Collaboration

Collaboration is essential to feminism as a social movement and to feminist literary and scholarly communities. First, this chapter considers collaboratively authored literature by Daphne Marlatt and Betsy Warland, Erín Moure and Bronwen Wallace, Robyn Maynard and Leanne Betasamosake Simpson, and the collective of Quebec writers who published La théorie, un dimanche . Through co-creation and epistolary forms, these texts explore topics such as lesbian intimacy, feminist theory, experimental poetics, Black and Indigenous solidarity, and collaboration itself. Second, the chapter turns to histories of feminist events, publishers, periodicals, anthologies, and other collective forms and venues built through collaboration. This survey notes many past and present examples, including Sister Vision Press, the Women and Words conference, groundbreaking edited collections, and contemporary small presses.