The Lilith

Mission Statement
Lilith, a figure both mythical and subversive, was the putative first wife of Adam. Her presence in Jewish mythology tells of a paralleled creation with Adam, as she was born at the same time and on the “same earth”. Stories tell of her departure from Adam and her exodus from the Garden of Eden after she refused to be subservient to him.thus marks the fall of Adam’s one and only equal, a demon of the night, a hag, an evil seductress, doomed to her shadows. Lilith, as stories and time have told, is a representation of subversion, the abject. In this, The Lilith as a feminist literary arts journal will work as a platform on which we too may question and disrupt. With works of art such as photographs or musical compositions, from poems to essays to manifestos, we invite the Hampshire community to unlearn, reword, and reclaim the feminisms. Be critical, be gentle, strike the balance between worlds and expression - we hope that the Lilith may speak to a subjective desire, language, action and question.