Herland Sister Resources : v.2: no.6(1986)
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- Herland Sister Resources : v.2: no.6(1986)
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- The Herland Sister Resources newsletter is the monthly publication of Herland Sister Resources, a womanist organization with a strong lesbian focus based in Oklahoma City.
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- 1986-06
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VOLUME II, NUMBER 6
JUNE, 1986
RE-TREAT PROVES TO BE THAT. PLUS MORE
by Marian Hulsey
This is a very peculiar last of May for me, the
first in five years that I have not been preparing to make the frantic all-night trip to
Bloomington, Indiana, for the National Women's
Music Festival. By this time next week, when I
would have been leaving, I may be in the deepest of depressions, but I really don't think so.
One reason for my optimism is Herland's recent
retreat, which is going to serve as an acceptable
substitute, at least this year.
Whereas nothing seemed to work for plans for
Bloomington, everything was working for us the
first weekend in May. A minor adjustment in
group camps (the construction work was behind
schedule, forcing the men to be working on Saturday, plus one workman was living in a motorhome 50 yards from the dining hall) put me a little · on edge, but Camp #1 proved to be wonderful. We were really lucky that it was available
that weekend.
The weather was perfect--the fish were biting-using my toes, I retrieved my lost glasses from
the ooze of leaves and muck, neck-deep out from
shore--the food was magnificent--the company,
sublime--the workshops, stimulating. It's hard to
think of enough superlatives.
But, we have to come up with some to describe
Saturday night's concert. Berland had invited a
comedienne from Fayetteville, Hilary Harris, to
come to the retreat and open for Hawkins &
DeLear, but we really did not know what to expect. When she and her friends checked in Friday night, she was very serious about the business of her comedy performance.
Scene: the Tabernacle (don't laugh, that's what
the building--a covered structure, open sides, benches, a stage-- is called), Robbers Cave State
Park, following a community meal of gourmet
magnitude. Hilary Harris was introduced and for
BERLAND SISTER RESOURCES, INC.
1630 NW 19, OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73106
the next 50 minutes, I laughed until I started
coughing, crying and my nose ran. Belying her
mid-twenties age, she speaks two languages not
heard on television comedy shows--the languages
of woman and especially that of lesbian. There
were some aspects of her poised and commanding
stage presence that reminded me of Kate
Clinton, as well as her approach to subjects that
we're better off laughing at, rather than dwelling
on their negative qualities. And, as is true of all
real comedy, it crossed over age lines, because
those who no longer need to · manufacture a
sanitary napkin by wrapping an entire roll of toilet paper around two fingers could certainly remember those times when we had to do just
that. She addressed topics that concern our lives
and made us forget that most places we can't
discuss and laugh about them. Great poise, stage
presence, beautiful use of hands--watch for her
to go places!
The following concert was equally mahvelous,
simply mahvelous, dahling! Every time I hear
Hawkins & DeLear I am utterly amazed at the
volume of sound produced by these two St. Louis
women, but this time I was so very conscious of
the improvements in their art of performing.
Since I am especially aware of this aspect of
women's music, I was particularly thrilled by
their own music. But, their total performance
was worthy of the Main Stage at Bloomington,
any day (or night). I was fascinated by the new
drums--great sound, so little space taken up. One
time, I went back over to the dining hall to see
if all this sound (and words) were drifting over
there at too great a volume, but the beauty of
this performance structure was that the acoustics were good, but the sound went up and
stayed inside.
(Next morning, the camp's
caretaker said he "really liked that band.")
The NMWF has always served as a source of
rejuvenating my soul and spirit after a hard year
in the classroom, a battery charger for my
creative self. I was seriously concerned about
what would happen to this part of me if I
missed the Festival.
Continued on Page 2
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Continued from Page 1
We encourage the exchange of information, personal opinions on issues of concern to the Oklahoma women's community, and your stories and
experiences.
I think this weekend took care of that, at least
for a while. Maybe until the Fall Re-treat. Why
not plan now to treat yourself again?
The editor reserves the right to edit and condense letters according to space limitations. Letters should be typed, double-spaced and signed
by the author(s). Include your address and phone
number. If you wish to be published anonymously,
indicate so, but include your name, etc., for our
information, in case the editor has questions.
BERLAND COFFEEHOUSE AND
GAY
Mail or deliver your letters to HSR, Inc., 1630
N.W. 19, Okla. City, OK 73106. Deadline is the
15th of each month.
PRIDE
WEEK
Concert
featuring
DONNA DESALVO
Dear Editor:
As I'm certain you and others have seen, Peggy
Johnson's performing evokes much rroup unity,
encouragement and pride for the (sometimes)
struggling community of Oklahoma lesbians. One
can easily sense the strength and necessity of
her supportive leadership through observing her
audiences'
reactions/interactions
during
her
performances.
As Peggy gives so much of herself so freely to
perpetuate a healthy sense of identity and purpose for our community (within an often unthinking, unfeeling, dogmatic society), I know she
must, at times, need refueling from others in
order to maintain her basis of brave commitment,
from which she is able to continue creating and
sharing her free gifts of spirit. I have, therefore, written a poem (and am submitting it to
you for possible publication) out of my desire to
fulfill my obligation of providing an emotional
"booster shot" for one of our vital, invigorating
sources of courage and comfort. As she keeps
her eyes open, she helps us all see.
Sincerely,
Judy Palen, Enid
Chosen Vision
for Peggy
She keeps her eyes open to see
through illusions's futility,
through youth's sheltering fairy tales,
through blurring of false freedom's wails.
She keeps her eyes open to see
Delayed gifts of sincerity,
Of taking time for touching souls,
Of trusting climb to higher goals.
She keeps her eyes open to see
Her watchers' spontaneity
As they find urge to sing along
Is comfort of tomorrow's song.
Judy Palen
Friday, June 27, 8-10 p.m.
Oasis Community Center
2135 N.W. 35
RETREAT AFTERNOTES
Fresh Air
by Owen Ashley
Crispy, emerald trees gleaming in golden sunlight.
Shallow breeze kissing our skin ... Women walking,
talking and loving one another.
Never before have I felt the spirit of togetherness and unity until the Women's Spring Retreat.
Being able to speak, look and touch freely gave
a comfort and relaxation we are all deprived of
daily. Listening to women talk about life and
love--the way I feel it--gave me the sense of belonging. So often we feel isolated, suffocating
our feelings and expressions to survive. Out in
the open, fresh air we could express our views,
morals and love without fear or hesitation.
Sisterhood was soothing and exhilarating to our
spirits.
I feel we all gained strength plus
courage to return to our suppressing world.
To be a part of this freeing experience gave me
great joy. I wish to thank all those who made it
happen, all the women who participated, and the
opportunity for peace, love and expression.
OKC
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528-GAYS
rVE'RE HERE TO HELP
LOCAL EVENTS
Poets for Social Change is a special event at
The Second Fret, 3009 N. Classen, Sunday, June
8, 1986, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $1, which goes
to the poets.
Featured poet Mary McAnnally is a political
poet, feminist, activist, author of three books
(Poems from the Animal Heart, Warning and
Hitchhikers May Be Escaping Convicts are available at Herland) and editor of two anthologies.
From Tulsa, McAnnally uses poetry for social
change, particularly with issues of domestic violence and women in prison, as well as other
issues.
Accompanying McAnnally will be OKC poet
Alanzo Augustus Jones, a performing artist who
uses musical instruments from many countries.
For more information, contact The Second Fret
at 528-2317.
Mary Reynolds and the Sisters of Swing will be
performing a free concert Sunday, June 8, at
6:30 p.m. at Will Rogers Park. The concert is
supported by the Arts Councils of Oklahoma and
Oklahoma City.
According to a recent news release from Mary,
she and the Sisters are cutting an album. Watch
for it!
Peggy Johnson - Songs & Stories will be at The
Second Fret Saturday, June 14, at 8:00 p.m. She
will be joined by Mary Reynol ds in the second
set.
EDUCATIONAL/SUPPORT GROUP
for Lesbians
organizational meeting
Friday, June 27, 1986
7:00 p.m.
at Herland, 1630 N.W. 19
contact: Nancy, 525-5691
AIDS SUPPORT PROGRAM OPENS IN OKC
A house for persons with AIDS has opened in
OKC and is seeking referrals through the AIDS
hotline, 525-AIDS. The house holds a total of
nine, with three persons living there currently.
Eligibility is that you must have AIDS and be
eligible for SSL (All AIDS victims are eligible
for SSI and may stay in the house free until you
receive it.) Each resident pays, $200 a month
from SSI to stay in the house.
are
needed
to
help
with
Volunteers
transportation, fundraising and upkeep on the
house. Nutritionists, social workers and public
health professionals are also needed, as well as
a variety of items to furnish the house.
For information, write ASP, Inc., P.O. Box 12433,
Oklahoma City, OK 73112.
Peggy will also be performing for Gay Pride
Week at the Oasis Gay Community Center, Sunday, June 22, in the afternoon.
Rodeo dates and names have changed.
The
Oklahoma Gay Rodeo has changed its name and
its dates. They are now called the Great Plains
Regional Rodeo, and it will be held August 15-17.
The name change is the result of the OGRA's
having two co-sponsors, MGRA and KGRA. The
date change is to be able to hold the event at
the
State
Fair
Coliseum.
Contact Walt
Rupprecht, 943-0843 or 399-2529 for information.
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OU WOMEN'S STUDIES CLASSES. FALL '86
OU WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES FOR FALL
The Women's Studies Program, founded in 1976,
is multidisciplinary, designed to include the history and cultures of women in the curriculum, to
compensate for the omission of women's concerns
from the present curriculum, to provide coordination and resources to departments and courses,
problems for projects and papers within existing
courses, and to aid in the recruitment of faculty,
staff and students for whom women's studies are
a vital concern.
The 22 member faculty from 12 departments is
responsible for curriculum, standards and departmental governance. During the first eight years,
they offered 88 women's studies and 51 related
courses in 21 departments, 22 of them repeated
six or more times.
An introductory lecture
course, a theory course and an integrative seminar provide the framework for an 18 hour minor.
Each semester 12-20 courses enroll 1000-1500
students.
Linking Women's Resources, the externally funded
project for meeting the information needs of
community agencies through undergraduate students' term papers and projects, has become a
national model.
Budget cuts between 1983 and 1986 resulted in a
major reduction of the services that made W.S.
unusually successful in meeting reponsibilities to
the university and caused a serious drain on the
resources of the faculty, for whom their strong
commitment to women's studies has increasingly
become an overload assignment. At the same
time, the number of W.S. minors and potential
participants in the project is high.
The program has developed an exemplary working
relationship with women in the off-campus community and an extremely effective multidisciplinary working structure for the faculty.
The
strength of their history of community service
complements individual faculty members' research. In the introductory course, they provide
the university's only team taught cross-disciplinary lower division course.
The program has an excellent national reputation,
deriving from the university's strong initial
commitment to women's studies and the faculty's
ability to build on those initial resources on
academic program with high intellectual standards
and effective community service.
Contact OU Women's Studies at 325-3481, Room
#530 Physical Sciences Center, University of
Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, for additional
information about course listings for the fall
semester.
INSTR.
TITLE
8 . Davis
W.S. Feminist Thought
B. Harris
The Black Family
Herrick
Roman Women - Republic
Vaughn-Roberson
Women in Education
Do briner
kAmerican Women Writers
B. Davis
Intro to w.s.
V. Ng
Women in China
Griswold
American Gender Roles
B. Davis
Feminist Thought
B. Davis
Feminist Thought
Hayes
Human Sexuality
Hayes
Adv. Human Sexuality
J. Davis
Women and the Media
Maute
Gender Discrimination
B. Davis
Intro to W.S.
Affleck
Socioloc of Women
Affleck
Sex Roles
Lindemann
Women's Issues, Help Prof
Lindemann
Women's Issues, Help Prof
W.S. COURSES
A&S 4120-001
Anth. 5233-002
Clas. Cul 3013-001
Ed (EDFN) 5933-001
Enc. 2023-002
Hist. 2120-001
Hist. 3840-001
Hist. 4973-001
HuRel 4120-001
HuRel 5120-001
InFamDev 2613-001
InFamDev 5643-900
Jour 4872-001
Law 6410-600
Soc 2120-001
Soc 3733-001
Soc 4733-001
SocWk 4210-900
SocWk 5010-911
These courses are suggested as related to the field. The ones
marked • are taught by members of the Women's Studies faculty.
Thompson
Thompson
Beesley
Englander-Golden
Ball
Hayes
Morgan
Sulloway
Lindemann
Lindemann
Women in Japan
Women in Japan
History of Photography
Human Emotions
Contemporary Parenting
Contemporary Marriage
The Family
The Family
Family Planning
Family Planning
Anth 3953-001
Anth 5233-001
ArtHist 4293-001
•HuRel 5153-001
InFamDev 1203-001
•InFamDev 1603-001
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Soc 3723-002
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STOCK INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY
Over the last six months, the Herland Collective
members have been searching for a new location
for the Resource Center. Some of the desired
features include affordability, handicapped accessibility, restroom facilities, telephone and temperature control. Donated space has not been
forthcoming and other acceptable space option
has been cost-prohibitive. Based on these circumstances, another option is being explored, that of
private corporation land purchase.
The proposed corporation would obtain financial
backing through the sale of stock at a cost of
fifty (50) dollars per share. The purpose of the
corporation would be to purchase and hold real
estate for investment purposes and to make the
real estate available for Herland and other
women-related activities and services.
An investment in this corporation will benefit the
women's community while providing the stockholder an opportunity for long-term financial gain.
The stock subscription agreement noted below is
provided as a means for you to express your interest in the purchase of stock in this endeavor.
Please fill out the subscription agreement and
forward to the name and address noted. Do not
send any money at this time.
Support of the women's community at the grassroots level will need to exist for this business
opportunity to be a success. If you want to participate, fill out the agreement today and return
by June 28, 1986. Herland Collective members
can answer any general questions you may have.
POTLUCK
PICNIC
Saturday, June 7, 1986
Noon-7:00 p.m.
at Rotary Park, Norman
Boyd St. at Wylie Rd. (halfway between
Berry Rd. & SW 24th St., and Main St.
and Lindsay--from 135, take Main
St. exit east to 24th, turn south to
Boyd, east to Wylie Rd.)
SOFTBALL GAME AT 1:00
bring gloves, balls, bats, other games
bring food, non-alcoholic beverages
(discretion requested on any alcohol)
grills for food available
pets on leash
egg toss
3-legged races
sack races
volleyball
etc.!
••NOTICE TO HERLAND CUSTOMERS••
Herland Sister Resources, Inc.
will be closed
Saturday, June 7,
for the Potluck Picnic in Norman
See you there
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SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT
The undersigned does hereby subscribe
to
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the price of $50 per share, payable at a
future date upon incorporation in the State
of Oklahoma.
Dated this _
day of _ _ _ _ , 1986.
Signature
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Publisher:
Editor:
Typesetter:
Advertising:
Circulation:
Herland Sister Resources, Inc.
Elaine Barton
Marian Hulsey
Marian Hulsey, 521-8434
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KRISTINA S. MAREK
Attorney and Counselor at Law
1137 N.W. 31st Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73118
405-.521-8434, after .5:00 P.M.
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Call Kay Killgore
524-1062
BERLAND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
After the Berland Retreat May 4, 25 women
gathered for a brainstorming meeting. Berland
has been operating for a year and a half in its
present structure as a non-profit collectively run
corporation, without the formalized "five-year
plan" many organizations develop. The members
present brainstormed short and long-range plans
and they are listed below, as taken from the
minutes. We hope you, our readers and supporters, will take this opportunity to communicate
your ideas and opinions to us.
Immediate results from the brainstorming meeting that we know of include an organizational
meeting for a women's choir (details in this
issue) and a picnic and softball game (also in
this issue). The first meeting to form an educational/support group for lesbians, dealing with
homophobia wil also take place this month. The
League of Women Bowlers has been seen at several local bowling establishments and we are
awaiting news of the formation of a team. Contracts are being negotiated and the Little Theatre in the Civic Center Music Hall has been reserved for a September concert with Casselberry
& DuPree.
An ongoing issue for Berland has been moving to
a more accomodating space. The idea of selling
stock to raise revenue to purchase a property
generated a lot of excitement among members
present at the brainstorming meeting (details in
this issue).
Short-term goals:
Dance with women's music
Auction, garage sales
Picnics
Lesbian softball league
Choir
Women of Color workshops
Feminist theatre
Coordinate with OKC NOW
Festival at Lake Thunderbird
Women's Festival of the Arts
Coordinate housing for rural women
Telephone
Paid staff
Larger active volunteer pool
New space
League of Women Bowlers
Workshops on spirituatlity, relationships,
sexuality, psychic, religion, lesbian issues,
financial investments, feminism & lesbianism, surviving in straight society, antiracism, herbs & healing, legal issues, living
wills, relationship contracts
Report on retirement communities
Networking updates
Lesbian self-help groups
Support groups, once a month in conjunction
with another event
Long-range goals:
Network with other organizations
What is Berland for?
Who does Berland serve?
Larger bank accouant
Statewide directory
Friends of Berland recuitment
Solid grass-roots support
Cle~r-cut ways to broaden base of support
Charge for newsletter
Fem-Mall, women-owned businesses
Grants
Name on the building
SPECIAL SESSION
to review, prioritize and implement
results from brainstorming meeting
to include women not present at
Robbers Cave event
your attendance or written comments
to begin the writing of a 5-year plan
Sunday, June 15, 1986
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
POTLUCK SUPPER AT 5:00
BERLAND, 1630 N.W. 19
announces
the next meeting of the Collective
Open to the Public
Sunday, June 15, 1986, 6:30 p.m.
1630 N.W. 19
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES FOR BERLAND
If you are a real estate agent or stock broker,
your consulatation and assistance would be of
great benefit to Berland during this time of
expansion.
Remember that for each 12 hours you spend
working the Center hours, you receive a $5 gift
certificate, which may be exchanged for books,
music and miscellaneous items (not including consignment items).
Berland has purchased new chairs for our audiences and we have material to make cushions. If
you enjoy sewing, let us know.
New acquisitions to the lending library need to
be processed (stamped, cards typed, and shelved).
The Newsletter always solicits articles, reviews,
letters, commentary from our readers. The deadline is the 15th of each month.
IT'S AVAILABLE
••Casselberry and DuPree 's latest release on
Icebergg, $8.98 record or cassette, Available at
Herland.
"City Down" is more than just good music. J.
Casselberry and Jacque DuPree transcend the
label of "politically progressive music" with their
creatively innovative music. Reggae, country, soul
and a touch of gospel fuse into one on this wonderfully eclectic album.
ss"Singing With You," by Holly Near and Ronnie
Gilbert, will not disappoint Near/Gilbert fans.
The recording is comprised of live and studio
work and includes long-awaited songs "Simply
Love," "Singing With You" and "The Jogging
Song."
••Lesbian Ethics announces two Reader's Forums.
For the summer issue, deadline June 15, Femme
& Butch. Are you femme, butch, neither, both?
Have you changed, are you trying to change?
Why or why not? How? What do you think the
ethical issues are? You are especially encouraged
to define your terms as carefully as possible and
not to let yourself slide into using a different
definition than the one you started with. You are
also encouraged to talk about femme and butch
not only as styles of dressing or as likes and
dislikes, but also as emotional, sexual and interactional patterns. Both Lesbian Ethics, Vol. 1, 2
& 3 have articles to which you might want to
respond.
For the fall issue, deadline Sept. 15, Sex. What
role does sex play in your life? What does it
mean to you, why do you do it? How do you do
it? What have you experienced as nurturing and
creative about sex? What as harmful? What is
easy and what difficult for you about sex? What
is the relationship between your fantasies and
your sexual practice? Do you practice S&M? If
not, do you want to? If you have in the past,
why did you stop and how? LE wants to hear
about the reality of sex in your life. In particular, it is the editor's observation that non-S&M
lesbians tend not to write or talk public ly
about actually doing sex and, in fact, talk about
sex most often in abstract and political terms.
And it is the editor's belief that if the S&M
conflict is to take us anywhere, this situation
must change.
Please keep your forum contributions to three
double-spaced pages (if you want to write more,
submit an article). Include both your address and
your phone number (for editing). If you wish,
they will publish anonymously or with a pseudonym, but you must send real name, address and
phone number to LE Publications, P.O. Box 943,
Venice, CA 90294.
..Kineheart, Inc., is a one-of-a-kind agency that
links direct service to oppressed women with
education toward changing the systems that keep
wounding people through sexism, racism and homophobia. They publish the Kineheart Wom.yn's
News monthly, the adult study on "Homosexuality
and the Church," the "Lesbian Relationship Handbook," and quarterly articles and reprint series
and two annotated bibliographies. Write them at
2214 Ridge Ave., Evanston, IL 60201 or call
312-491-1103.
••Lesbian Rights Project has been promoting
justice for the lesbian and gay community
nationwide since 1977. They provide free legal
advice and counseling, technical assistance to
attorneys, and publish on child custody, donor
insemination, foster parenting and employment
rights. Contact them at 1370 Mission St., 4th fl.,
San Francisco, CA 94103, 415-621-0674
HERLAND CHOIR
organizational meeting
Tuesday, June 10, 1986
7:00 p.m.
at Herland, 1630 N.W. 19
contact: Pat Reaves, 525-8013
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BOOK SHORTS
Tender Warriors, by Rachel Guido deVries, $7.95. The
story of an Italian-American working-class family caught up
in their struggles with each other and the world. This is a
novel about outsiders--white and black, gay and straight,
drugged and drug-free.
Anger, by May Sarton;, $4.95. The story of the marriage
of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a
singer on the brink of fame. Sarton explores the different
ways that men and women express not only anger but
love.
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, $16.95.
"Atwood's most powerful and moving novel since Surfacing,
she gives us a society in which all of the New Right's
preaching about women is put into law and into practice,
and a heroine who is brave, touching and wry. This is an
arresting triumph of the imagination ..." (Marge Piercy)
Words to the Wise: A Writer's Guide to Feminist and Lesbian Periodicals and Publishers, by Andrea Fleck Clardy,
$3.95. For every woman who wants to know where to send
it after it's been written, this pamphlet offers an annotated listing of more than 100 periodicals and book publishers.
High Hearts, by Rita Mae Brown, $17.95 hard cover. "If
Gone With the Wind had been written from the point of
view of soldiers in the midst of battle, it might have read
something like this appealing novel that deals with the stupidity of the Civil War and its effect on women."
(Publishers Weekly)
The Finishing School, by Gail Godwin, $4.50. "Compelling,
well-crafted ... A psychological detective story with dramatic
revelations of character and event." (Chicago Tribune)
Lesbian Etiquette, by Gail Sausser, with cartoons by Alice
Muhlback, $5.95. This is a book in which everyone will
recognize herself, the situations she's been in a million
times and, even more easily, her ex-lover.
Red Beans & Rice: Recipes for Lesbian Health and
Wisdom, by Bode Noona, $4.95. Here's a full-course dinner
of slightly wacked-out, brilliant, politically and spiritually
conscious lesbian thought.
Linden Hills, by Gloria Naylor, $6.95. The author of The
Women of Brewster Place ($5.95) shows her contempt for
upper middle-class blacks who have assimilated the values
of the white world. "Every page contains a brilliant insight, a fine description, some petty and human, some
grandiloquent." (Chicago Tribune)
Still Sane, by Persimmon Blackbridge and Sheila Gilhody,
$12.95, large format. Indicts a mental illness system which
treats lesbianilll!I as a disease to be cured by drugs, shock
treatment and incarceration. Includes photos, artwork and
resource section.
Women & Self-Esteem: Understanding and Improving the
Way We Think and Feel About Ourselves, by Linda
Tschirhart Sanford and Mary Ellen Donovan, $6.95. "This
sensible book combines intelligent analysis with a no -nonsense guide for individual growth .. well worth owning and
underlining." <Working Woman)
Lesbian Origins, by Susan Cavin, 19.00. A provocative book
of lesbian feminist theory. Discusses women's oppression
and concludes with new theories of women's liberation.
Goodbye Hangovers, Hello Life: Self Help for Women, by
Jean Kirkpatrick, 114.95 bard. The founder of Women for
Sobriety, a program exclusively for women alcoholics, bas
written a book detailing the method she used to pull herself up from a "living death."
The Long Trail, by Penny Hayes, 18.95. In Texas in 1869,
schoolteacher Blanche Bartholomew and dance ball girl
Teresa Stark discover an unthinkable love. Blanche and
Teresa flee together and attempt the impossible--to cross
the Texas prairie in a covered wagon.
Talkin1 It Out: A Guide to Groups for Abused Women, by
Ginny NiCarthy, Karen Merriam, Sandra Coffman, S9.95.
Whether you're a counselor, mental health worker or shelter or community activist, this book can help you become
more effective in working with women in abusive relationships.
Just Friends: The Role of Friendship in Our Lives, $15.95,
hard. The author studies a whole range of friendships including gay men and women, working class, single and married persons.
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American
Indian Tradition, by Paula Gunn Allen, $24.95, bard. Allen,
a Laguna Pueblo, discusses past and present, examines
roles of lesbians in tribal life and American Indian
women's values and contributions.
Caring, by Annette Swackbamer, Ralph W. Moss, $15.95
hard. Swackhamer, a registered nurse, and Moss present a
moving dramatization of the complex and difficult issues
nurses face after years of dealing with patients, doctors,
hospital bureaucracy and their own ever changing roles.
Betsey Brown, by Ntozake Sbange, $6.95. Shange's latest,
now in paperback. Set in the black community of St. Louis
in 1959, Sbange tells the story of 13-year-old Betsey
Brown, poised between childhood and the political realities
of the adult world.
Hunger Strike: An Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for
Our Age, by Susie Orbach, $15.95 bard. Equating the refusal of anorectics to eat with the hunger strikes of suffragists, Orbach asserts that social forces have contributed
to the epidemic of anorexia nervosa during the last 20
years.
Women and Children Last: The Plight of Poor Women in
Affluent America, by Ruth Sidel, $16.95. Older women,
female heads of families, battered wives and their offspring are depicted here on the edge of economic survival.
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, by Maya
Angelou, $15.95 hard. Poet, actress, civil rights activist
continues her autobiographical work begun in I Know WhY
the Caged Bird Sings. Angelou travels to Ghana and Berlin
and meets disillusionment, pain and homesickness.
Sex and Love, ed. Sue Cartledge and Joanna Ryan, $7.95.
The contributors to this collection are all women who have
confronted what sex and love mean in their lives, and in
society. Includes heterosexual. lesbian and bi-sexual living.
A Feminist Dictionary, by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A.
Treichler, $28.95 hard, $12.95 soft. Women define old
words and coin new ones. The results are intellectually
stimulating, audacious, funny and furious.
The Creation of Patriarchy, by Gerda Lerner, 121.95. What
could explain the delay, more than 3500 years, in women's
coming to consciousness of their own subordination and
what could explain women's historical "complicity" in upholding the patriarchal system are answered.
Menopause. Naturally: Preparing for the Second Half of
Life, Sadja Greenwood, M.D., $10. "... balances the natural
with the medicinal, the cultural influences with the physical facts and comes out with a unique, common-sense
guide for everywoman who will experience this rite of passage." (Gloria Steinem)
The Kwan Yin Book of Changes, by Diane Stein, $12.95.
"Women who have turned to the I Ching and felt thwarted
by its overt and subliminal patriarchal overtones will have
cause to rejoice over the appearance of this book ... "
(Mary Daly)
Broderie Anrlaise, by Violet Trefusis, $13.95. Virginia
Woolf's rival for the love of Vita Sackville-West was
Violet Trefusis, whose novel, written in 1935, is now published in English for the first time.
MY Mama's Dead Squirrel: Lesbian Bssavs on Southern
Culture, by Mab Secrest, $8.95. "Throughout these essays
ON THE MARCH FOR CHOICE
"God, she is smiling on us today." This sentiment, voiced by Director of Ceremonies Molly
Yard, was shared by over 100,000 in an unprecedented show of solidarity for the right to abortion in the March 9 "March for Women's Lives"
that passed the White House, assembling finally
on the Capitol lawn.
Chanting "Not the Church, Not the State, Women
Must Decide Their Fate," marchers flowed up
Pennsylvania Avenue before gathering for speeches. The rally was viewed by many as a resurgence of the movement--a signal that women
were "back into the streets," in the words of
Eleanor C. Smeal, president of the National
Organization for Women.
Smeal, who took the podium to chants of "Ellie,"
is credited by many with injecting a new militancy into the movement. "The silent majority will
be silent no longer," Smeal said. "You cannot
play with women's lives any longer."
Laura Hart, excerpts New Directions for Women,
Vol. 15, No. 3
CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING
Sharon Murphy divorced her abusive husband and
was granted custody of their son. Her ex-husband
continued to assault her, repeatedly taking her
to court until he won custody, due to economic
advantages; then he tried to break contact between Sharon and her son. Sharon took the child
to Texas, where she established a home and career. After three years, the father found her and
Sharon turned herself in. She now faces a possible three year jail term. Send donations to Judy
Reeves, Program Director, Center for Battered
Women, P.O. Box 19454, Austin, TX 78760.
zines published between December 1953
December 1984 were analyzed for content.
and
The study identified 6004 images of children,
generally between six and 11 years old, with
boys associated with violent assault, while girls
were more often linked with images of sexual
assault. Images of nudity accounted for 1675 of
the total; another 1225 portrayed children and
genital activity; 989 of the images showed children sexually associated with adults; 592 showed
some kind of physical coercion; and 267 involved
children having sex with animals or other
objects.
A disturbing aspect of the images studied is that
almost all of the depictions of child sexual abuse
showed the child as unharmed or benefiting by
the sexual activity.
(from Washington Post,
008, Vol. XVI, No. 5)
excerpts
Leah Reibel,
COURT UPHOLDS RAPE TRAUMA
The Montana Supreme Court has held that expert
testimony on rape trauma syndrome is admissable
in a criminal trial. The defendant in State v.
Lidell was convicted of "sexual intercourse without consent" and appealed, alleging the trial
court erred in allowing an expert to testify on
the
victim's
post-traumatic
stress
disorder
resulting from the incident. The court held that
the expert testimony on rape trauma syndrome
was admissable to aid the jury in determining
whether the woman had consented to engage in
the sexual act.
(from Case & Comment)
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GAY RIGHTS VICTORY IN NEW YORK
After 15 years of struggle and heated debates,
the New York City Council approved a gay rights
bill. The measure prohibits discrimination on the
basis of sexual orientation in employment, housing and public accomodations. Similar bills have
become law in 50 other cities, 12 counties and
one state, Wisconsin.
The bill, the first of its kind when it was introduced in 1971, was developed in reaction to the
police raids and riots at the New York bar,
Stonewall, in 1969.
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BIG MOUNTAIN
by Myra Fourwinds
NATIONAL EVENTS
Mv Daughter, The Scientist: An Exhibition on
the Role of Women in Science and Technology,
June-August, 1986, Forth Worth Museum of
Science and History, Ft. Worth, TX. Features 12
contemporary women scientists and engineers.
Women Working for Change: Health, Culture &
Societies, June 11-15, 1986, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. 8th Annual Convention of the
National Women's Studies Association.
Write
Office of Women's Studies, 304 Stiven House,
708 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801.
Louisian~
Women Writers: A Symposium, September 19-20, 1986, Loyola University, New Orleans.
Ellen Gilchrist, Shirley Ann Grau,
Sheila
Bosworth and Lee Grue will read. Write Barbara
Ewell or Dorothy Brown, Loyola University, Box
14, New Orleans, LA 70118.
The Women's Health Program will be a five day
program for nurses only. For the rest of us,
there will be "Music and Healing" led by J(ay
Gardner, "Rites of Passage" led by Starhawk, and
"Older People's Fitness and Health" led by Ellen
Lederman, and much more. Write Omega Institute
for Holistic Studies, Lake Drive, RD 2,
Rhinebeck, NY 12572 for free catalog.
11th Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, August
6-10, 1986. An outdoor gathering with camping,
concerts, crafts, workshops, films, video and fun.
Send SASE to WWTMC, Box 22, Walhalla, MI
49458.
7th West Coast Women's Music & Comedy Festival, August 19-Sept. l, 1986, Yosemite Nat'l
Park, · California.
Concerts, comedy, dances,
speakers and authors, theatre, film festival. Send
SASE to WCWMF, 13514 Hart St., Van Nuys, CA
91405.
Faith and Resistance Retreat is a time for Christians to come together to pray, study and act on
the call to non-violent resistance. Includes the
Heartland Peace Pilgrimage to Omaha, Nebraska
Strategic Air Command Headquarters. Travel and
accomodations, July 3-6 can be coordinated
through the Benedictine Peace House. Deadline
for reservations, $25 plus meals and travel expenses, June 6. Contact Karen or Lillian at
524-5577.
WOMEN TAKE LIBERTY IN '86. Aware that the
Statue of Liberty, 100 years old August 3, has
become a female personification of the U.S., one
St. Louis lesbian, Flowing, has envisioned reclaiming the statue from the patriarchy and rededicating it to our values of equality, sisterhood
and peace. Write Womyn Make Waves for Peace,
1327 Potomac Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C.
20003.
walkin' the line, I can see both ways,
hey oh, hey oh, hey tomorrow,
give me sunrise and another dollar.
Navajo ways of five hundred years
hey oh, hey oh, you, tomorrow
again you want to take the land.
pass a law and evacuate a people
hey ho, hey ho, ho tomorrow
indigenous with an ancestor alive.
oh rootless white ones empty lives
hey hey, ho, whoa, tomorrow
genocide is your usual pastime.
witness this, world, they do not learn,
Big Mountain, no way, tomorrow
you are wrong, you can't have your way.
Navajo, our magical people, our gift,
hey, hey, no way, tomorrow
their place belongs to them from the origin.
we make preserves for migrating birds,
hey, oh hey, Big Mountain should stay
yet you are too blind to preserve this life?
you should be the ones to die
hey, hey, how could you face tomorrow
of the curse of yourself and your race.
let the earth loving ones try to save her.
hey, hey, say no way, Big Mountain stay
a national sacred preserve esteemed holy.
DEIDRE MCCALLA TO SING IN DALLAS
Little Feather Productions is presenting New
York Music Award nominee Deidre · McCalla in
concert June 28, 8:00 p.m. at _ the Unitarian
Church. Part of the Second Annual Pride Week
Dance, part of the proceeds will go to The
Family Place.
General admission tickets are $10 and may be
ordered from Little Feather Productions, P.O.,
Box
64720,
Dallas,
TX
75206,
or
call
214-372-2796 or 827-7380 for more information.
405/848-5429
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in the world, looking for that place for myself...from literary criticism embedded in autobiography, to pure biography, to .iouroalism that describes an objective reality I intend, with others to change." (Mab Secrest)
Jambal!IYa: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms
and Practical Rituials, by Luisah Teish, SI 7.95. The author, born and raised in New Orleans, is a dancer and storyteller in the Bay area where she teaches classes on African goddesses, chamanism and beliefs and practices of her
Tamai background.
Existential Folktales, by Margaret Switzer, $7. Using traditional stori~s like "The Ugly Duckling," "Goldilocks" and
"Henny Penny," Switzer seeks out the theme from a modern psychological point of view (success, nothingness and
nuclear dread, to name a few) and then retells the story
in 20th Century terms. A hilarious masterpiece of calculated absurdity.
Feminist Aesthetics, Gisela Ecker, ed. $9.95. Most of today's pathbreaking work in the fascinating new field of
feminist aesthetics is being written in Germany. Available
in English for the fist time, the author addresses the arts,
including music, literature, painting and cinema.
Repeat After Me, by Claudia Black, $13.95. For adult
children of alcoholics, the author provides a workbook for
personal change, emotion by emotion, a powerful healing
tool.
women, narrated by one as she reminisces at the death of
her friend.
Pleasures: Women Write Erotica, by Lonnie Barbach, $6.95.
By the author of For Each Other and For Yourself, a refreshing breakthrough: an anthology of true stories written
by and expressly for women.
The Land of Look Behind:
Cliff, $6.95. An exciting
racism. South Africa, the
culture, set to a beat
Jamaican reggae.
Prose and Poetry, by Michele
collection of new writing on
influence of Western European
influenced by Cliff's native
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we can order for you. If the book you want is
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June Mail, by Jean Warmbold, $17.95. Begin with one freelance .iournalist hellbent on getting her story. Add one
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Linda Lovelace: Out of Bondage, intro. by Gloria Steinem.
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and facts are combined to meet the special needs of women, based on the single largest national study of women
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A Passion for Friends: Toward a Philosophv of Female
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theory of female friendship that reflects the historical and
cultural diversity of women's association with one another
and envisions a future in which friendship is the ~sis of
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VOLUME II, NUMBER 6
JUNE, 1986
RE-TREAT PROVES TO BE THAT. PLUS MORE
by Marian Hulsey
This is a very peculiar last of May for me, the
first in five years that I have not been preparing to make the frantic all-night trip to
Bloomington, Indiana, for the National Women's
Music Festival. By this time next week, when I
would have been leaving, I may be in the deepest of depressions, but I really don't think so.
One reason for my optimism is Herland's recent
retreat, which is going to serve as an acceptable
substitute, at least this year.
Whereas nothing seemed to work for plans for
Bloomington, everything was working for us the
first weekend in May. A minor adjustment in
group camps (the construction work was behind
schedule, forcing the men to be working on Saturday, plus one workman was living in a motorhome 50 yards from the dining hall) put me a little · on edge, but Camp #1 proved to be wonderful. We were really lucky that it was available
that weekend.
The weather was perfect--the fish were biting-using my toes, I retrieved my lost glasses from
the ooze of leaves and muck, neck-deep out from
shore--the food was magnificent--the company,
sublime--the workshops, stimulating. It's hard to
think of enough superlatives.
But, we have to come up with some to describe
Saturday night's concert. Berland had invited a
comedienne from Fayetteville, Hilary Harris, to
come to the retreat and open for Hawkins &
DeLear, but we really did not know what to expect. When she and her friends checked in Friday night, she was very serious about the business of her comedy performance.
Scene: the Tabernacle (don't laugh, that's what
the building--a covered structure, open sides, benches, a stage-- is called), Robbers Cave State
Park, following a community meal of gourmet
magnitude. Hilary Harris was introduced and for
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the next 50 minutes, I laughed until I started
coughing, crying and my nose ran. Belying her
mid-twenties age, she speaks two languages not
heard on television comedy shows--the languages
of woman and especially that of lesbian. There
were some aspects of her poised and commanding
stage presence that reminded me of Kate
Clinton, as well as her approach to subjects that
we're better off laughing at, rather than dwelling
on their negative qualities. And, as is true of all
real comedy, it crossed over age lines, because
those who no longer need to · manufacture a
sanitary napkin by wrapping an entire roll of toilet paper around two fingers could certainly remember those times when we had to do just
that. She addressed topics that concern our lives
and made us forget that most places we can't
discuss and laugh about them. Great poise, stage
presence, beautiful use of hands--watch for her
to go places!
The following concert was equally mahvelous,
simply mahvelous, dahling! Every time I hear
Hawkins & DeLear I am utterly amazed at the
volume of sound produced by these two St. Louis
women, but this time I was so very conscious of
the improvements in their art of performing.
Since I am especially aware of this aspect of
women's music, I was particularly thrilled by
their own music. But, their total performance
was worthy of the Main Stage at Bloomington,
any day (or night). I was fascinated by the new
drums--great sound, so little space taken up. One
time, I went back over to the dining hall to see
if all this sound (and words) were drifting over
there at too great a volume, but the beauty of
this performance structure was that the acoustics were good, but the sound went up and
stayed inside.
(Next morning, the camp's
caretaker said he "really liked that band.")
The NMWF has always served as a source of
rejuvenating my soul and spirit after a hard year
in the classroom, a battery charger for my
creative self. I was seriously concerned about
what would happen to this part of me if I
missed the Festival.
Continued on Page 2
LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Continued from Page 1
We encourage the exchange of information, personal opinions on issues of concern to the Oklahoma women's community, and your stories and
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I think this weekend took care of that, at least
for a while. Maybe until the Fall Re-treat. Why
not plan now to treat yourself again?
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PRIDE
WEEK
Concert
featuring
DONNA DESALVO
Dear Editor:
As I'm certain you and others have seen, Peggy
Johnson's performing evokes much rroup unity,
encouragement and pride for the (sometimes)
struggling community of Oklahoma lesbians. One
can easily sense the strength and necessity of
her supportive leadership through observing her
audiences'
reactions/interactions
during
her
performances.
As Peggy gives so much of herself so freely to
perpetuate a healthy sense of identity and purpose for our community (within an often unthinking, unfeeling, dogmatic society), I know she
must, at times, need refueling from others in
order to maintain her basis of brave commitment,
from which she is able to continue creating and
sharing her free gifts of spirit. I have, therefore, written a poem (and am submitting it to
you for possible publication) out of my desire to
fulfill my obligation of providing an emotional
"booster shot" for one of our vital, invigorating
sources of courage and comfort. As she keeps
her eyes open, she helps us all see.
Sincerely,
Judy Palen, Enid
Chosen Vision
for Peggy
She keeps her eyes open to see
through illusions's futility,
through youth's sheltering fairy tales,
through blurring of false freedom's wails.
She keeps her eyes open to see
Delayed gifts of sincerity,
Of taking time for touching souls,
Of trusting climb to higher goals.
She keeps her eyes open to see
Her watchers' spontaneity
As they find urge to sing along
Is comfort of tomorrow's song.
Judy Palen
Friday, June 27, 8-10 p.m.
Oasis Community Center
2135 N.W. 35
RETREAT AFTERNOTES
Fresh Air
by Owen Ashley
Crispy, emerald trees gleaming in golden sunlight.
Shallow breeze kissing our skin ... Women walking,
talking and loving one another.
Never before have I felt the spirit of togetherness and unity until the Women's Spring Retreat.
Being able to speak, look and touch freely gave
a comfort and relaxation we are all deprived of
daily. Listening to women talk about life and
love--the way I feel it--gave me the sense of belonging. So often we feel isolated, suffocating
our feelings and expressions to survive. Out in
the open, fresh air we could express our views,
morals and love without fear or hesitation.
Sisterhood was soothing and exhilarating to our
spirits.
I feel we all gained strength plus
courage to return to our suppressing world.
To be a part of this freeing experience gave me
great joy. I wish to thank all those who made it
happen, all the women who participated, and the
opportunity for peace, love and expression.
OKC
t\V HELPLINE
528-GAYS
rVE'RE HERE TO HELP
LOCAL EVENTS
Poets for Social Change is a special event at
The Second Fret, 3009 N. Classen, Sunday, June
8, 1986, at 7:30 p.m. Admission is $1, which goes
to the poets.
Featured poet Mary McAnnally is a political
poet, feminist, activist, author of three books
(Poems from the Animal Heart, Warning and
Hitchhikers May Be Escaping Convicts are available at Herland) and editor of two anthologies.
From Tulsa, McAnnally uses poetry for social
change, particularly with issues of domestic violence and women in prison, as well as other
issues.
Accompanying McAnnally will be OKC poet
Alanzo Augustus Jones, a performing artist who
uses musical instruments from many countries.
For more information, contact The Second Fret
at 528-2317.
Mary Reynolds and the Sisters of Swing will be
performing a free concert Sunday, June 8, at
6:30 p.m. at Will Rogers Park. The concert is
supported by the Arts Councils of Oklahoma and
Oklahoma City.
According to a recent news release from Mary,
she and the Sisters are cutting an album. Watch
for it!
Peggy Johnson - Songs & Stories will be at The
Second Fret Saturday, June 14, at 8:00 p.m. She
will be joined by Mary Reynol ds in the second
set.
EDUCATIONAL/SUPPORT GROUP
for Lesbians
organizational meeting
Friday, June 27, 1986
7:00 p.m.
at Herland, 1630 N.W. 19
contact: Nancy, 525-5691
AIDS SUPPORT PROGRAM OPENS IN OKC
A house for persons with AIDS has opened in
OKC and is seeking referrals through the AIDS
hotline, 525-AIDS. The house holds a total of
nine, with three persons living there currently.
Eligibility is that you must have AIDS and be
eligible for SSL (All AIDS victims are eligible
for SSI and may stay in the house free until you
receive it.) Each resident pays, $200 a month
from SSI to stay in the house.
are
needed
to
help
with
Volunteers
transportation, fundraising and upkeep on the
house. Nutritionists, social workers and public
health professionals are also needed, as well as
a variety of items to furnish the house.
For information, write ASP, Inc., P.O. Box 12433,
Oklahoma City, OK 73112.
Peggy will also be performing for Gay Pride
Week at the Oasis Gay Community Center, Sunday, June 22, in the afternoon.
Rodeo dates and names have changed.
The
Oklahoma Gay Rodeo has changed its name and
its dates. They are now called the Great Plains
Regional Rodeo, and it will be held August 15-17.
The name change is the result of the OGRA's
having two co-sponsors, MGRA and KGRA. The
date change is to be able to hold the event at
the
State
Fair
Coliseum.
Contact Walt
Rupprecht, 943-0843 or 399-2529 for information.
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OU WOMEN'S STUDIES CLASSES. FALL '86
OU WOMEN'S STUDIES COURSES FOR FALL
The Women's Studies Program, founded in 1976,
is multidisciplinary, designed to include the history and cultures of women in the curriculum, to
compensate for the omission of women's concerns
from the present curriculum, to provide coordination and resources to departments and courses,
problems for projects and papers within existing
courses, and to aid in the recruitment of faculty,
staff and students for whom women's studies are
a vital concern.
The 22 member faculty from 12 departments is
responsible for curriculum, standards and departmental governance. During the first eight years,
they offered 88 women's studies and 51 related
courses in 21 departments, 22 of them repeated
six or more times.
An introductory lecture
course, a theory course and an integrative seminar provide the framework for an 18 hour minor.
Each semester 12-20 courses enroll 1000-1500
students.
Linking Women's Resources, the externally funded
project for meeting the information needs of
community agencies through undergraduate students' term papers and projects, has become a
national model.
Budget cuts between 1983 and 1986 resulted in a
major reduction of the services that made W.S.
unusually successful in meeting reponsibilities to
the university and caused a serious drain on the
resources of the faculty, for whom their strong
commitment to women's studies has increasingly
become an overload assignment. At the same
time, the number of W.S. minors and potential
participants in the project is high.
The program has developed an exemplary working
relationship with women in the off-campus community and an extremely effective multidisciplinary working structure for the faculty.
The
strength of their history of community service
complements individual faculty members' research. In the introductory course, they provide
the university's only team taught cross-disciplinary lower division course.
The program has an excellent national reputation,
deriving from the university's strong initial
commitment to women's studies and the faculty's
ability to build on those initial resources on
academic program with high intellectual standards
and effective community service.
Contact OU Women's Studies at 325-3481, Room
#530 Physical Sciences Center, University of
Oklahoma, Norman, OK 73019, for additional
information about course listings for the fall
semester.
INSTR.
TITLE
8 . Davis
W.S. Feminist Thought
B. Harris
The Black Family
Herrick
Roman Women - Republic
Vaughn-Roberson
Women in Education
Do briner
kAmerican Women Writers
B. Davis
Intro to w.s.
V. Ng
Women in China
Griswold
American Gender Roles
B. Davis
Feminist Thought
B. Davis
Feminist Thought
Hayes
Human Sexuality
Hayes
Adv. Human Sexuality
J. Davis
Women and the Media
Maute
Gender Discrimination
B. Davis
Intro to W.S.
Affleck
Socioloc of Women
Affleck
Sex Roles
Lindemann
Women's Issues, Help Prof
Lindemann
Women's Issues, Help Prof
W.S. COURSES
A&S 4120-001
Anth. 5233-002
Clas. Cul 3013-001
Ed (EDFN) 5933-001
Enc. 2023-002
Hist. 2120-001
Hist. 3840-001
Hist. 4973-001
HuRel 4120-001
HuRel 5120-001
InFamDev 2613-001
InFamDev 5643-900
Jour 4872-001
Law 6410-600
Soc 2120-001
Soc 3733-001
Soc 4733-001
SocWk 4210-900
SocWk 5010-911
These courses are suggested as related to the field. The ones
marked • are taught by members of the Women's Studies faculty.
Thompson
Thompson
Beesley
Englander-Golden
Ball
Hayes
Morgan
Sulloway
Lindemann
Lindemann
Women in Japan
Women in Japan
History of Photography
Human Emotions
Contemporary Parenting
Contemporary Marriage
The Family
The Family
Family Planning
Family Planning
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Anth 5233-001
ArtHist 4293-001
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STOCK INVESTMENT OPPORTUNITY
Over the last six months, the Herland Collective
members have been searching for a new location
for the Resource Center. Some of the desired
features include affordability, handicapped accessibility, restroom facilities, telephone and temperature control. Donated space has not been
forthcoming and other acceptable space option
has been cost-prohibitive. Based on these circumstances, another option is being explored, that of
private corporation land purchase.
The proposed corporation would obtain financial
backing through the sale of stock at a cost of
fifty (50) dollars per share. The purpose of the
corporation would be to purchase and hold real
estate for investment purposes and to make the
real estate available for Herland and other
women-related activities and services.
An investment in this corporation will benefit the
women's community while providing the stockholder an opportunity for long-term financial gain.
The stock subscription agreement noted below is
provided as a means for you to express your interest in the purchase of stock in this endeavor.
Please fill out the subscription agreement and
forward to the name and address noted. Do not
send any money at this time.
Support of the women's community at the grassroots level will need to exist for this business
opportunity to be a success. If you want to participate, fill out the agreement today and return
by June 28, 1986. Herland Collective members
can answer any general questions you may have.
POTLUCK
PICNIC
Saturday, June 7, 1986
Noon-7:00 p.m.
at Rotary Park, Norman
Boyd St. at Wylie Rd. (halfway between
Berry Rd. & SW 24th St., and Main St.
and Lindsay--from 135, take Main
St. exit east to 24th, turn south to
Boyd, east to Wylie Rd.)
SOFTBALL GAME AT 1:00
bring gloves, balls, bats, other games
bring food, non-alcoholic beverages
(discretion requested on any alcohol)
grills for food available
pets on leash
egg toss
3-legged races
sack races
volleyball
etc.!
••NOTICE TO HERLAND CUSTOMERS••
Herland Sister Resources, Inc.
will be closed
Saturday, June 7,
for the Potluck Picnic in Norman
See you there
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the price of $50 per share, payable at a
future date upon incorporation in the State
of Oklahoma.
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Circulation:
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Marian Hulsey
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KRISTINA S. MAREK
Attorney and Counselor at Law
1137 N.W. 31st Street
Oklahoma City, OK 73118
405-.521-8434, after .5:00 P.M.
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524-1062
BERLAND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE
After the Berland Retreat May 4, 25 women
gathered for a brainstorming meeting. Berland
has been operating for a year and a half in its
present structure as a non-profit collectively run
corporation, without the formalized "five-year
plan" many organizations develop. The members
present brainstormed short and long-range plans
and they are listed below, as taken from the
minutes. We hope you, our readers and supporters, will take this opportunity to communicate
your ideas and opinions to us.
Immediate results from the brainstorming meeting that we know of include an organizational
meeting for a women's choir (details in this
issue) and a picnic and softball game (also in
this issue). The first meeting to form an educational/support group for lesbians, dealing with
homophobia wil also take place this month. The
League of Women Bowlers has been seen at several local bowling establishments and we are
awaiting news of the formation of a team. Contracts are being negotiated and the Little Theatre in the Civic Center Music Hall has been reserved for a September concert with Casselberry
& DuPree.
An ongoing issue for Berland has been moving to
a more accomodating space. The idea of selling
stock to raise revenue to purchase a property
generated a lot of excitement among members
present at the brainstorming meeting (details in
this issue).
Short-term goals:
Dance with women's music
Auction, garage sales
Picnics
Lesbian softball league
Choir
Women of Color workshops
Feminist theatre
Coordinate with OKC NOW
Festival at Lake Thunderbird
Women's Festival of the Arts
Coordinate housing for rural women
Telephone
Paid staff
Larger active volunteer pool
New space
League of Women Bowlers
Workshops on spirituatlity, relationships,
sexuality, psychic, religion, lesbian issues,
financial investments, feminism & lesbianism, surviving in straight society, antiracism, herbs & healing, legal issues, living
wills, relationship contracts
Report on retirement communities
Networking updates
Lesbian self-help groups
Support groups, once a month in conjunction
with another event
Long-range goals:
Network with other organizations
What is Berland for?
Who does Berland serve?
Larger bank accouant
Statewide directory
Friends of Berland recuitment
Solid grass-roots support
Cle~r-cut ways to broaden base of support
Charge for newsletter
Fem-Mall, women-owned businesses
Grants
Name on the building
SPECIAL SESSION
to review, prioritize and implement
results from brainstorming meeting
to include women not present at
Robbers Cave event
your attendance or written comments
to begin the writing of a 5-year plan
Sunday, June 15, 1986
2:00 - 5:00 p.m.
POTLUCK SUPPER AT 5:00
BERLAND, 1630 N.W. 19
announces
the next meeting of the Collective
Open to the Public
Sunday, June 15, 1986, 6:30 p.m.
1630 N.W. 19
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITIES FOR BERLAND
If you are a real estate agent or stock broker,
your consulatation and assistance would be of
great benefit to Berland during this time of
expansion.
Remember that for each 12 hours you spend
working the Center hours, you receive a $5 gift
certificate, which may be exchanged for books,
music and miscellaneous items (not including consignment items).
Berland has purchased new chairs for our audiences and we have material to make cushions. If
you enjoy sewing, let us know.
New acquisitions to the lending library need to
be processed (stamped, cards typed, and shelved).
The Newsletter always solicits articles, reviews,
letters, commentary from our readers. The deadline is the 15th of each month.
IT'S AVAILABLE
••Casselberry and DuPree 's latest release on
Icebergg, $8.98 record or cassette, Available at
Herland.
"City Down" is more than just good music. J.
Casselberry and Jacque DuPree transcend the
label of "politically progressive music" with their
creatively innovative music. Reggae, country, soul
and a touch of gospel fuse into one on this wonderfully eclectic album.
ss"Singing With You," by Holly Near and Ronnie
Gilbert, will not disappoint Near/Gilbert fans.
The recording is comprised of live and studio
work and includes long-awaited songs "Simply
Love," "Singing With You" and "The Jogging
Song."
••Lesbian Ethics announces two Reader's Forums.
For the summer issue, deadline June 15, Femme
& Butch. Are you femme, butch, neither, both?
Have you changed, are you trying to change?
Why or why not? How? What do you think the
ethical issues are? You are especially encouraged
to define your terms as carefully as possible and
not to let yourself slide into using a different
definition than the one you started with. You are
also encouraged to talk about femme and butch
not only as styles of dressing or as likes and
dislikes, but also as emotional, sexual and interactional patterns. Both Lesbian Ethics, Vol. 1, 2
& 3 have articles to which you might want to
respond.
For the fall issue, deadline Sept. 15, Sex. What
role does sex play in your life? What does it
mean to you, why do you do it? How do you do
it? What have you experienced as nurturing and
creative about sex? What as harmful? What is
easy and what difficult for you about sex? What
is the relationship between your fantasies and
your sexual practice? Do you practice S&M? If
not, do you want to? If you have in the past,
why did you stop and how? LE wants to hear
about the reality of sex in your life. In particular, it is the editor's observation that non-S&M
lesbians tend not to write or talk public ly
about actually doing sex and, in fact, talk about
sex most often in abstract and political terms.
And it is the editor's belief that if the S&M
conflict is to take us anywhere, this situation
must change.
Please keep your forum contributions to three
double-spaced pages (if you want to write more,
submit an article). Include both your address and
your phone number (for editing). If you wish,
they will publish anonymously or with a pseudonym, but you must send real name, address and
phone number to LE Publications, P.O. Box 943,
Venice, CA 90294.
..Kineheart, Inc., is a one-of-a-kind agency that
links direct service to oppressed women with
education toward changing the systems that keep
wounding people through sexism, racism and homophobia. They publish the Kineheart Wom.yn's
News monthly, the adult study on "Homosexuality
and the Church," the "Lesbian Relationship Handbook," and quarterly articles and reprint series
and two annotated bibliographies. Write them at
2214 Ridge Ave., Evanston, IL 60201 or call
312-491-1103.
••Lesbian Rights Project has been promoting
justice for the lesbian and gay community
nationwide since 1977. They provide free legal
advice and counseling, technical assistance to
attorneys, and publish on child custody, donor
insemination, foster parenting and employment
rights. Contact them at 1370 Mission St., 4th fl.,
San Francisco, CA 94103, 415-621-0674
HERLAND CHOIR
organizational meeting
Tuesday, June 10, 1986
7:00 p.m.
at Herland, 1630 N.W. 19
contact: Pat Reaves, 525-8013
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BOOK SHORTS
Tender Warriors, by Rachel Guido deVries, $7.95. The
story of an Italian-American working-class family caught up
in their struggles with each other and the world. This is a
novel about outsiders--white and black, gay and straight,
drugged and drug-free.
Anger, by May Sarton;, $4.95. The story of the marriage
of Ned Fraser, a Boston banker, and Anna Lindstrom, a
singer on the brink of fame. Sarton explores the different
ways that men and women express not only anger but
love.
The Handmaid's Tale, by Margaret Atwood, $16.95.
"Atwood's most powerful and moving novel since Surfacing,
she gives us a society in which all of the New Right's
preaching about women is put into law and into practice,
and a heroine who is brave, touching and wry. This is an
arresting triumph of the imagination ..." (Marge Piercy)
Words to the Wise: A Writer's Guide to Feminist and Lesbian Periodicals and Publishers, by Andrea Fleck Clardy,
$3.95. For every woman who wants to know where to send
it after it's been written, this pamphlet offers an annotated listing of more than 100 periodicals and book publishers.
High Hearts, by Rita Mae Brown, $17.95 hard cover. "If
Gone With the Wind had been written from the point of
view of soldiers in the midst of battle, it might have read
something like this appealing novel that deals with the stupidity of the Civil War and its effect on women."
(Publishers Weekly)
The Finishing School, by Gail Godwin, $4.50. "Compelling,
well-crafted ... A psychological detective story with dramatic
revelations of character and event." (Chicago Tribune)
Lesbian Etiquette, by Gail Sausser, with cartoons by Alice
Muhlback, $5.95. This is a book in which everyone will
recognize herself, the situations she's been in a million
times and, even more easily, her ex-lover.
Red Beans & Rice: Recipes for Lesbian Health and
Wisdom, by Bode Noona, $4.95. Here's a full-course dinner
of slightly wacked-out, brilliant, politically and spiritually
conscious lesbian thought.
Linden Hills, by Gloria Naylor, $6.95. The author of The
Women of Brewster Place ($5.95) shows her contempt for
upper middle-class blacks who have assimilated the values
of the white world. "Every page contains a brilliant insight, a fine description, some petty and human, some
grandiloquent." (Chicago Tribune)
Still Sane, by Persimmon Blackbridge and Sheila Gilhody,
$12.95, large format. Indicts a mental illness system which
treats lesbianilll!I as a disease to be cured by drugs, shock
treatment and incarceration. Includes photos, artwork and
resource section.
Women & Self-Esteem: Understanding and Improving the
Way We Think and Feel About Ourselves, by Linda
Tschirhart Sanford and Mary Ellen Donovan, $6.95. "This
sensible book combines intelligent analysis with a no -nonsense guide for individual growth .. well worth owning and
underlining." <Working Woman)
Lesbian Origins, by Susan Cavin, 19.00. A provocative book
of lesbian feminist theory. Discusses women's oppression
and concludes with new theories of women's liberation.
Goodbye Hangovers, Hello Life: Self Help for Women, by
Jean Kirkpatrick, 114.95 bard. The founder of Women for
Sobriety, a program exclusively for women alcoholics, bas
written a book detailing the method she used to pull herself up from a "living death."
The Long Trail, by Penny Hayes, 18.95. In Texas in 1869,
schoolteacher Blanche Bartholomew and dance ball girl
Teresa Stark discover an unthinkable love. Blanche and
Teresa flee together and attempt the impossible--to cross
the Texas prairie in a covered wagon.
Talkin1 It Out: A Guide to Groups for Abused Women, by
Ginny NiCarthy, Karen Merriam, Sandra Coffman, S9.95.
Whether you're a counselor, mental health worker or shelter or community activist, this book can help you become
more effective in working with women in abusive relationships.
Just Friends: The Role of Friendship in Our Lives, $15.95,
hard. The author studies a whole range of friendships including gay men and women, working class, single and married persons.
The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American
Indian Tradition, by Paula Gunn Allen, $24.95, bard. Allen,
a Laguna Pueblo, discusses past and present, examines
roles of lesbians in tribal life and American Indian
women's values and contributions.
Caring, by Annette Swackbamer, Ralph W. Moss, $15.95
hard. Swackhamer, a registered nurse, and Moss present a
moving dramatization of the complex and difficult issues
nurses face after years of dealing with patients, doctors,
hospital bureaucracy and their own ever changing roles.
Betsey Brown, by Ntozake Sbange, $6.95. Shange's latest,
now in paperback. Set in the black community of St. Louis
in 1959, Sbange tells the story of 13-year-old Betsey
Brown, poised between childhood and the political realities
of the adult world.
Hunger Strike: An Anorectic's Struggle as a Metaphor for
Our Age, by Susie Orbach, $15.95 bard. Equating the refusal of anorectics to eat with the hunger strikes of suffragists, Orbach asserts that social forces have contributed
to the epidemic of anorexia nervosa during the last 20
years.
Women and Children Last: The Plight of Poor Women in
Affluent America, by Ruth Sidel, $16.95. Older women,
female heads of families, battered wives and their offspring are depicted here on the edge of economic survival.
All God's Children Need Traveling Shoes, by Maya
Angelou, $15.95 hard. Poet, actress, civil rights activist
continues her autobiographical work begun in I Know WhY
the Caged Bird Sings. Angelou travels to Ghana and Berlin
and meets disillusionment, pain and homesickness.
Sex and Love, ed. Sue Cartledge and Joanna Ryan, $7.95.
The contributors to this collection are all women who have
confronted what sex and love mean in their lives, and in
society. Includes heterosexual. lesbian and bi-sexual living.
A Feminist Dictionary, by Cheris Kramarae and Paula A.
Treichler, $28.95 hard, $12.95 soft. Women define old
words and coin new ones. The results are intellectually
stimulating, audacious, funny and furious.
The Creation of Patriarchy, by Gerda Lerner, 121.95. What
could explain the delay, more than 3500 years, in women's
coming to consciousness of their own subordination and
what could explain women's historical "complicity" in upholding the patriarchal system are answered.
Menopause. Naturally: Preparing for the Second Half of
Life, Sadja Greenwood, M.D., $10. "... balances the natural
with the medicinal, the cultural influences with the physical facts and comes out with a unique, common-sense
guide for everywoman who will experience this rite of passage." (Gloria Steinem)
The Kwan Yin Book of Changes, by Diane Stein, $12.95.
"Women who have turned to the I Ching and felt thwarted
by its overt and subliminal patriarchal overtones will have
cause to rejoice over the appearance of this book ... "
(Mary Daly)
Broderie Anrlaise, by Violet Trefusis, $13.95. Virginia
Woolf's rival for the love of Vita Sackville-West was
Violet Trefusis, whose novel, written in 1935, is now published in English for the first time.
MY Mama's Dead Squirrel: Lesbian Bssavs on Southern
Culture, by Mab Secrest, $8.95. "Throughout these essays
ON THE MARCH FOR CHOICE
"God, she is smiling on us today." This sentiment, voiced by Director of Ceremonies Molly
Yard, was shared by over 100,000 in an unprecedented show of solidarity for the right to abortion in the March 9 "March for Women's Lives"
that passed the White House, assembling finally
on the Capitol lawn.
Chanting "Not the Church, Not the State, Women
Must Decide Their Fate," marchers flowed up
Pennsylvania Avenue before gathering for speeches. The rally was viewed by many as a resurgence of the movement--a signal that women
were "back into the streets," in the words of
Eleanor C. Smeal, president of the National
Organization for Women.
Smeal, who took the podium to chants of "Ellie,"
is credited by many with injecting a new militancy into the movement. "The silent majority will
be silent no longer," Smeal said. "You cannot
play with women's lives any longer."
Laura Hart, excerpts New Directions for Women,
Vol. 15, No. 3
CHARGED WITH KIDNAPPING
Sharon Murphy divorced her abusive husband and
was granted custody of their son. Her ex-husband
continued to assault her, repeatedly taking her
to court until he won custody, due to economic
advantages; then he tried to break contact between Sharon and her son. Sharon took the child
to Texas, where she established a home and career. After three years, the father found her and
Sharon turned herself in. She now faces a possible three year jail term. Send donations to Judy
Reeves, Program Director, Center for Battered
Women, P.O. Box 19454, Austin, TX 78760.
zines published between December 1953
December 1984 were analyzed for content.
and
The study identified 6004 images of children,
generally between six and 11 years old, with
boys associated with violent assault, while girls
were more often linked with images of sexual
assault. Images of nudity accounted for 1675 of
the total; another 1225 portrayed children and
genital activity; 989 of the images showed children sexually associated with adults; 592 showed
some kind of physical coercion; and 267 involved
children having sex with animals or other
objects.
A disturbing aspect of the images studied is that
almost all of the depictions of child sexual abuse
showed the child as unharmed or benefiting by
the sexual activity.
(from Washington Post,
008, Vol. XVI, No. 5)
excerpts
Leah Reibel,
COURT UPHOLDS RAPE TRAUMA
The Montana Supreme Court has held that expert
testimony on rape trauma syndrome is admissable
in a criminal trial. The defendant in State v.
Lidell was convicted of "sexual intercourse without consent" and appealed, alleging the trial
court erred in allowing an expert to testify on
the
victim's
post-traumatic
stress
disorder
resulting from the incident. The court held that
the expert testimony on rape trauma syndrome
was admissable to aid the jury in determining
whether the woman had consented to engage in
the sexual act.
(from Case & Comment)
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GAY RIGHTS VICTORY IN NEW YORK
After 15 years of struggle and heated debates,
the New York City Council approved a gay rights
bill. The measure prohibits discrimination on the
basis of sexual orientation in employment, housing and public accomodations. Similar bills have
become law in 50 other cities, 12 counties and
one state, Wisconsin.
The bill, the first of its kind when it was introduced in 1971, was developed in reaction to the
police raids and riots at the New York bar,
Stonewall, in 1969.
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CHILD PORN STUDY COMPLETED
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last year to study how children are portrayed in
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BIG MOUNTAIN
by Myra Fourwinds
NATIONAL EVENTS
Mv Daughter, The Scientist: An Exhibition on
the Role of Women in Science and Technology,
June-August, 1986, Forth Worth Museum of
Science and History, Ft. Worth, TX. Features 12
contemporary women scientists and engineers.
Women Working for Change: Health, Culture &
Societies, June 11-15, 1986, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. 8th Annual Convention of the
National Women's Studies Association.
Write
Office of Women's Studies, 304 Stiven House,
708 S. Mathews, Urbana, IL 61801.
Louisian~
Women Writers: A Symposium, September 19-20, 1986, Loyola University, New Orleans.
Ellen Gilchrist, Shirley Ann Grau,
Sheila
Bosworth and Lee Grue will read. Write Barbara
Ewell or Dorothy Brown, Loyola University, Box
14, New Orleans, LA 70118.
The Women's Health Program will be a five day
program for nurses only. For the rest of us,
there will be "Music and Healing" led by J(ay
Gardner, "Rites of Passage" led by Starhawk, and
"Older People's Fitness and Health" led by Ellen
Lederman, and much more. Write Omega Institute
for Holistic Studies, Lake Drive, RD 2,
Rhinebeck, NY 12572 for free catalog.
11th Michigan Womyn's Music Festival, August
6-10, 1986. An outdoor gathering with camping,
concerts, crafts, workshops, films, video and fun.
Send SASE to WWTMC, Box 22, Walhalla, MI
49458.
7th West Coast Women's Music & Comedy Festival, August 19-Sept. l, 1986, Yosemite Nat'l
Park, · California.
Concerts, comedy, dances,
speakers and authors, theatre, film festival. Send
SASE to WCWMF, 13514 Hart St., Van Nuys, CA
91405.
Faith and Resistance Retreat is a time for Christians to come together to pray, study and act on
the call to non-violent resistance. Includes the
Heartland Peace Pilgrimage to Omaha, Nebraska
Strategic Air Command Headquarters. Travel and
accomodations, July 3-6 can be coordinated
through the Benedictine Peace House. Deadline
for reservations, $25 plus meals and travel expenses, June 6. Contact Karen or Lillian at
524-5577.
WOMEN TAKE LIBERTY IN '86. Aware that the
Statue of Liberty, 100 years old August 3, has
become a female personification of the U.S., one
St. Louis lesbian, Flowing, has envisioned reclaiming the statue from the patriarchy and rededicating it to our values of equality, sisterhood
and peace. Write Womyn Make Waves for Peace,
1327 Potomac Ave., S.E., Washington, D.C.
20003.
walkin' the line, I can see both ways,
hey oh, hey oh, hey tomorrow,
give me sunrise and another dollar.
Navajo ways of five hundred years
hey oh, hey oh, you, tomorrow
again you want to take the land.
pass a law and evacuate a people
hey ho, hey ho, ho tomorrow
indigenous with an ancestor alive.
oh rootless white ones empty lives
hey hey, ho, whoa, tomorrow
genocide is your usual pastime.
witness this, world, they do not learn,
Big Mountain, no way, tomorrow
you are wrong, you can't have your way.
Navajo, our magical people, our gift,
hey, hey, no way, tomorrow
their place belongs to them from the origin.
we make preserves for migrating birds,
hey, oh hey, Big Mountain should stay
yet you are too blind to preserve this life?
you should be the ones to die
hey, hey, how could you face tomorrow
of the curse of yourself and your race.
let the earth loving ones try to save her.
hey, hey, say no way, Big Mountain stay
a national sacred preserve esteemed holy.
DEIDRE MCCALLA TO SING IN DALLAS
Little Feather Productions is presenting New
York Music Award nominee Deidre · McCalla in
concert June 28, 8:00 p.m. at _ the Unitarian
Church. Part of the Second Annual Pride Week
Dance, part of the proceeds will go to The
Family Place.
General admission tickets are $10 and may be
ordered from Little Feather Productions, P.O.,
Box
64720,
Dallas,
TX
75206,
or
call
214-372-2796 or 827-7380 for more information.
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Jambal!IYa: The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms
and Practical Rituials, by Luisah Teish, SI 7.95. The author, born and raised in New Orleans, is a dancer and storyteller in the Bay area where she teaches classes on African goddesses, chamanism and beliefs and practices of her
Tamai background.
Existential Folktales, by Margaret Switzer, $7. Using traditional stori~s like "The Ugly Duckling," "Goldilocks" and
"Henny Penny," Switzer seeks out the theme from a modern psychological point of view (success, nothingness and
nuclear dread, to name a few) and then retells the story
in 20th Century terms. A hilarious masterpiece of calculated absurdity.
Feminist Aesthetics, Gisela Ecker, ed. $9.95. Most of today's pathbreaking work in the fascinating new field of
feminist aesthetics is being written in Germany. Available
in English for the fist time, the author addresses the arts,
including music, literature, painting and cinema.
Repeat After Me, by Claudia Black, $13.95. For adult
children of alcoholics, the author provides a workbook for
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tool.
women, narrated by one as she reminisces at the death of
her friend.
Pleasures: Women Write Erotica, by Lonnie Barbach, $6.95.
By the author of For Each Other and For Yourself, a refreshing breakthrough: an anthology of true stories written
by and expressly for women.
The Land of Look Behind:
Cliff, $6.95. An exciting
racism. South Africa, the
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Jamaican reggae.
Prose and Poetry, by Michele
collection of new writing on
influence of Western European
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