The strive for inclusiveness was important to the lesbian community as a way to combat their feelings of exclusion from the mainstream feminist movement.

[7] The first issue of The Feminist Voice was published in August and in only four months Lavender Woman became its own publication.

[8] The Women of the publication felt as though, The Feminist Voice, as well as the Chicago Lesbian Liberation, had become too large and unfocused for their goals.

The paper was distributed on the streets of multiple neighborhoods in Chicago, in small bookstores, and in women's centers around the area.

[11] The University of Michigan Joseph A. Labadie Collection has an incomplete archive of Lavender Woman, having all but five of the 26 total issues.

Other women who regularly contributed were Claudia Scott, J.R. Roberts, Bonnie Zimmerman, Leigh Kennedy, Shari Me, Joan E. Nixon, and Muffie Noble.

Lavender Woman canceled the Chicago Lesbian Liberation's one-page space over a controversial cartoon.