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June 2003

Volume 21, Number 6

Herland's Annual Pride Picnic Moves to Memorial Park

Adoption Workshop for
Non-Traditional Families

C

ome find out what is involved in
adopting children in Oklahoma at
Herland on Saturday, June 7th, from
3 pm - 5 pm. Presenters will include Sandy
Ingraham (attorney), Nancy Viviani
(adoptive mother), carole Patten (licensed
social worker who counsels adoptive parents and prepares home studies), and a
representative of a family-friendly adoption
agency licensed to place children in Oklahoma. The workshop is free, however donations are always cheerfully accepted. For
more info call Herland at (405) 521-9696.

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he annual Herland Pride Picnic is being moved to Memorial Park, NW 36th and Classen, this year for the first time. The new location is needed in order to expand the
event and serve a larger crowd. As in previous years, popular community performers
will be featured from 5-8 pm. After that will be a community dance under the stars with
music provided by Miss Brown to You. This year's picnic will be Saturday, June 21st, the
day before the Pride Parade. While the entertainment is free, hot dogs and other food
items will be available for purchase and Herland will be selling pop and water.

Alix brought me
to my feet. She is
an ingenious poet,
a bn1liant perfonner,
a ftmny person,
and serious thinker.
She is, quite simply,
extraordinary.
Howard Zinn, Author :
"The People's History :
of the United States" :

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Her/and is proud to bring Alix Olson, spoken word artist, to town for~­
her ffrst performance in Oklahoma. Alix is a nationally-known artist :
that has headlined numerous festivals throughout the U.S.
·
Opening the show and performing with Alix will be Pamela Means.

Training On Lesbian Health Issues Coming To Oklahoma
emoving U1e Barriers to Accessing Health care for Lesbians is a special training pro-

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Native American Women

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he OKC Two-Spirit Society is having
meetings for lesbian and bi-sexual
women of Native American descent.
Come and share a meal with us at Herland
on June 26th at 6:30pm. The OKC TwoSpirit Hotline number is (405) 317-7283.

ject for health care professionals being provided free of charge through a partnership with the Mautner Project, Herland Sister Resources, the Take Charge! Program
of the Oklahoma State Department of Health, and Church of the Open Arms. The training
will take place on Friday, June 13th from 8 am to 12:30 pm at the Church of the Open
Arms, 3131 N. Pennsylvania, Oklahoma City.
Providers attending the training will learn of the barriers faced by lesbians as they try to
access health care services. Information will be presented on how to break down these
barriers within their practices and/or institutions. Participants will work to increase their
comfort levels when discussing sexuality with their patients, develop a common language
around sexuality, and learn how to create an environment where all of their patients, regardless of sexual orientation, feel comfortable and safe in sharing important personal information. This training is intended for health care professionals who provide healthcare or
health-related services, including physicians, physician's assistants, nurses, social workers,
case managers, health educators, radiologists, radiology technologists, phlebotomists, and
mental health professionals. Also welcome are clinic administrators, clinic managers,
schedulers, and reception staff.
Class size is limited to 30 participants so pre-registration is required. To register or for
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Womyn of Color Club
The Womyn of C.olor 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.
www.herlandsisters.org
Email : herlandsisters@cox.net

Herland Sister Resources, 2312 NW 39th, Oklahoma City, OK 73112
(405) 521-9696
Bookstore Hours: Saturdays 1-5 pm

Herland Book Club
Our book club meets on the first Monday of
the month at 7 pm at Herland. All are welcome and each person can have fun sharing
their enthusiasm, or criticism, of the book
being discussed. On June 2 we will discuss
A Womans Realityby Anne Wilson Schaef.
The selections for the following months are:
July - Woman on the Edge of 77me
by Marge Piercy
August - Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
by Audre Lorcle

Womyn's Goddess Study Group

A

study group of womyn celebrating and exploring the Mysteries of the Dark Goddess has begun meeting at Herland. We meet on or just before the dark of the
moon to study Her powers of healing and renewal. We work together in consensus
to share in Her wisdom. Our meetings will be scheduled at 1 pm on the Sunday on or before the Dark Moon--13 meetings/year. By consensus, those of us at the first meeting have
decided to perfonn the 13 rituals described in Sisters of the Dark Moon by Gail Wood.
Membership is limited to womyn only. For more infonnation email wyrclwynd@juno.com or
call (405) 840-9972 and leave a message for Iris Wyrdwynd.
Recommended readings for the group are: Mysteries of the Dark Moon by Demetra
George, The Myth of the Goddess by Anne Baring & Jules cashforcl, When God was a
Woman by Merlin Stone, and The Spiral Dance by Starhawk.

Herland Receives Astraea Grant
or the second year in a row, Herland is the recipient of a $1,000 grant for general
operating support from the Astraea Lesbian Action Foundation. Astraea is a national nonprofit public charity whose purpose is to advance the economic, political,
educational, and cultural well-being of lesbians.
The Astraea Foundation was established in 19n by a group of women activists concerned about the many women's programs and projects having difficulty getting funding
due to their lesbian, progressive, and feminist perspectives. Their mission was to raise
money to support the work of these women's groups. For more info about Astraea's programs, see their website at www.astraea.org.

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Sorenstam Plays in Colonial
Book Review
77pping the Velvet by Sara Waters
Reviewed by PM
This novel was a delight to read. It described in saga, story, epic fonn the life
stages of two young women who were lesbians (Toms) in late 1800's in England actually, the "gay nineties." It was infonnative of gay life at that time. Their issues
were similar to ours: coming out, or living in
the closet; dressing and wearing one's hairdo; employment choices. Both women
were actors, and one, at one stage of her
life, supported herself as a prostitute
dressed as a young man pleasuring older
men. Later, she served as a "tart" for an
upper class woman who belonged to a Sapphist society of women engaging in fantastic orgies, among other entertainment activities. The main character, Nan, journeyed from rags to riches, with the author
weaving into the story a brilliant description
of upper, middle, and lower class societal
living elements (clothes, housing, food, and
relationships) in that period.
The relationships between the main
women characters were characterized by
falling-in-love crushes, the process of becoming aware and coming to tenns with
their lesbian "turnings", telling their friends
and families, disillusionment and betrayal,
lust, and sacrificial love.
It was a great story and fun to read.
Sara Waters other books include Affinity
and Rngersmith.

laying in the Colonial Tournament May 22-25 in R. Worth, Texas, Annika Sorenstam is the first woman in 58 years to compete against men on the PGA Tour.
(Babe Didrickson played in the PGA's Los Angeles Open in 1945.) Since she is not
on the PGA Tour, and thus has not qualified for tournament play, Sorenstam asked for a
sporisor's exemption in order to play in the Colonial. Her motivation, she says, is to see
how her game stacks up against the best players in the world.
. Sorenstam has dominated the LPGA for the last five years by winning 43 t.imes and four
majors. However, tour money might also be a reason for some of the top women golfers,
like Sorenstam, to try the PGA. First prize money for men's tournaments hovers around
the $1 million range while women play for about $150,000 for first place.
At least one PGA golfer, Vijay Singh, stated he would refuse to play if paired with
Sorenstam and did, in fact, take the week off after winning the Byron Nelson Championship. Singh objected to Sorenstam's playing in the tournament without actually qualifying. Many of the male golfers on the tour seem to share Colonial defending champ Nick
Price's sentiments: he respects Sorenstam's courage but thinks the media circus is overshadowing the rest of the tournament.
The next woman to compete on the PGA Tour may well be Susan Whaley. Whaley became the first woman to actually qualify to play in a PGA tournament by winning a PGA
sectional championship (from the ladies tees) in 2002. Winning the sectional qualified her
for the Greater Hartforcl Open to be held in July 2003. "I think it's pretty cool," Tiger
Woods said at the time she qualified. "She went out there and she earned her right. She
beat everybody in the field, and that's what you have to do."
And the Upper Deck Co. is releasing its first set of women's golf trading cards to coincide with Sorenstam's debut in the PGA. The set features Sorenstam along with Nancy
Lopez, Laura Davies, Karrie Webb, Julie Inkster, and eight other women golfers.

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by: Herland Sister Resources, Inc.
2312 NW 39th, Oklahoma City, OK 73112. Th.e Voice is
offered as an open forum for community discourse. Articles
reflect the opinions of the author and not necessarily those
of Herland Sister Resources. 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.
The Voice is published

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more infonnation, call 405-521-9696 and leave a message or
email jawber@lycos.com.
The instructor for the training, LauraLynn Jansen, MHEd., is
the Health Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Mautner Project in Washington. D.C. Learn more about this project by visiting the Mautner Project Removing the Barriers
website at www.mautnerproject.org/barriers.html.
The Take Charge! Program is the Oklahoma State Health
Department's Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection
Program and is funded by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mission of Take Charge! is
to infonn women about early detection of breast and cervical
cancer to prevent unnecessary suffering and death. The program provides no-cost health counseling, clinical breast exams, Pap smears, and mammograms for women that qualify.
For more infonnation, call 1-888-669-5934, or visit their web
site at www.health.state.ok.us/program/cds/
breastcervical. html.
The Church of the Open Arms is a congregation of the
United Church of Christ that welcomes and affirms all persons
regardless of race, color, ancestry, age, gender, sexual or
affectional orientation, ethnicity or national origin. For more
information, call 405-525-9555, or visit their website at
www .openarms.org.

Ethiopian Hospital Helps Women Injured in
Childbirth
One out of every twelve women in Africa dies in childbirth and
many more find their lives destroyed by childbirth injuries,
mostly from untreated obstJUcted labor. Ir! western countries, obstructed childbirth is almost always successfully overcome with proper medical assistance and caesarean section.
However, in many developing countries, people live in remote
areas, and access to these procedures is nearly impossible.
In such countries, including Ethiopia, a woman with a small
or malformed pelvis or a badly positioned child may be in
labor for five days or even longer. Long after the child has
died, the pressure of its head interrupts blood-flow to pelvic
organs, often resulting in a perforation between the vagina
and bladder or rectum causing urinary or fecal incontinence
and sometimes damage to nerves controlling the lower legs.
Such women are often abandoned by their husbands and
driven out by other villagers.
Dr. catherine Hamlin and the Fistula Hospital in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia, have treated over 20,000 women with fistulas
since 1974. Last year President Bush, upset by abortions in
China, cut off all $34 million in U.S. funds to the U.N. Population Fund, which sponsors programs to prevent fistulas.
Meanwhile, two American women began the "34 Million
Friends" campaign last year to get people to donate $1 each
to make up the money that President Bush cut. Find out
more about what you can do to help at www.fistulahospital.
org or www.unfpa.org.

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• Street in Edmond, 8 pm, $7
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• W. Memoriql, 10 qm
: Saturday. June 14: Herlqnd Supper Club qt River's Edge Bistro,
• 1924 Riverside Drive in Tulsq, 6:30 pm
: Saturday. June 14: Mqry Reynolds qt River's Edge Bistro, 1924
• Riverside Drive in Tulsq, 7:30 pm-10:30pm
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In Memoriam
Nancy Sue White
Seattle, WA
November 21, 1947 - March 15, 2003

An original founding mother of Herland
Soar on the wind, Sister!
(Memorial donations may be made to Her/and)

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Spring Retreat a Great Success
Herland's Spring Retreat at Roman Nose State Park was a huge success with over 70 women attending. The weather was perfect for birdwatching, hiking, and just relaxing. The crowd was especially taken with the band IRIS and their easy-going groove. Thanks again to IRIS
and sound tech/emcee Elyse Angelo for helping make this such an enjoyable retreat. IRIS will be playing at Schatzi's in Tulsa on June 14th
(Tulsa's Pride Weekend) so head on up for an evening of fun . To get on IRIS' email list: iristheband@yahoo.com.

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Oklahoma City, OK 73112

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Monthly meetings every 2nd Wednesday, 7 pm
at Democratic Party Headquarters
NE 4lst and Lincoln, OKC
for info call James Nimmo at (405) 843-3651
or email violadamore2@yahoo.com

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(405) 321-2148
Box 5119
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Individuals - Couples
Family Therapy, Retreats

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Doctor's Park
500 E. Robinson, Suite 600
Norman, OK 73071
(405) 321-3719

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Attorney at Law
(405) 691-4949

Sandy Ingraham, J.D., M.S.W.
Attorney-at-Law
Ingraham & Associates, PLLC

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Call me with your legal questions:
estate planning
personal injury
contract issues
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Estate Planning, Wills, Trusts, Probate, Adoption, Contracts
Route 2, Box 369-B
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Tel. (405) 964-2072
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Volume 21, Number 6

Herland's Annual Pride Picnic Moves to Memorial Park

Adoption Workshop for
Non-Traditional Families

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ome find out what is involved in
adopting children in Oklahoma at
Herland on Saturday, June 7th, from
3 pm - 5 pm. Presenters will include Sandy
Ingraham (attorney), Nancy Viviani
(adoptive mother), carole Patten (licensed
social worker who counsels adoptive parents and prepares home studies), and a
representative of a family-friendly adoption
agency licensed to place children in Oklahoma. The workshop is free, however donations are always cheerfully accepted. For
more info call Herland at (405) 521-9696.

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event and serve a larger crowd. As in previous years, popular community performers
will be featured from 5-8 pm. After that will be a community dance under the stars with
music provided by Miss Brown to You. This year's picnic will be Saturday, June 21st, the
day before the Pride Parade. While the entertainment is free, hot dogs and other food
items will be available for purchase and Herland will be selling pop and water.

Alix brought me
to my feet. She is
an ingenious poet,
a bn1liant perfonner,
a ftmny person,
and serious thinker.
She is, quite simply,
extraordinary.
Howard Zinn, Author :
"The People's History :
of the United States" :

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Alix · Dlfo"'
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8 P""1 fritilay May Jot~
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ticket! $11
(available at the cAooY
ov by calli"'".l 511-%%>

Her/and is proud to bring Alix Olson, spoken word artist, to town for~­
her ffrst performance in Oklahoma. Alix is a nationally-known artist :
that has headlined numerous festivals throughout the U.S.
·
Opening the show and performing with Alix will be Pamela Means.

Training On Lesbian Health Issues Coming To Oklahoma
emoving U1e Barriers to Accessing Health care for Lesbians is a special training pro-

R

Native American Women

T

he OKC Two-Spirit Society is having
meetings for lesbian and bi-sexual
women of Native American descent.
Come and share a meal with us at Herland
on June 26th at 6:30pm. The OKC TwoSpirit Hotline number is (405) 317-7283.

ject for health care professionals being provided free of charge through a partnership with the Mautner Project, Herland Sister Resources, the Take Charge! Program
of the Oklahoma State Department of Health, and Church of the Open Arms. The training
will take place on Friday, June 13th from 8 am to 12:30 pm at the Church of the Open
Arms, 3131 N. Pennsylvania, Oklahoma City.
Providers attending the training will learn of the barriers faced by lesbians as they try to
access health care services. Information will be presented on how to break down these
barriers within their practices and/or institutions. Participants will work to increase their
comfort levels when discussing sexuality with their patients, develop a common language
around sexuality, and learn how to create an environment where all of their patients, regardless of sexual orientation, feel comfortable and safe in sharing important personal information. This training is intended for health care professionals who provide healthcare or
health-related services, including physicians, physician's assistants, nurses, social workers,
case managers, health educators, radiologists, radiology technologists, phlebotomists, and
mental health professionals. Also welcome are clinic administrators, clinic managers,
schedulers, and reception staff.
Class size is limited to 30 participants so pre-registration is required. To register or for
(continued page 3)

Womyn of Color Club
The Womyn of C.olor 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.
www.herlandsisters.org
Email : herlandsisters@cox.net

Herland Sister Resources, 2312 NW 39th, Oklahoma City, OK 73112
(405) 521-9696
Bookstore Hours: Saturdays 1-5 pm

Herland Book Club
Our book club meets on the first Monday of
the month at 7 pm at Herland. All are welcome and each person can have fun sharing
their enthusiasm, or criticism, of the book
being discussed. On June 2 we will discuss
A Womans Realityby Anne Wilson Schaef.
The selections for the following months are:
July - Woman on the Edge of 77me
by Marge Piercy
August - Zami: A New Spelling of My Name
by Audre Lorcle

Womyn's Goddess Study Group

A

study group of womyn celebrating and exploring the Mysteries of the Dark Goddess has begun meeting at Herland. We meet on or just before the dark of the
moon to study Her powers of healing and renewal. We work together in consensus
to share in Her wisdom. Our meetings will be scheduled at 1 pm on the Sunday on or before the Dark Moon--13 meetings/year. By consensus, those of us at the first meeting have
decided to perfonn the 13 rituals described in Sisters of the Dark Moon by Gail Wood.
Membership is limited to womyn only. For more infonnation email wyrclwynd@juno.com or
call (405) 840-9972 and leave a message for Iris Wyrdwynd.
Recommended readings for the group are: Mysteries of the Dark Moon by Demetra
George, The Myth of the Goddess by Anne Baring & Jules cashforcl, When God was a
Woman by Merlin Stone, and The Spiral Dance by Starhawk.

Herland Receives Astraea Grant
or the second year in a row, Herland is the recipient of a $1,000 grant for general
operating support from the Astraea Lesbian Action Foundation. Astraea is a national nonprofit public charity whose purpose is to advance the economic, political,
educational, and cultural well-being of lesbians.
The Astraea Foundation was established in 19n by a group of women activists concerned about the many women's programs and projects having difficulty getting funding
due to their lesbian, progressive, and feminist perspectives. Their mission was to raise
money to support the work of these women's groups. For more info about Astraea's programs, see their website at www.astraea.org.

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Sorenstam Plays in Colonial
Book Review
77pping the Velvet by Sara Waters
Reviewed by PM
This novel was a delight to read. It described in saga, story, epic fonn the life
stages of two young women who were lesbians (Toms) in late 1800's in England actually, the "gay nineties." It was infonnative of gay life at that time. Their issues
were similar to ours: coming out, or living in
the closet; dressing and wearing one's hairdo; employment choices. Both women
were actors, and one, at one stage of her
life, supported herself as a prostitute
dressed as a young man pleasuring older
men. Later, she served as a "tart" for an
upper class woman who belonged to a Sapphist society of women engaging in fantastic orgies, among other entertainment activities. The main character, Nan, journeyed from rags to riches, with the author
weaving into the story a brilliant description
of upper, middle, and lower class societal
living elements (clothes, housing, food, and
relationships) in that period.
The relationships between the main
women characters were characterized by
falling-in-love crushes, the process of becoming aware and coming to tenns with
their lesbian "turnings", telling their friends
and families, disillusionment and betrayal,
lust, and sacrificial love.
It was a great story and fun to read.
Sara Waters other books include Affinity
and Rngersmith.

laying in the Colonial Tournament May 22-25 in R. Worth, Texas, Annika Sorenstam is the first woman in 58 years to compete against men on the PGA Tour.
(Babe Didrickson played in the PGA's Los Angeles Open in 1945.) Since she is not
on the PGA Tour, and thus has not qualified for tournament play, Sorenstam asked for a
sporisor's exemption in order to play in the Colonial. Her motivation, she says, is to see
how her game stacks up against the best players in the world.
. Sorenstam has dominated the LPGA for the last five years by winning 43 t.imes and four
majors. However, tour money might also be a reason for some of the top women golfers,
like Sorenstam, to try the PGA. First prize money for men's tournaments hovers around
the $1 million range while women play for about $150,000 for first place.
At least one PGA golfer, Vijay Singh, stated he would refuse to play if paired with
Sorenstam and did, in fact, take the week off after winning the Byron Nelson Championship. Singh objected to Sorenstam's playing in the tournament without actually qualifying. Many of the male golfers on the tour seem to share Colonial defending champ Nick
Price's sentiments: he respects Sorenstam's courage but thinks the media circus is overshadowing the rest of the tournament.
The next woman to compete on the PGA Tour may well be Susan Whaley. Whaley became the first woman to actually qualify to play in a PGA tournament by winning a PGA
sectional championship (from the ladies tees) in 2002. Winning the sectional qualified her
for the Greater Hartforcl Open to be held in July 2003. "I think it's pretty cool," Tiger
Woods said at the time she qualified. "She went out there and she earned her right. She
beat everybody in the field, and that's what you have to do."
And the Upper Deck Co. is releasing its first set of women's golf trading cards to coincide with Sorenstam's debut in the PGA. The set features Sorenstam along with Nancy
Lopez, Laura Davies, Karrie Webb, Julie Inkster, and eight other women golfers.

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more infonnation, call 405-521-9696 and leave a message or
email jawber@lycos.com.
The instructor for the training, LauraLynn Jansen, MHEd., is
the Health Education and Outreach Coordinator for the Mautner Project in Washington. D.C. Learn more about this project by visiting the Mautner Project Removing the Barriers
website at www.mautnerproject.org/barriers.html.
The Take Charge! Program is the Oklahoma State Health
Department's Breast and Cervical Cancer Early Detection
Program and is funded by a grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The mission of Take Charge! is
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cancer to prevent unnecessary suffering and death. The program provides no-cost health counseling, clinical breast exams, Pap smears, and mammograms for women that qualify.
For more infonnation, call 1-888-669-5934, or visit their web
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United Church of Christ that welcomes and affirms all persons
regardless of race, color, ancestry, age, gender, sexual or
affectional orientation, ethnicity or national origin. For more
information, call 405-525-9555, or visit their website at
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Ethiopian Hospital Helps Women Injured in
Childbirth
One out of every twelve women in Africa dies in childbirth and
many more find their lives destroyed by childbirth injuries,
mostly from untreated obstJUcted labor. Ir! western countries, obstructed childbirth is almost always successfully overcome with proper medical assistance and caesarean section.
However, in many developing countries, people live in remote
areas, and access to these procedures is nearly impossible.
In such countries, including Ethiopia, a woman with a small
or malformed pelvis or a badly positioned child may be in
labor for five days or even longer. Long after the child has
died, the pressure of its head interrupts blood-flow to pelvic
organs, often resulting in a perforation between the vagina
and bladder or rectum causing urinary or fecal incontinence
and sometimes damage to nerves controlling the lower legs.
Such women are often abandoned by their husbands and
driven out by other villagers.
Dr. catherine Hamlin and the Fistula Hospital in Addis Abbaba, Ethiopia, have treated over 20,000 women with fistulas
since 1974. Last year President Bush, upset by abortions in
China, cut off all $34 million in U.S. funds to the U.N. Population Fund, which sponsors programs to prevent fistulas.
Meanwhile, two American women began the "34 Million
Friends" campaign last year to get people to donate $1 each
to make up the money that President Bush cut. Find out
more about what you can do to help at www.fistulahospital.
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• W. Memoriql, 10 qm
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: Saturday. June 14: Mqry Reynolds qt River's Edge Bistro, 1924
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Seattle, WA
November 21, 1947 - March 15, 2003

An original founding mother of Herland
Soar on the wind, Sister!
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Spring Retreat a Great Success
Herland's Spring Retreat at Roman Nose State Park was a huge success with over 70 women attending. The weather was perfect for birdwatching, hiking, and just relaxing. The crowd was especially taken with the band IRIS and their easy-going groove. Thanks again to IRIS
and sound tech/emcee Elyse Angelo for helping make this such an enjoyable retreat. IRIS will be playing at Schatzi's in Tulsa on June 14th
(Tulsa's Pride Weekend) so head on up for an evening of fun . To get on IRIS' email list: iristheband@yahoo.com.

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