The letter expresses dismay over the "grievous omissions"of "Black and other Third World lesbian artists" from the Lesbian Art and Artists issue of Heresies. The dynamic revealed in the Heresies exchange presages that which erupted two years later at The Second Sex Thirty Years Later Conference.  The editorial collective of Heresies admits to "a passive exclusion,"  then justifies the exclusion by stating "our knowledge of the Third World Artist or lesbian community was limited," and finally laments that "third world women" have not wanted to participate in the (all white) editorial collective.

Is it any wonder then by 1978 that Lorde began doubting the usefulness of black women participating in (mostly) white feminist endeavors? (That point is brought forcefully home by something else I find in Heresies).

Intrigued I dig deeper, but find nothing about Bonnie Johnson in writings about the important Collective.