[2] The magazine and its related collective were founded in 1975 by Suzanne Spunner, who had been involved in the organising of the International Women's Film Festival.
[5] Spunner was also the founding member of the Home Cooking Theatre Company.
[6] The magazine was self-published by the feminist Lip collective during the era of the women's liberation movement,[7] and its content included a very wide range of feminist positions and interdisciplinary art forms,[8] in addition to work that connected the local scene to a more international network.
[10] The Lip collective included Suzanne Davies, Christine Johnston, Janine Burke, Isobel Davies, Elizabeth Gower, Frida Frieberg, Annette Blonski, Lesley Dumbrell, Suzanne Spunner, Meredith Rogers, Jeannette Fenelon (Kavanagh), Barbara Hall, Catherine Peake, and Elizabeth Owen.
[13] In 2013 Vivian Ziherl[14] published an anthology of Lip articles.