''Woman's Journal-Advocate'' was a

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newspaper published in Lincoln, Nebraska, from 1982 to 1992. It was created to increase communication among Lincoln's women's and lesbian groups, and to publish and promote artwork and writing by women. ''Woman's Journal-Advocate'' was named for two nineteenth-century feminist newspapers, ''

Woman's Journal ''Woman's Journal'' was an American women's rights periodical published from 1870 to 1931. It was founded in 1870 in Boston, Massachusetts, by Lucy Stone and her husband Henry Browne Blackwell as a weekly newspaper. In 1917 it was purchased by ...

'' and '' The Woman's Advocate''. According to journalist C. J. Janovy, "Lincoln was a hotbed of lesbian political activity" in the time leading up to the newspaper's founding. Some of the newspaper's content advocated political lesbianism and

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. The newspaper contained reviews of and publicity for lesbian and feminist artists and performers, such as Judy Chicago, and hoped to foster a "Feminist Aesthetic" of distinctively feminist styles in artwork. The newspaper frequently dealt forcefully with the subjects of rape and domestic violence. It reported on local cases and statistics measuring these crimes, and on volunteer and official responses to them. It aimed for political and social reform, including a greater acceptance of women who respond with violence toward their attackers. Co-founders of the newspaper include linguist Julia Penelope, journalist Martha Stoddard, and poets

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and Judith Sornberger. The paper printed writing by

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, Sonia Johnson, Moira Ferguson,

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, Barbara A. Baier, Lin Quenzer, and many other feminist writers, particularly of Nebraska and the

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region. It printed dispatches from the

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, Queer Nation Nebraska, the YWCA and other organizations.

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