INNERVIEWS Vol. 4 Issue 1 / LOVE and MONEY Women's Two Dilemmas / February 1980

Jo Bookkeeper, Editor. Published by the Alice Walker sub-task force of the Margaret Bourke-White Task Force of Aradia, Inc. Grand Rapids, Michigan, 1980. First edition. Illustrated pink wrappers, 8.5" x 7", staple bound, 24 pages printed on pink and blue paper, illustrated with b&w drawings throughout. VERY GOOD Condition: fore edge stapled for mailing leaving tiny staple punctures, small handwritten mailing label on rear cover, light sunning to the spine margins and a touch of light wear, overall tight, bright, clean and unmarked. Scarce, just 3 holdings in OCLC collections worldwide.

Aradia, Inc. was a radical lesbian feminist separatist collective based in conservative West Michigan from 1978 to 1989. Innerviews served as a critical print forum, literary zine, calendar, and network for the regional lesbian and feminist community during an era of radical LGBTQ+ social movements. Known for their feminist activism, Aradians organized gatherings and counterculture milestones such as the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, and published newsletters including Otherviews and W.E.B. Wimmin of the Earth Bonding.

A secret woman built community of strong, creative, women embedded in Grand Rapids and invisible to everyone but other Aradians and those close to them. A lesbian utopia literally existing unseen within the patriarchy, a supportive community they created as an alternative to mainstream culture, one that celebrated women loving women. Aradians called their hidden world Aradia, after the goddess Diana's daughter.