I'm not sure if it's okay to post it here, maybe /o/WomensHistory is a better fit... but I hope it is. If not, please let me know and I'd post it there or in any other appropriate circle.
JSTOR have an open-access collection called Independent Voices, which is an open access digital collection of alternative press newspapers, magazines and journals. Within this collection, there is a subject collection of called Feminist.
This is the description of the collection by JSTOR:
Over 75 magazines, newsletters, and newspapers created by activists and collectives that helped propel the second wave of feminism from the late sixties and early seventies through the end of the 20th century. Groups represented by these publications include the Redstockings, New York Radical Women, Chicago Women’s Liberation Union, the Third World Women’s Alliance, and many others. Abortion, rape, unequal pay, women in the service, child care, women’s self-help, pornography, gender roles, and many other major issues of the period were extensively covered in the pages of the feminist press.
These are all the titles (some only include a few items, other includes tens and some over hundred items):
13th Moon
Aegis
Ain't I a Woman?
The Amazon
Amazon Quarterly
And Ain't I a Woman!
Aphra
Battle Acts
Big Mama Rag
Black Belt Woman
Black Maria
Branching Out
Bread & Roses
The Broomstick
CWLU NEWS
Chrysalis
Country Women
Dandelion
Distaff
Echo of Sappho
Everywoman
FAAR News
Feelings from women's liberation
Feminist Alliance Against Rape Newsletter
Feminist Art Journal
Feminist Bookstore News
Feminist Voice
Hard Labor
Her-self
Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Arts & Politics
It Aint Me Babe
The Lesbian Tide (1974)
The Lesbian Tide
Lilith
Marin Women's News Journal
Marin Women's News Letter
Media Report to Women
Meeting Ground
National Communication Network for the elimination of violence against women
New Directions for Women
New Directions for Women in New Jersey
New Women's Times
New York Radical Feminists Newsletter
No More Fun and Games
Notes
Off Our Backs
Ozark Feminist Review
The Ozark Feminist
Pandora
Quest: A Feminist Quarterly
SPAZM
SPECTRE
The Second Wave
Secret Storm
Sojourner
The Spokeswoman
Tell-a-woman
The Tide
Tooth and Nail
Tradeswomen Magazine
Triple Jeopardy
Up From Under
Up and Coming
Voice of the Women's Liberation Movement
WOMANSPIRIT
WREE View of Women for Racial and Economic Equality
WREE-view: Bulletin of Women for Racial and Economic Equality, The
WomaNews
Woman's World
Women Against Pornography
Women Artists News
Women Artists Newsletter
Women and Art Quarterly
The Women's News Journal
Women's Press
Women: A Journal of Liberation
I think this is a real treasures, and it's just really cool and interesting to browse through these publications and see what feminists thought back then, what they were dealing with, what have changed, what didn't...
There is also a collection of LGBT, which might also be of interest. I think all of the publications of and about lesbians are already in the Feminist collection, though, but maybe you'd find it interesting all the same. I don't know if trans has any representation here, it seems to be mostly or entirely for and about gay people.
This is the description of the collection by JSTOR:
The LGBT collection contains 25 publications that chronicle the birth of the Gay and Lesbian movements in the United States. The gay liberation movement of the 1970s saw political action explode through the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, the Human Rights Campaign, the election of openly gay and lesbian representatives, and the first march on Washington for gay rights in 1979. Frustrated with the male leadership of most gay liberation groups and influenced by the feminist movement of the 1970s, lesbians formed their own collectives, music festivals, newspapers, bookstores, and publishing houses and called for lesbian rights in mainstream feminist groups like the National Organization for Women (NOW).
Anyway, I hope you find it interesting!
I’ve read some of Off Our Backs. It’s great!
And “Notes” (Notes from the First Year, Notes from the Second Year, and Notes from the Third Year) is essential!
Great collections
It’s fun to browse old feminist and lesbian periodicals
Women’s Bookstore Quarterly!
Also of interest:
The archival turn in feminism : outrage in order : Eichhorn, Kate, 1971- : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/archivalturninfe0000eich
Some of the zines and other 3WF ephemera listed in the finding aid of the NYU Riot Grrrl Collection are available via the Internet Archive
Thank you 🙏
I'm aiming to work on a project where I download these types of things to USB drives, because sites like Sci-hub and internet archives are under fire from lawsuits. I can see a future in which certain information is no longer made freely available or just removed entirely. Especially LGB and even T research and history, which is being rewritten or hidden to fit a certain narrative.