“Without community, there is no liberation…but community must not mean a shedding of our differences, nor the pathetic pretense that these differences do not exist.”- Audre Lorde

Violet Collective is a new zine dedicated to the celebration, empowerment, and support of all lesbian women of color.

Many lesbians of color feel that there is no place for us within overwhelmingly white lesbian communities or lesbophobic qu**r communities. Often times even attempting to navigate these spaces can prove to be an isolating and discouraging experience.

Violet Collective is a safe space for all lesbians of color to come together and form a community of our own. We hope this zine will serve as an escape from the subtle and overt racism, eurocentric standards of beauty, and continued erasure we face in other aspects of our lives, and even within the lesbian community. 

Dedicated to the ideals of sisterhood, strength in community, and consciousness raising through open dialogue, Violet Collective will provide an outlet for the joy and pain that comes with being a woman of color and a lesbian.

Violet Collective aims to include essays (on race/ethnic communities/what it means to exist in the world as a lesbian), artwork, music and book reviews, and everything in between.

Our mission is to give a voice to those who are silenced and told that in order to be accepted they must hide parts of themselves. Our mission is to celebrate what it means to be women of color, what it means to be lesbians, and how we exist when the two intersect.

We hope you will join us for this exciting project!