Aunt Lute

Nonprofit women's publishing press, centering q***r women and women of color since 1982.

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San Francisco, CA

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http://www.auntlute.com/

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Our Story

Aunt Lute Books was started in 1982 in Iowa City by Barb Wieser and Joan Pinkvoss, who believed that neither mainstream publishing nor the feminist movement of that time was promoting the voices of le****ns, especially le****ns and women of color. In 1986, Aunt Lute Books moved to San Francisco to partner with the small le***an press Spinsters Ink, and did business under the name Spinsters/Aunt Lute. In 1990, Aunt Lute became a separate nonprofit under the umbrella of the Aunt Lute Foundation, with the intention of creating a culturally diverse collective of staff, interns, and board members to address the lack of presses run by women of color. From 1990 onwards, Aunt Lute has created a place for the voices of women from many different cultures and helped to foster their careers. Many of Aunt Lute’s titles are acknowledged as important contributions to the academic fields of le***an studies and gender studies. Titles such as Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera and Audre Lorde’s The Cancer Journals have been included in the curricula of hundreds of educational institutions throughout the U.S. and around the world.