Conditions (full title:Conditions: a feminist
magazine of writing by women with a particular emphasis on writing
by lesbians) was a
lesbian feminist literary annual
founded in 1976 in
Brooklyn,
New York by Elly
Bulkin, Jan Clausen, Irena Klepfisz and Rima Shore.
Publishing Collective
Conditions was a magazine which
emphasised the lives and writings of lesbians, and, throughout its
history, the magazine maintained an all-lesbian collective. This
collective expressed a "long standing commitment to diversity; of
writing style and content and of background of contributors,"
within the lesbian and feminist communities. Conditions was
especially dedicated to publishing the work of lesbians, in
particular
working
class lesbians and lesbians of color.
The Black Women's Issue
The journal's fifth issue,
published in November, 1979, was edited by
Barbara
Smith and
Lorraine
Bethel. Conditions 5 was "the first widely distributed
collection of
Black
feminist writing in the U.S."