RAG TIMES

2349 SE Ankeny or PO Box 2158 Portland OR 97208 503-243-2257 Years: Years: 1980-1987 (?)

This ad appeared in the March 11, 1983, issue of the Cascade Voice

This newsletter was an offshoot of A Woman’s Place bookstore. A Woman’s Place Newspaper.
Cited on Feb 20-26 1987 City Week newspaper under Community Resources ‘Feminist Monthly Publication”
Considered itself as a feminist newspaper, but it was ran mostly by women who identified as lesbians.
Per GLPAN website: Rag Times, according to Judith Barrington, who was involved with the publication, began as a monthly newsletter of A Woman’s Place, a Portland feminist bookstore. It eventually graduated from a newsletter to an independent newspaper. She explains that it “continued to have a connection to the bookstore in that it was laid out and assembled on a large table on the store” when it was located on SE Ankeny Street.
Approximate dates that Rag Times was published were between 1980 to mid-1982. Judith says that it identified as feminist rather than specifically lesbian. However, it had a lot of lesbian content. The collective that ran it was almost entirely lesbian.