LesBeWell and Dykenosis, 1994 - 1997

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Identifier: GD61/10/1/24

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Scope and Contents

Copies of Dykenosis, the newsletter of LesBeWell for women who have sex with women, and copies of LesBeWell Annual Reports.

A cover letter is included which confirms that Lothian Lesbian Line has subscribed to Dykenosis.

Dates

Creation: 1994 - 1997

Conditions Governing Access

This item is open to public access.

Biographical / Historical

LesBeWell was a Birmingham based organisation who provided information, conducted research, and campaigned, for better information and services for health issues relating to lesbians.

Dykenosis covered a range of lesbian health issues and copies were distributed amongst women's groups, LGBTQ+ groups, and interested library across the United Kingdom.

For more information see:

Hannah J. Elizabeth (2023) ‘The Wild Women of the West (Midlands)’: how LesBeWell imagined queer women’s health and its obstacles in the 1990s through the pages of Dykenosis, Contemporary British History, 37:3, 309-338, DOI: 10.1080/13619462.2023.2211016