps, and descriptions of each and every spot along the beautiful California coastline. ..

8.5" x 5.6"
256 pages
Soft Cover

Surfing California

"Cha Cha Cha" by John Patrick Brodie. He traveled to Mexico City for 9 days and fell in love. This first edition is a 8.5" x 6.5" linen hardcover book and is printed in Berkeley, California. The book features personal journal entries and photographs from 4 rolls of film. Brodie's immersive and playful writing and travel style will lull you into a some far away romantic daydream.

Cha Cha Cha

A healthy cookbook geared towards cooking with your partner. It features more than 100 recipes designed to nourish your bodies and souls.

240 pages

Healthier Together Cookbook

This is a book about California. Specifically, this first volume is about Northern California, the wet part of the state, the green part, a place where redwoods reign and fog is common. From 2009-2013, Jacqueline Suskin lived in Humboldt County, on the edge of the continent, writing poetry. In this collection, we come to know her as a lover of land, a steward, and an ecstatic earth worshiper. This book is a personal narrative, a selection of formative memories, but most importantly it’s a shared compendium of terrain, an atlas of verse that offers each reader a retreat, and a pathway to access this sacred landscape that provides us with so much.

The Edge Of The Continent - Vol 1

Covers by Belmond.
Issue 17 will take you on a cross-continental voyage of discovery, from Mexico to Venice, New York and Paris, via the south of France and the English countryside. Journey through Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula and explore Rose Tarlow’s extraordinary house and gardens in Provence. Stop off at Houghton Hall, one of England’s finest Palladian houses captured by Ashley Hicks, and join Cosmo Brockway for a tour of a quintessentially English 17th century folly house. Journey further and discover François Halard’s wonderful capture of the interiors at Cy Twombly’s house at Bassano in Teverina, a remote village in northern Lazio. Bon Voyage!

The Primary Essentials opened in Brooklyn in 2013 as a place to provide an edited mix of special objects for the home and gift, with an emphasis on how we live our daily lives. Striving to source goods that have a subtle yet distinctive impact, The Primary Essentials believes in the importance of independent designers and artisans, and their individual outlook on the world.

The Primary Essentials

Cabana Magazine

By Lucien Pellat- Finet

King of Cashmere and Anti-fashion

Shop Kerri’s unique collection of inspired artwork, stylish clothing and colorful high-end home accessories. From her renowned Drippy Hearts paintings to her signature wallpaper, fabrics and more. Fresh, Happy art and designs emerge daily from Kerri's Westport, Connecticut studio and flagship store.

Kerri Rosenthal

Super F**king Lucky Book

If you want to know what Kerri Rosenthal smells like, this is it! You walk into my shop in Westport and you immediately see, smell and taste and Le Soleil is my smell. I use this scent in my own home and the homes I design.  Sunshine in a bottle!
XO, Kerri

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Olfactive notes: Orange Flower, Neroli & Tuberose

By Maison Balzac
Room spray and a linen spray. On the skin and in a space, Le Soleil tells the fragrance of a summer morning in an orange grove, a fresh scent that brings energy and positivity.
Glass bottle, black mist spray, 100ml
Made in  Australia
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Le Soleil Scented Water

From roaring nightlife to peaceful yoga retreats, Ibiza’s hippie-chic atmosphere is its hallmark. This quintessential Mediterranean hot spot has served as an escape for artists, creatives, and musicians alike for decades. It is a place to reinvent oneself, to walk the fine line between civilization and wilderness, and to discover bliss. Ibiza Bohemia explores the island’s scenic Balearic cliffs, its legendary cast of characters, and the archetypal interiors that define its signature style.

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Ibiza Bohemia Book

Miami Beach " Well-known for its nightlife, pleasure is a focal point of Miami life at all times. Yachts and recreational boats line its marinas, lively beaches offer front row seats to a parade of bronzed revelers, and bladers and bikers coast along its beach front promenades. Miami has become the hub for everything chic, fiery and colorful. Miami Beach takes the readers on a tour of this bold and wonderous metropolis."

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Miami Beach Book

Amalfi Coast "The Amalfi Coast is the pinnacle of the Italian dream. Tucked amongst the lemon blossoms and the bougainvillea is a line of thirteen towns that comprise the Amalfi Coast. Known for its vertical landscape, the villages are only accessible via the Strada Statale 163 — a narrow, winding, cliffside route that while unsettling to traverse, offers unparalleled views. This magical strip joins the mountains and the Mediterranean Sea below and aesthetes from around the world flock here year after year to enjoy its quaint pebbled beaches, scenic hikes, perfect climate and legendary establishments, which are not limited to storied hotels and restaurants. Landmarks from the Cathedral in Amalfi to Villa Rufolo in Ravello, all evoke the culture and the spirit of bygone centuries, and landmarks enjoyed by the likes of Jacqueline Kennedy, John Steinbeck, and Gore Vidal abound. With its signature limoncello, both grown and enjoyed locally, finest villas and breathtaking vistas, the Amalfi Coast is in a class of its own."

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Amalfi Coast Book

" Hamptons Private invites readers to peek behind the manicured hedges in Amagansett, charter a yacht off the shore of the Springs, experience the surfer’s haven that is Ditch Plains and attend a polo match in Bridgehampton. Each page envisions the quintessential leisure of The Hamptons and showcases the unique quality of light that artist Willem de Kooning dubbed a “miracle.”

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Roy Lichtenstein History In The Making 1948-1960

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Roy Lichtenstein History In The Making 1948-1960 Book

New York-based interior designer, tastemaker, and authority on mixing contemporary art with home decoration.

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Out There: Design, Art, Travel, Shopping Book

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Night + Market

St. Tropez Soleil

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St. Tropez Soleil Book

Early in the 1900s, one-time oil baron Henry Morrison Flagler took interest in the Southern coast of Florida and began developing an exclusive resort community. Establishing a railroad that would allow easier access to the area, he went on to build two hotels—his hope was that America’s first families would come to populate the area. This modest community would later evolve into an iconic American destination, hosting British royalty, American movie stars, and becoming the home-away-from-home to some of the country’s leading families. As the century continued, Palm Beach established itself as a luxury hideaway synonymous with old-world glamour and new-world sophistication. In this splendid volume, longtime resident and Palm Beach social fixture Aerin Lauder takes us through her Palm Beach. From favorite restaurants like Nandos and Renatos, to favorite houses like La Follia and Villa Artemis, she takes us to the elite shopping of Worth Avenue and the scenic walkways of the Lake Worth trail, all the while relating to us the histories, faces, and places that have become so identified with Palm Beach.

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Travel By Design

Showcasing travel photographs by more than 150 of America’s top architects and designers, Travel by Design is an inspiring guide to the power of travel to shape and expand our world. Travel by Design reminds us of the beauty and importance of travel, with images of more than 100 locations in 60 countries, from exotic destinations and global cities to adventure travels and all-American escapes. More than 350 photographs take readers on a global journey through cityscapes, ancient civilizations, luxurious resorts, and stunning natural wonders, all seen through the discerning and artistic eyes of today’s leading creative talents. The images are sure to inspire dreams of escape, and the 40 pages of insider resources—from favorite hotels and restaurants to secret shopping sources and must-see monuments—will make planning future trips reassuring and easy.
An inspirational and informative resource, this volume highlights the preeminence of outstanding design and its importance for every civilization.

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" From cities to quaint towns and everything in between, Provence has something for everyone. Swim in the crystal clear waters of the Calanque de Sormiou in Marseille. Drive with the top down through fields of lavender in Valensole."

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Provence Glory Book

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Turquoise Coast Book

This guided journal is filled with creative challenges meant to spark the imagination. Each challenge pushes you to rethink the way you see yourself and the world around you to uncover new possibilities and ideas.
Pilgrim Soul is a mission-driven company focused on optimizing human creative performance to gain a competitive edge in business and life.

Kehoe Shop hosts a curated selection of vintage home furnishings and modern accessories.

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Pilgrim Soul Creative Thinking Journal

Capri, a resort island dating back to the height of the Roman Empire, has long been an extraordinary destination full of ancient charm. Cherished by everyone from physician Axel Munthe, who recommended its clean air to his patients as a cure for bronchitis; to film director Jean-Luc Godard as the setting for his 1963 film Contempt; to literary icons, celebrities, poets, and the jet set, Capri boasts a rich Mediterranean spirit and style that encompasses a wealth of beauty, from gardens to villas to caves to the people walking in the lively Piazzetta, where cars are prohibited and the island’s playful attitude runs rampant. Capri Dolce Vita is a look at this fabled corner of the world through the ages and a celebration of paradise on earth.

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Tuscany Marvel
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The Italian region of Tuscany is a feast for all senses. A creative incubator that has cultivated art and architecture for eras including Etruscan, Roman, Renaissance and modern times. Timeworn churches, once stops on nineteenth-century Grand Tours, stand tall in the towns’ piazzas. Rolling hills of wheat and colorful olive groves, that inspire authentic Tuscan cuisine, are dotted with villas built by the prestigious Medici family."

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A hub for barefoot bohemians and glamorous goddesses, Tulum is a Mayan hideaway that perfectly distills the gypset lifestyle. An off-grid escape for nomadic creatives, it is a playground for spirituality and community. This tiny, idyllic eight-mile strip of sand on Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula is tucked between a tropical jungle, Mayan ruins, and the Sian Ka’an biosphere: It’s a heady vortex. Tulum’s isolated and breathtakingly beautiful environment also makes it the perfect place for those craving a deeper connection with themselves, others, and nature. Seekers (sun, spiritual, and otherwise) pilgrimage to this beach settlement in droves to join this avant-garde template for a new bohemian lifestyle that prioritizes healing, eco-friendly practices and organic cuisine. The boho -chic crowd’s home away from home, Tulum is a rare and successful modern experiment in both consciousness and sophistication, bolstered by its down-to-earth hotels, mesmerizing cenotes, and lush backdrop.

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