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Darn, I've got this nagging moral dilemma, and I want to
share it with you. I've been surfing the right-wing radio shows,
God knows why, - penance, I think, for past misdeeds - for some
time now . Yes, since before April 19. Sometime after the 19th, I
happened to be visiting my younger brother, who is painfully
aware and thoughtful and sometimes annoyingly consistent in his
reasoning; and I remarked that I thought G. Gordon Liddy should
be arrested for treason and as an accessory before the fact of the
bombing; and my brother replied, "But Sis, then shouldn't they
have arrested us for treason in the 60's and 70's?"
His answer stopped me short at the time, but upon
reflection I cannot remember that I once, not even in my
staunchest support for the Black Panthers, recommended shooting
government agents anywhere, let alone in the head or groin; and
much as I disagreed with LBJ for his Vietnam war, I respected
him for his Civil Rights programs, and I would never have named
my targets in assault-weapon practice Lyndon and Lady Bird hell, I wouldn't have even named them Ron and Nancy, and I can't
think of one thing I liked about those two.
Soon after visiting that brother, I was chatting with my
older brother, who is a sweet, kind, gentle, easy-going haven'tgot-a-clue-about-real-life kind of guy, and a big fan of the AM
talk shows. He agreed with our other brother that there was
nothing treasonous about Mr. Liddy; and since this is the first
time they have ever agreed on anything - coming of age, as they
did, on opposite ends of the Vietnam war - I suppose they are
right.
But really I think it means they are both wrong. When
President Clinton was questioned about who he was referring to
in his remarks about the need for talk radio to tone down the
rhetoric, I wish that he had just said "If the shoe fits ..." and refused
further comment. I think that Rush Limbaugh, G. Gordon Liddy
and Oliver North are totally irresponsible and wrong, and that
they skirt treason, if they don't sometimes actually embrace it.
Which brings me back to my moral dilemma. I was
listening to Oliver North yesterday (and so far he seems to be
much the least offensive of the Big 3, believe it or not), and he
suddenly told us, his (dis)loyal listeners, in a tone not to be
disobeyed, "I want you to send off for this video tape NOW. Call
1-800-330-4046... " Now friends, you won't be surprised to hear
that I immediately wondered how much each individual call to
that number would cost him, a dollar or more, I imagine; and my
mind instantly began to dream of mass, continuous dialings to that
number to tell him, Well no, Ollie, I don't... ..
Volume 13 Number 6

Oh dear, it was a fun thought for a moment, and then into
my mind popped the image of a Gay hotline being sabotaged in
that way, and there you are: a major dilemma. It might be one of
those unanswerable questions, like, should women carry guns? I
could argue for days on both sides of that one too.. .. Anyhow,
now you know, and you can worry about it yourself. i.'I

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Fundraisers for the Pride Parade will be held in
June at the following places:

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The PORTHOLE on June 9, with RAZ
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The BUNKHOUSE on June 10.
The NEON MOON on June 10.

These events will offer you a wonderful
evening of entertainment, so please turn out to help
support these businesses and PNl's efforts to organize
the best and biggest parade ever!
(see the VOICE calendar for all Pride Month activities.)

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St. Sybil, Unsung Heroine of the American Revolution and
Matron Saint of the Forgotten Woman, is an occasional
contributor to this space.
Dear St. Sybil,
Well, I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. Just what, can you
tell me, is wrong about calling ladies - uh, women - "ladies"?
Now, I can see that the pairing of "men" and "girls" maybe sends
a subtly demeaning message, but why does it hurt to use the more
elegant, softer term "lady", instead of "woman", which is kind of
harsh, you know?
Very truly yours,
lvanna Bea Goode

Dear Lady Bea Goode,
Well, my dear. If, as you say, "lady" is less harsh than
"woman", then you are using "lady" as a euphemism for
"woman"; and as only things with a bad or unpleasant connotation
need euphemisms, let's look at why people feel this way about
women - about, alas, thee and me.
Woman is often seen as either higher than men, or lower
- the famous "madonna/whore" syndrome; and neither placement
does her a bit of good. "Ladies" is an euphemism to make clear
that one is not referring to the bitch/whore side of the syndrome.
Consider the transition over the years from Gravedigger to
Undertaker to Mortician to Grief Counselor; these are all attempts
to take a term which has an unpleasant connotation - death - and to
remove that taint. Think of Stewardess to Hight Attendant, to
remove the taint of service and the slight intimation of Bimbo.
Think, for instance, of sweetbreads. How many elegant dinner
tables do you think sweetbreads would continue to grace if the
dish were called what it actually is, which is cow pancreas. Yes,
it is. Then, ask yourself: what taint, what unpleasantness, does
"woman" have that needs an upgrading, or softening? Of course,
there is none, unless subconsciously we buy into the bitch/saint
myth. "Ladies" indicates that we are referring not to the bitch but
to the pure, the good, the holy, to the Madonna side of the
syndrome. But that puts a woman right up on top of a pedestal,
and being on a pedestal is a dangerous and very constricted place
to be.
Traditionally, the term "lady" defines a woman by her
actions and demeanor, just as writer, politician, humorist,
homemaker, doctor, nurse, define her by her vocation; just as
"gentleman" defines a man by his behavior. (Except, of course,
that the "upper" classes don't consider any woman who is not
"well-born" to be a lady, no matter how lady-like she strives to be;
and it is impossible to totally separate out that snobbishness from
the word: another reason not to like it or·use it.
And further: "Lady" is, of course, a common name for a
sweet, gentle, docile pet; and I just don't know many of us who
really want to be considered that way anymore, if anyone ever
did.
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Woman is fully human, a being with infinite potential,
just like the guys. In this century, in this country, "Lady" and
"Gentleman" should be restricted to use as harmless frills, as
pleasantries, as complimentary embellishments in social
situations.
The handy-dandy, easy to remember, never-fail rule is:
Keep a horizontal equity. "Lady" is fine and appropriate when
"Gentleman" would be used for the other sex: Ladies &
Gentlemen, Women & Men, Boys and Girls. "Ladies &
Gentlemen, start your engines". "Both men and women are
invited to try out for the javelin-catching contest"; "You boys
(girls) have had a snootful, so I'm calling a cab for you right now.
Gimme those keys".
And if you still don't get it, picture Helen Reddy up on
stage, ready for the big finale, slinky dress flashing in the
spotlight: she squares off, stares the audience in the eye, raises her
arms up to heaven, and belts it out: I AM LADY .... tc
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Too Much
Animal Protein?
Scientists have known for decades that
protein, in particular animal protein, speeds up
the loss of calcium from the bones. Good
Medicine, Autumn 1994, explains the theory
behind this loss. Animal protein produces an
acid condition in the blood, which sets off a
series of reactions that help to neutralize the
acid. In the process of these reactions, calcium
is released from the bone.
A study at the Institute of Child Nutrition
in Dormund, Germany, examined this
relationship. It found that when people switched
from an acti-ovo-vegetarian diet to one that
included moderate amounts of animal protein,
acid levels went up; so did calcium loss. The
effects were even more pronounced in a highprotein diet.
For strong bones, avoid meat.
Reprintedfrom Women Wise. Winter/spring 1995.
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Methotrexate: An Already Legal
Abortion Pill
A recent article in the Concord Monitor describes Dr.
Richard Hausknecht, a doctor from New York City, who
considers himself a rebel. Back in the 60's, when he was a
gynecology resident at Yale, he handed out diaphragms in
defiance of a state ban on contraceptives that was later struck
down.
Distressed by delays in marketing RU-486, the French
abortion pill, Dr. Hausknecht mixes legal drugs to mimic the
effect of the yet unapproved abortion pill. His ringing phone is
unrelenting. Doctors and patients around the nation have heard he
performs drug-induced abortions and many want more
information. One drug Hausknecht uses, methotrexate, is a
tissue-growth inhibitor that is used to treat cancer, and can end
some ectopic pregnancies. The other is misoprostol, an ulcer
treatment, which also stimulates labor.
Researchers have been trying to determine whether the
two drugs used together to induce abortion are safe and effective.
In the meantime their use in a non-research setting falls into a
gray area. The Food and Drug Administration allows a doctor to
prescribe a drug for an unorthodox use in unusual circumstance.
But is that drug being used on a large number of patients, or when
data is being gathered regarding that use, research has been
undertaken. Dr. Hausknecht has applied for FDA research status,
although he insists his technique is not research, but innovative
medicare care.
Studies are underway currently, however, and early
results show the drug combination to be safe and more than 90
percent effective.
Pamela Maraldo, president of the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America says, "He is a trailblazer with women's
interest at heart, but we have to have clinical trials."
Reprinted from Women Wise, Winter/Spring 1995

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At its sixteenth annual conference, "Women's
Movements: Cultural, Intellectual and Political (R)evolutions" to
be held at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma,
June 21-25, 1995, the National Women's Studies Association will
consider women's relationships to (r)evolutionary change
historically and globally, in women's studies and the women's
movements, and in our organizations.
Among the many questions the conference will address
through its workshops, panels and plenaries will be: How have
women participated in the political, social, cultural and
intellectual revolutions of the past and present? How have
women shaped these revolutions or been excluded from them?
How have women themselves organized for change, creating
movements to struggle for political and economic justice? How
have women participated in and helped to define other
movements for change: the civil rights movements; the union
movement; the gay and lesbian rights movement; the peace
movement; the environmental movement? How have women's
lives been shaped by change as they have moved or been removed
from their land and homes as refugees from hunger, violence or
political or religious persecution; moved around the globe as
immigrants; moved into cities as workers in the industrial and
technological revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth century
or as domestic workers in South Africa or textile and electronics
workers in the Free Trade Zones of Southeast Asia; moved to
travel the world?
Especially in the past 20 years, women inside and
outside of the academy around the globe have challenged the
fundamental conceptualizations of gender, race, class and
sexuality, the epistemological and methodological bases of
disciplines, the social and cultural arrangements of societies; the
definitions of canon and quality in art, music, literature, dance,

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and theater; the systems of representation in
media, film, and other popular forms. How have
our challenges provoked reaction, retaliation
and backlash? Have we created and are we
creating new orders and understandings?
Wilma Mankiller, the first woman
principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, opens
this conference that features more than 200
panels and workshops, a writers series,
continuous film and video series, evening
entertainment featuring Margie Adam, Mary
Reynolds, Miss Brown to You, Odetta, Karen
Williams and Revue f of Oklahoma (see related
article), and a book exhibit. The opening night
program includes a keynote dialogue between
feminist theorist, bell hooks, and feminist
scholar and Women's Studies program director
at Spelman College, Beverly Guy-Sheftall.
If you have questions about housing,
food, and local arrangements phone the OU
Women's Studies Program at 405-325-0138.tc
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JUNE 25 = PRIDE PARADE
The eighth annual Gay and Lesbian Pride
Parade and Rally will be held on Sunday, June 25.
"From silence to celebration" is the theme of this year's
parade which will feature floats and marching
contingents and the first parade appearance of "The
Banned of Oklahoma", our own marching band.
The Celebration will begin at 12:30 with an
ecumenical service in Memorial Park at NW 36th and
Classen. Kathy McCallis, minister of Epworth
Methodist Church and Moderator of the Clergy
Coalition for Human Rights will close the service and
begin the 2:00 Rally which features keynote speakers
and entertainment including comedian Karen Williams,
State Senators Angela Monson and Bernest Cain, and
singer/activist Peggy Johnson.
Floats and marching groups will be judged
during the parade, with a trophy being awarded in each
of those two categories. Oklahoma City Police officers
have been hired to provide security and to detour traffic
approaching the parade route. Participants in the
parade will line up on the west side of Memorial Park at
3:30 and begin the mile-long march at 4:00. All
attending or involved in the Rally and Parade are
encouraged to park at the end of the Parade route-Habana Inn at NW 39th Expressway--and ride the free
shuttle bus to the park area.
This annual event is organized and funded by
PNI (Pride Network, Inc.), which raises money through
parade entry fees, Pride shirt sales, and fundraisers. If
you haven't bought your 1995 Pride T-shirt, sweat shirt
or tank top, telephone 794-3035 or 942-6250 to find the
sales point closest to you.
(see the accompanying map for the Parade route)

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Great Entertainment Coming to
Oklahoma ...
Get ready, there is fabulous entertainment on its way to
Oklahoma in June. The National Women's Studies Association
Conference is being held this summer in Norman; and in addition
to inspiring speakers and workshops, the following performers
will be delighting audiences on June 22 - 24, 1995:
June 22, widely respected songwriter Emily Kaitz and
Oklahoma's own Mary Reynolds will be the opening act for
comedian Karen Williams. It will be wonderful to have Mary
back in Oklahoma, and Karen Williams is no stranger to us either.
Herland has been instrumental in bringing Karen to Oklahoma
twice before, and those of you lucky enough to have caught her
act know how lucky we are to have her return. She is one of the
country's leading stand-up comics and emcees. Known as the
Diva of Comedy and the Queen of Improv, Karen Williams is the
funniest and best-known feminist comic entertainer on today's
comedy scene. Her reviewers find her "charming, likeable, warm,
sexy, and irreverent". Karen is a frequent comic host on the
Olivia Records cruises, entertaining fan-filled audiences during
excursions to the Caribbean, Mexico, Greece and Alaska.
June 23 is an exciting double-bill, with the famed
Margie Adam performing first. Since the mid-seventies, she has
been known to feminist and progressive audiences as a singersongwriter of elegant love songs and inspiring songs of
conscience. She also established herself as a composerinstrumentalist in 1980 when she released a ground-breaking solo
piano recording. Margie's trademark orchestral style is intensely
polyrhythmic, chordally complex and melodically clear as a bell,
and concert audiences find her command and delicacy at the piano
compelling. Her playing has a vibrancy and drama that draws
from Broadway musicals, as well as a hypnotic sensuality that is
gently influenced by Brazilian rhythms. One hears whispers of
Gershwin, Ravel, Rachmaninoff and Jobim.
On the same bill with Margie is the fabulous Odetta;
from Alabama to Zimbabwe, from Carnegie Hall to Shea
Stadium, from the Montreux Jazz Festival to "A Prairie Home
Companion", Odetta has captivated music lovers in many lands
and from all facets of the music world. "Odetta should be
declared an American treasure, for she surely is one .. .her voice is
a miracle!" A woman of wide-ranging political and musical
interests, Odetta has recreated Bessie Smith on stage in a Chicago
musical; she sings frequently with such blues bands as the New
Black Eagle Jazz Band in Boston and Jacob's Pillow; and has
collaborated with other such major folk stars as Pete Seeger, Joan
Baez, Buffy St. Marie, and Richie Havens. According to the New
York Times, she has "the most glorious voice in American folk
music."
Saturday, June 24, the opening act will be the
professional debut ofjOklaboma, a Regional Revue, a fast-paced
upbeat showcase of musical talent; from down-home country to
fiercely feminist a Capella and everything in between.
Performers and groups include Free Fall, Full Circle, The Vested
Interest, Peggy Johnson, Donna D, and others!
FollowingjOklahoma's performance, ticket-holders will
dance the night away to the wonderful music of MISS BROWN
TO YOU. Miss Brown To You is a (continued on page 6)

LESBIAN-ONLY COUNSELING - group or individual counseling.
M.E.D./M.H.R./I.CA.D./L.P.C. at 321-0134.

For more information contact Jo L. Soske

21st ANNUAL FEMINIST WOMEN'S WRITING WORKSHOPS, INC - July 9 - July 16, 1995 - Join a community of established,
emerging and novice women writers for eight days in a serene, supportive atmosphere on the shore of beautiful Seneca Lake in New
York's Finger Lakes Region. Share a residence (private rooms) on the campus of Hobart/William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.
Choose from workshops on a variety of topics, evening readings, talks and critiques as well as enjoying time for solitude and individual
writing. Our Guest Writer will be Ruth Stone, author of numerous books including In an Iridescent Time, Topography, Cheap, Second
Hand Coat, Who is the Widow's Mus? and the forthcoming Simplicity (Paris Press, Spring 1995). For more information, send a SASE
t: Feminist Women's Writing Workshops, Inc., P.O. Box 6583, Ithaca, NY 14851.

Poetry/Short Story Contest - $100.00 prize and publication in each category. Stories 1,500 word maximum. Authors retain
copyrights. Enclose $5.00 reading fee for each entry. Any topic relating to women. Deadline: July 31, 1995. Send a SASE for winner
list. Southern Women's Words Quarterly. Attn: Diane Tait, Box 32294, Raleigh, NC 27622. QUALIFIED NON-WINNERS WILL
ALSO BE PUBLISHED.
WANTED: works from Black lesbians for anthology of coming out stories. Your story could be in the form of journal entries,
autobiographical fiction, poetry or whatever way the words came together to describe your coming out. Even if you don't think you're a
writer, your story is important. Send submissions to: Lisa Moore, P.O. Box 861, Decatur, GA 30031. Deadline: June 30, 1995.
THE NINTH ANNUAL GOLDEN THREADS CELEBRATION will take place June 23-25 at the Provincetown Inn in
Provincetown, Massachusetts. This is a celebration of older lesbians, featuring a banquet, dancing, and entertainment by Alix Dobkin.
All lesbians are welcome. Write Christine Burton, Golden Threads, P.O. Box 60475, Northampton, MA 01060.
THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON IDV/AIDS AND CHINESE MEDICINE will be held June 15-18 on the campus of Columbia
University in New York City. For more information call 415-282-4028.
CALL FOR ART: WomenWise is actively soliciting artwork for future issues. They are particularly interested in black and white line
drawings of subjects pertaining to women, border art, and marginalia. Compensation is mostly karmic, although they are able to offer a
small amount for cover art; all artists receive a one-year subscription and five portfolio copies of the issue in which their work appears.
Write to WomenWise, c/o Concord Feminist Health Center, 38 South Main Street, Concord, NH 03301.
TAKING OUR PLACE: GAY AND LESBIAN JEWS IN THE 21ST CENTURY - 14th International Conference of Gay and
Lesbian Jews will take place July 27-30, 1995 in New York City. Call New York's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue (212)929-9498 for
registration and program information.
WRITERS I AUTHORS! Be part of a new ongoing anthology, Lesbian Short Fiction. Premiering in Spring of 1996. LSF will accept
short stories with significant lesbian content in most genres. Send SASE NOW for guidelines to: Jinx Beers, Editor Lesbian Short
Fiction 6507 Franri vers A venue West Hills, CA 91307.
EIGHTH ANNUAL CREATING CHANGE CONFERENCE TRAVELS TO THE MOTOR CITY Creating Change, the preeminent national gathering of gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender activists, will be hosted this year in Detroit, Michigan, November 8
through 12. All conference events during this eighth annual conference sponsored by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
(NGL1F) will be held at The Westin Hotel, Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit. For more information or to receive a Creating
Change 1995 registration brochure, call 202-332-6483, ext. 3329. To reserve a room at The Westin Hotel, Renaissance Center, call
800-228-3000; mention "National Gay & Lesbian Task Force" to get the special conference room rates of $80/single & double;
$90/triple & quad.
GRANDMOTHER SPEAKS! A series of bioregional walks/pilgrimages for wise old women to share wisdom, experience, contacts,
perspectives. This is in the planning stages for 1996./97. If you've been secretly waiting for an opportunity like this - Let's Do It!
"Grandmother Speaks" is a series of walks, perhaps concurrently, perhaps sequentially, being planned in different ecological areas of
what's commonly called Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. This is an opportunity for all Grandmothers, red, black, white and yellow, to
reflect among ourselves, alone and together, and share these perspectives with a world hungry for wisdom. Women of all ages are
welcome to do support work, however, only elders may walk. For more information write to: "Grandmother Speaks" P.O. Box 8191
Silver Spring, .MD 20907.

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Oklahoma Pride Summit Planning
Meeting
The Oklahoma Pride Summit will have it's next planning
meeting on Saturday, June 10, 1995 from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00
p.m. at the Stroud McDonalds on 1-44. The planning group is
reconvening after an unfortunately long hiatus.
The Summit theme is "Raising the Roof - Building Our
Community". The top agenda items for the meeting includes: 1)
Establishing a framework for the planning and 2) Selection of a
date for the next Summit.
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Darn, I've got this nagging moral dilemma, and I want to
share it with you. I've been surfing the right-wing radio shows,
God knows why, - penance, I think, for past misdeeds - for some
time now . Yes, since before April 19. Sometime after the 19th, I
happened to be visiting my younger brother, who is painfully
aware and thoughtful and sometimes annoyingly consistent in his
reasoning; and I remarked that I thought G. Gordon Liddy should
be arrested for treason and as an accessory before the fact of the
bombing; and my brother replied, "But Sis, then shouldn't they
have arrested us for treason in the 60's and 70's?"
His answer stopped me short at the time, but upon
reflection I cannot remember that I once, not even in my
staunchest support for the Black Panthers, recommended shooting
government agents anywhere, let alone in the head or groin; and
much as I disagreed with LBJ for his Vietnam war, I respected
him for his Civil Rights programs, and I would never have named
my targets in assault-weapon practice Lyndon and Lady Bird hell, I wouldn't have even named them Ron and Nancy, and I can't
think of one thing I liked about those two.
Soon after visiting that brother, I was chatting with my
older brother, who is a sweet, kind, gentle, easy-going haven'tgot-a-clue-about-real-life kind of guy, and a big fan of the AM
talk shows. He agreed with our other brother that there was
nothing treasonous about Mr. Liddy; and since this is the first
time they have ever agreed on anything - coming of age, as they
did, on opposite ends of the Vietnam war - I suppose they are
right.
But really I think it means they are both wrong. When
President Clinton was questioned about who he was referring to
in his remarks about the need for talk radio to tone down the
rhetoric, I wish that he had just said "If the shoe fits ..." and refused
further comment. I think that Rush Limbaugh, G. Gordon Liddy
and Oliver North are totally irresponsible and wrong, and that
they skirt treason, if they don't sometimes actually embrace it.
Which brings me back to my moral dilemma. I was
listening to Oliver North yesterday (and so far he seems to be
much the least offensive of the Big 3, believe it or not), and he
suddenly told us, his (dis)loyal listeners, in a tone not to be
disobeyed, "I want you to send off for this video tape NOW. Call
1-800-330-4046... " Now friends, you won't be surprised to hear
that I immediately wondered how much each individual call to
that number would cost him, a dollar or more, I imagine; and my
mind instantly began to dream of mass, continuous dialings to that
number to tell him, Well no, Ollie, I don't... ..
Volume 13 Number 6

Oh dear, it was a fun thought for a moment, and then into
my mind popped the image of a Gay hotline being sabotaged in
that way, and there you are: a major dilemma. It might be one of
those unanswerable questions, like, should women carry guns? I
could argue for days on both sides of that one too.. .. Anyhow,
now you know, and you can worry about it yourself. i.'I

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June at the following places:

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The BUNKHOUSE on June 10.
The NEON MOON on June 10.

These events will offer you a wonderful
evening of entertainment, so please turn out to help
support these businesses and PNl's efforts to organize
the best and biggest parade ever!
(see the VOICE calendar for all Pride Month activities.)

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St. Sybil, Unsung Heroine of the American Revolution and
Matron Saint of the Forgotten Woman, is an occasional
contributor to this space.
Dear St. Sybil,
Well, I'm sorry, but I just don't get it. Just what, can you
tell me, is wrong about calling ladies - uh, women - "ladies"?
Now, I can see that the pairing of "men" and "girls" maybe sends
a subtly demeaning message, but why does it hurt to use the more
elegant, softer term "lady", instead of "woman", which is kind of
harsh, you know?
Very truly yours,
lvanna Bea Goode

Dear Lady Bea Goode,
Well, my dear. If, as you say, "lady" is less harsh than
"woman", then you are using "lady" as a euphemism for
"woman"; and as only things with a bad or unpleasant connotation
need euphemisms, let's look at why people feel this way about
women - about, alas, thee and me.
Woman is often seen as either higher than men, or lower
- the famous "madonna/whore" syndrome; and neither placement
does her a bit of good. "Ladies" is an euphemism to make clear
that one is not referring to the bitch/whore side of the syndrome.
Consider the transition over the years from Gravedigger to
Undertaker to Mortician to Grief Counselor; these are all attempts
to take a term which has an unpleasant connotation - death - and to
remove that taint. Think of Stewardess to Hight Attendant, to
remove the taint of service and the slight intimation of Bimbo.
Think, for instance, of sweetbreads. How many elegant dinner
tables do you think sweetbreads would continue to grace if the
dish were called what it actually is, which is cow pancreas. Yes,
it is. Then, ask yourself: what taint, what unpleasantness, does
"woman" have that needs an upgrading, or softening? Of course,
there is none, unless subconsciously we buy into the bitch/saint
myth. "Ladies" indicates that we are referring not to the bitch but
to the pure, the good, the holy, to the Madonna side of the
syndrome. But that puts a woman right up on top of a pedestal,
and being on a pedestal is a dangerous and very constricted place
to be.
Traditionally, the term "lady" defines a woman by her
actions and demeanor, just as writer, politician, humorist,
homemaker, doctor, nurse, define her by her vocation; just as
"gentleman" defines a man by his behavior. (Except, of course,
that the "upper" classes don't consider any woman who is not
"well-born" to be a lady, no matter how lady-like she strives to be;
and it is impossible to totally separate out that snobbishness from
the word: another reason not to like it or·use it.
And further: "Lady" is, of course, a common name for a
sweet, gentle, docile pet; and I just don't know many of us who
really want to be considered that way anymore, if anyone ever
did.
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Woman is fully human, a being with infinite potential,
just like the guys. In this century, in this country, "Lady" and
"Gentleman" should be restricted to use as harmless frills, as
pleasantries, as complimentary embellishments in social
situations.
The handy-dandy, easy to remember, never-fail rule is:
Keep a horizontal equity. "Lady" is fine and appropriate when
"Gentleman" would be used for the other sex: Ladies &
Gentlemen, Women & Men, Boys and Girls. "Ladies &
Gentlemen, start your engines". "Both men and women are
invited to try out for the javelin-catching contest"; "You boys
(girls) have had a snootful, so I'm calling a cab for you right now.
Gimme those keys".
And if you still don't get it, picture Helen Reddy up on
stage, ready for the big finale, slinky dress flashing in the
spotlight: she squares off, stares the audience in the eye, raises her
arms up to heaven, and belts it out: I AM LADY .... tc
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Too Much
Animal Protein?
Scientists have known for decades that
protein, in particular animal protein, speeds up
the loss of calcium from the bones. Good
Medicine, Autumn 1994, explains the theory
behind this loss. Animal protein produces an
acid condition in the blood, which sets off a
series of reactions that help to neutralize the
acid. In the process of these reactions, calcium
is released from the bone.
A study at the Institute of Child Nutrition
in Dormund, Germany, examined this
relationship. It found that when people switched
from an acti-ovo-vegetarian diet to one that
included moderate amounts of animal protein,
acid levels went up; so did calcium loss. The
effects were even more pronounced in a highprotein diet.
For strong bones, avoid meat.
Reprintedfrom Women Wise. Winter/spring 1995.
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Methotrexate: An Already Legal
Abortion Pill
A recent article in the Concord Monitor describes Dr.
Richard Hausknecht, a doctor from New York City, who
considers himself a rebel. Back in the 60's, when he was a
gynecology resident at Yale, he handed out diaphragms in
defiance of a state ban on contraceptives that was later struck
down.
Distressed by delays in marketing RU-486, the French
abortion pill, Dr. Hausknecht mixes legal drugs to mimic the
effect of the yet unapproved abortion pill. His ringing phone is
unrelenting. Doctors and patients around the nation have heard he
performs drug-induced abortions and many want more
information. One drug Hausknecht uses, methotrexate, is a
tissue-growth inhibitor that is used to treat cancer, and can end
some ectopic pregnancies. The other is misoprostol, an ulcer
treatment, which also stimulates labor.
Researchers have been trying to determine whether the
two drugs used together to induce abortion are safe and effective.
In the meantime their use in a non-research setting falls into a
gray area. The Food and Drug Administration allows a doctor to
prescribe a drug for an unorthodox use in unusual circumstance.
But is that drug being used on a large number of patients, or when
data is being gathered regarding that use, research has been
undertaken. Dr. Hausknecht has applied for FDA research status,
although he insists his technique is not research, but innovative
medicare care.
Studies are underway currently, however, and early
results show the drug combination to be safe and more than 90
percent effective.
Pamela Maraldo, president of the Planned Parenthood
Federation of America says, "He is a trailblazer with women's
interest at heart, but we have to have clinical trials."
Reprinted from Women Wise, Winter/Spring 1995

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At its sixteenth annual conference, "Women's
Movements: Cultural, Intellectual and Political (R)evolutions" to
be held at the University of Oklahoma in Norman, Oklahoma,
June 21-25, 1995, the National Women's Studies Association will
consider women's relationships to (r)evolutionary change
historically and globally, in women's studies and the women's
movements, and in our organizations.
Among the many questions the conference will address
through its workshops, panels and plenaries will be: How have
women participated in the political, social, cultural and
intellectual revolutions of the past and present? How have
women shaped these revolutions or been excluded from them?
How have women themselves organized for change, creating
movements to struggle for political and economic justice? How
have women participated in and helped to define other
movements for change: the civil rights movements; the union
movement; the gay and lesbian rights movement; the peace
movement; the environmental movement? How have women's
lives been shaped by change as they have moved or been removed
from their land and homes as refugees from hunger, violence or
political or religious persecution; moved around the globe as
immigrants; moved into cities as workers in the industrial and
technological revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth century
or as domestic workers in South Africa or textile and electronics
workers in the Free Trade Zones of Southeast Asia; moved to
travel the world?
Especially in the past 20 years, women inside and
outside of the academy around the globe have challenged the
fundamental conceptualizations of gender, race, class and
sexuality, the epistemological and methodological bases of
disciplines, the social and cultural arrangements of societies; the
definitions of canon and quality in art, music, literature, dance,

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and theater; the systems of representation in
media, film, and other popular forms. How have
our challenges provoked reaction, retaliation
and backlash? Have we created and are we
creating new orders and understandings?
Wilma Mankiller, the first woman
principal chief of the Cherokee Nation, opens
this conference that features more than 200
panels and workshops, a writers series,
continuous film and video series, evening
entertainment featuring Margie Adam, Mary
Reynolds, Miss Brown to You, Odetta, Karen
Williams and Revue f of Oklahoma (see related
article), and a book exhibit. The opening night
program includes a keynote dialogue between
feminist theorist, bell hooks, and feminist
scholar and Women's Studies program director
at Spelman College, Beverly Guy-Sheftall.
If you have questions about housing,
food, and local arrangements phone the OU
Women's Studies Program at 405-325-0138.tc
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JUNE 25 = PRIDE PARADE
The eighth annual Gay and Lesbian Pride
Parade and Rally will be held on Sunday, June 25.
"From silence to celebration" is the theme of this year's
parade which will feature floats and marching
contingents and the first parade appearance of "The
Banned of Oklahoma", our own marching band.
The Celebration will begin at 12:30 with an
ecumenical service in Memorial Park at NW 36th and
Classen. Kathy McCallis, minister of Epworth
Methodist Church and Moderator of the Clergy
Coalition for Human Rights will close the service and
begin the 2:00 Rally which features keynote speakers
and entertainment including comedian Karen Williams,
State Senators Angela Monson and Bernest Cain, and
singer/activist Peggy Johnson.
Floats and marching groups will be judged
during the parade, with a trophy being awarded in each
of those two categories. Oklahoma City Police officers
have been hired to provide security and to detour traffic
approaching the parade route. Participants in the
parade will line up on the west side of Memorial Park at
3:30 and begin the mile-long march at 4:00. All
attending or involved in the Rally and Parade are
encouraged to park at the end of the Parade route-Habana Inn at NW 39th Expressway--and ride the free
shuttle bus to the park area.
This annual event is organized and funded by
PNI (Pride Network, Inc.), which raises money through
parade entry fees, Pride shirt sales, and fundraisers. If
you haven't bought your 1995 Pride T-shirt, sweat shirt
or tank top, telephone 794-3035 or 942-6250 to find the
sales point closest to you.
(see the accompanying map for the Parade route)

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Great Entertainment Coming to
Oklahoma ...
Get ready, there is fabulous entertainment on its way to
Oklahoma in June. The National Women's Studies Association
Conference is being held this summer in Norman; and in addition
to inspiring speakers and workshops, the following performers
will be delighting audiences on June 22 - 24, 1995:
June 22, widely respected songwriter Emily Kaitz and
Oklahoma's own Mary Reynolds will be the opening act for
comedian Karen Williams. It will be wonderful to have Mary
back in Oklahoma, and Karen Williams is no stranger to us either.
Herland has been instrumental in bringing Karen to Oklahoma
twice before, and those of you lucky enough to have caught her
act know how lucky we are to have her return. She is one of the
country's leading stand-up comics and emcees. Known as the
Diva of Comedy and the Queen of Improv, Karen Williams is the
funniest and best-known feminist comic entertainer on today's
comedy scene. Her reviewers find her "charming, likeable, warm,
sexy, and irreverent". Karen is a frequent comic host on the
Olivia Records cruises, entertaining fan-filled audiences during
excursions to the Caribbean, Mexico, Greece and Alaska.
June 23 is an exciting double-bill, with the famed
Margie Adam performing first. Since the mid-seventies, she has
been known to feminist and progressive audiences as a singersongwriter of elegant love songs and inspiring songs of
conscience. She also established herself as a composerinstrumentalist in 1980 when she released a ground-breaking solo
piano recording. Margie's trademark orchestral style is intensely
polyrhythmic, chordally complex and melodically clear as a bell,
and concert audiences find her command and delicacy at the piano
compelling. Her playing has a vibrancy and drama that draws
from Broadway musicals, as well as a hypnotic sensuality that is
gently influenced by Brazilian rhythms. One hears whispers of
Gershwin, Ravel, Rachmaninoff and Jobim.
On the same bill with Margie is the fabulous Odetta;
from Alabama to Zimbabwe, from Carnegie Hall to Shea
Stadium, from the Montreux Jazz Festival to "A Prairie Home
Companion", Odetta has captivated music lovers in many lands
and from all facets of the music world. "Odetta should be
declared an American treasure, for she surely is one .. .her voice is
a miracle!" A woman of wide-ranging political and musical
interests, Odetta has recreated Bessie Smith on stage in a Chicago
musical; she sings frequently with such blues bands as the New
Black Eagle Jazz Band in Boston and Jacob's Pillow; and has
collaborated with other such major folk stars as Pete Seeger, Joan
Baez, Buffy St. Marie, and Richie Havens. According to the New
York Times, she has "the most glorious voice in American folk
music."
Saturday, June 24, the opening act will be the
professional debut ofjOklaboma, a Regional Revue, a fast-paced
upbeat showcase of musical talent; from down-home country to
fiercely feminist a Capella and everything in between.
Performers and groups include Free Fall, Full Circle, The Vested
Interest, Peggy Johnson, Donna D, and others!
FollowingjOklahoma's performance, ticket-holders will
dance the night away to the wonderful music of MISS BROWN
TO YOU. Miss Brown To You is a (continued on page 6)

LESBIAN-ONLY COUNSELING - group or individual counseling.
M.E.D./M.H.R./I.CA.D./L.P.C. at 321-0134.

For more information contact Jo L. Soske

21st ANNUAL FEMINIST WOMEN'S WRITING WORKSHOPS, INC - July 9 - July 16, 1995 - Join a community of established,
emerging and novice women writers for eight days in a serene, supportive atmosphere on the shore of beautiful Seneca Lake in New
York's Finger Lakes Region. Share a residence (private rooms) on the campus of Hobart/William Smith Colleges in Geneva, NY.
Choose from workshops on a variety of topics, evening readings, talks and critiques as well as enjoying time for solitude and individual
writing. Our Guest Writer will be Ruth Stone, author of numerous books including In an Iridescent Time, Topography, Cheap, Second
Hand Coat, Who is the Widow's Mus? and the forthcoming Simplicity (Paris Press, Spring 1995). For more information, send a SASE
t: Feminist Women's Writing Workshops, Inc., P.O. Box 6583, Ithaca, NY 14851.

Poetry/Short Story Contest - $100.00 prize and publication in each category. Stories 1,500 word maximum. Authors retain
copyrights. Enclose $5.00 reading fee for each entry. Any topic relating to women. Deadline: July 31, 1995. Send a SASE for winner
list. Southern Women's Words Quarterly. Attn: Diane Tait, Box 32294, Raleigh, NC 27622. QUALIFIED NON-WINNERS WILL
ALSO BE PUBLISHED.
WANTED: works from Black lesbians for anthology of coming out stories. Your story could be in the form of journal entries,
autobiographical fiction, poetry or whatever way the words came together to describe your coming out. Even if you don't think you're a
writer, your story is important. Send submissions to: Lisa Moore, P.O. Box 861, Decatur, GA 30031. Deadline: June 30, 1995.
THE NINTH ANNUAL GOLDEN THREADS CELEBRATION will take place June 23-25 at the Provincetown Inn in
Provincetown, Massachusetts. This is a celebration of older lesbians, featuring a banquet, dancing, and entertainment by Alix Dobkin.
All lesbians are welcome. Write Christine Burton, Golden Threads, P.O. Box 60475, Northampton, MA 01060.
THE FIRST CONFERENCE ON IDV/AIDS AND CHINESE MEDICINE will be held June 15-18 on the campus of Columbia
University in New York City. For more information call 415-282-4028.
CALL FOR ART: WomenWise is actively soliciting artwork for future issues. They are particularly interested in black and white line
drawings of subjects pertaining to women, border art, and marginalia. Compensation is mostly karmic, although they are able to offer a
small amount for cover art; all artists receive a one-year subscription and five portfolio copies of the issue in which their work appears.
Write to WomenWise, c/o Concord Feminist Health Center, 38 South Main Street, Concord, NH 03301.
TAKING OUR PLACE: GAY AND LESBIAN JEWS IN THE 21ST CENTURY - 14th International Conference of Gay and
Lesbian Jews will take place July 27-30, 1995 in New York City. Call New York's Gay and Lesbian Synagogue (212)929-9498 for
registration and program information.
WRITERS I AUTHORS! Be part of a new ongoing anthology, Lesbian Short Fiction. Premiering in Spring of 1996. LSF will accept
short stories with significant lesbian content in most genres. Send SASE NOW for guidelines to: Jinx Beers, Editor Lesbian Short
Fiction 6507 Franri vers A venue West Hills, CA 91307.
EIGHTH ANNUAL CREATING CHANGE CONFERENCE TRAVELS TO THE MOTOR CITY Creating Change, the preeminent national gathering of gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgender activists, will be hosted this year in Detroit, Michigan, November 8
through 12. All conference events during this eighth annual conference sponsored by the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
(NGL1F) will be held at The Westin Hotel, Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit. For more information or to receive a Creating
Change 1995 registration brochure, call 202-332-6483, ext. 3329. To reserve a room at The Westin Hotel, Renaissance Center, call
800-228-3000; mention "National Gay & Lesbian Task Force" to get the special conference room rates of $80/single & double;
$90/triple & quad.
GRANDMOTHER SPEAKS! A series of bioregional walks/pilgrimages for wise old women to share wisdom, experience, contacts,
perspectives. This is in the planning stages for 1996./97. If you've been secretly waiting for an opportunity like this - Let's Do It!
"Grandmother Speaks" is a series of walks, perhaps concurrently, perhaps sequentially, being planned in different ecological areas of
what's commonly called Canada, the U.S. and Mexico. This is an opportunity for all Grandmothers, red, black, white and yellow, to
reflect among ourselves, alone and together, and share these perspectives with a world hungry for wisdom. Women of all ages are
welcome to do support work, however, only elders may walk. For more information write to: "Grandmother Speaks" P.O. Box 8191
Silver Spring, .MD 20907.

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Oklahoma Pride Summit Planning
Meeting
The Oklahoma Pride Summit will have it's next planning
meeting on Saturday, June 10, 1995 from 11:00 a.m. until 3:00
p.m. at the Stroud McDonalds on 1-44. The planning group is
reconvening after an unfortunately long hiatus.
The Summit theme is "Raising the Roof - Building Our
Community". The top agenda items for the meeting includes: 1)
Establishing a framework for the planning and 2) Selection of a
date for the next Summit.
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2312 N.W. 39th Street
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 73112

ADDRESS CORRECTION REQUESTED
RETURN POSTAGE GUARANTEED

Oklahoma City, Okla.
Permit No.861