The Herland Voice : v.8: no.3(1991)
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do~HERLAND ~
MARCH 1991
MAR.CH:
by
HER.STORY
ICE
MONTH
Deborah Fox
Without women there would be no
civilization. Without women Bush would
have no military to call upon,
corporations could not prosper, the
human race would not exits .
Society was born of the mother/child
bond, the first societies being the
clans of women and their children.
From the science of archaeology we
know that our first societies formed
some 30 ,000 or more years ago. These
societies respected the sacred power of
women and her ability to give, sustain,
and nurture life . They deified their
concept of this awesome phenomena into
the Goddess, who birthed, sustained, and
nurtured the universe and All life
within it. Thus the first religion, an
earth religion was born.
Throughout ancient Europe, Africa,
China, Siberia, and Indonesia the
Goddess was worshipped and the clans
were matrifocal and natrilineal.
Advanced archaeological studies prove
that the worship of the Goddess was not
a mere "fertility cult" nor was it a
mere expression of male eroticism, as
some scholars have proclaimed. Goddess
worship was a full blown religion whose
reaches were far and wide across the
globe. This first and oldest earth
religion of the Goddess flourished
throughout the paleolithic, neolithic,
chalcoli thic, and Old Testament periods,
and even though disguised or
underground; continues to do so today .
It is also evident that most of these
civilizations were peaceful and
egalitarian -- Matriarchy does NOT mean
female dominance like Patriarchy means
male dominance.
Around 2400 B.C., a sword-wielding,
nomadic tribespeople from Northern
VOLUME 8 NUMBER 3
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Russia began invading the peaceful,
Goddess-loving cultures, and set about
to ~stablish male doninance, female
oppression, and hierarchy .
After
several of these invasions over a two
thousand years, Patriarchy was well
under way and continued to fight and
destroy the loyal cultures of the
Goddess. The Old Testament period was
wrought with the desecration of Her
sacred groves, Asherah poles, hilltop
altars, and the practice in each home of
burning incense to the Queen of Heaven,
as recorded in the Bible (see: Jeremiah
44:15-19, II Kings 18:4, Acts 19:23-34,
!Kings 11 :3-5) . These misogynist acts
continued into the 13-17th. centuries
witch burnings, right up to today's
oppression of wonen.
Patriarchy could never fully demolish
the Old Religion and the Goddess as
attested to by the pagans all over the
world, Virgin Kary "cults", and wonen
who continue to fight against
Patriarchy's oppression of women and
other minorities.
As we celebrate rebirth and renewal
in Spring, let's burn incense to all the
Goddesses, our female ancestors,
courageous women in history, and all
women of all the world. Let's burn a
purple candle for inspiration and affirm
woman's power and valiance that herstory
shows us so well.
Here are some suggestions for
celebrations from z. Budapest's book,
The Grandmother of Time:
larch 1 - Ratronella (Roman), the
celebration of women and power.
larch 2 - First festival of Vesta
(Roman)
larch 4 - llotberinq Day (English )
HERLAND SISTER RESOURCES
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larch 5 - Celebration of Isis (North
African)
Karch 8 - International Wollen's Day
Karch 9 - Celebration of Aphrodite and
Her Lover Adonis (Neareastern Greek)
Karch 10 - Hypatia's Day (Alexandrian)
larch 15 - Holiday of cybele (Anatolian,
Later Roman)
Barch 17 - Liberalia: Celebration of
Freedom (Roman)
larch 19 - Quintaria: Feast of Athena
(Greek)
Jlarcb 20 - Spring festival
Karch 21 - Sprinq F.quinox
Karch 25 - Hilaria: Laugbinq Day (Roman)
llarcb 30 - Feast of Eostara (German)
larch 31 - feast of tlle lloon Goddess
(Roman)
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JOY HARJO PRESENTS ANGIE
DEBO LECTURE AT OSU
Joy Harjo, noted Creek poet, will
present the Angie Debo Native American
Lecture, Monday, March 25 at 8 P.H. in
the Student Union Theater at Oklahoma
State University in Stillwater.
A
reception will follow.
Ms. Harjo is widely know for her
works of poetry including She Has Sone
Horses, In Mad Love and War, and Secrets
from the Center of the World. She is a
professor of English at New Mexico State
University and a screen writer.
The Angie Debo Lecture is sponsored
by the Oklahoma State University NOW
chapter and the Native American student
Association.
2312 N.W. 39th, OKC, OK 73112
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(405) 521 -9696
HEALTH
CARE
Health care costs are skyrocketing -up fron $906 per capita in 1980 to
$4,867 in the year 2000 for every man,
woman and child in Oklahoma. In spite
of these increasing costs, the quality
of health care suffers.
Approximately a fourth of Oklahomans
have no health insurance. Studies have
shown that persons without health
insurance are 50% less likely to receive
physician care and 90% less likely to
receive needed hospital care than those
with insurance. A recent study at
Georgetown University found that
uninsured hospital patients are 1.2 to
3 times more likely to die while
hospitalized than insured patients.
The health care crisis is faced on a
personal level by each of us. Accounts
of how the health care crisis affects
individuals and families regularly come
to the Oklahoma Health Care Project .
The stories include such cases as the
working mother who must choose between
health insurance and food and clothing
for her children; the young couple in
rural Oklahoma expecting a child who
cannot af fort the fee for pre-natal
care; and the family driven to
bankruptcy with the expenses of a
catastrophic illness .
Oklahomans have the opportunity to
stop this spend-more-get-less spiral.
Representative Angela Monson has
introduced the Universal Health Care Act
(HB 1578). This bill provides for the
establishment of a single health
insurance plan for all Oklahomans .
Through this plan, any Oklahoman needing
health care could go to the health care
provider of their choice, recieve care,
and the provider would receive payment
through the Universal Health Care Plan.
HB 1578 establishes the Universal
Health Care Board and charges them with
the responsibility of developing an
insurance plan covering hospital,
physician, and other licensed health
professional's services, prescription
drugs, mental health and substance abuse
treatement and health educaton and
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FOR
ALL
prevention services.
The Universal Heath Care Act
eliminates the administrative waste of
the insurance industry. By implementing
the single-payer . plan, administrative
costs would be reduced from the current
average of 18% to approximately 3% (the
administrative costs of Medicare). This
measure alone would save more than $431
million.
cost controls are an intergal part of
.the Universal Health Care Act . Through
a system of rate controls and practice
guidelines, medical costs would be
controlled. Reducing the reate of
medical inflation to a rate only 2% less
than the current rates would save
Oklahomans $2 .4 billion in the year
2000.
Its time we recognized that health
care is a fundamental human right . The
Universal Health Care Act (HB 1578)
begins the process of guaranteeing that
right for all Oklahomans .
,,,
SCHOLARSHIPS FOR WOMEN
The BPW Foundation awards scholarships
to women 30 and older who are seeking
the education necessary for entry into,
re-entry or advancement within the
workplace. The BPW Career Advancement
Scholarship is awarded to wonen seeking
education for a career in conputer
science, education, science or as a
paralegal. The Cariol Scholarship is
for wonen returning to school to achieve
career goals. The NY Life Foundation
Scholarship for Women in the Health
Professions is awarded to women seeking
education in a health care field. The
BPW Foundation also operates loan
programs for women seeking graduate
business degrees and engineering
degrees. For infornation write: BPW
Foundation, Education and Training
Departnent, 2012 .Massachusetts Ave. , NW,
Washington, DC 20036.
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
FUND SEEKS INTERNS
The Human Rights Campaign fund, the
largest national lesbian and gay and
AIDS advocacy organization, is looking
for interns for its office in
Washington, DC.
Internships are
available in the Campaign Fund's
Legislative Department (lobbying);
Political Department (campaign work);
Field Department (grassroots
activities); and in the Lesbian Issues
and Outreach Department.
"This is a great opportunity for
soneone interested in lesbian and gay
issues, or just in learning how
government and politics work," said Anne
Theisen, who coordinates the intern
program. "Interns have an opportunity to
nake a contribution to the lesbian and
gay movement as they work on issues in
congress ."
Interns must work at least 20 hours
per week for three months . Each works
under the direction of a staff nenber
and receives a stipend from the Campaign
fund .
Those interested in applying for an
internship at the Canpaign Fund should
contact .Ks. Theisen at (202) 628-4160 or
write to her at the Hunan Rights
campaign Fund, 1012 - 14th street, NW,
6th Floor, Washington, DC 20005.
Applications should include : a letter
discussing why the applicant wishes to
work at the Campaign Fund; a resume; and
a writing sample.
The deadline for applications for
Sunmer interns is April 15, 1991. Final
decisions and offers will be made by the
Campaign fund on May 1, 1991.
Applications also will be accepted from
intern candidates who are interested in
Fall and Winter internships.
ENCODINGS
11
Encodings" is a biannual literary
magazine, published by Liaud: AWo11en 1 s
Press . The first two volumes include
mostly poetry, but also photography and
an essay; the cover of Volume One ,
Number One, is graced with a beautiful
pen &ink drawing .
The poetry ranges freely through
women's issues 1 universal issues; and is
first rate throughout. The love and
erotic poetry, both homo-and heteroerotic, reads true and moving, as in
Marie Catherine's "Whispers Alone in the
Darkness", or K. Laurita Fike's poems .
Fike moves from love and erotica in much
of her poetry to harsh brilliant anger
in "She Wanted Him" (She wanted him
Dead), which deals with incest. Other
poetry contains lines such as these :
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A
REVIEW
Jacqueline Shawh: "even a whale is small
in the palm of loneliness"; Cathy
Stern's "Exhibits" begin "Christ! Did
you take that too - the ink from ny pen?
My marrow 's not enough?
Insatiable
man !" All of Carol Snyder 's poetry is
just wonderful.
Copies of "Encodings" are available
for in-store reading and enjoyment at
Berland . Subscriptions are available
for $9 .00 per year from Liaud : Awomen's
Press, P. 0. Box 6793, Houston, TX
77265-6793; or $4.50 per volume. If you
would like to be considered for
publication in Encodings, send a selfaddressed stamped envelope for
submission guidelines .
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New additions to the lending library
include two biographies and one
autobiography of fascinating women .
Kary Leakey, in particular, lived a life
which, while not without its share of
pain and sorrow, must be one of the
fullest and most fulfilling lives ever.
1. Alice James, The Life of the
Brilliant Younger Sister of William and
Henry James; a biography by Jean
Strouse .
Margaret Mead - A Life; a
2.
biography by Jan Howard .
3. Kary Leakey : Disclosing The Past;
an autobiography .
ST. SYBIL
st. Sybil, Hatron Saint of the
Forgotten Woman, is an occasional
contributor to this space:
Dear St. Sybil,
What's all this garbage about
protesting tile war and not supporting
our troops?
Angrily,
Purdy D'emd Hostell
Dear Purdy:
Let's back up a minute, and look at
one of the tenets of philosophers,
theologians and sundry intellectuals:
That the ·unexamined life is not worth
living. Now it is true that many a wag
as asked if the examined life is worth
living (it does cut way back on
spontaneous action and reaction, and
consequently on lots of fun); but
certainly it is appropriate for a person
to examine her/his habits, life,
lifestyle, goals, and the means s/he is
willing to use to achieve those goals.
And just as this is important on a
personal level, it is immensely more
important that a country do it on a
national level; especially when war is
involved. Personally, it seems to me to
be criminally idiotic to mindlessly
accept and support a war without
examining every aspect of its purpose,
means and goals in minute detail. And
having made such a thorough examination,
a person should support the war if they
find it to be supportable and necessary;
and should vigorously protest the war if
they believe it to be waged for
unacceptable purposes. don't forget,
every Anerican soldier, every Iraqi
soldier, every Iraqi civilian, and by
extension every Israeli citizen, every
Saudi, every person, every dog, cat and
camel, who has died in this war, has
done so in your name, at the bidding of
your elected president. If you thin the
president is wrong, it is your duty to
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speak out and ask hi11 to stop; it is
your duty to pressure your congressperson and ask her/him to pressure the
president to stop.
·
So, look at this war yourself.
This means that you must do more than
listen to the President and his
spokespeople on television, and must
read more than the editorials of OPUBCO
<>r any one newspaper. You must read
enough to know that General Electric,
one of the country's largest weapons
manufacturers, owns NBC; so that you
will take everything you hear on NBC
(and the rest of television) with a
grain of salt. You must not only read,
but think about what you read. For
instance, what on earth is on President
Bush's mind or agenda when he can say,
as he was quoted in the Daily Oklahoman
on February 2nd: "When we win - and we
will - we will have taught a dangerous
dictator and any tyrant tempted to
follow in his footsteps that the U.S.
has a new credibility, and that what we
say goes. "What we say goes"?? Who is
being the tyrant here, the dictator?
Who elected the U.S. king of the world
or father of the family earth, or bully
of the playground? It is not a role
that I consider proper for the United
States or for any country . Especially
it is not one appropriate for the U.S.,
which has done a pretty poor job of
protecting the environment, conserving
the earth's resources, living in racial
and class harmony, redefining and
elevating women's lives and roles, and
freeing women from the fear of violence
and poverty . Well. I do run on, don't
I? I assure you that any hostility you
may have noticed there at the end was
directed at po11pous pious politicians,
and not at you. If, after studying and
pondering all the variables, you feel
this war is righteous and its terrible
effects bearable, I support your right
to your opinion; but no way , however, do
I support this war .
Sorrowfully,
Sybil
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When
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Due to technical problens faced by our
usual volunteer typesetter, this month 1 s
VOICE comes to you in a somewhat
different format . We hope to be back to
normal with the next edition .
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OKLAHOMA REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM UPDATE
Sanity and good sense seem to be
carrying the day and the legislature in
Oklahona in 1991, at least so far as
reproductive rights are concerned:
"parental notification" and 11 parental
consent" bills have happily died in
committee in both the House and the
Senate. In the House committee, a
parental notification bill failed by a
voice vote. Acall to poll the committee
was refused by Committee Chair Jeff
Hamilton of Midwest City. Observers say
that the voice vote clearly indicated a
majority vote against the bill; by
denying a recorded vote, Rep. Hamilton
protected both the integrity of the vote
and the anonymity of the votes of the
committee members.
In the Senate,
Committee Chair Bernest Cain of Oklahoma
City refused to bring the bill to a vote
of the committee.
Aword on "parental notification" and
"parental consent", which like the term
"pro-life" sound good on their face but
are really ploys of the anti-woman/antichoice crowd. Of course it sounds good
for a pregnant teenager to go to her
parents for love and guidance; and there
is of course absolutely nothing n the
law to prohibit her from doing that, and
over 50% of young women in this
situation do. But what of the others?
Many young women and girls "in trouble"
come from dysfunctional families;
imagine them going to alcoholic or drugusing, incestuous or just generally
abusive parents with such news. And
then many other young women feel they
would rather die than go to their loving
parents with the news of the pregnancy;
and some of them do just that also .
Becky Bell of Indiana was a 17 year-old
girl who had a good relationship with
kind, loving parents; she felt that she
could not bear the thought of hurting
them. When she sought an abortion
through Planned Parenthood, they had to
tell her that by law she needed either
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her parent's pern11ss1on or a judge's
approval - a process known as "judicial
bypass". The word on the streets and in
the schools, and a pretty accurate word
and reflection of reality, was that less
than 1% of all attempts at judicial
bypass in Indiana were successful. And
so in 1988, fifteen years after the Roe
v. Wade decision, Becky Bell, who would
prefer to die than hurt her parents, and
with no means of travelling out of
·state, felt forced to search out a back
alley abortion. And she did die. And
to the end, even in the ambulance taking
her on her last ride, Becky Bell refused
to tell her parents why she was dying.
Thanks to Bernest Cain and Jeff
Hamilton, and to Ed Crocker of Norman
and Sid Hudson of Lawton, two courageous
representatives who argued forcefully
and publicly against the bills, parental
notification and consent bills will not
be coming up for a vote this year; at
least not as bills of their own. It is
always possible for amendments to be
added to other bills; and in addition to
thanking the men listed above (write to
them at the State Capitol, Oklahoma
City, OK 73105), we might want also to
write Senator Bob CUllison, President
Pro Tem of the Senate, and Glen Johnson ,
Speaker of the House, and ask them to
fight against any abortion-related
amendments to other bills.
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KEEP YOUR LAWS
OFF
OUR BODIES
(PREGNANT) WOMEN'S
RIGHTS
A judge in .Muskegon, Michigan, has
disnissed a charge against a woman
accused of passing cocaine to her
newborn baby by ingesting the drug while
pregnant; the law, he said, was not
intended to be used that way. The judge
also said that the case violated the
wonan /s r iqht to privacy and due
process.
The prosecutor evidently
intends to appeal. Let us hope that a)
the myth that a little cocaine eases
labor is dispelled; b) drug treatment
programs begin to grant access to
pregnant women; c) the nightmare of
addiction is eradicated; and d) the
appeals court comes down on the side of
privacy, due process, and reason; and
·not on the side of the Pregnancy Police.
ACT-UP ACTS UP FOR
CHOICE
Pro-choice counter demonstrators at
the January 20th anti-abortion, socalled "pro-life" rally at the Capitol
were delighted by the sight of a dozen
ACT-UP members winding their way through
the crowd shouting slogans such as "Born
Again Bigots, Go Away! Racist, Sexist,
Anti-Gay!", "Act UP, We're Here! We're
Loud, We're Rude, Pro-Choice and Queer!"
and "Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our right to
Decide". A couple of the Act-Up folk
were dressed as scuzzy doctors , in
filthy "scrubs", carrying "blood"stained, straightened coat-hangers and
signs proclaining "Repeal Roe vs. Wade,
I want my job back"! Very shocking,
very effective, very courageous. Kudos
to you, ACT-UP, and thank you!
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recognition. Please submit proposals to Herland, attn. Sally N. or leave a message for Sally at 521-9696.
Check line 55 on your Oklahoma Income Tax Return to make a contribution to provide health care for the poor.
Contributions to the Indigent Care Fund go to community clinics providing health care to the most needy in our
communities.
Women Ought to Know: The Monthly Female Fact Sheet, a compendium of brief facts of interest to women, is
available by subscription. Receive 12 issues for $9 plus choice of postage method ( $3 for bulk mail, $4 for
1st Class). Write Women to Women Communications, P.O. Box 161775, Cupertino 1 CA 95016.
The "Gathering of Young Lesbian Separatists and Radical Feminist Lesbians in Our Teens and Twenties" 1 meeting
Karch 23 &24, 1991, in Chicago, is requesting submissions of Art, Poetry, Papers, Writings of all Kinds 1 to be
published by the Gathering. Send submissions to Claudine O'Leary, 2825 North Laramie, Apt. 2N, Chicago 1 IL
60641-5028.
Molly and Don Kartin 1 sister and brother, are soliciting submissions for an anthology about gay siblings. They
are accepting manuscripts in the form of narratives or interviews 1 telling significant 1 humorous 1 tragic or
poignant stories of lesbians and gay men with their gay siblings. They want to explore:
> Particular family experiences we share as gay sisters and brothers
> Our interactions and relationships with our siblings as children and adults
> What it is about our families and childhoods that allows us to embrace our homosexuality
> Whether the experiences of lesbian sisters are very different from those of gay brothers
> How families 1 institutions, and social movements contribute to our relationships
> How our family experiences influence our behavior in the gay community.
Kail nanuscripts and queries to Molly and Don Martin, 1016 SE 7th Avenue, Olympia, WA 98501. The deadline for
manuscripts is July 11 1991.
The Wonen's Comnittee of United Autonobile Workers Local 1999 will host their first annual Women of Achievement
Awards Banquet on Saturday, Karch 9, 1991. The banquet will be held at the Metro-Tech Conference Center 1 1900
Springlake Drive, Oklahona City, at 6 p.n. The cost 1 $25 per person or $200 for a table for 10, includes dinner 1
entertainment and an eventful evening. Aposthunous award will be presented to the fanily of Barbara Lane, Past
Chairperson of the committee and a true labor unionist 1 political activist and a strong feminist. Achievement
awards will also be presented to women from the medical/mental health 1 education 1 political and community service
fields. Call 732-7330 regarding reservations.
Deborah Glick 1 New York 1 s first openly lesbian legislator 1 began her term as assenblywonan with another break
in tradition. Instead of taking her oath of office with her hand on a bible 1 she took it with her· hand on a copy
of Robin Morgan's 1970 feminist anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful.
. . . . info from oob 1 feb/1991
There is a Lesbian open 12-step meeting Monday nights 1 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. , at the Women's Resource Center 1 226 E.
Gray, in Norman.
Therapy group for Lesbians only. Work on co-dependency 1 living sober 1 incest, compulsive eating and dieting 1
or internalized homophobia. The group will begin in April on Wednesday evenings. It will be facilitated by Jo
L.Soske 1 K. Ed./CAC. Call Drug Recovery Inc. for appointment, 843-5319. Sliding scale fees are available.
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MAR.CH:
by
HER.STORY
ICE
MONTH
Deborah Fox
Without women there would be no
civilization. Without women Bush would
have no military to call upon,
corporations could not prosper, the
human race would not exits .
Society was born of the mother/child
bond, the first societies being the
clans of women and their children.
From the science of archaeology we
know that our first societies formed
some 30 ,000 or more years ago. These
societies respected the sacred power of
women and her ability to give, sustain,
and nurture life . They deified their
concept of this awesome phenomena into
the Goddess, who birthed, sustained, and
nurtured the universe and All life
within it. Thus the first religion, an
earth religion was born.
Throughout ancient Europe, Africa,
China, Siberia, and Indonesia the
Goddess was worshipped and the clans
were matrifocal and natrilineal.
Advanced archaeological studies prove
that the worship of the Goddess was not
a mere "fertility cult" nor was it a
mere expression of male eroticism, as
some scholars have proclaimed. Goddess
worship was a full blown religion whose
reaches were far and wide across the
globe. This first and oldest earth
religion of the Goddess flourished
throughout the paleolithic, neolithic,
chalcoli thic, and Old Testament periods,
and even though disguised or
underground; continues to do so today .
It is also evident that most of these
civilizations were peaceful and
egalitarian -- Matriarchy does NOT mean
female dominance like Patriarchy means
male dominance.
Around 2400 B.C., a sword-wielding,
nomadic tribespeople from Northern
VOLUME 8 NUMBER 3
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Russia began invading the peaceful,
Goddess-loving cultures, and set about
to ~stablish male doninance, female
oppression, and hierarchy .
After
several of these invasions over a two
thousand years, Patriarchy was well
under way and continued to fight and
destroy the loyal cultures of the
Goddess. The Old Testament period was
wrought with the desecration of Her
sacred groves, Asherah poles, hilltop
altars, and the practice in each home of
burning incense to the Queen of Heaven,
as recorded in the Bible (see: Jeremiah
44:15-19, II Kings 18:4, Acts 19:23-34,
!Kings 11 :3-5) . These misogynist acts
continued into the 13-17th. centuries
witch burnings, right up to today's
oppression of wonen.
Patriarchy could never fully demolish
the Old Religion and the Goddess as
attested to by the pagans all over the
world, Virgin Kary "cults", and wonen
who continue to fight against
Patriarchy's oppression of women and
other minorities.
As we celebrate rebirth and renewal
in Spring, let's burn incense to all the
Goddesses, our female ancestors,
courageous women in history, and all
women of all the world. Let's burn a
purple candle for inspiration and affirm
woman's power and valiance that herstory
shows us so well.
Here are some suggestions for
celebrations from z. Budapest's book,
The Grandmother of Time:
larch 1 - Ratronella (Roman), the
celebration of women and power.
larch 2 - First festival of Vesta
(Roman)
larch 4 - llotberinq Day (English )
HERLAND SISTER RESOURCES
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larch 5 - Celebration of Isis (North
African)
Karch 8 - International Wollen's Day
Karch 9 - Celebration of Aphrodite and
Her Lover Adonis (Neareastern Greek)
Karch 10 - Hypatia's Day (Alexandrian)
larch 15 - Holiday of cybele (Anatolian,
Later Roman)
Barch 17 - Liberalia: Celebration of
Freedom (Roman)
larch 19 - Quintaria: Feast of Athena
(Greek)
Jlarcb 20 - Spring festival
Karch 21 - Sprinq F.quinox
Karch 25 - Hilaria: Laugbinq Day (Roman)
llarcb 30 - Feast of Eostara (German)
larch 31 - feast of tlle lloon Goddess
(Roman)
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JOY HARJO PRESENTS ANGIE
DEBO LECTURE AT OSU
Joy Harjo, noted Creek poet, will
present the Angie Debo Native American
Lecture, Monday, March 25 at 8 P.H. in
the Student Union Theater at Oklahoma
State University in Stillwater.
A
reception will follow.
Ms. Harjo is widely know for her
works of poetry including She Has Sone
Horses, In Mad Love and War, and Secrets
from the Center of the World. She is a
professor of English at New Mexico State
University and a screen writer.
The Angie Debo Lecture is sponsored
by the Oklahoma State University NOW
chapter and the Native American student
Association.
2312 N.W. 39th, OKC, OK 73112
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HEALTH
CARE
Health care costs are skyrocketing -up fron $906 per capita in 1980 to
$4,867 in the year 2000 for every man,
woman and child in Oklahoma. In spite
of these increasing costs, the quality
of health care suffers.
Approximately a fourth of Oklahomans
have no health insurance. Studies have
shown that persons without health
insurance are 50% less likely to receive
physician care and 90% less likely to
receive needed hospital care than those
with insurance. A recent study at
Georgetown University found that
uninsured hospital patients are 1.2 to
3 times more likely to die while
hospitalized than insured patients.
The health care crisis is faced on a
personal level by each of us. Accounts
of how the health care crisis affects
individuals and families regularly come
to the Oklahoma Health Care Project .
The stories include such cases as the
working mother who must choose between
health insurance and food and clothing
for her children; the young couple in
rural Oklahoma expecting a child who
cannot af fort the fee for pre-natal
care; and the family driven to
bankruptcy with the expenses of a
catastrophic illness .
Oklahomans have the opportunity to
stop this spend-more-get-less spiral.
Representative Angela Monson has
introduced the Universal Health Care Act
(HB 1578). This bill provides for the
establishment of a single health
insurance plan for all Oklahomans .
Through this plan, any Oklahoman needing
health care could go to the health care
provider of their choice, recieve care,
and the provider would receive payment
through the Universal Health Care Plan.
HB 1578 establishes the Universal
Health Care Board and charges them with
the responsibility of developing an
insurance plan covering hospital,
physician, and other licensed health
professional's services, prescription
drugs, mental health and substance abuse
treatement and health educaton and
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FOR
ALL
prevention services.
The Universal Heath Care Act
eliminates the administrative waste of
the insurance industry. By implementing
the single-payer . plan, administrative
costs would be reduced from the current
average of 18% to approximately 3% (the
administrative costs of Medicare). This
measure alone would save more than $431
million.
cost controls are an intergal part of
.the Universal Health Care Act . Through
a system of rate controls and practice
guidelines, medical costs would be
controlled. Reducing the reate of
medical inflation to a rate only 2% less
than the current rates would save
Oklahomans $2 .4 billion in the year
2000.
Its time we recognized that health
care is a fundamental human right . The
Universal Health Care Act (HB 1578)
begins the process of guaranteeing that
right for all Oklahomans .
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SCHOLARSHIPS FOR WOMEN
The BPW Foundation awards scholarships
to women 30 and older who are seeking
the education necessary for entry into,
re-entry or advancement within the
workplace. The BPW Career Advancement
Scholarship is awarded to wonen seeking
education for a career in conputer
science, education, science or as a
paralegal. The Cariol Scholarship is
for wonen returning to school to achieve
career goals. The NY Life Foundation
Scholarship for Women in the Health
Professions is awarded to women seeking
education in a health care field. The
BPW Foundation also operates loan
programs for women seeking graduate
business degrees and engineering
degrees. For infornation write: BPW
Foundation, Education and Training
Departnent, 2012 .Massachusetts Ave. , NW,
Washington, DC 20036.
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
FUND SEEKS INTERNS
The Human Rights Campaign fund, the
largest national lesbian and gay and
AIDS advocacy organization, is looking
for interns for its office in
Washington, DC.
Internships are
available in the Campaign Fund's
Legislative Department (lobbying);
Political Department (campaign work);
Field Department (grassroots
activities); and in the Lesbian Issues
and Outreach Department.
"This is a great opportunity for
soneone interested in lesbian and gay
issues, or just in learning how
government and politics work," said Anne
Theisen, who coordinates the intern
program. "Interns have an opportunity to
nake a contribution to the lesbian and
gay movement as they work on issues in
congress ."
Interns must work at least 20 hours
per week for three months . Each works
under the direction of a staff nenber
and receives a stipend from the Campaign
fund .
Those interested in applying for an
internship at the Canpaign Fund should
contact .Ks. Theisen at (202) 628-4160 or
write to her at the Hunan Rights
campaign Fund, 1012 - 14th street, NW,
6th Floor, Washington, DC 20005.
Applications should include : a letter
discussing why the applicant wishes to
work at the Campaign Fund; a resume; and
a writing sample.
The deadline for applications for
Sunmer interns is April 15, 1991. Final
decisions and offers will be made by the
Campaign fund on May 1, 1991.
Applications also will be accepted from
intern candidates who are interested in
Fall and Winter internships.
ENCODINGS
11
Encodings" is a biannual literary
magazine, published by Liaud: AWo11en 1 s
Press . The first two volumes include
mostly poetry, but also photography and
an essay; the cover of Volume One ,
Number One, is graced with a beautiful
pen &ink drawing .
The poetry ranges freely through
women's issues 1 universal issues; and is
first rate throughout. The love and
erotic poetry, both homo-and heteroerotic, reads true and moving, as in
Marie Catherine's "Whispers Alone in the
Darkness", or K. Laurita Fike's poems .
Fike moves from love and erotica in much
of her poetry to harsh brilliant anger
in "She Wanted Him" (She wanted him
Dead), which deals with incest. Other
poetry contains lines such as these :
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A
REVIEW
Jacqueline Shawh: "even a whale is small
in the palm of loneliness"; Cathy
Stern's "Exhibits" begin "Christ! Did
you take that too - the ink from ny pen?
My marrow 's not enough?
Insatiable
man !" All of Carol Snyder 's poetry is
just wonderful.
Copies of "Encodings" are available
for in-store reading and enjoyment at
Berland . Subscriptions are available
for $9 .00 per year from Liaud : Awomen's
Press, P. 0. Box 6793, Houston, TX
77265-6793; or $4.50 per volume. If you
would like to be considered for
publication in Encodings, send a selfaddressed stamped envelope for
submission guidelines .
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New additions to the lending library
include two biographies and one
autobiography of fascinating women .
Kary Leakey, in particular, lived a life
which, while not without its share of
pain and sorrow, must be one of the
fullest and most fulfilling lives ever.
1. Alice James, The Life of the
Brilliant Younger Sister of William and
Henry James; a biography by Jean
Strouse .
Margaret Mead - A Life; a
2.
biography by Jan Howard .
3. Kary Leakey : Disclosing The Past;
an autobiography .
ST. SYBIL
st. Sybil, Hatron Saint of the
Forgotten Woman, is an occasional
contributor to this space:
Dear St. Sybil,
What's all this garbage about
protesting tile war and not supporting
our troops?
Angrily,
Purdy D'emd Hostell
Dear Purdy:
Let's back up a minute, and look at
one of the tenets of philosophers,
theologians and sundry intellectuals:
That the ·unexamined life is not worth
living. Now it is true that many a wag
as asked if the examined life is worth
living (it does cut way back on
spontaneous action and reaction, and
consequently on lots of fun); but
certainly it is appropriate for a person
to examine her/his habits, life,
lifestyle, goals, and the means s/he is
willing to use to achieve those goals.
And just as this is important on a
personal level, it is immensely more
important that a country do it on a
national level; especially when war is
involved. Personally, it seems to me to
be criminally idiotic to mindlessly
accept and support a war without
examining every aspect of its purpose,
means and goals in minute detail. And
having made such a thorough examination,
a person should support the war if they
find it to be supportable and necessary;
and should vigorously protest the war if
they believe it to be waged for
unacceptable purposes. don't forget,
every Anerican soldier, every Iraqi
soldier, every Iraqi civilian, and by
extension every Israeli citizen, every
Saudi, every person, every dog, cat and
camel, who has died in this war, has
done so in your name, at the bidding of
your elected president. If you thin the
president is wrong, it is your duty to
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speak out and ask hi11 to stop; it is
your duty to pressure your congressperson and ask her/him to pressure the
president to stop.
·
So, look at this war yourself.
This means that you must do more than
listen to the President and his
spokespeople on television, and must
read more than the editorials of OPUBCO
<>r any one newspaper. You must read
enough to know that General Electric,
one of the country's largest weapons
manufacturers, owns NBC; so that you
will take everything you hear on NBC
(and the rest of television) with a
grain of salt. You must not only read,
but think about what you read. For
instance, what on earth is on President
Bush's mind or agenda when he can say,
as he was quoted in the Daily Oklahoman
on February 2nd: "When we win - and we
will - we will have taught a dangerous
dictator and any tyrant tempted to
follow in his footsteps that the U.S.
has a new credibility, and that what we
say goes. "What we say goes"?? Who is
being the tyrant here, the dictator?
Who elected the U.S. king of the world
or father of the family earth, or bully
of the playground? It is not a role
that I consider proper for the United
States or for any country . Especially
it is not one appropriate for the U.S.,
which has done a pretty poor job of
protecting the environment, conserving
the earth's resources, living in racial
and class harmony, redefining and
elevating women's lives and roles, and
freeing women from the fear of violence
and poverty . Well. I do run on, don't
I? I assure you that any hostility you
may have noticed there at the end was
directed at po11pous pious politicians,
and not at you. If, after studying and
pondering all the variables, you feel
this war is righteous and its terrible
effects bearable, I support your right
to your opinion; but no way , however, do
I support this war .
Sorrowfully,
Sybil
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OKLAHOMA REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM UPDATE
Sanity and good sense seem to be
carrying the day and the legislature in
Oklahona in 1991, at least so far as
reproductive rights are concerned:
"parental notification" and 11 parental
consent" bills have happily died in
committee in both the House and the
Senate. In the House committee, a
parental notification bill failed by a
voice vote. Acall to poll the committee
was refused by Committee Chair Jeff
Hamilton of Midwest City. Observers say
that the voice vote clearly indicated a
majority vote against the bill; by
denying a recorded vote, Rep. Hamilton
protected both the integrity of the vote
and the anonymity of the votes of the
committee members.
In the Senate,
Committee Chair Bernest Cain of Oklahoma
City refused to bring the bill to a vote
of the committee.
Aword on "parental notification" and
"parental consent", which like the term
"pro-life" sound good on their face but
are really ploys of the anti-woman/antichoice crowd. Of course it sounds good
for a pregnant teenager to go to her
parents for love and guidance; and there
is of course absolutely nothing n the
law to prohibit her from doing that, and
over 50% of young women in this
situation do. But what of the others?
Many young women and girls "in trouble"
come from dysfunctional families;
imagine them going to alcoholic or drugusing, incestuous or just generally
abusive parents with such news. And
then many other young women feel they
would rather die than go to their loving
parents with the news of the pregnancy;
and some of them do just that also .
Becky Bell of Indiana was a 17 year-old
girl who had a good relationship with
kind, loving parents; she felt that she
could not bear the thought of hurting
them. When she sought an abortion
through Planned Parenthood, they had to
tell her that by law she needed either
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her parent's pern11ss1on or a judge's
approval - a process known as "judicial
bypass". The word on the streets and in
the schools, and a pretty accurate word
and reflection of reality, was that less
than 1% of all attempts at judicial
bypass in Indiana were successful. And
so in 1988, fifteen years after the Roe
v. Wade decision, Becky Bell, who would
prefer to die than hurt her parents, and
with no means of travelling out of
·state, felt forced to search out a back
alley abortion. And she did die. And
to the end, even in the ambulance taking
her on her last ride, Becky Bell refused
to tell her parents why she was dying.
Thanks to Bernest Cain and Jeff
Hamilton, and to Ed Crocker of Norman
and Sid Hudson of Lawton, two courageous
representatives who argued forcefully
and publicly against the bills, parental
notification and consent bills will not
be coming up for a vote this year; at
least not as bills of their own. It is
always possible for amendments to be
added to other bills; and in addition to
thanking the men listed above (write to
them at the State Capitol, Oklahoma
City, OK 73105), we might want also to
write Senator Bob CUllison, President
Pro Tem of the Senate, and Glen Johnson ,
Speaker of the House, and ask them to
fight against any abortion-related
amendments to other bills.
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KEEP YOUR LAWS
OFF
OUR BODIES
(PREGNANT) WOMEN'S
RIGHTS
A judge in .Muskegon, Michigan, has
disnissed a charge against a woman
accused of passing cocaine to her
newborn baby by ingesting the drug while
pregnant; the law, he said, was not
intended to be used that way. The judge
also said that the case violated the
wonan /s r iqht to privacy and due
process.
The prosecutor evidently
intends to appeal. Let us hope that a)
the myth that a little cocaine eases
labor is dispelled; b) drug treatment
programs begin to grant access to
pregnant women; c) the nightmare of
addiction is eradicated; and d) the
appeals court comes down on the side of
privacy, due process, and reason; and
·not on the side of the Pregnancy Police.
ACT-UP ACTS UP FOR
CHOICE
Pro-choice counter demonstrators at
the January 20th anti-abortion, socalled "pro-life" rally at the Capitol
were delighted by the sight of a dozen
ACT-UP members winding their way through
the crowd shouting slogans such as "Born
Again Bigots, Go Away! Racist, Sexist,
Anti-Gay!", "Act UP, We're Here! We're
Loud, We're Rude, Pro-Choice and Queer!"
and "Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our right to
Decide". A couple of the Act-Up folk
were dressed as scuzzy doctors , in
filthy "scrubs", carrying "blood"stained, straightened coat-hangers and
signs proclaining "Repeal Roe vs. Wade,
I want my job back"! Very shocking,
very effective, very courageous. Kudos
to you, ACT-UP, and thank you!
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Check line 55 on your Oklahoma Income Tax Return to make a contribution to provide health care for the poor.
Contributions to the Indigent Care Fund go to community clinics providing health care to the most needy in our
communities.
Women Ought to Know: The Monthly Female Fact Sheet, a compendium of brief facts of interest to women, is
available by subscription. Receive 12 issues for $9 plus choice of postage method ( $3 for bulk mail, $4 for
1st Class). Write Women to Women Communications, P.O. Box 161775, Cupertino 1 CA 95016.
The "Gathering of Young Lesbian Separatists and Radical Feminist Lesbians in Our Teens and Twenties" 1 meeting
Karch 23 &24, 1991, in Chicago, is requesting submissions of Art, Poetry, Papers, Writings of all Kinds 1 to be
published by the Gathering. Send submissions to Claudine O'Leary, 2825 North Laramie, Apt. 2N, Chicago 1 IL
60641-5028.
Molly and Don Kartin 1 sister and brother, are soliciting submissions for an anthology about gay siblings. They
are accepting manuscripts in the form of narratives or interviews 1 telling significant 1 humorous 1 tragic or
poignant stories of lesbians and gay men with their gay siblings. They want to explore:
> Particular family experiences we share as gay sisters and brothers
> Our interactions and relationships with our siblings as children and adults
> What it is about our families and childhoods that allows us to embrace our homosexuality
> Whether the experiences of lesbian sisters are very different from those of gay brothers
> How families 1 institutions, and social movements contribute to our relationships
> How our family experiences influence our behavior in the gay community.
Kail nanuscripts and queries to Molly and Don Martin, 1016 SE 7th Avenue, Olympia, WA 98501. The deadline for
manuscripts is July 11 1991.
The Wonen's Comnittee of United Autonobile Workers Local 1999 will host their first annual Women of Achievement
Awards Banquet on Saturday, Karch 9, 1991. The banquet will be held at the Metro-Tech Conference Center 1 1900
Springlake Drive, Oklahona City, at 6 p.n. The cost 1 $25 per person or $200 for a table for 10, includes dinner 1
entertainment and an eventful evening. Aposthunous award will be presented to the fanily of Barbara Lane, Past
Chairperson of the committee and a true labor unionist 1 political activist and a strong feminist. Achievement
awards will also be presented to women from the medical/mental health 1 education 1 political and community service
fields. Call 732-7330 regarding reservations.
Deborah Glick 1 New York 1 s first openly lesbian legislator 1 began her term as assenblywonan with another break
in tradition. Instead of taking her oath of office with her hand on a bible 1 she took it with her· hand on a copy
of Robin Morgan's 1970 feminist anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful.
. . . . info from oob 1 feb/1991
There is a Lesbian open 12-step meeting Monday nights 1 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. , at the Women's Resource Center 1 226 E.
Gray, in Norman.
Therapy group for Lesbians only. Work on co-dependency 1 living sober 1 incest, compulsive eating and dieting 1
or internalized homophobia. The group will begin in April on Wednesday evenings. It will be facilitated by Jo
L.Soske 1 K. Ed./CAC. Call Drug Recovery Inc. for appointment, 843-5319. Sliding scale fees are available.
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MAR.CH:
by
HER.STORY
ICE
MONTH
Deborah Fox
Without women there would be no
civilization. Without women Bush would
have no military to call upon,
corporations could not prosper, the
human race would not exits .
Society was born of the mother/child
bond, the first societies being the
clans of women and their children.
From the science of archaeology we
know that our first societies formed
some 30 ,000 or more years ago. These
societies respected the sacred power of
women and her ability to give, sustain,
and nurture life . They deified their
concept of this awesome phenomena into
the Goddess, who birthed, sustained, and
nurtured the universe and All life
within it. Thus the first religion, an
earth religion was born.
Throughout ancient Europe, Africa,
China, Siberia, and Indonesia the
Goddess was worshipped and the clans
were matrifocal and natrilineal.
Advanced archaeological studies prove
that the worship of the Goddess was not
a mere "fertility cult" nor was it a
mere expression of male eroticism, as
some scholars have proclaimed. Goddess
worship was a full blown religion whose
reaches were far and wide across the
globe. This first and oldest earth
religion of the Goddess flourished
throughout the paleolithic, neolithic,
chalcoli thic, and Old Testament periods,
and even though disguised or
underground; continues to do so today .
It is also evident that most of these
civilizations were peaceful and
egalitarian -- Matriarchy does NOT mean
female dominance like Patriarchy means
male dominance.
Around 2400 B.C., a sword-wielding,
nomadic tribespeople from Northern
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Russia began invading the peaceful,
Goddess-loving cultures, and set about
to ~stablish male doninance, female
oppression, and hierarchy .
After
several of these invasions over a two
thousand years, Patriarchy was well
under way and continued to fight and
destroy the loyal cultures of the
Goddess. The Old Testament period was
wrought with the desecration of Her
sacred groves, Asherah poles, hilltop
altars, and the practice in each home of
burning incense to the Queen of Heaven,
as recorded in the Bible (see: Jeremiah
44:15-19, II Kings 18:4, Acts 19:23-34,
!Kings 11 :3-5) . These misogynist acts
continued into the 13-17th. centuries
witch burnings, right up to today's
oppression of wonen.
Patriarchy could never fully demolish
the Old Religion and the Goddess as
attested to by the pagans all over the
world, Virgin Kary "cults", and wonen
who continue to fight against
Patriarchy's oppression of women and
other minorities.
As we celebrate rebirth and renewal
in Spring, let's burn incense to all the
Goddesses, our female ancestors,
courageous women in history, and all
women of all the world. Let's burn a
purple candle for inspiration and affirm
woman's power and valiance that herstory
shows us so well.
Here are some suggestions for
celebrations from z. Budapest's book,
The Grandmother of Time:
larch 1 - Ratronella (Roman), the
celebration of women and power.
larch 2 - First festival of Vesta
(Roman)
larch 4 - llotberinq Day (English )
HERLAND SISTER RESOURCES
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larch 5 - Celebration of Isis (North
African)
Karch 8 - International Wollen's Day
Karch 9 - Celebration of Aphrodite and
Her Lover Adonis (Neareastern Greek)
Karch 10 - Hypatia's Day (Alexandrian)
larch 15 - Holiday of cybele (Anatolian,
Later Roman)
Barch 17 - Liberalia: Celebration of
Freedom (Roman)
larch 19 - Quintaria: Feast of Athena
(Greek)
Jlarcb 20 - Spring festival
Karch 21 - Sprinq F.quinox
Karch 25 - Hilaria: Laugbinq Day (Roman)
llarcb 30 - Feast of Eostara (German)
larch 31 - feast of tlle lloon Goddess
(Roman)
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JOY HARJO PRESENTS ANGIE
DEBO LECTURE AT OSU
Joy Harjo, noted Creek poet, will
present the Angie Debo Native American
Lecture, Monday, March 25 at 8 P.H. in
the Student Union Theater at Oklahoma
State University in Stillwater.
A
reception will follow.
Ms. Harjo is widely know for her
works of poetry including She Has Sone
Horses, In Mad Love and War, and Secrets
from the Center of the World. She is a
professor of English at New Mexico State
University and a screen writer.
The Angie Debo Lecture is sponsored
by the Oklahoma State University NOW
chapter and the Native American student
Association.
2312 N.W. 39th, OKC, OK 73112
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HEALTH
CARE
Health care costs are skyrocketing -up fron $906 per capita in 1980 to
$4,867 in the year 2000 for every man,
woman and child in Oklahoma. In spite
of these increasing costs, the quality
of health care suffers.
Approximately a fourth of Oklahomans
have no health insurance. Studies have
shown that persons without health
insurance are 50% less likely to receive
physician care and 90% less likely to
receive needed hospital care than those
with insurance. A recent study at
Georgetown University found that
uninsured hospital patients are 1.2 to
3 times more likely to die while
hospitalized than insured patients.
The health care crisis is faced on a
personal level by each of us. Accounts
of how the health care crisis affects
individuals and families regularly come
to the Oklahoma Health Care Project .
The stories include such cases as the
working mother who must choose between
health insurance and food and clothing
for her children; the young couple in
rural Oklahoma expecting a child who
cannot af fort the fee for pre-natal
care; and the family driven to
bankruptcy with the expenses of a
catastrophic illness .
Oklahomans have the opportunity to
stop this spend-more-get-less spiral.
Representative Angela Monson has
introduced the Universal Health Care Act
(HB 1578). This bill provides for the
establishment of a single health
insurance plan for all Oklahomans .
Through this plan, any Oklahoman needing
health care could go to the health care
provider of their choice, recieve care,
and the provider would receive payment
through the Universal Health Care Plan.
HB 1578 establishes the Universal
Health Care Board and charges them with
the responsibility of developing an
insurance plan covering hospital,
physician, and other licensed health
professional's services, prescription
drugs, mental health and substance abuse
treatement and health educaton and
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FOR
ALL
prevention services.
The Universal Heath Care Act
eliminates the administrative waste of
the insurance industry. By implementing
the single-payer . plan, administrative
costs would be reduced from the current
average of 18% to approximately 3% (the
administrative costs of Medicare). This
measure alone would save more than $431
million.
cost controls are an intergal part of
.the Universal Health Care Act . Through
a system of rate controls and practice
guidelines, medical costs would be
controlled. Reducing the reate of
medical inflation to a rate only 2% less
than the current rates would save
Oklahomans $2 .4 billion in the year
2000.
Its time we recognized that health
care is a fundamental human right . The
Universal Health Care Act (HB 1578)
begins the process of guaranteeing that
right for all Oklahomans .
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SCHOLARSHIPS FOR WOMEN
The BPW Foundation awards scholarships
to women 30 and older who are seeking
the education necessary for entry into,
re-entry or advancement within the
workplace. The BPW Career Advancement
Scholarship is awarded to wonen seeking
education for a career in conputer
science, education, science or as a
paralegal. The Cariol Scholarship is
for wonen returning to school to achieve
career goals. The NY Life Foundation
Scholarship for Women in the Health
Professions is awarded to women seeking
education in a health care field. The
BPW Foundation also operates loan
programs for women seeking graduate
business degrees and engineering
degrees. For infornation write: BPW
Foundation, Education and Training
Departnent, 2012 .Massachusetts Ave. , NW,
Washington, DC 20036.
HUMAN RIGHTS CAMPAIGN
FUND SEEKS INTERNS
The Human Rights Campaign fund, the
largest national lesbian and gay and
AIDS advocacy organization, is looking
for interns for its office in
Washington, DC.
Internships are
available in the Campaign Fund's
Legislative Department (lobbying);
Political Department (campaign work);
Field Department (grassroots
activities); and in the Lesbian Issues
and Outreach Department.
"This is a great opportunity for
soneone interested in lesbian and gay
issues, or just in learning how
government and politics work," said Anne
Theisen, who coordinates the intern
program. "Interns have an opportunity to
nake a contribution to the lesbian and
gay movement as they work on issues in
congress ."
Interns must work at least 20 hours
per week for three months . Each works
under the direction of a staff nenber
and receives a stipend from the Campaign
fund .
Those interested in applying for an
internship at the Canpaign Fund should
contact .Ks. Theisen at (202) 628-4160 or
write to her at the Hunan Rights
campaign Fund, 1012 - 14th street, NW,
6th Floor, Washington, DC 20005.
Applications should include : a letter
discussing why the applicant wishes to
work at the Campaign Fund; a resume; and
a writing sample.
The deadline for applications for
Sunmer interns is April 15, 1991. Final
decisions and offers will be made by the
Campaign fund on May 1, 1991.
Applications also will be accepted from
intern candidates who are interested in
Fall and Winter internships.
ENCODINGS
11
Encodings" is a biannual literary
magazine, published by Liaud: AWo11en 1 s
Press . The first two volumes include
mostly poetry, but also photography and
an essay; the cover of Volume One ,
Number One, is graced with a beautiful
pen &ink drawing .
The poetry ranges freely through
women's issues 1 universal issues; and is
first rate throughout. The love and
erotic poetry, both homo-and heteroerotic, reads true and moving, as in
Marie Catherine's "Whispers Alone in the
Darkness", or K. Laurita Fike's poems .
Fike moves from love and erotica in much
of her poetry to harsh brilliant anger
in "She Wanted Him" (She wanted him
Dead), which deals with incest. Other
poetry contains lines such as these :
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A
REVIEW
Jacqueline Shawh: "even a whale is small
in the palm of loneliness"; Cathy
Stern's "Exhibits" begin "Christ! Did
you take that too - the ink from ny pen?
My marrow 's not enough?
Insatiable
man !" All of Carol Snyder 's poetry is
just wonderful.
Copies of "Encodings" are available
for in-store reading and enjoyment at
Berland . Subscriptions are available
for $9 .00 per year from Liaud : Awomen's
Press, P. 0. Box 6793, Houston, TX
77265-6793; or $4.50 per volume. If you
would like to be considered for
publication in Encodings, send a selfaddressed stamped envelope for
submission guidelines .
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New additions to the lending library
include two biographies and one
autobiography of fascinating women .
Kary Leakey, in particular, lived a life
which, while not without its share of
pain and sorrow, must be one of the
fullest and most fulfilling lives ever.
1. Alice James, The Life of the
Brilliant Younger Sister of William and
Henry James; a biography by Jean
Strouse .
Margaret Mead - A Life; a
2.
biography by Jan Howard .
3. Kary Leakey : Disclosing The Past;
an autobiography .
ST. SYBIL
st. Sybil, Hatron Saint of the
Forgotten Woman, is an occasional
contributor to this space:
Dear St. Sybil,
What's all this garbage about
protesting tile war and not supporting
our troops?
Angrily,
Purdy D'emd Hostell
Dear Purdy:
Let's back up a minute, and look at
one of the tenets of philosophers,
theologians and sundry intellectuals:
That the ·unexamined life is not worth
living. Now it is true that many a wag
as asked if the examined life is worth
living (it does cut way back on
spontaneous action and reaction, and
consequently on lots of fun); but
certainly it is appropriate for a person
to examine her/his habits, life,
lifestyle, goals, and the means s/he is
willing to use to achieve those goals.
And just as this is important on a
personal level, it is immensely more
important that a country do it on a
national level; especially when war is
involved. Personally, it seems to me to
be criminally idiotic to mindlessly
accept and support a war without
examining every aspect of its purpose,
means and goals in minute detail. And
having made such a thorough examination,
a person should support the war if they
find it to be supportable and necessary;
and should vigorously protest the war if
they believe it to be waged for
unacceptable purposes. don't forget,
every Anerican soldier, every Iraqi
soldier, every Iraqi civilian, and by
extension every Israeli citizen, every
Saudi, every person, every dog, cat and
camel, who has died in this war, has
done so in your name, at the bidding of
your elected president. If you thin the
president is wrong, it is your duty to
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speak out and ask hi11 to stop; it is
your duty to pressure your congressperson and ask her/him to pressure the
president to stop.
·
So, look at this war yourself.
This means that you must do more than
listen to the President and his
spokespeople on television, and must
read more than the editorials of OPUBCO
<>r any one newspaper. You must read
enough to know that General Electric,
one of the country's largest weapons
manufacturers, owns NBC; so that you
will take everything you hear on NBC
(and the rest of television) with a
grain of salt. You must not only read,
but think about what you read. For
instance, what on earth is on President
Bush's mind or agenda when he can say,
as he was quoted in the Daily Oklahoman
on February 2nd: "When we win - and we
will - we will have taught a dangerous
dictator and any tyrant tempted to
follow in his footsteps that the U.S.
has a new credibility, and that what we
say goes. "What we say goes"?? Who is
being the tyrant here, the dictator?
Who elected the U.S. king of the world
or father of the family earth, or bully
of the playground? It is not a role
that I consider proper for the United
States or for any country . Especially
it is not one appropriate for the U.S.,
which has done a pretty poor job of
protecting the environment, conserving
the earth's resources, living in racial
and class harmony, redefining and
elevating women's lives and roles, and
freeing women from the fear of violence
and poverty . Well. I do run on, don't
I? I assure you that any hostility you
may have noticed there at the end was
directed at po11pous pious politicians,
and not at you. If, after studying and
pondering all the variables, you feel
this war is righteous and its terrible
effects bearable, I support your right
to your opinion; but no way , however, do
I support this war .
Sorrowfully,
Sybil
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OKLAHOMA REPRODUCTIVE FREEDOM UPDATE
Sanity and good sense seem to be
carrying the day and the legislature in
Oklahona in 1991, at least so far as
reproductive rights are concerned:
"parental notification" and 11 parental
consent" bills have happily died in
committee in both the House and the
Senate. In the House committee, a
parental notification bill failed by a
voice vote. Acall to poll the committee
was refused by Committee Chair Jeff
Hamilton of Midwest City. Observers say
that the voice vote clearly indicated a
majority vote against the bill; by
denying a recorded vote, Rep. Hamilton
protected both the integrity of the vote
and the anonymity of the votes of the
committee members.
In the Senate,
Committee Chair Bernest Cain of Oklahoma
City refused to bring the bill to a vote
of the committee.
Aword on "parental notification" and
"parental consent", which like the term
"pro-life" sound good on their face but
are really ploys of the anti-woman/antichoice crowd. Of course it sounds good
for a pregnant teenager to go to her
parents for love and guidance; and there
is of course absolutely nothing n the
law to prohibit her from doing that, and
over 50% of young women in this
situation do. But what of the others?
Many young women and girls "in trouble"
come from dysfunctional families;
imagine them going to alcoholic or drugusing, incestuous or just generally
abusive parents with such news. And
then many other young women feel they
would rather die than go to their loving
parents with the news of the pregnancy;
and some of them do just that also .
Becky Bell of Indiana was a 17 year-old
girl who had a good relationship with
kind, loving parents; she felt that she
could not bear the thought of hurting
them. When she sought an abortion
through Planned Parenthood, they had to
tell her that by law she needed either
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her parent's pern11ss1on or a judge's
approval - a process known as "judicial
bypass". The word on the streets and in
the schools, and a pretty accurate word
and reflection of reality, was that less
than 1% of all attempts at judicial
bypass in Indiana were successful. And
so in 1988, fifteen years after the Roe
v. Wade decision, Becky Bell, who would
prefer to die than hurt her parents, and
with no means of travelling out of
·state, felt forced to search out a back
alley abortion. And she did die. And
to the end, even in the ambulance taking
her on her last ride, Becky Bell refused
to tell her parents why she was dying.
Thanks to Bernest Cain and Jeff
Hamilton, and to Ed Crocker of Norman
and Sid Hudson of Lawton, two courageous
representatives who argued forcefully
and publicly against the bills, parental
notification and consent bills will not
be coming up for a vote this year; at
least not as bills of their own. It is
always possible for amendments to be
added to other bills; and in addition to
thanking the men listed above (write to
them at the State Capitol, Oklahoma
City, OK 73105), we might want also to
write Senator Bob CUllison, President
Pro Tem of the Senate, and Glen Johnson ,
Speaker of the House, and ask them to
fight against any abortion-related
amendments to other bills.
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KEEP YOUR LAWS
OFF
OUR BODIES
(PREGNANT) WOMEN'S
RIGHTS
A judge in .Muskegon, Michigan, has
disnissed a charge against a woman
accused of passing cocaine to her
newborn baby by ingesting the drug while
pregnant; the law, he said, was not
intended to be used that way. The judge
also said that the case violated the
wonan /s r iqht to privacy and due
process.
The prosecutor evidently
intends to appeal. Let us hope that a)
the myth that a little cocaine eases
labor is dispelled; b) drug treatment
programs begin to grant access to
pregnant women; c) the nightmare of
addiction is eradicated; and d) the
appeals court comes down on the side of
privacy, due process, and reason; and
·not on the side of the Pregnancy Police.
ACT-UP ACTS UP FOR
CHOICE
Pro-choice counter demonstrators at
the January 20th anti-abortion, socalled "pro-life" rally at the Capitol
were delighted by the sight of a dozen
ACT-UP members winding their way through
the crowd shouting slogans such as "Born
Again Bigots, Go Away! Racist, Sexist,
Anti-Gay!", "Act UP, We're Here! We're
Loud, We're Rude, Pro-Choice and Queer!"
and "Our Bodies, Our Lives, Our right to
Decide". A couple of the Act-Up folk
were dressed as scuzzy doctors , in
filthy "scrubs", carrying "blood"stained, straightened coat-hangers and
signs proclaining "Repeal Roe vs. Wade,
I want my job back"! Very shocking,
very effective, very courageous. Kudos
to you, ACT-UP, and thank you!
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Check line 55 on your Oklahoma Income Tax Return to make a contribution to provide health care for the poor.
Contributions to the Indigent Care Fund go to community clinics providing health care to the most needy in our
communities.
Women Ought to Know: The Monthly Female Fact Sheet, a compendium of brief facts of interest to women, is
available by subscription. Receive 12 issues for $9 plus choice of postage method ( $3 for bulk mail, $4 for
1st Class). Write Women to Women Communications, P.O. Box 161775, Cupertino 1 CA 95016.
The "Gathering of Young Lesbian Separatists and Radical Feminist Lesbians in Our Teens and Twenties" 1 meeting
Karch 23 &24, 1991, in Chicago, is requesting submissions of Art, Poetry, Papers, Writings of all Kinds 1 to be
published by the Gathering. Send submissions to Claudine O'Leary, 2825 North Laramie, Apt. 2N, Chicago 1 IL
60641-5028.
Molly and Don Kartin 1 sister and brother, are soliciting submissions for an anthology about gay siblings. They
are accepting manuscripts in the form of narratives or interviews 1 telling significant 1 humorous 1 tragic or
poignant stories of lesbians and gay men with their gay siblings. They want to explore:
> Particular family experiences we share as gay sisters and brothers
> Our interactions and relationships with our siblings as children and adults
> What it is about our families and childhoods that allows us to embrace our homosexuality
> Whether the experiences of lesbian sisters are very different from those of gay brothers
> How families 1 institutions, and social movements contribute to our relationships
> How our family experiences influence our behavior in the gay community.
Kail nanuscripts and queries to Molly and Don Martin, 1016 SE 7th Avenue, Olympia, WA 98501. The deadline for
manuscripts is July 11 1991.
The Wonen's Comnittee of United Autonobile Workers Local 1999 will host their first annual Women of Achievement
Awards Banquet on Saturday, Karch 9, 1991. The banquet will be held at the Metro-Tech Conference Center 1 1900
Springlake Drive, Oklahona City, at 6 p.n. The cost 1 $25 per person or $200 for a table for 10, includes dinner 1
entertainment and an eventful evening. Aposthunous award will be presented to the fanily of Barbara Lane, Past
Chairperson of the committee and a true labor unionist 1 political activist and a strong feminist. Achievement
awards will also be presented to women from the medical/mental health 1 education 1 political and community service
fields. Call 732-7330 regarding reservations.
Deborah Glick 1 New York 1 s first openly lesbian legislator 1 began her term as assenblywonan with another break
in tradition. Instead of taking her oath of office with her hand on a bible 1 she took it with her· hand on a copy
of Robin Morgan's 1970 feminist anthology Sisterhood Is Powerful.
. . . . info from oob 1 feb/1991
There is a Lesbian open 12-step meeting Monday nights 1 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. , at the Women's Resource Center 1 226 E.
Gray, in Norman.
Therapy group for Lesbians only. Work on co-dependency 1 living sober 1 incest, compulsive eating and dieting 1
or internalized homophobia. The group will begin in April on Wednesday evenings. It will be facilitated by Jo
L.Soske 1 K. Ed./CAC. Call Drug Recovery Inc. for appointment, 843-5319. Sliding scale fees are available.
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Emphasis on the problems of gay people.
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- 1990-1999
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