Azalea: A Magazine by Third World Lesbians was a quarterly periodical for black and Latina lesbians published between 1977-1983 by the Salsa Soul Sisters

Salsa Soul Sisters

The Salsa Soul Sisters, Third World Wimmin Inc Collective was the first "out" organization for lesbians, womanists and women of color in New York City...

, Third World Wimmin Inc Collective. The collective

Collective

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 also published the Salsa Soul Sisters/Third World Women's Gay-zette, (published: c1982)

Early history

The group formed in 1974, growing out of the Black Lesbian Caucus of the New York

New York

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 City Gay Activists Alliance (GAA).

Content

Rodger Streitmatter, author of Unspeakable: The Rise of the Gay and Lesbian Press in America, notes that the founders of the periodical attempted not to perpetuate oppression and replicate societal biases by refusing to "assess the quality of contributions sent to them, publishing all material without any editing."

The magazine published contributions from Africa

Africa

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, Asia

Asia

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 and South America

South America

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 as well as material from the United States

United States

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Select contributors

• Donna Allegra
• Becky Birtha
• Linda Jean Brown
• Robin Christian
• Michelle Cliff
• a. S. Natwa
• Joan Gibbs
• Julie Blackwomon Carter
• Sapphire
• Robinet LaVerne Christian
• Michiyo Fukaya (Michiyo Cornell)
• Audre Lorde
  Audre Lorde
  Audre Lorde was a Caribbean-American writer, poet and activist.-Life:...
  
  
• Anita Cornwell
  Anita Cornwell
  Anita Cornwell is an American author.In 1983 she wrote the first collection of essays by an African American lesbian, Black Lesbian in White America.-Biography:...
  
  
• Rosita Libre de Marulanda
• Sapphire (author)
  Sapphire (author)
  Sapphire is an American author and performance poet.- Early life :Ramona Lofton was born in Fort Ord, California, one of four children of an Army couple who relocated within the United States and abroad. After a disagreement concerning where the family would settle, her parents separated, with...
  
  

See also

• Black Feminism
  Black feminism
  Black feminism argues that sexism, class oppression, and racism are inextricably bound together. Forms of feminism that strive to overcome sexism and class oppression. The Combahee River Collective argued in 1974 that the liberation of black women entails freedom for all people, since it would...
  
  
• Racism in the LGBT community
• Womanism
  Womanism
  The word womanism was adapted from Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker's use of the term in her book In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose...
  
  
• List of lesbian periodicals