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Herland Fall Retreat September 10-12, 2004

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etreat to Robbers Cave State Park September 10 - 12, surrender your worries
and cares and give up your responsibilities
for one weekend. The retreat features workshops, recreation, entertainment, a potluck dinner and a Saturday evening concert in a womenidentified and supportive atmosphere. While we
have lots of activities which are listed below,
many people come to the retreats and park
themselves under a tree with a good book all
day; or go off hiking on their own - there is no
need or pressure to do anything you don't want
to. All women and girl-children are welcome.
No boys over 10, please.
The retreat starts Friday afternoon with plenty
of time for unstructured relaxation. The famous
Retreat soup will be simmering on the stove by
5 pm. Join other retreaters around the campfire
for songs, fellowship and marshmallows. Saturday morning, bright and early, join Judy for a
bird-watching nature hike.
Bring your musical equipment and talent for
the Saturday afternoon Open Mic at 4.
The Saturday evening potluck will give you a
chance to show off your culinary skills. Whether
that means a bucket of KFC or flaming a Baked
Alaska, or something in between,
you'll enjoy.
For our Saturday concert, join
~! ~ancy Scott and her fiddler friend Mili he Marlow. Hometown favorites Mary
Reynolds and Louise Goldberg will also
be there.
Robbers Cave got its name from its alleged association with Jesse James and gangs, and Belle Starr, along
with Cole Younger, and other assorted
outlaws. Also, this historic park offers
tons of things to do including Biking
(road bikes can be rented), bird watching, camping, canoeing, fishing, hiking,
horseback riding, jogging, kayaking and

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paddle boating, rappelling, rock climbing and wildlife
viewing.
Robbers Cave is located East of Lake Eufaula and
just North of Wilburton on State Highway 2 in southeast Oklahoma . From I-40 take the Indian Nation
Turnpike to McAlester, then US 270 East 30 miles to
SH 2, then North on SH 2 for about 7 miles.
See registration form on page 4

Will your vote make a difference in
2004? Only if you register!
Almost 76 million of us didn't vote in 2000 and with a less than 600 vote margin deciding
the presidency in that election, we know now
more than ever that everyone's vote counts!
This month we are enclosing a voter Registration Form for our readers in Oklahoma. If
you are not registered, or if you need to
change your address or party affiliation,
please fill out the form, stamp it and drop it in
the mail. If you do not need to use it, consider passing it along to a friend. Better yet,
feel free to copy it and pass out copies to your
friends.
If you live outside of Oklahoma, our apologies. Bulk mail regulations require that each
mailing be identical, wherever it goes. But
until August 26th, anyone from any state can
register at any Office Depot store or by going
online at www.wedecide2004.com.

29th Michigan
Women's Music
Festival
August 10th through 15th, 2004
For schedule of events and registration form, go to
www.michfest.com/home.htm

www.herlandsisters.org
herland sister resources, 2312 nw 39th, oklahoma city, ok 73112
(405) 521-9696
email: herlandsisters@cox.net
bookstore hours: saturdays 1-5 pm

Saint Sybil

Dear St. Sybil,
What journals and periodicals are on your
reading list? To put this another way, can you
recommend some good, liberal-radical publications that might be hiding somewhere behind
the New Yorker or the Enquirer at the newsstand?
Yours, Hungry for the Real News
Dear Hungry,
You can find real news and real ideas at Off
Our Backs, a radical lesbian monthly. The Progressive; In These Times, and Mother Jones ,
are other monthlies which tell it as the liberal
orthodoxy see it. The Utne Reader provides a
great service with their monthly compilation
culled from all of the radical (leftish) rags, both
mainstream and more obscure. The Nation, a
weekly, is one of the very best for political and
intellectual commentary. It has Katha Pollitt
and The Mad Law Professor (Patricia J. Williams) and a great puzzle on the back page
that is so hard it puts Sybil to sleep. Ms.
Magazine is a wonderful quarterly, so thick
and juicy with news and opinion and fiction and
poetry from all over the world that it takes a
full three months to read it through. If you
happen to live in Oklahoma, Frosty Troy's
Oklahoma Observer can't be beat for updating
you on the goings on at the Capitol.
The Sun is a delightful magazine, moderately
liberal and radical, and soothingly intellectual
and a-political. On The Issues was a marvelous feminist monthly which had a strong animal-rights philosophy. It unfortunately is defunct. Sybil hopes that it was not because they
once published some of her musings.
If it moves you to send money to Amnesty
International, The Humane Society, The Nature
Conservancy, The Southern Poverty Law Center, the NAACP, PETA, the Smithsonian, the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Equality Now, etc. etc. - all of these and
dozens more have wonderful magazines they
send to their members which tell the truth as
they see it about their issues.
There is another quarterly magazine I want
to recommend, even though I feel I need to
apologize for uttering the name out loud. Bitch
is provocative and radical and fun, and jampacked with interesting reading. It aims to be
100% feminist; although the name will cause

some to argue that the founders were misguided in their decision to reclaim the pejorative "bitch"; a word which many feminists
would not let pass their lips even when speaking about Nurse Ratchett or Phyllis Schlafly.
Still, there is a long history of the oppressed
taking power and pride by embracing terms
used to put them down, like "dyke" and
"queer", for two. As well, I imagine there was
a direct connection intended in the transition
between Ms., which it resembles, and their
chosen name, as in "That's Ms. Bitch to you,
buddy!" Bitch has hardly any advertising,
barely more than Ms., which has none. However, some of that advertising will seem over
the top to more traditional (make that older?)
feminists. In a nutshell I would say Bitch is
Ms. in a jazzier, younger, more sexually open
format.
So bon appetit, Hungry-for-Real-News; and
good reading.
Love,
Sybil

Building Bridges:
Gay and Lesbian Catholics and the Church
New Ways Ministry, a national Catholic ministry
of justice and reconciliation for lesbian/gay people,
presents "Building Bridges: Gay and Lesbian Christians and the Church", a daylong workshop that includes presentations on the full-range of Church
teaching on homosexuality, lesbian/gay development and spirituality, family issues, and pastoral
outreach.
All are welcome: pastoral workers, gay/lesbian
people, their families and friends, social work ers,
counselors and educators.
The workshops are from 9:00 a.m to 3:30 p.m.
on the following dates and locations in Oklahoma:
Saturday, August 14, 2004
Tulsa GLBT Community Center
5545 East 41st Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135
Co-sponsored by Tuisa Oklahomans for Human Rights

Monday, August 16, 2004
Bethany Library
3510 North Mueller
Bethany, Oklahoma 73008 (near Oklahoma City)

To register, send a $45 check made out to "New
Ways Ministry" to 4012 29th Street, Mt. Rainier,
Maryland 20712. At door registration is $55.
Scholarships are available. For more info., call
(301) 277-5674 or email NewWaysM@verizon.net.

Herland Supper Club
Herland Supper Club will meet at 5:45 pm on Saturday, August 14th, at Earl's Rib Place (6816 N
Western). Women wishing to carpool may meet at
Herland at 5: 15 pm. After supper, diners may return to Herland for an evening of fun and games.

Native American Women

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: Sunday. August 8: Womyn of Color Meeting, call 842- :
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: Monday, August 9: OGLPC Monthly Meeting at the
• Center, 2135 NW 39th, 7 pm

OKC Two-Spirit Society is having meetings for lesbian and bi-sexual women of Native American descent. Please call the OKC Two-Spirit Hotline number at (405) 317-7283 for information.

: Saturday, August 14: Herl and Hike at Martin Nature

Womyn of Color

• Sunday, August 15: Herland Board Meeting, 4 pm,

Womyn of Color group meets the 2nd Sunday of
each month- Please email womynofcolor@gay.com or call (405) 842-3464 or (405)
947-7691 for more information.

August Celebrations!
Monday August 2nd, gay African American novelist
James Baldwin's birthday (1924)
Tuesday the 3rd, Gray Panther Maggie Kuhn's birthday (1905)
Friday the 13th, suffragist Lucy Stone's birthday
(1818)
Monday the 16th, Carol Mosely Braun's birthday
(1947)
Thursday the 26th, 84th Anniversary of women's
suffrage - so go vote already! And when you get
discouraged in the struggle, remember it took 72
years of effort to achieve it.

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: Saturday. August 21: Herland Video Night-see below
• Saturday. August 28: Herland Scrabble Night-6 pm

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Kissing Jessica Stein
The August Herland Video Night will feature
an indy fiim written by the actresses (Heather
Jurgensen, Jennifer Westfeldt).
"Kissing Jessica Stine" is described by one reviewer as a lesbian Annie Hall (which may be
stretching a point) and by another as When
Sally met Sally, a comedy, a very light romp
with the added bonus of Tovah Feldshuh as Jessica's mother.
Join us for Herland Video Night:
Saturday, August 21st, 2004, 7:00 P.M. at
Herl and
As always there will be free popcorn; also sodas
and bottled water available for a donation to
Herland.

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Unsolicited articles and letters to the editor are welcomed and must
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letters or articles may be printed under a pseudonym or anonymously.
Subscriptions to The Voice are free upon request although a donation
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Herland Fall Women's Retreat Registration Form
Robbers Cave State Park - September 10-12, 2004
Below are guidelines to help you select an appropriate registration amount. Deadline for pre-registration is September 4th.
Please remember that dogs are welcome but must remain on leashes and are not allowed in the dining hall.
Sliding Scale Registration Guidelines Based on Income

Registration fee enclosed (payable to Herland):
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per person

Single Person
Annual Income

Household
Annual Income

under $6,500

under $13,300

$15

$6,500-$13,300

$13,300-$18,000

$25

$13,300-$19,500

$18,000-$26,000

$35

$19,500-$30,000

$26,000-$50,000

$45

over $30,000

over $50,000

$60

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Please return registration form and check to: Herland Sister Resources, 2312 NW 39th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73112
A retreat packet with all information will be sent to you.

Free Training Opportunity
Domestic Violence Medical Intervention and Lethality
Assessment-August 10 & 11, 2004, Norman Regional
Hospital Auditorium.
This training is sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Health, Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic
Violence and Sexual Assault, Oklahoma Department of
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. Contact:
Department of Health, Cassandra Smith Edwards 405271-3430
Day one (August 10, 2004):
Focus - medical assessment and intervention to improve the medical response to victims of domestic violence including issues of screening, identification, referral, and medical documentation.
Day two (August 11, 2004):
Focus - factors associated with intimate partner
homicides and the appropriate use of lethality assessments. The training targets emergency room physicians and nurses, ob/gyn specialists, physicians' assistants, public health nurses, admission clerks, records
clerks, social workers, chaplains, emergency medical
technicians, domestic violence service providers, counselors, law enforcement, and prosecutors.
The speaker for this training is Jacquelyn Campbell, Ph .D., R.N .. Dr. Campbell is the Anna D. Wolf

Chair and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with a
joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public
Health. She has published more than 120 articles
and seven books on the subject of domestic violence and lethality assessments.
Due to limited space, registration is required.
Deadline for registration is August 2, 2004. (If
you receive this information after August 2,
call a nyway, deadlines often expand). Registration and check-in for the trainings will begin at
8:00 a.m. For more information, contact Cassandra
Smith Edwards at (405) 271-3430 or 1-800-5220204, or Lisa Slater at (405) 271-7611. You can
also access the training brochure at the DMHSAS
website. Look under upcoming events.

This Month's website of the month is:
www.interguru.com/fittvplusone

Would You Like to Quit
Smoking?
A new website looks to help LGBT cigarette
smokers quit. Researchers at the University
of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recently
launched iQuit, a free Internet-based smoking
treatment study for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender (LGBT) smokers
(www.iquit.medschool.ucsf.edu).
This study comes on the heels of research
showing high rates of smoking in the LGBT
community. In some parts of the community,
LGBT smoking
rates can be as
much as 50%
higher than
their heterosexual counterparts. This
along with the
smoking kills
fact that
more people
each year than
HIV/AIDS, car
accidents, and
hol use comdrug and alco:
smoking treatbined, makes
ment
"
programs an
emerging public health priority for LGBT individuals.
The study will compare two Internet-based
smoking treatments: one that provides general information that has been helpful in a variety of smoking treatment programs, another
that includes the general information plus information and support designed especially for
an LGBT audience. Smokers will be randomly
selected to participate in one or the other. Researchers hope to enroll 600 participants over
the course of a year. The purpose of the study
is to determine if either treatment results in
higher rates of use, more quit attempts, or
higher quit rates.
iQuit is unique in offering participants cessation services that are highly convenient and
private. LGBTs can access the site's resources
any time of day, from multiple locations, and
their participation is kept confidential. To be
eligible for the study, individuals must be 18
years of age or older and identify as LGBT.
For more information about this study, visit
the iQuit website at
www.iquit.medschool.ucsf.edu
If you would like posters, flyers, or postcards
to display in your community, please contact
Anthony Taylor at taylora@itsa.ucsf.edu or by
calling us toll free at 866-895-8050.)

WENDY ALLEN
CONCERT
AT CHURCH OF
THE OPEN ARMS
Wendy Allyn, singer
and songwriter, will
be performing at
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Church of the Open
Arms, located at 3131 N. Pennsylvania, on
Saturday, August 21st at 7:30 pm. There is
a suggested donation of $5 to $15 with all
proceeds to benefit Church of the Open
Arms.
California born, Oklahoma grown, Wendy
Allyn writes songs that combine the stable
and sturdy traits of a prairie farmer with a
breezy west coast attitude. Solid lyrics float
on shamelessly hummable melodies. Her
debut album, Catalina Days, offered a showcase of her songwriting skill. The album received extremely positive reviews. Since
that recording was released, Wendy has
traveled the country, living for awhile in the
northeast, awhile in California, and some
time in Hawaii.
Wendy's songs cover the gamut of the human experience, from family ties to social
issues. Characters in her songs come to life
in succinct composite sketches, drawn with
lyrical pictures. Like a good storyteller,
Wendy gets her listeners involved in the
songs from the first line and keeps them
hanging until the last note. You'll believe
that she lived every minute of the tales she
tells - and you'll be right.
For more information, contact Church of
the Open Arms UCC at 525 -9555.

Calling for Poetry, Cartoons, Short
Writings
Herland is seeking poetry, cartoons, and short
essays/stories for a special issue of the Voice in
late Fall 2004. Submissions may be sent via snail
mail or electronic mail (preferred but not required). Acceptable electronic formats include,
email plain text, MS WORD, and MS Publisher. If
you want a by line published with your entry,
specify this with your submission and indicate how
you want your name printed. We will not assume
you want your name printed and will not do it
without your written permission.

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August 2004

Herland Fall Retreat September 10-12, 2004

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etreat to Robbers Cave State Park September 10 - 12, surrender your worries
and cares and give up your responsibilities
for one weekend. The retreat features workshops, recreation, entertainment, a potluck dinner and a Saturday evening concert in a womenidentified and supportive atmosphere. While we
have lots of activities which are listed below,
many people come to the retreats and park
themselves under a tree with a good book all
day; or go off hiking on their own - there is no
need or pressure to do anything you don't want
to. All women and girl-children are welcome.
No boys over 10, please.
The retreat starts Friday afternoon with plenty
of time for unstructured relaxation. The famous
Retreat soup will be simmering on the stove by
5 pm. Join other retreaters around the campfire
for songs, fellowship and marshmallows. Saturday morning, bright and early, join Judy for a
bird-watching nature hike.
Bring your musical equipment and talent for
the Saturday afternoon Open Mic at 4.
The Saturday evening potluck will give you a
chance to show off your culinary skills. Whether
that means a bucket of KFC or flaming a Baked
Alaska, or something in between,
you'll enjoy.
For our Saturday concert, join
~! ~ancy Scott and her fiddler friend Mili he Marlow. Hometown favorites Mary
Reynolds and Louise Goldberg will also
be there.
Robbers Cave got its name from its alleged association with Jesse James and gangs, and Belle Starr, along
with Cole Younger, and other assorted
outlaws. Also, this historic park offers
tons of things to do including Biking
(road bikes can be rented), bird watching, camping, canoeing, fishing, hiking,
horseback riding, jogging, kayaking and

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paddle boating, rappelling, rock climbing and wildlife
viewing.
Robbers Cave is located East of Lake Eufaula and
just North of Wilburton on State Highway 2 in southeast Oklahoma . From I-40 take the Indian Nation
Turnpike to McAlester, then US 270 East 30 miles to
SH 2, then North on SH 2 for about 7 miles.
See registration form on page 4

Will your vote make a difference in
2004? Only if you register!
Almost 76 million of us didn't vote in 2000 and with a less than 600 vote margin deciding
the presidency in that election, we know now
more than ever that everyone's vote counts!
This month we are enclosing a voter Registration Form for our readers in Oklahoma. If
you are not registered, or if you need to
change your address or party affiliation,
please fill out the form, stamp it and drop it in
the mail. If you do not need to use it, consider passing it along to a friend. Better yet,
feel free to copy it and pass out copies to your
friends.
If you live outside of Oklahoma, our apologies. Bulk mail regulations require that each
mailing be identical, wherever it goes. But
until August 26th, anyone from any state can
register at any Office Depot store or by going
online at www.wedecide2004.com.

29th Michigan
Women's Music
Festival
August 10th through 15th, 2004
For schedule of events and registration form, go to
www.michfest.com/home.htm

www.herlandsisters.org
herland sister resources, 2312 nw 39th, oklahoma city, ok 73112
(405) 521-9696
email: herlandsisters@cox.net
bookstore hours: saturdays 1-5 pm

Saint Sybil

Dear St. Sybil,
What journals and periodicals are on your
reading list? To put this another way, can you
recommend some good, liberal-radical publications that might be hiding somewhere behind
the New Yorker or the Enquirer at the newsstand?
Yours, Hungry for the Real News
Dear Hungry,
You can find real news and real ideas at Off
Our Backs, a radical lesbian monthly. The Progressive; In These Times, and Mother Jones ,
are other monthlies which tell it as the liberal
orthodoxy see it. The Utne Reader provides a
great service with their monthly compilation
culled from all of the radical (leftish) rags, both
mainstream and more obscure. The Nation, a
weekly, is one of the very best for political and
intellectual commentary. It has Katha Pollitt
and The Mad Law Professor (Patricia J. Williams) and a great puzzle on the back page
that is so hard it puts Sybil to sleep. Ms.
Magazine is a wonderful quarterly, so thick
and juicy with news and opinion and fiction and
poetry from all over the world that it takes a
full three months to read it through. If you
happen to live in Oklahoma, Frosty Troy's
Oklahoma Observer can't be beat for updating
you on the goings on at the Capitol.
The Sun is a delightful magazine, moderately
liberal and radical, and soothingly intellectual
and a-political. On The Issues was a marvelous feminist monthly which had a strong animal-rights philosophy. It unfortunately is defunct. Sybil hopes that it was not because they
once published some of her musings.
If it moves you to send money to Amnesty
International, The Humane Society, The Nature
Conservancy, The Southern Poverty Law Center, the NAACP, PETA, the Smithsonian, the
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Equality Now, etc. etc. - all of these and
dozens more have wonderful magazines they
send to their members which tell the truth as
they see it about their issues.
There is another quarterly magazine I want
to recommend, even though I feel I need to
apologize for uttering the name out loud. Bitch
is provocative and radical and fun, and jampacked with interesting reading. It aims to be
100% feminist; although the name will cause

some to argue that the founders were misguided in their decision to reclaim the pejorative "bitch"; a word which many feminists
would not let pass their lips even when speaking about Nurse Ratchett or Phyllis Schlafly.
Still, there is a long history of the oppressed
taking power and pride by embracing terms
used to put them down, like "dyke" and
"queer", for two. As well, I imagine there was
a direct connection intended in the transition
between Ms., which it resembles, and their
chosen name, as in "That's Ms. Bitch to you,
buddy!" Bitch has hardly any advertising,
barely more than Ms., which has none. However, some of that advertising will seem over
the top to more traditional (make that older?)
feminists. In a nutshell I would say Bitch is
Ms. in a jazzier, younger, more sexually open
format.
So bon appetit, Hungry-for-Real-News; and
good reading.
Love,
Sybil

Building Bridges:
Gay and Lesbian Catholics and the Church
New Ways Ministry, a national Catholic ministry
of justice and reconciliation for lesbian/gay people,
presents "Building Bridges: Gay and Lesbian Christians and the Church", a daylong workshop that includes presentations on the full-range of Church
teaching on homosexuality, lesbian/gay development and spirituality, family issues, and pastoral
outreach.
All are welcome: pastoral workers, gay/lesbian
people, their families and friends, social work ers,
counselors and educators.
The workshops are from 9:00 a.m to 3:30 p.m.
on the following dates and locations in Oklahoma:
Saturday, August 14, 2004
Tulsa GLBT Community Center
5545 East 41st Street
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74135
Co-sponsored by Tuisa Oklahomans for Human Rights

Monday, August 16, 2004
Bethany Library
3510 North Mueller
Bethany, Oklahoma 73008 (near Oklahoma City)

To register, send a $45 check made out to "New
Ways Ministry" to 4012 29th Street, Mt. Rainier,
Maryland 20712. At door registration is $55.
Scholarships are available. For more info., call
(301) 277-5674 or email NewWaysM@verizon.net.

Herland Supper Club
Herland Supper Club will meet at 5:45 pm on Saturday, August 14th, at Earl's Rib Place (6816 N
Western). Women wishing to carpool may meet at
Herland at 5: 15 pm. After supper, diners may return to Herland for an evening of fun and games.

Native American Women

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: Sunday. August 8: Womyn of Color Meeting, call 842- :
• 3464 for details

: Monday, August 9: OGLPC Monthly Meeting at the
• Center, 2135 NW 39th, 7 pm

OKC Two-Spirit Society is having meetings for lesbian and bi-sexual women of Native American descent. Please call the OKC Two-Spirit Hotline number at (405) 317-7283 for information.

: Saturday, August 14: Herl and Hike at Martin Nature

Womyn of Color

• Sunday, August 15: Herland Board Meeting, 4 pm,

Womyn of Color group meets the 2nd Sunday of
each month- Please email womynofcolor@gay.com or call (405) 842-3464 or (405)
947-7691 for more information.

August Celebrations!
Monday August 2nd, gay African American novelist
James Baldwin's birthday (1924)
Tuesday the 3rd, Gray Panther Maggie Kuhn's birthday (1905)
Friday the 13th, suffragist Lucy Stone's birthday
(1818)
Monday the 16th, Carol Mosely Braun's birthday
(1947)
Thursday the 26th, 84th Anniversary of women's
suffrage - so go vote already! And when you get
discouraged in the struggle, remember it took 72
years of effort to achieve it.

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• Park, 5000 W. Memorial, 10 am

•• Saturday, August 14: Herland Supper Club and Game
• Night-eat at Earl's Rib Place 6816 N Western at

•• 5:45 pm.

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: Saturday. August 21: Herland Video Night-see below
• Saturday. August 28: Herland Scrabble Night-6 pm

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•• Robbers Cave State Park-see page 4 for registration

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Kissing Jessica Stein
The August Herland Video Night will feature
an indy fiim written by the actresses (Heather
Jurgensen, Jennifer Westfeldt).
"Kissing Jessica Stine" is described by one reviewer as a lesbian Annie Hall (which may be
stretching a point) and by another as When
Sally met Sally, a comedy, a very light romp
with the added bonus of Tovah Feldshuh as Jessica's mother.
Join us for Herland Video Night:
Saturday, August 21st, 2004, 7:00 P.M. at
Herl and
As always there will be free popcorn; also sodas
and bottled water available for a donation to
Herland.

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Unsolicited articles and letters to the editor are welcomed and must
be signed by the writer with full name and address. Upon request,
letters or articles may be printed under a pseudonym or anonymously.
Subscriptions to The Voice are free upon request although a donation
is requested to meet publication and distribution costs.

Herland Fall Women's Retreat Registration Form
Robbers Cave State Park - September 10-12, 2004
Below are guidelines to help you select an appropriate registration amount. Deadline for pre-registration is September 4th.
Please remember that dogs are welcome but must remain on leashes and are not allowed in the dining hall.
Sliding Scale Registration Guidelines Based on Income

Registration fee enclosed (payable to Herland):
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per person

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Annual Income

Household
Annual Income

under $6,500

under $13,300

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$6,500-$13,300

$13,300-$18,000

$25

$13,300-$19,500

$18,000-$26,000

$35

$19,500-$30,000

$26,000-$50,000

$45

over $30,000

over $50,000

$60

Concert only - $10

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Please return registration form and check to: Herland Sister Resources, 2312 NW 39th Street, Oklahoma City, OK 73112
A retreat packet with all information will be sent to you.

Free Training Opportunity
Domestic Violence Medical Intervention and Lethality
Assessment-August 10 & 11, 2004, Norman Regional
Hospital Auditorium.
This training is sponsored by the Oklahoma Department of Health, Oklahoma Coalition Against Domestic
Violence and Sexual Assault, Oklahoma Department of
Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services. Contact:
Department of Health, Cassandra Smith Edwards 405271-3430
Day one (August 10, 2004):
Focus - medical assessment and intervention to improve the medical response to victims of domestic violence including issues of screening, identification, referral, and medical documentation.
Day two (August 11, 2004):
Focus - factors associated with intimate partner
homicides and the appropriate use of lethality assessments. The training targets emergency room physicians and nurses, ob/gyn specialists, physicians' assistants, public health nurses, admission clerks, records
clerks, social workers, chaplains, emergency medical
technicians, domestic violence service providers, counselors, law enforcement, and prosecutors.
The speaker for this training is Jacquelyn Campbell, Ph .D., R.N .. Dr. Campbell is the Anna D. Wolf

Chair and Associate Dean for Faculty Affairs in the
Johns Hopkins University School of Nursing with a
joint appointment in the Bloomberg School of Public
Health. She has published more than 120 articles
and seven books on the subject of domestic violence and lethality assessments.
Due to limited space, registration is required.
Deadline for registration is August 2, 2004. (If
you receive this information after August 2,
call a nyway, deadlines often expand). Registration and check-in for the trainings will begin at
8:00 a.m. For more information, contact Cassandra
Smith Edwards at (405) 271-3430 or 1-800-5220204, or Lisa Slater at (405) 271-7611. You can
also access the training brochure at the DMHSAS
website. Look under upcoming events.

This Month's website of the month is:
www.interguru.com/fittvplusone

Would You Like to Quit
Smoking?
A new website looks to help LGBT cigarette
smokers quit. Researchers at the University
of California, San Francisco (UCSF) recently
launched iQuit, a free Internet-based smoking
treatment study for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and
transgender (LGBT) smokers
(www.iquit.medschool.ucsf.edu).
This study comes on the heels of research
showing high rates of smoking in the LGBT
community. In some parts of the community,
LGBT smoking
rates can be as
much as 50%
higher than
their heterosexual counterparts. This
along with the
smoking kills
fact that
more people
each year than
HIV/AIDS, car
accidents, and
hol use comdrug and alco:
smoking treatbined, makes
ment
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programs an
emerging public health priority for LGBT individuals.
The study will compare two Internet-based
smoking treatments: one that provides general information that has been helpful in a variety of smoking treatment programs, another
that includes the general information plus information and support designed especially for
an LGBT audience. Smokers will be randomly
selected to participate in one or the other. Researchers hope to enroll 600 participants over
the course of a year. The purpose of the study
is to determine if either treatment results in
higher rates of use, more quit attempts, or
higher quit rates.
iQuit is unique in offering participants cessation services that are highly convenient and
private. LGBTs can access the site's resources
any time of day, from multiple locations, and
their participation is kept confidential. To be
eligible for the study, individuals must be 18
years of age or older and identify as LGBT.
For more information about this study, visit
the iQuit website at
www.iquit.medschool.ucsf.edu
If you would like posters, flyers, or postcards
to display in your community, please contact
Anthony Taylor at taylora@itsa.ucsf.edu or by
calling us toll free at 866-895-8050.)

WENDY ALLEN
CONCERT
AT CHURCH OF
THE OPEN ARMS
Wendy Allyn, singer
and songwriter, will
be performing at
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Church of the Open
Arms, located at 3131 N. Pennsylvania, on
Saturday, August 21st at 7:30 pm. There is
a suggested donation of $5 to $15 with all
proceeds to benefit Church of the Open
Arms.
California born, Oklahoma grown, Wendy
Allyn writes songs that combine the stable
and sturdy traits of a prairie farmer with a
breezy west coast attitude. Solid lyrics float
on shamelessly hummable melodies. Her
debut album, Catalina Days, offered a showcase of her songwriting skill. The album received extremely positive reviews. Since
that recording was released, Wendy has
traveled the country, living for awhile in the
northeast, awhile in California, and some
time in Hawaii.
Wendy's songs cover the gamut of the human experience, from family ties to social
issues. Characters in her songs come to life
in succinct composite sketches, drawn with
lyrical pictures. Like a good storyteller,
Wendy gets her listeners involved in the
songs from the first line and keeps them
hanging until the last note. You'll believe
that she lived every minute of the tales she
tells - and you'll be right.
For more information, contact Church of
the Open Arms UCC at 525 -9555.

Calling for Poetry, Cartoons, Short
Writings
Herland is seeking poetry, cartoons, and short
essays/stories for a special issue of the Voice in
late Fall 2004. Submissions may be sent via snail
mail or electronic mail (preferred but not required). Acceptable electronic formats include,
email plain text, MS WORD, and MS Publisher. If
you want a by line published with your entry,
specify this with your submission and indicate how
you want your name printed. We will not assume
you want your name printed and will not do it
without your written permission.

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