''Amazones d'Hier, Lesbiennes d'Aujourd'hui'' (''AHLA''; ''Amazons of Yesterday, Lesbians of Today'') is the name of a quarterly French language magazine published starting 1982 by a lesbian collective in

Montreal Montreal ( ; officially Montréal, ) is the second-most populous city in Canada and most populous city in the Canadian province of Quebec. Founded in 1642 as '' Ville-Marie'', or "City of Mary", it is named after Mount Royal, the triple ...

made of Louise Turcotte, Danielle Charest, Genette Bergeron and Ariane Brunet.Wittig, Monique. ''The Straight Mind'', Beacon Press, 1992, , p. xvii ''AHLA'' was written from a radical lesbian (Lesbiennes radicales) perspective, and aimed to offer analysis and reflection about political and philosophical issues affecting lesbians globally as well as in

Quebec Quebec ( ; )According to the Canadian government, ''Québec'' (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and ''Quebec'' (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirtee ...

. The magazine's content drew heavily from Francophone material feminism, and the ideas of French theorists

Monique Wittig Monique Wittig (; July 13, 1935 – January 3, 2003) was a French author, philosopher and feminist theorist who wrote about abolition of the sex-class system and coined the phrase "heterosexual contract". Her seminal work is titled '' The Strai ...

and Nicole-Claude Mathieu. The front page of every issue clearly stated that the magazine was intended "for lesbians only".

1982 documentary

An eponymously titled documentary was developed from 1979 to 1981 and produced by

video production Video production is the process of producing video content for video. It is the equivalent of filmmaking, but with video recorded either as analog signals on videotape, digitally in video tape or as computer files stored on optical discs, hard dri ...

collective Réseau Vidé-Elle, in English and French versions. The film premiered on June 13, 1982, in Montreal.

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1982 documentary

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