The Herland Voice : v.8: no.10(1991)
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- The Herland Voice : v.8: no.10(1991)
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OCTOBER, 1991
FOLK ARTIST CARLA SCIAKY
TO APPEAR IN CONCERT
"Sciaky opened the show with a dash of good hurrwr and a startling soprano, as fine
and fragile as glass."
The Boston Globe
"Ms. Sciaky's haunting voice and sensitive musicianship combine with a good hurrwred
and professional stage presence to create an enchanting performance.''
The Chico Folk Music Society
"Coupled with the excellence of her finger picking, which makes the guitar almost an
extension of herself through an artistry full of ease and grace, her singing and playing
are a unique complement to each other."
Salt Lake Tribune
Prepare yourself for an evening of great acoustic music from this versatile
performer. Carla Sciaky will bring her distinctive vocal style and wide range of
instrumental virtuosity to the City Arts Center (3000 Pershing Blvd. on the
Fairgrounds) in Oklahoma City for a concert on Friday, October 18th. The
program will begin at 8:00.
Audiences from coast to coast and beyond have enjoyed Carla's
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RETREAT . .. THERE IS STILL TIME . ..
Pre-registrations are still being accepted for the Herland Fall
Retreat, which will be held at Red Rock Canyon State Park
October 11-13.
You won't want to miss this opportunity to spend the weekend
with wonderful women enjoying conversation, good food and
good music. Scheduled activities for the retreat include a Saturday
evening performance by warm, witty, wonderful singer/songwriter, Nancy Scott, plus a variety of workshops, singing around
the campfire and a pot-luck supper (of course). Unscheduled
activities are limited only by your imagination.
Registration includes a Friday evening meal, Saturday and
Sunday brunch and a bunk in a cabin. Tents and RV's are
welcome; however, no RV hookups are available in the group
camp area.
Register now to ensure you'll have a place at the women's event
of the season!
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HSR FALL RETREAT REGISTRATION
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Retreat PreHousehold Annual Income
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priate for you based on these suggested income
under $ 6,500
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guidelines. Complete and return the pre$ 6, 500-$ 13,25 0
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$13,300-$18,000
registration form to Herland, 2312 N.W. 39th,
$13.25()..$19.500
$35
$18,000-$26,000
over $19,500
$40
over $26,000
Oklahoma City, OK 73112.
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HERLAND SISTER RESOURCES
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Return to: HERLAND
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(405) 521-9696
Carla Sciaky
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performances, which involve a wide range of songs and instrumentals from different countries and time periods. She presents a
satisfying, well-rounded mix of acoustic music, combining original
songs and traditional folk along with the more unusual ethnic folk
and medieval tunes for which she is also noted.
Carla Sciaky hails from Morrison, Colorado and has performed
as a solo artist for over ten years, including concerts (with other
ensembles) at Carnegie Recital Hall and the EPCOT Center in
Disney World. Some of you may have had the pleasure of hearing
her in Oklahoma City two years ago. She performs annually with
The Mother Folkers, a gathering of 12 of the Denver area's finest
women m.usicians. (It's the most carefully pronounced name in
show business," she says).
Carla's original songs are colored by her many influences. From
modern artists like Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez and James Taylor, to the
traditional music of the Americas and Europe, she presents a
refreshing mix of her considerable instrumental skills and her sweet,
delicate soprano vocals. Audiences·are likely to hear, in addition to
the familiar guitar, violin, mandolin and concertina, the more
obscure plucked psaltery and the gudulka, a Bulgarian folk instrument that resembles a fiddle.
Sciaky was born in Brooklyn in 1954 and began her music
training at an early age in the classical vein with piano and violin. At
14, she picked up the guitar on a summer visit to Mexico City. "It
was an instant love," she said. "Suddenly, I had an instrument I
could play and sing with at the same time. All that I had learned on
the piano was classical, so singing wasn't even a possibility."
Her musical interests continued to widen as she majored in music
atthe University of Colorado. She branched out into ancient music
styles, playing krumhom, rebec and viola de gamba.
Sciaky sees herself more as a singer/guitarist who writes songs
rather than a songwriter, although her tremendous talents as a writer
are evident in her five solo albums, To Meet You," In Between, Under
the Quarter Moon, Risselty, Rosselty, Now, Now, Now, and her latest
release, The Undertow (available on CD).
Tickets to the Carly Sciaky concert are $6 in advance and $7 at the
door, and can be purchased at Herland (521 -9696) or by calling
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Rhonda at 942-4748.
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HELP SUPPLY HERLAND'S
REFERENCE LIBRARY
A primary function of Herland is to act as a clearinghouse and
informational resource to the community. To better accomplish
this we need to continually update our reference library. One
volume we are interested in obtaining is the new Policy Paper:
"Violence Against Women as Bias Motivated Hate Crime:
Defining the Issues." This publication includes -sections such as
"Sexism and Violence Against Women: Crimes of Misogyny;"
"Data Collection and the Meaning of Statistics;" "Federal and
State Law Reform for the 1990s;" " Monitoring Hate Crimes:
Models of Leadership." The cost of this work is $15.00
Another recent publication we would like to acquire is titled
"Resisting Racism: An Action Guide," published by the National
Association of Black and White Men Together and edited by
Gerald L. Mallon. This work contains sections outlining effective
workshops, a secton of essays, and another of Resource Material.
It's cost is $19.95.
These are just two of many new books we would like to acquire
and/or update for our refer~nce shelf; and we are sure that many
of you can think of others you would like us to have. Donations
of books or the wherewithal to buy them will be gladly accepted.
If we receive more than one copy of a work-three copies of The
Wickedary, for example, we will leave one in the reference library
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and put the other( s) in our lending library.
WOMEN'S
FESTIVAL
at THE PORTHOLE
"We Are Insured"
KAY
?94-0081
SANDIE
794-6884
Sunday, October 6, 4 p.m.
Music - Open Mic - Crafts
PROCEEDS BENEFIT
HERLAND BUILDING FUND
DEAR HERLAND
I would like to say, "Thank you" to all the women who helped pay
for the interpreter at the Paula Poundstone performance. Your kindness
helped make my evening more enjoyable.
Rita S.
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HERLAND VOICE, OCTOBER 1991
ELIZABETH BETTENHAUSEN
SPEAKS IN OKC Saturday, Oct. 26
BEST&WOODY
COUNSELORS AT LAW
Announcing New Location
4020 N. Lincoln Blvd.
Suite 204
Oklahoma City Oklahoma 73105
405-424-8808
DAY OF UNITY AGAINST
DOMESTIC VIOLENCE
On October 7, 1991, a program and candlelight ceremony to
remember women who have suffered from battering and to
celebrate those who have survived and made new lives for
themselves, will be held at 7:00 p.m. at the McFarland Branch
YWCA, 1710 Martin Luther King Blvd., OKC, OK. Cynthia Gunn,
news anchorwoman for KWTV, will be mistress of ceremony for
this event which is sponsored by the YWCA Passageway Shelter for
Battered Women. The program will include formerly battered
women speaking out about their experiences, as well as music and
dramatic monologues. The theme for the OKC Day of Unity is
"Struggle, Survive ... Vision."
This event is part of activities observing National Domestic
Violence Awareness Month including a national Day of Unity
Against Domestic Violence. Across the country, formerly battered
women and adult survivors of domestic violence are planning events
to draw attention to the reality of domestic violence in the home.
Governor David Walters and Mayor Ron Norick have proclaimed October as "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" and
October 7, 1991 as "Day of Unity."
For additional information on domestic violence awareness
events, contact Tina Mitchell at 949-0907. The YWCA Passageway
hotline is 949-1866.
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Ink Well Vvint{ng
TERI HOELTZEL
SUSAN BROOKS
Owners
(405) 942-5693
501 N. Meridian, Suite 107
Oklahoma City, OK 73107-5701
Feminist, ethicist, theologian, and advocate for peace
and justice in human affairs
Dr. Elizabeth Bettenhausen
will speak in Oklahoma City,
Saturday evening, October
26, in the Angie Smith
Chapel of Oklahoma City
University, at 7:30 p .m .
There is no charge, but a free
will offering will be collected.
Bettenhausen will also lead
a Workshop/Dialogue for
Women from 10 a.m. 'to
noon, on Saturday, titled,
----~ "Are Equality and justice
Mutually Exclusive?" The workshop is $10 per person and
reservations may be made by calling 524-5577. A second Workshop/Dialogue for Young Adults (ages 16 to 20) will meet from
2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., no charge, reservations at 524-5577. Call for
reservations information and location.
Dr. Bettenhausen is Keynote Speaker with Rev. Wm. Sloane
Coffin for the National Disciples Peace Fellowship "Peaceable
Realm" conference. Thursday and Friday, October 24 and 25. Her
Oklahoma City presentations are sponsored by Benedictine Peace
House.
She teaches at the Women's Theological Center at the Episcopal
Divinity School, Boston, Mass., and has served on the faculty at
Garret Evangelical Seminary, Chicago, and at Boston University
School of Theology.
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CONFERENCE ON RACISM
Vision 21, Affirming Diversity, Challenging Diversity, a
conference on racism in America, will be held November 6 - 7,
1991, at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel in Tulsa. Coretta Scott
King will be the keynote speaker; and other speakers include Louis
Ballard, Native American composer; Henry Cisneros, former mayor
of San Antonio; and Andrew Young, former Ambassador to the
United Nations.
The conference is sponsored by the Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry,
Tulsa Public Schools, the University of Tulsa, and Phillips University Graduate Seminary. For a conference brochure and registration
form contact Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry, 240 East Apache, Tulsa,
OK 74106. No registrations accepted after Friday, October 25,
1991, so act now.
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HERLAND VOICE, OCTOBER 1991
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REFLECTIONS ON MY TRIP TO WICHITA
by Pat Reaves
Finally the notice came that a pro-choice rally would be held in
Wichita to counter the actions of Operation Rescue's clinic
blockades. Here was our chance to do something. With little time to
organize, a quick mailing was done by Herlanders and women
recruited to "go to Wichita." Twelve women associated with
Herland gathered on Friday evening to travel together. Jokes about
who would bail us out should we end up in jail reflected the
underlying tension and uncertainty about what we might face in
Wichita.
We arrived in Wichita late Friday night. Our waitress in the hotel
bar encouraged us and said she wanted the Operation Rescue people
to go home. We found the rally site in the nearby park and sang the
Mountain Song to "claim" it as women's space. We would sing the
Mountain Song several more times before the end of our Wichita
experience.
The rally was great - thousands of women and men gathered
from all over to support women's right to choose. I met women
from Colorado, Ohio and Kansas. We circled our group in the
middle of the crowd and sang the Mountain Song. Ellie Smeal was
inspiring in her call to take action to end the efforts of Operation
Rescue.
After the rally, our group decided we would go to Women's
Health Care Services, the clinic which was a focal point of Operation
Rescue's harrassment efforts. We planned to sing the Mountain
Song and leave within 10 to 15 minutes. At the clinic, there were 200
to 300 anti-abortion demonstrators and 50 or so pro-choice
demonstrators with the anti-abortion tractorcade passing in front
repeatedly. The ground around the clinic was littered with little
white crosses.
After quickly gathering our group and being joined by other
pro-choice advocates, we walked together through the Operation
Rescue crowd carrying pro-choice signs. In front of the clinic,
completely surrounded by the Operation Rescue crowd, we circled
and sang the Mountain Song, " . .. if you come here for to take our
mountain, well we ain't come here to give it." I was sure that it was
true - I was here because I will not give up my right to control my
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HERLAND VOICE. OCTOBER 1991
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in Comprehensive Dentistry
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Night & Sunday practice by appt. only
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body without fighting, and with the power I felt singing together, we
could win. We were followed by harassing men making comments as
if they were chasing us away. Peggy stopped and turned to sing
directly in one man's face.
We continued our march back to the street corner where we took
up places on the street's edge holding signs and chanting pro-choice
slogans. Harassment from the anti-abortion demonstrators continued with their gory pictures and threats of hell and damnation.
None of us wanted to leave, in spite of the heat, our lack oflunch and
our agreement to leave early. Finally, after several hours, we did
agree that it was time to go.
I've struggled unsuccessfully to find words to adequately describe
my experience in Wichita and the feelings it produced. I left there
knowing more than ever that women are in a war for our right to
control our own lives. The battle now may be over abortion rights,
but the war is about much more. It is about my existence as an
individual who can make decisions about how I live my life and what
I do with my body. Wichita intensified my belief that risks are
necessary to protect the rights we have and to secure equal rights
under the law for all women. Groups like Operation Rescue must be
confronted. The law is going against us with recent Supreme Court
rulings and an increasingly conservative court. We won't win this
battle or the war by being "nice girls." I believe we can win by being
willing to take the risks necessary to stand for our beliefs. I know we
will have to fight.
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WICHITA PROCHOICE RALLY
WOMEN'S FESTIVAL AT
THE PORTHOLE
More than 6,000 people gathered in Wichita on August 23 to
demonstrate support for reproductive freedom and women's right
to choice, after weeks of "pro-lifers" blockading of clinics which
perform abortions in Wichita, Kansas in the so-called "Summer of
Mercy." Many Oklahomans were among the crowd including
groups from Herland, OU, Oklahoma NOW, Planned Parenthood
and others.
Ellie Smeal, founder of the Fund for a Feminist Majority and
former president of the National Organization for Women, called
for action to stop Operation Rescue. "It's time to shut down
Operation Rescue in Wichita, in Los Angeles, throughout this
nation and throughout this world ... the next time Operation
Rescue goes to George Tiller's clinic, make it so there's so many of
us they have no place to stand."
An anti-abortion activist who interupted Ms. Smeal's speech was
met with the chant of "Go home, go home" and he left the park.
Other rally speakers included Kate Michelman, executive
director of the National Abortion Rights League, who criticized
President Bush and the Justice Department for filing a brief which
maintains that U .S. District Court Judge Patrick Kelly did not have
jurisdiction to order demonstrators not to block clinics and order
the U .S. Marshall's Office to enforce the order. Michelman called
for political action, telling the crowd, "This issue has to be the most
important voting issue on our minds from now on."
As many of the rally participants left, they were met by a police
barricade and a motorcade of tractors and other farm vehicles of a
Rural Americans Against Abortion demonstration. Verbal confrontations between factions led to police intervention but there
were no arrests.
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The Porthole, 39th Expressway and Portland, is sponsoring a
Second Annual Women's Festival on Sunday, October 6, 1991,
beginning at 4 p.m. Performers and crafts people are invited to
attend and perform in the open mic and set up their crafts. There
will be no charge for the tables and set-up; crafts people are asked to
make one item available for auction.
This is a benefit for the Herland Building Fund, so come out and
have fun and participate in the community and help Herland all at
the same time. For further information call Shotzy at 949-983 7 or
Cindy at 521-9407.
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Mountain Song
by Holly Near
I have dreamed on this mountain
Since first I was my mother's daughter
And you can't just take my dreams awaynot with me watching
You may drive a big machine
But I was born a great big woman
And you can't just take my dreams awaywithout me fighting.
This old mountain raised my many daughters
Some died young- some are still living
But if you come here for to take our mountain
Well we ain't come here to give it.
I have dreamed on this mountain
Since first I was my mother's daughter
And you can't just take my dreams awaynot with me watching
No you can't just take my dreams awaywithout me fighting
No you can't just take my dreams away.
ENCODINGS
Volume Two, No. One
WOMEN WRITING WOMEN'S LIVES:
a sampling of new poetry.
Artwork by Kanti R. Campagna
AT YOUR FAVORITE BOOKSTORE, OR WRITE:
LIAUD: A Women's Press
P.O. Box 6793, Houston, TX 77265-6793
$4.50/copy
PEGGY JOHNSON HITS THE ROAD
Our own Peggy Johnson has been selected to participate in the
New South Music Showcase held in Atlanta Oct. 3, 4 and 5. She is
one of 200 acts chosen from 900 applications to attend music
industry seminars and workshops. New South also set her up to
perform at the Happy Rhino in downtown Atlanta on Friday, Oct.
4 at 10:30 p.m.
Peggy is also performing Wednesday October 2nd at 8:00 p.m. at
the Freight Room in Decatur, Georgia. This date was set before she
got the good word from New South, so now the long drive has a
double mission, perhaps a serendipitous twist of fate. She takes
with her the good will of her O klahoma fans . Break a leg,
Peggy!
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City, OK 73112
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RALLY
Amnesty lnternational's World Wide Campaign Against the
Execution of Juveniles is holding a rally on October 26, 1991, at
2:00 p.m., on the south steps of the State Capitol (in case of rain,
inside on the second floor rotunda). Jack Healey, Executive Director
of Amnesty International USA will be the keynote speaker, and
abolitionists from New Mexico, Texas, Kansas and Arkansas will
also be in attendance. Show up if you want to help AI send a message
to our leaders that we are ashamed to join Iran, Iraq and Pakistan as
one of the few remaining countries to execute people who were
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under the age of eighteen at the time of their crimes.
WOMEN AND HIV/AIDS discussion group at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday,
October 22 at Herland, 2312 N.W. 39th, OKC ... ..
MARGARET SANGER LAMPE, the granddaughter of Margaret
Sanger, will be the featured speaker for Planned Parenthood of Central
Oklahoma's 75th anniversary dinner, Oct. 24. Tickets for the dinner are
$75 for two. for information call: 528-0221 . ....
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FUND has announced that Cathy
Woolard, the Campaign Fund's Regional Field Coordinator, will temporarily expand her responsibilities to include organizing an Oklahoma
Regional Coordinators work with "Field Associates," volunteer grassroots
organizers to mobilize local support for fairness and more effective AIDS
policy. If interested in applying to be a Field Associate call Cathy Woolard at
(404) 373-6330 .....
"MAKING IT PERFECTLY QUEER," the second national interdisciplinary graduate student conference on Lesbian and Gay Studies will be held
at the University of 1llinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2-4, 1992.
Presentations should be 8-10 pages in length. Please submit one page
proposals for papers by January 15, 1992 to: Chris Mayo, Department of
Education Policy Studies, University of Illinois at U rbana-Champaign, 360
Education Bldg., S. Sixth St., Champaign, IL 61820 ... . .
SUSAN'S TYE DYE CRAFT TABLE will be set up at 9ish, Saturday
morning, at the Retreat. If you would like to participate you need a few
things: 100% cotton garments (they hold the color well) and, to defray the
cost of the dyes, $3.00 for the first garment and $2.00 for each additional
garment (4 pairs of socks = 1 garment, Sue says.) If you would like you can
register by phone ahead of time by calling Sue at 405/525-6128 .....
CRITICAL WRITING GROUP FORMING. Proposeed: an informal
group to critique, encourage and inspire women interested in writing novels
and short stories that include lesbian, bisexual or feminist themes. To be
held 8 - 10 p.m. every Thursday at Herland, with a requested $1 per person
per session donation to Herland. More if you can, less if you can't. Begins
October 24. For more information cal Lisa Allison at 405/752-8059. Also,
come to our planning session at the Retreat. Look for our sign near the
registration table .....
ATTENTION WOMEN ARTISTS! Women's Activities of Metropolitan Community Church of Dallas is proud to announce its second annual
Women's Arts and Crafts Festival to be held on Saturday, Nov. 9, 1991 at
the Metropolitan Community Church of Dallas at 5353 Maple Avenue. The
festival will be open to the general public for purchase of all art and craft
items. If you are interested in selling your art or crafts and would like an
information packet about the festival, please call Metropolitan Community
Church of Dallas at (214) 526-6221 . . . . .
Emphasis on the problems of gay people.
848-5429
SHIRLEY M. HUNTER, M. Ed.
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HERLAND VOICE, OCTOBER 1991
Spirithaven presents A HEALING SPIRITUAL RETREAT FOR
WOMEN, Oct. 2, 3 and 4, at the Craigville Beach Conference Center on
Cape Cod, MA. Guides for the trip are Ruth Fishel, author of Time for Joy,
the Journey Within, Leaming to Live in the Now and Healing Energy: The Power
of Recovery; and Sandy Bierg, author of Transforming the Co-Dependent
Woman. Conference registration is $250. For info call (508) 778-1171 .....
DO YOU HAVE AN EVENT you'd like Herland readers to know about?
Send information to HSR Voice, 2312 N.W. 39th, OKC, OK 73112 by the
15th of the month for publication in the following month's edition of The
Voice.
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ON OCTOBER 11 :
Berland Retreat Begins
National Coming Out Day, 1991.
Eleanor Roosevelt, born October 11, 1884.
750,000 march for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C. in 1987
Sunda~/
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Silent Vigil for Peace in
Central America. On the
steps of the Federal Bldg,
NW 4th & Robinson, in OKC.
Each Wednesday at Noon.
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"Sciaky opened the show with a dash of good hurrwr and a startling soprano, as fine
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"Ms. Sciaky's haunting voice and sensitive musicianship combine with a good hurrwred
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program will begin at 8:00.
Audiences from coast to coast and beyond have enjoyed Carla's
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Pre-registrations are still being accepted for the Herland Fall
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October 11-13.
You won't want to miss this opportunity to spend the weekend
with wonderful women enjoying conversation, good food and
good music. Scheduled activities for the retreat include a Saturday
evening performance by warm, witty, wonderful singer/songwriter, Nancy Scott, plus a variety of workshops, singing around
the campfire and a pot-luck supper (of course). Unscheduled
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performances, which involve a wide range of songs and instrumentals from different countries and time periods. She presents a
satisfying, well-rounded mix of acoustic music, combining original
songs and traditional folk along with the more unusual ethnic folk
and medieval tunes for which she is also noted.
Carla Sciaky hails from Morrison, Colorado and has performed
as a solo artist for over ten years, including concerts (with other
ensembles) at Carnegie Recital Hall and the EPCOT Center in
Disney World. Some of you may have had the pleasure of hearing
her in Oklahoma City two years ago. She performs annually with
The Mother Folkers, a gathering of 12 of the Denver area's finest
women m.usicians. (It's the most carefully pronounced name in
show business," she says).
Carla's original songs are colored by her many influences. From
modern artists like Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez and James Taylor, to the
traditional music of the Americas and Europe, she presents a
refreshing mix of her considerable instrumental skills and her sweet,
delicate soprano vocals. Audiences·are likely to hear, in addition to
the familiar guitar, violin, mandolin and concertina, the more
obscure plucked psaltery and the gudulka, a Bulgarian folk instrument that resembles a fiddle.
Sciaky was born in Brooklyn in 1954 and began her music
training at an early age in the classical vein with piano and violin. At
14, she picked up the guitar on a summer visit to Mexico City. "It
was an instant love," she said. "Suddenly, I had an instrument I
could play and sing with at the same time. All that I had learned on
the piano was classical, so singing wasn't even a possibility."
Her musical interests continued to widen as she majored in music
atthe University of Colorado. She branched out into ancient music
styles, playing krumhom, rebec and viola de gamba.
Sciaky sees herself more as a singer/guitarist who writes songs
rather than a songwriter, although her tremendous talents as a writer
are evident in her five solo albums, To Meet You," In Between, Under
the Quarter Moon, Risselty, Rosselty, Now, Now, Now, and her latest
release, The Undertow (available on CD).
Tickets to the Carly Sciaky concert are $6 in advance and $7 at the
door, and can be purchased at Herland (521 -9696) or by calling
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REFERENCE LIBRARY
A primary function of Herland is to act as a clearinghouse and
informational resource to the community. To better accomplish
this we need to continually update our reference library. One
volume we are interested in obtaining is the new Policy Paper:
"Violence Against Women as Bias Motivated Hate Crime:
Defining the Issues." This publication includes -sections such as
"Sexism and Violence Against Women: Crimes of Misogyny;"
"Data Collection and the Meaning of Statistics;" "Federal and
State Law Reform for the 1990s;" " Monitoring Hate Crimes:
Models of Leadership." The cost of this work is $15.00
Another recent publication we would like to acquire is titled
"Resisting Racism: An Action Guide," published by the National
Association of Black and White Men Together and edited by
Gerald L. Mallon. This work contains sections outlining effective
workshops, a secton of essays, and another of Resource Material.
It's cost is $19.95.
These are just two of many new books we would like to acquire
and/or update for our refer~nce shelf; and we are sure that many
of you can think of others you would like us to have. Donations
of books or the wherewithal to buy them will be gladly accepted.
If we receive more than one copy of a work-three copies of The
Wickedary, for example, we will leave one in the reference library
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DEAR HERLAND
I would like to say, "Thank you" to all the women who helped pay
for the interpreter at the Paula Poundstone performance. Your kindness
helped make my evening more enjoyable.
Rita S.
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ELIZABETH BETTENHAUSEN
SPEAKS IN OKC Saturday, Oct. 26
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DAY OF UNITY AGAINST
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On October 7, 1991, a program and candlelight ceremony to
remember women who have suffered from battering and to
celebrate those who have survived and made new lives for
themselves, will be held at 7:00 p.m. at the McFarland Branch
YWCA, 1710 Martin Luther King Blvd., OKC, OK. Cynthia Gunn,
news anchorwoman for KWTV, will be mistress of ceremony for
this event which is sponsored by the YWCA Passageway Shelter for
Battered Women. The program will include formerly battered
women speaking out about their experiences, as well as music and
dramatic monologues. The theme for the OKC Day of Unity is
"Struggle, Survive ... Vision."
This event is part of activities observing National Domestic
Violence Awareness Month including a national Day of Unity
Against Domestic Violence. Across the country, formerly battered
women and adult survivors of domestic violence are planning events
to draw attention to the reality of domestic violence in the home.
Governor David Walters and Mayor Ron Norick have proclaimed October as "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" and
October 7, 1991 as "Day of Unity."
For additional information on domestic violence awareness
events, contact Tina Mitchell at 949-0907. The YWCA Passageway
hotline is 949-1866.
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Oklahoma City, OK 73107-5701
Feminist, ethicist, theologian, and advocate for peace
and justice in human affairs
Dr. Elizabeth Bettenhausen
will speak in Oklahoma City,
Saturday evening, October
26, in the Angie Smith
Chapel of Oklahoma City
University, at 7:30 p .m .
There is no charge, but a free
will offering will be collected.
Bettenhausen will also lead
a Workshop/Dialogue for
Women from 10 a.m. 'to
noon, on Saturday, titled,
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Mutually Exclusive?" The workshop is $10 per person and
reservations may be made by calling 524-5577. A second Workshop/Dialogue for Young Adults (ages 16 to 20) will meet from
2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., no charge, reservations at 524-5577. Call for
reservations information and location.
Dr. Bettenhausen is Keynote Speaker with Rev. Wm. Sloane
Coffin for the National Disciples Peace Fellowship "Peaceable
Realm" conference. Thursday and Friday, October 24 and 25. Her
Oklahoma City presentations are sponsored by Benedictine Peace
House.
She teaches at the Women's Theological Center at the Episcopal
Divinity School, Boston, Mass., and has served on the faculty at
Garret Evangelical Seminary, Chicago, and at Boston University
School of Theology.
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CONFERENCE ON RACISM
Vision 21, Affirming Diversity, Challenging Diversity, a
conference on racism in America, will be held November 6 - 7,
1991, at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel in Tulsa. Coretta Scott
King will be the keynote speaker; and other speakers include Louis
Ballard, Native American composer; Henry Cisneros, former mayor
of San Antonio; and Andrew Young, former Ambassador to the
United Nations.
The conference is sponsored by the Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry,
Tulsa Public Schools, the University of Tulsa, and Phillips University Graduate Seminary. For a conference brochure and registration
form contact Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry, 240 East Apache, Tulsa,
OK 74106. No registrations accepted after Friday, October 25,
1991, so act now.
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REFLECTIONS ON MY TRIP TO WICHITA
by Pat Reaves
Finally the notice came that a pro-choice rally would be held in
Wichita to counter the actions of Operation Rescue's clinic
blockades. Here was our chance to do something. With little time to
organize, a quick mailing was done by Herlanders and women
recruited to "go to Wichita." Twelve women associated with
Herland gathered on Friday evening to travel together. Jokes about
who would bail us out should we end up in jail reflected the
underlying tension and uncertainty about what we might face in
Wichita.
We arrived in Wichita late Friday night. Our waitress in the hotel
bar encouraged us and said she wanted the Operation Rescue people
to go home. We found the rally site in the nearby park and sang the
Mountain Song to "claim" it as women's space. We would sing the
Mountain Song several more times before the end of our Wichita
experience.
The rally was great - thousands of women and men gathered
from all over to support women's right to choose. I met women
from Colorado, Ohio and Kansas. We circled our group in the
middle of the crowd and sang the Mountain Song. Ellie Smeal was
inspiring in her call to take action to end the efforts of Operation
Rescue.
After the rally, our group decided we would go to Women's
Health Care Services, the clinic which was a focal point of Operation
Rescue's harrassment efforts. We planned to sing the Mountain
Song and leave within 10 to 15 minutes. At the clinic, there were 200
to 300 anti-abortion demonstrators and 50 or so pro-choice
demonstrators with the anti-abortion tractorcade passing in front
repeatedly. The ground around the clinic was littered with little
white crosses.
After quickly gathering our group and being joined by other
pro-choice advocates, we walked together through the Operation
Rescue crowd carrying pro-choice signs. In front of the clinic,
completely surrounded by the Operation Rescue crowd, we circled
and sang the Mountain Song, " . .. if you come here for to take our
mountain, well we ain't come here to give it." I was sure that it was
true - I was here because I will not give up my right to control my
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body without fighting, and with the power I felt singing together, we
could win. We were followed by harassing men making comments as
if they were chasing us away. Peggy stopped and turned to sing
directly in one man's face.
We continued our march back to the street corner where we took
up places on the street's edge holding signs and chanting pro-choice
slogans. Harassment from the anti-abortion demonstrators continued with their gory pictures and threats of hell and damnation.
None of us wanted to leave, in spite of the heat, our lack oflunch and
our agreement to leave early. Finally, after several hours, we did
agree that it was time to go.
I've struggled unsuccessfully to find words to adequately describe
my experience in Wichita and the feelings it produced. I left there
knowing more than ever that women are in a war for our right to
control our own lives. The battle now may be over abortion rights,
but the war is about much more. It is about my existence as an
individual who can make decisions about how I live my life and what
I do with my body. Wichita intensified my belief that risks are
necessary to protect the rights we have and to secure equal rights
under the law for all women. Groups like Operation Rescue must be
confronted. The law is going against us with recent Supreme Court
rulings and an increasingly conservative court. We won't win this
battle or the war by being "nice girls." I believe we can win by being
willing to take the risks necessary to stand for our beliefs. I know we
will have to fight.
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WICHITA PROCHOICE RALLY
WOMEN'S FESTIVAL AT
THE PORTHOLE
More than 6,000 people gathered in Wichita on August 23 to
demonstrate support for reproductive freedom and women's right
to choice, after weeks of "pro-lifers" blockading of clinics which
perform abortions in Wichita, Kansas in the so-called "Summer of
Mercy." Many Oklahomans were among the crowd including
groups from Herland, OU, Oklahoma NOW, Planned Parenthood
and others.
Ellie Smeal, founder of the Fund for a Feminist Majority and
former president of the National Organization for Women, called
for action to stop Operation Rescue. "It's time to shut down
Operation Rescue in Wichita, in Los Angeles, throughout this
nation and throughout this world ... the next time Operation
Rescue goes to George Tiller's clinic, make it so there's so many of
us they have no place to stand."
An anti-abortion activist who interupted Ms. Smeal's speech was
met with the chant of "Go home, go home" and he left the park.
Other rally speakers included Kate Michelman, executive
director of the National Abortion Rights League, who criticized
President Bush and the Justice Department for filing a brief which
maintains that U .S. District Court Judge Patrick Kelly did not have
jurisdiction to order demonstrators not to block clinics and order
the U .S. Marshall's Office to enforce the order. Michelman called
for political action, telling the crowd, "This issue has to be the most
important voting issue on our minds from now on."
As many of the rally participants left, they were met by a police
barricade and a motorcade of tractors and other farm vehicles of a
Rural Americans Against Abortion demonstration. Verbal confrontations between factions led to police intervention but there
were no arrests.
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The Porthole, 39th Expressway and Portland, is sponsoring a
Second Annual Women's Festival on Sunday, October 6, 1991,
beginning at 4 p.m. Performers and crafts people are invited to
attend and perform in the open mic and set up their crafts. There
will be no charge for the tables and set-up; crafts people are asked to
make one item available for auction.
This is a benefit for the Herland Building Fund, so come out and
have fun and participate in the community and help Herland all at
the same time. For further information call Shotzy at 949-983 7 or
Cindy at 521-9407.
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Mountain Song
by Holly Near
I have dreamed on this mountain
Since first I was my mother's daughter
And you can't just take my dreams awaynot with me watching
You may drive a big machine
But I was born a great big woman
And you can't just take my dreams awaywithout me fighting.
This old mountain raised my many daughters
Some died young- some are still living
But if you come here for to take our mountain
Well we ain't come here to give it.
I have dreamed on this mountain
Since first I was my mother's daughter
And you can't just take my dreams awaynot with me watching
No you can't just take my dreams awaywithout me fighting
No you can't just take my dreams away.
ENCODINGS
Volume Two, No. One
WOMEN WRITING WOMEN'S LIVES:
a sampling of new poetry.
Artwork by Kanti R. Campagna
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PEGGY JOHNSON HITS THE ROAD
Our own Peggy Johnson has been selected to participate in the
New South Music Showcase held in Atlanta Oct. 3, 4 and 5. She is
one of 200 acts chosen from 900 applications to attend music
industry seminars and workshops. New South also set her up to
perform at the Happy Rhino in downtown Atlanta on Friday, Oct.
4 at 10:30 p.m.
Peggy is also performing Wednesday October 2nd at 8:00 p.m. at
the Freight Room in Decatur, Georgia. This date was set before she
got the good word from New South, so now the long drive has a
double mission, perhaps a serendipitous twist of fate. She takes
with her the good will of her O klahoma fans . Break a leg,
Peggy!
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RALLY
Amnesty lnternational's World Wide Campaign Against the
Execution of Juveniles is holding a rally on October 26, 1991, at
2:00 p.m., on the south steps of the State Capitol (in case of rain,
inside on the second floor rotunda). Jack Healey, Executive Director
of Amnesty International USA will be the keynote speaker, and
abolitionists from New Mexico, Texas, Kansas and Arkansas will
also be in attendance. Show up if you want to help AI send a message
to our leaders that we are ashamed to join Iran, Iraq and Pakistan as
one of the few remaining countries to execute people who were
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under the age of eighteen at the time of their crimes.
WOMEN AND HIV/AIDS discussion group at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday,
October 22 at Herland, 2312 N.W. 39th, OKC ... ..
MARGARET SANGER LAMPE, the granddaughter of Margaret
Sanger, will be the featured speaker for Planned Parenthood of Central
Oklahoma's 75th anniversary dinner, Oct. 24. Tickets for the dinner are
$75 for two. for information call: 528-0221 . ....
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FUND has announced that Cathy
Woolard, the Campaign Fund's Regional Field Coordinator, will temporarily expand her responsibilities to include organizing an Oklahoma
Regional Coordinators work with "Field Associates," volunteer grassroots
organizers to mobilize local support for fairness and more effective AIDS
policy. If interested in applying to be a Field Associate call Cathy Woolard at
(404) 373-6330 .....
"MAKING IT PERFECTLY QUEER," the second national interdisciplinary graduate student conference on Lesbian and Gay Studies will be held
at the University of 1llinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2-4, 1992.
Presentations should be 8-10 pages in length. Please submit one page
proposals for papers by January 15, 1992 to: Chris Mayo, Department of
Education Policy Studies, University of Illinois at U rbana-Champaign, 360
Education Bldg., S. Sixth St., Champaign, IL 61820 ... . .
SUSAN'S TYE DYE CRAFT TABLE will be set up at 9ish, Saturday
morning, at the Retreat. If you would like to participate you need a few
things: 100% cotton garments (they hold the color well) and, to defray the
cost of the dyes, $3.00 for the first garment and $2.00 for each additional
garment (4 pairs of socks = 1 garment, Sue says.) If you would like you can
register by phone ahead of time by calling Sue at 405/525-6128 .....
CRITICAL WRITING GROUP FORMING. Proposeed: an informal
group to critique, encourage and inspire women interested in writing novels
and short stories that include lesbian, bisexual or feminist themes. To be
held 8 - 10 p.m. every Thursday at Herland, with a requested $1 per person
per session donation to Herland. More if you can, less if you can't. Begins
October 24. For more information cal Lisa Allison at 405/752-8059. Also,
come to our planning session at the Retreat. Look for our sign near the
registration table .....
ATTENTION WOMEN ARTISTS! Women's Activities of Metropolitan Community Church of Dallas is proud to announce its second annual
Women's Arts and Crafts Festival to be held on Saturday, Nov. 9, 1991 at
the Metropolitan Community Church of Dallas at 5353 Maple Avenue. The
festival will be open to the general public for purchase of all art and craft
items. If you are interested in selling your art or crafts and would like an
information packet about the festival, please call Metropolitan Community
Church of Dallas at (214) 526-6221 . . . . .
Emphasis on the problems of gay people.
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Spirithaven presents A HEALING SPIRITUAL RETREAT FOR
WOMEN, Oct. 2, 3 and 4, at the Craigville Beach Conference Center on
Cape Cod, MA. Guides for the trip are Ruth Fishel, author of Time for Joy,
the Journey Within, Leaming to Live in the Now and Healing Energy: The Power
of Recovery; and Sandy Bierg, author of Transforming the Co-Dependent
Woman. Conference registration is $250. For info call (508) 778-1171 .....
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Berland Retreat Begins
National Coming Out Day, 1991.
Eleanor Roosevelt, born October 11, 1884.
750,000 march for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C. in 1987
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"Sciaky opened the show with a dash of good hurrwr and a startling soprano, as fine
and fragile as glass."
The Boston Globe
"Ms. Sciaky's haunting voice and sensitive musicianship combine with a good hurrwred
and professional stage presence to create an enchanting performance.''
The Chico Folk Music Society
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extension of herself through an artistry full of ease and grace, her singing and playing
are a unique complement to each other."
Salt Lake Tribune
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performer. Carla Sciaky will bring her distinctive vocal style and wide range of
instrumental virtuosity to the City Arts Center (3000 Pershing Blvd. on the
Fairgrounds) in Oklahoma City for a concert on Friday, October 18th. The
program will begin at 8:00.
Audiences from coast to coast and beyond have enjoyed Carla's
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Pre-registrations are still being accepted for the Herland Fall
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October 11-13.
You won't want to miss this opportunity to spend the weekend
with wonderful women enjoying conversation, good food and
good music. Scheduled activities for the retreat include a Saturday
evening performance by warm, witty, wonderful singer/songwriter, Nancy Scott, plus a variety of workshops, singing around
the campfire and a pot-luck supper (of course). Unscheduled
activities are limited only by your imagination.
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performances, which involve a wide range of songs and instrumentals from different countries and time periods. She presents a
satisfying, well-rounded mix of acoustic music, combining original
songs and traditional folk along with the more unusual ethnic folk
and medieval tunes for which she is also noted.
Carla Sciaky hails from Morrison, Colorado and has performed
as a solo artist for over ten years, including concerts (with other
ensembles) at Carnegie Recital Hall and the EPCOT Center in
Disney World. Some of you may have had the pleasure of hearing
her in Oklahoma City two years ago. She performs annually with
The Mother Folkers, a gathering of 12 of the Denver area's finest
women m.usicians. (It's the most carefully pronounced name in
show business," she says).
Carla's original songs are colored by her many influences. From
modern artists like Joni Mitchell, Joan Baez and James Taylor, to the
traditional music of the Americas and Europe, she presents a
refreshing mix of her considerable instrumental skills and her sweet,
delicate soprano vocals. Audiences·are likely to hear, in addition to
the familiar guitar, violin, mandolin and concertina, the more
obscure plucked psaltery and the gudulka, a Bulgarian folk instrument that resembles a fiddle.
Sciaky was born in Brooklyn in 1954 and began her music
training at an early age in the classical vein with piano and violin. At
14, she picked up the guitar on a summer visit to Mexico City. "It
was an instant love," she said. "Suddenly, I had an instrument I
could play and sing with at the same time. All that I had learned on
the piano was classical, so singing wasn't even a possibility."
Her musical interests continued to widen as she majored in music
atthe University of Colorado. She branched out into ancient music
styles, playing krumhom, rebec and viola de gamba.
Sciaky sees herself more as a singer/guitarist who writes songs
rather than a songwriter, although her tremendous talents as a writer
are evident in her five solo albums, To Meet You," In Between, Under
the Quarter Moon, Risselty, Rosselty, Now, Now, Now, and her latest
release, The Undertow (available on CD).
Tickets to the Carly Sciaky concert are $6 in advance and $7 at the
door, and can be purchased at Herland (521 -9696) or by calling
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REFERENCE LIBRARY
A primary function of Herland is to act as a clearinghouse and
informational resource to the community. To better accomplish
this we need to continually update our reference library. One
volume we are interested in obtaining is the new Policy Paper:
"Violence Against Women as Bias Motivated Hate Crime:
Defining the Issues." This publication includes -sections such as
"Sexism and Violence Against Women: Crimes of Misogyny;"
"Data Collection and the Meaning of Statistics;" "Federal and
State Law Reform for the 1990s;" " Monitoring Hate Crimes:
Models of Leadership." The cost of this work is $15.00
Another recent publication we would like to acquire is titled
"Resisting Racism: An Action Guide," published by the National
Association of Black and White Men Together and edited by
Gerald L. Mallon. This work contains sections outlining effective
workshops, a secton of essays, and another of Resource Material.
It's cost is $19.95.
These are just two of many new books we would like to acquire
and/or update for our refer~nce shelf; and we are sure that many
of you can think of others you would like us to have. Donations
of books or the wherewithal to buy them will be gladly accepted.
If we receive more than one copy of a work-three copies of The
Wickedary, for example, we will leave one in the reference library
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DEAR HERLAND
I would like to say, "Thank you" to all the women who helped pay
for the interpreter at the Paula Poundstone performance. Your kindness
helped make my evening more enjoyable.
Rita S.
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ELIZABETH BETTENHAUSEN
SPEAKS IN OKC Saturday, Oct. 26
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DAY OF UNITY AGAINST
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On October 7, 1991, a program and candlelight ceremony to
remember women who have suffered from battering and to
celebrate those who have survived and made new lives for
themselves, will be held at 7:00 p.m. at the McFarland Branch
YWCA, 1710 Martin Luther King Blvd., OKC, OK. Cynthia Gunn,
news anchorwoman for KWTV, will be mistress of ceremony for
this event which is sponsored by the YWCA Passageway Shelter for
Battered Women. The program will include formerly battered
women speaking out about their experiences, as well as music and
dramatic monologues. The theme for the OKC Day of Unity is
"Struggle, Survive ... Vision."
This event is part of activities observing National Domestic
Violence Awareness Month including a national Day of Unity
Against Domestic Violence. Across the country, formerly battered
women and adult survivors of domestic violence are planning events
to draw attention to the reality of domestic violence in the home.
Governor David Walters and Mayor Ron Norick have proclaimed October as "Domestic Violence Awareness Month" and
October 7, 1991 as "Day of Unity."
For additional information on domestic violence awareness
events, contact Tina Mitchell at 949-0907. The YWCA Passageway
hotline is 949-1866.
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501 N. Meridian, Suite 107
Oklahoma City, OK 73107-5701
Feminist, ethicist, theologian, and advocate for peace
and justice in human affairs
Dr. Elizabeth Bettenhausen
will speak in Oklahoma City,
Saturday evening, October
26, in the Angie Smith
Chapel of Oklahoma City
University, at 7:30 p .m .
There is no charge, but a free
will offering will be collected.
Bettenhausen will also lead
a Workshop/Dialogue for
Women from 10 a.m. 'to
noon, on Saturday, titled,
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Mutually Exclusive?" The workshop is $10 per person and
reservations may be made by calling 524-5577. A second Workshop/Dialogue for Young Adults (ages 16 to 20) will meet from
2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m., no charge, reservations at 524-5577. Call for
reservations information and location.
Dr. Bettenhausen is Keynote Speaker with Rev. Wm. Sloane
Coffin for the National Disciples Peace Fellowship "Peaceable
Realm" conference. Thursday and Friday, October 24 and 25. Her
Oklahoma City presentations are sponsored by Benedictine Peace
House.
She teaches at the Women's Theological Center at the Episcopal
Divinity School, Boston, Mass., and has served on the faculty at
Garret Evangelical Seminary, Chicago, and at Boston University
School of Theology.
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CONFERENCE ON RACISM
Vision 21, Affirming Diversity, Challenging Diversity, a
conference on racism in America, will be held November 6 - 7,
1991, at the Downtown Doubletree Hotel in Tulsa. Coretta Scott
King will be the keynote speaker; and other speakers include Louis
Ballard, Native American composer; Henry Cisneros, former mayor
of San Antonio; and Andrew Young, former Ambassador to the
United Nations.
The conference is sponsored by the Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry,
Tulsa Public Schools, the University of Tulsa, and Phillips University Graduate Seminary. For a conference brochure and registration
form contact Tulsa Metropolitan Ministry, 240 East Apache, Tulsa,
OK 74106. No registrations accepted after Friday, October 25,
1991, so act now.
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REFLECTIONS ON MY TRIP TO WICHITA
by Pat Reaves
Finally the notice came that a pro-choice rally would be held in
Wichita to counter the actions of Operation Rescue's clinic
blockades. Here was our chance to do something. With little time to
organize, a quick mailing was done by Herlanders and women
recruited to "go to Wichita." Twelve women associated with
Herland gathered on Friday evening to travel together. Jokes about
who would bail us out should we end up in jail reflected the
underlying tension and uncertainty about what we might face in
Wichita.
We arrived in Wichita late Friday night. Our waitress in the hotel
bar encouraged us and said she wanted the Operation Rescue people
to go home. We found the rally site in the nearby park and sang the
Mountain Song to "claim" it as women's space. We would sing the
Mountain Song several more times before the end of our Wichita
experience.
The rally was great - thousands of women and men gathered
from all over to support women's right to choose. I met women
from Colorado, Ohio and Kansas. We circled our group in the
middle of the crowd and sang the Mountain Song. Ellie Smeal was
inspiring in her call to take action to end the efforts of Operation
Rescue.
After the rally, our group decided we would go to Women's
Health Care Services, the clinic which was a focal point of Operation
Rescue's harrassment efforts. We planned to sing the Mountain
Song and leave within 10 to 15 minutes. At the clinic, there were 200
to 300 anti-abortion demonstrators and 50 or so pro-choice
demonstrators with the anti-abortion tractorcade passing in front
repeatedly. The ground around the clinic was littered with little
white crosses.
After quickly gathering our group and being joined by other
pro-choice advocates, we walked together through the Operation
Rescue crowd carrying pro-choice signs. In front of the clinic,
completely surrounded by the Operation Rescue crowd, we circled
and sang the Mountain Song, " . .. if you come here for to take our
mountain, well we ain't come here to give it." I was sure that it was
true - I was here because I will not give up my right to control my
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body without fighting, and with the power I felt singing together, we
could win. We were followed by harassing men making comments as
if they were chasing us away. Peggy stopped and turned to sing
directly in one man's face.
We continued our march back to the street corner where we took
up places on the street's edge holding signs and chanting pro-choice
slogans. Harassment from the anti-abortion demonstrators continued with their gory pictures and threats of hell and damnation.
None of us wanted to leave, in spite of the heat, our lack oflunch and
our agreement to leave early. Finally, after several hours, we did
agree that it was time to go.
I've struggled unsuccessfully to find words to adequately describe
my experience in Wichita and the feelings it produced. I left there
knowing more than ever that women are in a war for our right to
control our own lives. The battle now may be over abortion rights,
but the war is about much more. It is about my existence as an
individual who can make decisions about how I live my life and what
I do with my body. Wichita intensified my belief that risks are
necessary to protect the rights we have and to secure equal rights
under the law for all women. Groups like Operation Rescue must be
confronted. The law is going against us with recent Supreme Court
rulings and an increasingly conservative court. We won't win this
battle or the war by being "nice girls." I believe we can win by being
willing to take the risks necessary to stand for our beliefs. I know we
will have to fight.
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WICHITA PROCHOICE RALLY
WOMEN'S FESTIVAL AT
THE PORTHOLE
More than 6,000 people gathered in Wichita on August 23 to
demonstrate support for reproductive freedom and women's right
to choice, after weeks of "pro-lifers" blockading of clinics which
perform abortions in Wichita, Kansas in the so-called "Summer of
Mercy." Many Oklahomans were among the crowd including
groups from Herland, OU, Oklahoma NOW, Planned Parenthood
and others.
Ellie Smeal, founder of the Fund for a Feminist Majority and
former president of the National Organization for Women, called
for action to stop Operation Rescue. "It's time to shut down
Operation Rescue in Wichita, in Los Angeles, throughout this
nation and throughout this world ... the next time Operation
Rescue goes to George Tiller's clinic, make it so there's so many of
us they have no place to stand."
An anti-abortion activist who interupted Ms. Smeal's speech was
met with the chant of "Go home, go home" and he left the park.
Other rally speakers included Kate Michelman, executive
director of the National Abortion Rights League, who criticized
President Bush and the Justice Department for filing a brief which
maintains that U .S. District Court Judge Patrick Kelly did not have
jurisdiction to order demonstrators not to block clinics and order
the U .S. Marshall's Office to enforce the order. Michelman called
for political action, telling the crowd, "This issue has to be the most
important voting issue on our minds from now on."
As many of the rally participants left, they were met by a police
barricade and a motorcade of tractors and other farm vehicles of a
Rural Americans Against Abortion demonstration. Verbal confrontations between factions led to police intervention but there
were no arrests.
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The Porthole, 39th Expressway and Portland, is sponsoring a
Second Annual Women's Festival on Sunday, October 6, 1991,
beginning at 4 p.m. Performers and crafts people are invited to
attend and perform in the open mic and set up their crafts. There
will be no charge for the tables and set-up; crafts people are asked to
make one item available for auction.
This is a benefit for the Herland Building Fund, so come out and
have fun and participate in the community and help Herland all at
the same time. For further information call Shotzy at 949-983 7 or
Cindy at 521-9407.
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Mountain Song
by Holly Near
I have dreamed on this mountain
Since first I was my mother's daughter
And you can't just take my dreams awaynot with me watching
You may drive a big machine
But I was born a great big woman
And you can't just take my dreams awaywithout me fighting.
This old mountain raised my many daughters
Some died young- some are still living
But if you come here for to take our mountain
Well we ain't come here to give it.
I have dreamed on this mountain
Since first I was my mother's daughter
And you can't just take my dreams awaynot with me watching
No you can't just take my dreams awaywithout me fighting
No you can't just take my dreams away.
ENCODINGS
Volume Two, No. One
WOMEN WRITING WOMEN'S LIVES:
a sampling of new poetry.
Artwork by Kanti R. Campagna
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PEGGY JOHNSON HITS THE ROAD
Our own Peggy Johnson has been selected to participate in the
New South Music Showcase held in Atlanta Oct. 3, 4 and 5. She is
one of 200 acts chosen from 900 applications to attend music
industry seminars and workshops. New South also set her up to
perform at the Happy Rhino in downtown Atlanta on Friday, Oct.
4 at 10:30 p.m.
Peggy is also performing Wednesday October 2nd at 8:00 p.m. at
the Freight Room in Decatur, Georgia. This date was set before she
got the good word from New South, so now the long drive has a
double mission, perhaps a serendipitous twist of fate. She takes
with her the good will of her O klahoma fans . Break a leg,
Peggy!
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AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL RALLY
Amnesty lnternational's World Wide Campaign Against the
Execution of Juveniles is holding a rally on October 26, 1991, at
2:00 p.m., on the south steps of the State Capitol (in case of rain,
inside on the second floor rotunda). Jack Healey, Executive Director
of Amnesty International USA will be the keynote speaker, and
abolitionists from New Mexico, Texas, Kansas and Arkansas will
also be in attendance. Show up if you want to help AI send a message
to our leaders that we are ashamed to join Iran, Iraq and Pakistan as
one of the few remaining countries to execute people who were
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under the age of eighteen at the time of their crimes.
WOMEN AND HIV/AIDS discussion group at 7:00 p.m., Tuesday,
October 22 at Herland, 2312 N.W. 39th, OKC ... ..
MARGARET SANGER LAMPE, the granddaughter of Margaret
Sanger, will be the featured speaker for Planned Parenthood of Central
Oklahoma's 75th anniversary dinner, Oct. 24. Tickets for the dinner are
$75 for two. for information call: 528-0221 . ....
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN FUND has announced that Cathy
Woolard, the Campaign Fund's Regional Field Coordinator, will temporarily expand her responsibilities to include organizing an Oklahoma
Regional Coordinators work with "Field Associates," volunteer grassroots
organizers to mobilize local support for fairness and more effective AIDS
policy. If interested in applying to be a Field Associate call Cathy Woolard at
(404) 373-6330 .....
"MAKING IT PERFECTLY QUEER," the second national interdisciplinary graduate student conference on Lesbian and Gay Studies will be held
at the University of 1llinois at Urbana-Champaign, April 2-4, 1992.
Presentations should be 8-10 pages in length. Please submit one page
proposals for papers by January 15, 1992 to: Chris Mayo, Department of
Education Policy Studies, University of Illinois at U rbana-Champaign, 360
Education Bldg., S. Sixth St., Champaign, IL 61820 ... . .
SUSAN'S TYE DYE CRAFT TABLE will be set up at 9ish, Saturday
morning, at the Retreat. If you would like to participate you need a few
things: 100% cotton garments (they hold the color well) and, to defray the
cost of the dyes, $3.00 for the first garment and $2.00 for each additional
garment (4 pairs of socks = 1 garment, Sue says.) If you would like you can
register by phone ahead of time by calling Sue at 405/525-6128 .....
CRITICAL WRITING GROUP FORMING. Proposeed: an informal
group to critique, encourage and inspire women interested in writing novels
and short stories that include lesbian, bisexual or feminist themes. To be
held 8 - 10 p.m. every Thursday at Herland, with a requested $1 per person
per session donation to Herland. More if you can, less if you can't. Begins
October 24. For more information cal Lisa Allison at 405/752-8059. Also,
come to our planning session at the Retreat. Look for our sign near the
registration table .....
ATTENTION WOMEN ARTISTS! Women's Activities of Metropolitan Community Church of Dallas is proud to announce its second annual
Women's Arts and Crafts Festival to be held on Saturday, Nov. 9, 1991 at
the Metropolitan Community Church of Dallas at 5353 Maple Avenue. The
festival will be open to the general public for purchase of all art and craft
items. If you are interested in selling your art or crafts and would like an
information packet about the festival, please call Metropolitan Community
Church of Dallas at (214) 526-6221 . . . . .
Emphasis on the problems of gay people.
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Spirithaven presents A HEALING SPIRITUAL RETREAT FOR
WOMEN, Oct. 2, 3 and 4, at the Craigville Beach Conference Center on
Cape Cod, MA. Guides for the trip are Ruth Fishel, author of Time for Joy,
the Journey Within, Leaming to Live in the Now and Healing Energy: The Power
of Recovery; and Sandy Bierg, author of Transforming the Co-Dependent
Woman. Conference registration is $250. For info call (508) 778-1171 .....
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Berland Retreat Begins
National Coming Out Day, 1991.
Eleanor Roosevelt, born October 11, 1884.
750,000 march for Lesbian and Gay Rights in Washington, D.C. in 1987
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Central America. On the
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NW 4th & Robinson, in OKC.
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