Herland Sister Resources : v.4: no.3(1987)

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Herland Sister Resources : v.4: no.3(1987)
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HERLAND SISTER RESOURCES, INC .
1630 NW 19, Oklahoma City , OK 73106

VOLUME 4 NUMBER 3
1987

MARCH

Laws Against Self-Defense

The traditional way of classifying a crime as a felony
or a misdemeanor is by the presence or absence of a weapon

by

and the extent of injury as seen by the police officer .

C . J. Wyatte

This has the effect of masking the seriousness of domestic
Kirn sat in line at the grade school , watching children
get into the cars of waiting parents .
would be out soon .

Her two daughters

Something , she wasn ' t

sure what , triggered

negative memories:
face-down on the floor , regaining
conciousness , lips hurting , neck stiff, the sound of gunshots,
screaming , praying; then , the thud of the cell door as it
closed behind her, loneliness , claustrophobia .

As she watched

violence~

Police officers tend to hold the belief that man

is the ruler of his house , thereby downplaying the e xt ent of
injury to women who live with wife-beaters. This ignores
the fact that violent crimes are crimes where ever they may
occur .
No one deserves to be beaten or physically threatened , no
matter what the excuse.

Prevention starts with people changing

children laughing and running across the school yard , Kirn

their attitudes about violence and women.

wondered what had gone wrong in her life .

beat anyone - a stranger, a friend, or a wife - and the law

Where had the last

ten years gone?

should be enforced.

Kirn, like many women in American , spent years as a
battered wi fe .

She worked hard to please an aggressive,

demanding , unpleaseable man .

Kim had tried several times to

get the police to do something about his unpredictable , brutal
att acks . She had tried several times to get away from him ,
he always seemed to fin d her .

Finally , in desparation , she

took a stand and tried to defend herself .

She found , as many

women do , that ou r laws lean toward abusiv e men and against
women who try to defend themselves.
during a beat i ng .

He k nocked her out , threatened her , and

fi r ed the weapo n .

Wh en the police arrived , they arrested

Kirn for pointing a we a pon .

It didn't seem to matte r that
Kirn is in hiding.

Kirn is on probation fo r self-defense , the law didn't see
it that way .
Wife-beating is almost completely ignored by our legal
system .

Until society rejects its tolerance

and acceptance of violence for resolving conflicts and
expressing anger , meaningful changes in family relationships
will not occur .

Women will continue to be the punching bags

for angry men , with no recourse. 12
The battered woman facing her husband's random unpredictable
v iolence , learns that there is no necessary connection between
what they do and what happens to them .

A husband may beat his

wife for overcooking an egg , or for undercooking it , for
turning the TV on or for turning it off , for talking or for

Kirn is on p robation for pulling a gun on her husband

her husband had threatened to kill her .

It is a crime to

The first legal authorities a battered woman contacts

are the police . In cities all across the country , their
instructions are to mediate , not arrest . Often they giv e the
woman incorrect or misleading information about h er leg al
1
rights and options.
A National Crime Survey showed that from 1978 to 1982 ,

keeping

stil1~ 3

The battered woman who seeks help will be

taught the lesson over and over again :
prosecutors won ' t prosecute ,

police won ' t

judges won't sentence .

arrest,
Under

these circumstances the women finds that whatever she does
to help herself may boomerrang or at best come to nothing .
In the 1980 • s , there are shelters that help battered

women . The laws also are changing , but the process is slow .
women live in fear for their safety and for their lives .
According to a University of Florida study , husbands
mostly kill their wives because of bruised egos .

Wives

usually kill their husbands because of bruised bodies .
More women are injured by their husbands than by muggings ,
automobile accidents , and rapes combined.
There should be a system of mandatory counseling for men

an estimated 2 . 1 million women in America were v ictims of

who beat women .

domestic v iolence at least once during an average 12-month

should be made , separation and legal protection should be

time period .

mandatory as should counseling for the abuser .

About a third of domestic violence cases are classified
as rape, robbery , or aggravated assault by police ; felonie-s
in most states .

Police classify the remaining t wo-thirds as

simp le assault ; a misde me anor .

14

In cases of domestic violence :

an arrest
Women should

be given information about alternatives available to them:
where they can go for protection , information about laws as
they relate to the situation , and lists of programs that a re
d e s i gn ed to h e lp peop le i n this situation .

gems from
the medical
literature

ENDNOTES
l .
&

S.

Del Martin , Battered Wi v es, ( Ne w York , N. Y . : Simon
Schuster , Inc . , 1983) •
Pat r ick Langan and Christopher Innes, "Battered Women

Should Call Cops , " Oklahoma Observ er , January 10 , 1 987 ·
11 .
Plain Talk About Wife Abuse, <. Rockville , Md : U . S .
Department of Heal th and Human Servi'ces, 198 3 ) .
12 . Ibid .
Ann Jones , Women Who Kill , ( New York, N .Y .
13 •
Columbine , 1985) .

From The Lancet, October 25, 1986,
thi s comment on an article by
R. G.N. Thonet in the BI'itish Jou:r>nal of Ob s tetri cs and Gynaecology:

Fawcett

1 4. Ibid .

* Kim is not the real name of the woman in t h is article .

Her

name was changed for her protection .

kissing approved
OREGON- - Lesbian and gay prisoners
won a victory in December of
last year . After a complaint by
inmate Wesley M. Johnson , represented by the ACLU , the state's
co r rection division ruled that
prisoners may kiss, hold hands
and embrace visitors of the same
sex. ACLU Attorney Ed Reeves ,
pointed out that "the (past) rule
concerning contact vis i t rights
does not r efer to sex or sexual
orientation of inmates or their
visitors , but the corrections
division apparently had a longstanding practice of or dering gay
and lesbian prisoners to have no
more contact than a brief hug with
prisoners of the same sex."
Johnson complained because he
was punished for kissing the hand
of a male visito r , contrary to
the order given by the guard
pr esent. According to the new
ruling, lesbian and gay prisoners
will no longer receive punishment
for physical contact with same
sex visitors, nor will the contact
be entered into the prisoners '
official record .
by sba
info from: ACLU press release
off our backs ,

Feb ., 1987

Ontario oks
gay rights
OTTAWA- - On December 16 , Ontario ' s
provinc i al legislature voted 64-45
to extend protection of the provi nce ' s human rights law to lesbians
and gays . The province of Quebec
has banned discrimi nation against
lesbians and gays for the past
t en yea r s . The two provinces are
home to about 60 pe rcent of
Canada's peopl e.
Similar bil l s have been int roduced in t he legislatu res of
Manitoba and the Yukon Territo ry .
Lesb i an and gay activists have
been trying to gain passage of human r ights legislation in Ontario
since 1972 . Conservatives and the
Ontario Conference of Catholic
Bishops who opposed the bill said
that al l owin<J gays human r ights
would hu r t children.
However , the news from Onta ri o
is not all good . Ottawa's City
Council has cut i n half the fund ing fo r a local women ' s center ,
Woman ' s Place/Place aux femmes ,
because a conservative group
called R. E. A.L . Women said the
cente r was full of lesbians , proabortionists and other feminists.
--info from body politic and
~ community news
off our backs ,

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Loral C. Reeves
C.P.A.
1014 Cedardale Drive
Okla. City, OK 73127

40.5/49.5-1094

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Feb ., 1987

Collective Meeting
March 15, 6 p.m.
at Herland

"Obstetricians will be grateful to Thonet for providing a
modern perspective of obstetric
hys¢erectomy . . .. Thonet urges , and
we will probably begin to see , a
more liberal and prompt use of
obstetric hysterectomy in women
who have completed their families.
In women with no living children ,
obstetric .hysterectomy must remain
a last and desperate resort . "
From the New England Journal of
Medi cine , De cember 5, 1985, thi s
lette r to the edit or :

"We investigated by ques tionnai r e all Swiss boardcertified female gynecologists
. . . to assess the influence of
the sex of the gynecologis t on
attitudes to hysterectomy . . . .
Female gynecologis t s performed
about half as many hysterectomies
as male gynecologists.
". . . The importance of neg ative psychic r eact ions to hysterectomy is well-knovm . Women seem
to perce i ve th i s procedure as signalling a ' loss of womanhood and
of attract i veness.' Female gynecologists may perhaps identify more
easily with this position and thus
be more restrictive in their
i nd i cations .
0
A second hypothesis is that
the effect is produ'ced by the particular selection of patients that
seek help. from a woman
gynecologist."
Fr om The New England Journal of
Medi cine , September 12, 1985, this
re assuring "personal. obse roati on"
entitled "Le MaZadie du Petit
Papier: Is Writing a List of
Symptoms a Sign of an Finotional
Disorder?":

"Tradit i onal medical wisdom
holds that patients who relate
their complaints to their phys icians f rom prepared lists are , i pso
f acto , emot i onall y ill . . . . From
my per sonal obser vat i on of . . . 72
l i st writer s I f ound no association
of emoti onal disor ders wi t h l i st
wr i ti ng i n men . Women list wri ters
are more apt t o have nervous
troubles , but t he maj or ity were
emot iona lly norma l. "
off our backs ,

Feb ., 1987

Newsletter Staff: Barbara C., Marion H . ,
Cindi I ., Ginger M. , Keeta M., Dona W.

Publisher:
Herland Sister Resources
Advertising: Loral Reeves, 495-1094
Circulation: 600

Join Us! Celebrate With Us!
Bring your friends and come celebrate Women's
Studies at OU on March 26,27,
and 28 with Judy
Chicago, Jennifer Robertson, and Andrea Weiss.
The conference kicks off Thursday,
March 26
with a potluck dinner and the premiere showing
of Before Stonewall.
It will continue Friday
with a keynote address by Jennifer Robertson,
workshops
in the afternoon,
followed by an
evening reception for Judy Chicago's Birth
Project.
The fun continues Saturday morning
with
a keynote address by Judy
Chicago,
workshops morning and afternoon,
and lunch on
the terrace featuring entertainment by local
artists.
The
3 day celebration of Women's
Studies will be topped off Saturday evening
with a Nancy Day concert brought to you by
Herland.
The conference includes such diverse topics
as birthing,
lesbian custody,
feminist folk
tales,
and relations with men.
Judy Chicago's
Birth Project brings together stirring images
of childbirth rendered in all forms of needlework.
This mammoth undertaking was executed by
a network of 100 skilled needleworkers through
=out the country supervised by Chicago.
The
work serves as a study of world-wide childbirth
practices,
a history of maternity clothing,
a
collection of creation mythology and a survey
of needlework techniques.
Works of this magnitude are expensive to ship and display and
donations are urgently needed to cover these
expenses.
Those wishing to help can mail donations to the Women's Studies Department, Rm.
530 Physical Science Bldg., Univ.
of Okla.,
Norman,
OK . ... Before Stonewall,
narrated by
Rita Mae Brown,
provides an informative and
engaging portrait of the history of the homosexual experience in America.
From the social
experimentation of the Roaring Twenties, to the
discovery of the true size of this hidden
society
during
World
War
II,
to
the
scapegoating of homosexuals during the McCarthy
era,
to the development of the early homophile
rights
movement,
the
film celebrates the
strength of those who led their
lives with
dignity despite widespread social discrimination.
In addition to Before Stonewall, Andrea
Weiss will present and dlcuss another of her
films,
Sweethearts of Rhythm,
a story of the
multiracial
all women's
jazz band of the
l940's ..... Workshop topics include disabled women's theatre, women's literature, professional
midwives,
religion,
feminist education, black
women's identity,
loving too much, and sexual
harrassment ... There's something for everyone at
the Women's Studies Conference,
so bring your
friends and be sure to stop by the Herland
booth, buy a book and say hello.
*** The bookstore will be closed Saturday, March 28.
Corne and browse our books at the conference.

Invites the readers of HERLAND
to
A COMING-OUT PARTY
for

t;he feast of the Assumptions
by

Abigail 'Kug.an
Sunday, Har. 22, 2:00-4:00p.m.
Address:

1924 N.W. 20th Street
Oklahoma City

Abigail will also read poetry at
The Town Tavern, Norman, Har. 22
7:00 p.m.

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conference by and for old Lesbians
limited to Lesbians 60 and over.
FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY,
APRIL 24, 25, 26, 1987

California State University,
Dominguez ffills
Carson, California
ADVANCE REGISTRATION by April
1st is essential to provide accom modations and meals. You will receive
an information packet upon receipt of
your registration form. We want YOU to
comet
West Coast Celebration
2953 Lincoln Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405
or by calling:
213/222-2209 or 619/481-0375

Poetry ...
We're still like children learning to talk and walk,
lots of stuttering and unbalance we'll have to endure;
we keep crawling around on calloused knees,
rug-burned hands, with floor patterns in our memories,
and slobber running down our chins.

THE SEEKER'S SERMON
(for Sally)

Well, I'm no philosopher or psychologist,
just an inquisitor seeking some clues,
maybe you have information, i mean,
we all grew up on that game, Clue.
Anyway some evidence like:
a cod piece, jock strap, shield, cups,
anything that might've been ripped off
from that life-bearing organ.
I'm going to have the lab check for traces of semen
in the cauldron soup;
you might check your friend's drawers,
under the mattress or in the attic
for those homuncules Augustine talked about-they'd probably be wrapped in small cloth pieces,
tied up with string or yarn.

Let's assume for our purposes,
there are castrating women;
where have these generations hidden
all those delicate male organs?
Have they arranged them
in water and vases like bouquets;
stuffed and raised them high
on a mantle;
put them on chains like a rabbit's foot
for luck;
do they speak of them as another
bead on their necklace-like the sporting notch on the belt?
I wonder?
Where are all the balls that have been busted?
I questioned all the tom-boys
I could round up;
from what they said, they had a motive-the fellas had laughed
every time the girls wanted to play a game.
But they all said they weren't guilty-never peeled the skin off one baseball,
didn't even crack one marble.
Then I asked myself,
did these females walk around their houses
or go out their doors saying,
let's get some?
I began putting my ear to keyholes,
but I still couldn't find a suspect.

When I find her, I'll get a confession out of her-I'll make her tell us her game and name-we have to name power, and lock it up!
Once I g".t this case solved, the file closed,
I'm gomg after those gals
who don't have the sense of humor.

By Abigail Keegan
From THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTIONS
Reprinted with permission of author and
Red Dirt Press, Inc. Oklahoma City .

I could see this was going to be a tough nut to crack.
I mean there's not even a word for those gals,
you know, not like there's a word for women haters-mysogynist, and that word doesn't have an antonym either.
Seems funny, a word without balance,
like an asymmetric tree,
or like my dog who lost his leg, trying to defend our house.
May be a lot of words like that-invalid words:
Misogamy, what about somebody who likes marriage?
Emasculate, what's it called when you take away a woman's power,
or when she feeds a man's ego with a loving spoonful-we like to accentuate the masculine negative.
Then there's the categorical-homo-hetero-sexual,
they make us talk like cripples, our off-balance selves.
It's like the old priest with arthritic hands,
fingers bent over, nails crooked into his palms,
said he couldn't pray anymore, couldn't hold the beads.
Words that merely imRIY sex don't allow us to infer
anything about lovewe need warrants to investigate love.
And there don't seem to be any words to authorize
thorough investigations into the areahusband and wife only allow you to go so far,
and a lot of investi~ations are detained by rules
that keep people closed in the small areas of possessive pronounshis, her, my-that'll never even get us close
to evidence that love's possible.

848-5429
SHIRLEY M. HUNTER, M.A.
LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
PENN PARK OFFICE COMPLEX• SUITE 102
5009 N PENNSYLVANIA• OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73112

In a silent, slow-motion movie.
The trees are barren,
only a cold wind to comfort
the empty spaces,
an icy breeze rolls
upon the lawn
and to my doorstep,
rustling the screen.
The sound makes me shudder.
intimate ally
emotional lover
come back to me
The scenes become vacant
without your affections.I'm
keeping a vigilant candle
to disperse the threatening chills,
to rescue my trembling foundation,
we have rebuilt,with a caress of smooth skin.
warm memories counsel;
feeling peaceful
in an open field
Sally Venard

, &.(JPTJ
(Friday) FERRON
LUCIE BLUE TREMBLAY
CASSELBERRY· DU PREE
ROBIN FLOWER &
THE BLEACHERS
(Friday) JASMINE
HEATHER BISHOP
*SENSIBLE P.U.M.P.S.
* REEL WORLD STRING BAND
TRACY CHAPMAN
THE WASHINGTON SISTERS
* THE SCALLION SISTERS
CAROL MACDONALD
RACHE ALPERT
*TENORE
AND SPECIAL GUESTS

*ATLANTA FEMINIST
WOMEN'S CHORUS!

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(Friday) KATE CLINTON
ROBIN TYLER (in performance)
JUDY CARTER
LEA DELARIA
* The "HER CHORUS"

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FESTIVAL LIMITED TO 2000 WOMEN
WORKSHOPS & DAY STAGE

We encourage women to do workshops.
Share professional skills, different
cultures, Interests, etc.
If you wish to be listed in the program
send a short description of your workshop or If you wish to play on the day
stage send a tape. Send these along
with your ticket order by April 20th.

MEMORIAL
DAY WEEKEND
MAY 22nd· 25th, 1987

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NAN HUNTER (Director, A.C.L.U.
National Lesbian/Gay Rights
Project)
SONIA JOHNSON
(Going Out of Our Minds)
JOYCE HUNTER, M.S. W.C.S. W.
(Director, N. Y. City Institute for
the Protection of Lesbian &
Gay Youth)
VIVIAN SHAPIRO (National Co·
Chair, Human Rights
Campaign Fund)

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$80 to $90 very limited Sat. noon to
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Available frorn Uerland:
MURDER AT THE NIGHTWOOD BAR
By Katherine V. Forrest

($8.95)

Dory Quillin, nineteen years old, her
white-blonde hair ruffled by th~ gentle
breezes of a June evening, lies dead in
the parking lot of a lesbian bar. Her
bewildered silver-blue
eyes
stare
beseechingly into the mind and soul of the
woman who kneels beside her: LAPD homicide
detective Kate Delafield.
The investigation into the murder of
Dory Quillin is far from a simple matter.
Traveling a circuitous path that leads into
the "gay city" af West Hollywood, Kate uncovers shocking facts about the brief life
Of the murdered young lesbian. She finds her
road to the killer
obstructed by
Dory
Quillin's uncooperative, judgmental parents,
the waning interest of her own partner, and
most frustrating of all, the open hostility
of women who should be her allies-- the
lesbians who frequent the Nightwood
Bar.
Kate's emotional equilibrium is futher disturbed by her powerful attraction to one of
those women, the enigmatic Andrea Ross.
Who killed Dory Quillin?

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Essays that serve up a wacked-out,
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HOW TO BE A COUPLE AND STILL
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'Iradition seems to say that we can give
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Tussina and Smith have derived a clear,
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is now accepting entries
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1987 .
Held each year during San Francisco ' s
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Central Women's Studies Association
~onference, March 28, 1987, 8:00 p.m.,
in the Choral Room of the Catlette
Music Center, located on the corner of
Boyd and Elm in Norman Oklahoma.
Opening for her will be two of Oklahoma
City's, rapidly rising to fame, local
musicians, Peggy Johnson and Donna
Desalvo.
Tickets for this event will be available at Herland March 7, 1987. They
may also be purchased from individual
ticket sellers, or be calling 672-6459.
Since making Pittsburg her home, Nancy
Day has excited audiences at such events
as the National Women's Music Festival
in Bloomington, Indiana, 1983, 1984,
and 1986; she also performed at the
New England Women's Music Festival in
1984. In 1980, her first album was
released, entitled "Nancy", which
consisted of ten original compositions
and featured ten other musicians. In
1983 she composed, recorded and produced
a cassette entitled "Lavender", and
composed the music for an original
musical in 1986, entitled "Time and
Time Again."
The year, 1986, continued with Nancy
opening for Holly Near, performing at
the GAIA Canadian Music Festival, and
being voted Pittsburgh's pianist of
the year.
Nancy has presented at various community
fundraisers, such as for women's shelter
houses in Pittsburgh, Community AIDS
Fundraiser, and Clean Water Action
Project, to name a few. She has
presented workshops on creativity and
composition for the gifted children in
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VOLUME 4 NUMBER 3
1987

MARCH

Laws Against Self-Defense

The traditional way of classifying a crime as a felony
or a misdemeanor is by the presence or absence of a weapon

by

and the extent of injury as seen by the police officer .

C . J. Wyatte

This has the effect of masking the seriousness of domestic
Kirn sat in line at the grade school , watching children
get into the cars of waiting parents .
would be out soon .

Her two daughters

Something , she wasn ' t

sure what , triggered

negative memories:
face-down on the floor , regaining
conciousness , lips hurting , neck stiff, the sound of gunshots,
screaming , praying; then , the thud of the cell door as it
closed behind her, loneliness , claustrophobia .

As she watched

violence~

Police officers tend to hold the belief that man

is the ruler of his house , thereby downplaying the e xt ent of
injury to women who live with wife-beaters. This ignores
the fact that violent crimes are crimes where ever they may
occur .
No one deserves to be beaten or physically threatened , no
matter what the excuse.

Prevention starts with people changing

children laughing and running across the school yard , Kirn

their attitudes about violence and women.

wondered what had gone wrong in her life .

beat anyone - a stranger, a friend, or a wife - and the law

Where had the last

ten years gone?

should be enforced.

Kirn, like many women in American , spent years as a
battered wi fe .

She worked hard to please an aggressive,

demanding , unpleaseable man .

Kim had tried several times to

get the police to do something about his unpredictable , brutal
att acks . She had tried several times to get away from him ,
he always seemed to fin d her .

Finally , in desparation , she

took a stand and tried to defend herself .

She found , as many

women do , that ou r laws lean toward abusiv e men and against
women who try to defend themselves.
during a beat i ng .

He k nocked her out , threatened her , and

fi r ed the weapo n .

Wh en the police arrived , they arrested

Kirn for pointing a we a pon .

It didn't seem to matte r that
Kirn is in hiding.

Kirn is on probation fo r self-defense , the law didn't see
it that way .
Wife-beating is almost completely ignored by our legal
system .

Until society rejects its tolerance

and acceptance of violence for resolving conflicts and
expressing anger , meaningful changes in family relationships
will not occur .

Women will continue to be the punching bags

for angry men , with no recourse. 12
The battered woman facing her husband's random unpredictable
v iolence , learns that there is no necessary connection between
what they do and what happens to them .

A husband may beat his

wife for overcooking an egg , or for undercooking it , for
turning the TV on or for turning it off , for talking or for

Kirn is on p robation for pulling a gun on her husband

her husband had threatened to kill her .

It is a crime to

The first legal authorities a battered woman contacts

are the police . In cities all across the country , their
instructions are to mediate , not arrest . Often they giv e the
woman incorrect or misleading information about h er leg al
1
rights and options.
A National Crime Survey showed that from 1978 to 1982 ,

keeping

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The battered woman who seeks help will be

taught the lesson over and over again :
prosecutors won ' t prosecute ,

police won ' t

judges won't sentence .

arrest,
Under

these circumstances the women finds that whatever she does
to help herself may boomerrang or at best come to nothing .
In the 1980 • s , there are shelters that help battered

women . The laws also are changing , but the process is slow .
women live in fear for their safety and for their lives .
According to a University of Florida study , husbands
mostly kill their wives because of bruised egos .

Wives

usually kill their husbands because of bruised bodies .
More women are injured by their husbands than by muggings ,
automobile accidents , and rapes combined.
There should be a system of mandatory counseling for men

an estimated 2 . 1 million women in America were v ictims of

who beat women .

domestic v iolence at least once during an average 12-month

should be made , separation and legal protection should be

time period .

mandatory as should counseling for the abuser .

About a third of domestic violence cases are classified
as rape, robbery , or aggravated assault by police ; felonie-s
in most states .

Police classify the remaining t wo-thirds as

simp le assault ; a misde me anor .

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In cases of domestic violence :

an arrest
Women should

be given information about alternatives available to them:
where they can go for protection , information about laws as
they relate to the situation , and lists of programs that a re
d e s i gn ed to h e lp peop le i n this situation .

gems from
the medical
literature

ENDNOTES
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Del Martin , Battered Wi v es, ( Ne w York , N. Y . : Simon
Schuster , Inc . , 1983) •
Pat r ick Langan and Christopher Innes, "Battered Women

Should Call Cops , " Oklahoma Observ er , January 10 , 1 987 ·
11 .
Plain Talk About Wife Abuse, <. Rockville , Md : U . S .
Department of Heal th and Human Servi'ces, 198 3 ) .
12 . Ibid .
Ann Jones , Women Who Kill , ( New York, N .Y .
13 •
Columbine , 1985) .

From The Lancet, October 25, 1986,
thi s comment on an article by
R. G.N. Thonet in the BI'itish Jou:r>nal of Ob s tetri cs and Gynaecology:

Fawcett

1 4. Ibid .

* Kim is not the real name of the woman in t h is article .

Her

name was changed for her protection .

kissing approved
OREGON- - Lesbian and gay prisoners
won a victory in December of
last year . After a complaint by
inmate Wesley M. Johnson , represented by the ACLU , the state's
co r rection division ruled that
prisoners may kiss, hold hands
and embrace visitors of the same
sex. ACLU Attorney Ed Reeves ,
pointed out that "the (past) rule
concerning contact vis i t rights
does not r efer to sex or sexual
orientation of inmates or their
visitors , but the corrections
division apparently had a longstanding practice of or dering gay
and lesbian prisoners to have no
more contact than a brief hug with
prisoners of the same sex."
Johnson complained because he
was punished for kissing the hand
of a male visito r , contrary to
the order given by the guard
pr esent. According to the new
ruling, lesbian and gay prisoners
will no longer receive punishment
for physical contact with same
sex visitors, nor will the contact
be entered into the prisoners '
official record .
by sba
info from: ACLU press release
off our backs ,

Feb ., 1987

Ontario oks
gay rights
OTTAWA- - On December 16 , Ontario ' s
provinc i al legislature voted 64-45
to extend protection of the provi nce ' s human rights law to lesbians
and gays . The province of Quebec
has banned discrimi nation against
lesbians and gays for the past
t en yea r s . The two provinces are
home to about 60 pe rcent of
Canada's peopl e.
Similar bil l s have been int roduced in t he legislatu res of
Manitoba and the Yukon Territo ry .
Lesb i an and gay activists have
been trying to gain passage of human r ights legislation in Ontario
since 1972 . Conservatives and the
Ontario Conference of Catholic
Bishops who opposed the bill said
that al l owin<J gays human r ights
would hu r t children.
However , the news from Onta ri o
is not all good . Ottawa's City
Council has cut i n half the fund ing fo r a local women ' s center ,
Woman ' s Place/Place aux femmes ,
because a conservative group
called R. E. A.L . Women said the
cente r was full of lesbians , proabortionists and other feminists.
--info from body politic and
~ community news
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Collective Meeting
March 15, 6 p.m.
at Herland

"Obstetricians will be grateful to Thonet for providing a
modern perspective of obstetric
hys¢erectomy . . .. Thonet urges , and
we will probably begin to see , a
more liberal and prompt use of
obstetric hysterectomy in women
who have completed their families.
In women with no living children ,
obstetric .hysterectomy must remain
a last and desperate resort . "
From the New England Journal of
Medi cine , De cember 5, 1985, thi s
lette r to the edit or :

"We investigated by ques tionnai r e all Swiss boardcertified female gynecologists
. . . to assess the influence of
the sex of the gynecologis t on
attitudes to hysterectomy . . . .
Female gynecologis t s performed
about half as many hysterectomies
as male gynecologists.
". . . The importance of neg ative psychic r eact ions to hysterectomy is well-knovm . Women seem
to perce i ve th i s procedure as signalling a ' loss of womanhood and
of attract i veness.' Female gynecologists may perhaps identify more
easily with this position and thus
be more restrictive in their
i nd i cations .
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A second hypothesis is that
the effect is produ'ced by the particular selection of patients that
seek help. from a woman
gynecologist."
Fr om The New England Journal of
Medi cine , September 12, 1985, this
re assuring "personal. obse roati on"
entitled "Le MaZadie du Petit
Papier: Is Writing a List of
Symptoms a Sign of an Finotional
Disorder?":

"Tradit i onal medical wisdom
holds that patients who relate
their complaints to their phys icians f rom prepared lists are , i pso
f acto , emot i onall y ill . . . . From
my per sonal obser vat i on of . . . 72
l i st writer s I f ound no association
of emoti onal disor ders wi t h l i st
wr i ti ng i n men . Women list wri ters
are more apt t o have nervous
troubles , but t he maj or ity were
emot iona lly norma l. "
off our backs ,

Feb ., 1987

Newsletter Staff: Barbara C., Marion H . ,
Cindi I ., Ginger M. , Keeta M., Dona W.

Publisher:
Herland Sister Resources
Advertising: Loral Reeves, 495-1094
Circulation: 600

Join Us! Celebrate With Us!
Bring your friends and come celebrate Women's
Studies at OU on March 26,27,
and 28 with Judy
Chicago, Jennifer Robertson, and Andrea Weiss.
The conference kicks off Thursday,
March 26
with a potluck dinner and the premiere showing
of Before Stonewall.
It will continue Friday
with a keynote address by Jennifer Robertson,
workshops
in the afternoon,
followed by an
evening reception for Judy Chicago's Birth
Project.
The fun continues Saturday morning
with
a keynote address by Judy
Chicago,
workshops morning and afternoon,
and lunch on
the terrace featuring entertainment by local
artists.
The
3 day celebration of Women's
Studies will be topped off Saturday evening
with a Nancy Day concert brought to you by
Herland.
The conference includes such diverse topics
as birthing,
lesbian custody,
feminist folk
tales,
and relations with men.
Judy Chicago's
Birth Project brings together stirring images
of childbirth rendered in all forms of needlework.
This mammoth undertaking was executed by
a network of 100 skilled needleworkers through
=out the country supervised by Chicago.
The
work serves as a study of world-wide childbirth
practices,
a history of maternity clothing,
a
collection of creation mythology and a survey
of needlework techniques.
Works of this magnitude are expensive to ship and display and
donations are urgently needed to cover these
expenses.
Those wishing to help can mail donations to the Women's Studies Department, Rm.
530 Physical Science Bldg., Univ.
of Okla.,
Norman,
OK . ... Before Stonewall,
narrated by
Rita Mae Brown,
provides an informative and
engaging portrait of the history of the homosexual experience in America.
From the social
experimentation of the Roaring Twenties, to the
discovery of the true size of this hidden
society
during
World
War
II,
to
the
scapegoating of homosexuals during the McCarthy
era,
to the development of the early homophile
rights
movement,
the
film celebrates the
strength of those who led their
lives with
dignity despite widespread social discrimination.
In addition to Before Stonewall, Andrea
Weiss will present and dlcuss another of her
films,
Sweethearts of Rhythm,
a story of the
multiracial
all women's
jazz band of the
l940's ..... Workshop topics include disabled women's theatre, women's literature, professional
midwives,
religion,
feminist education, black
women's identity,
loving too much, and sexual
harrassment ... There's something for everyone at
the Women's Studies Conference,
so bring your
friends and be sure to stop by the Herland
booth, buy a book and say hello.
*** The bookstore will be closed Saturday, March 28.
Corne and browse our books at the conference.

Invites the readers of HERLAND
to
A COMING-OUT PARTY
for

t;he feast of the Assumptions
by

Abigail 'Kug.an
Sunday, Har. 22, 2:00-4:00p.m.
Address:

1924 N.W. 20th Street
Oklahoma City

Abigail will also read poetry at
The Town Tavern, Norman, Har. 22
7:00 p.m.

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FRIDAY, SATURDAY & SUNDAY,
APRIL 24, 25, 26, 1987

California State University,
Dominguez ffills
Carson, California
ADVANCE REGISTRATION by April
1st is essential to provide accom modations and meals. You will receive
an information packet upon receipt of
your registration form. We want YOU to
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2953 Lincoln Blvd.
Santa Monica, CA 90405
or by calling:
213/222-2209 or 619/481-0375

Poetry ...
We're still like children learning to talk and walk,
lots of stuttering and unbalance we'll have to endure;
we keep crawling around on calloused knees,
rug-burned hands, with floor patterns in our memories,
and slobber running down our chins.

THE SEEKER'S SERMON
(for Sally)

Well, I'm no philosopher or psychologist,
just an inquisitor seeking some clues,
maybe you have information, i mean,
we all grew up on that game, Clue.
Anyway some evidence like:
a cod piece, jock strap, shield, cups,
anything that might've been ripped off
from that life-bearing organ.
I'm going to have the lab check for traces of semen
in the cauldron soup;
you might check your friend's drawers,
under the mattress or in the attic
for those homuncules Augustine talked about-they'd probably be wrapped in small cloth pieces,
tied up with string or yarn.

Let's assume for our purposes,
there are castrating women;
where have these generations hidden
all those delicate male organs?
Have they arranged them
in water and vases like bouquets;
stuffed and raised them high
on a mantle;
put them on chains like a rabbit's foot
for luck;
do they speak of them as another
bead on their necklace-like the sporting notch on the belt?
I wonder?
Where are all the balls that have been busted?
I questioned all the tom-boys
I could round up;
from what they said, they had a motive-the fellas had laughed
every time the girls wanted to play a game.
But they all said they weren't guilty-never peeled the skin off one baseball,
didn't even crack one marble.
Then I asked myself,
did these females walk around their houses
or go out their doors saying,
let's get some?
I began putting my ear to keyholes,
but I still couldn't find a suspect.

When I find her, I'll get a confession out of her-I'll make her tell us her game and name-we have to name power, and lock it up!
Once I g".t this case solved, the file closed,
I'm gomg after those gals
who don't have the sense of humor.

By Abigail Keegan
From THE FEAST OF THE ASSUMPTIONS
Reprinted with permission of author and
Red Dirt Press, Inc. Oklahoma City .

I could see this was going to be a tough nut to crack.
I mean there's not even a word for those gals,
you know, not like there's a word for women haters-mysogynist, and that word doesn't have an antonym either.
Seems funny, a word without balance,
like an asymmetric tree,
or like my dog who lost his leg, trying to defend our house.
May be a lot of words like that-invalid words:
Misogamy, what about somebody who likes marriage?
Emasculate, what's it called when you take away a woman's power,
or when she feeds a man's ego with a loving spoonful-we like to accentuate the masculine negative.
Then there's the categorical-homo-hetero-sexual,
they make us talk like cripples, our off-balance selves.
It's like the old priest with arthritic hands,
fingers bent over, nails crooked into his palms,
said he couldn't pray anymore, couldn't hold the beads.
Words that merely imRIY sex don't allow us to infer
anything about lovewe need warrants to investigate love.
And there don't seem to be any words to authorize
thorough investigations into the areahusband and wife only allow you to go so far,
and a lot of investi~ations are detained by rules
that keep people closed in the small areas of possessive pronounshis, her, my-that'll never even get us close
to evidence that love's possible.

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SHIRLEY M. HUNTER, M.A.
LICENSED PROFESSIONAL COUNSELOR
PENN PARK OFFICE COMPLEX• SUITE 102
5009 N PENNSYLVANIA• OKLAHOMA CITY, OK 73112

In a silent, slow-motion movie.
The trees are barren,
only a cold wind to comfort
the empty spaces,
an icy breeze rolls
upon the lawn
and to my doorstep,
rustling the screen.
The sound makes me shudder.
intimate ally
emotional lover
come back to me
The scenes become vacant
without your affections.I'm
keeping a vigilant candle
to disperse the threatening chills,
to rescue my trembling foundation,
we have rebuilt,with a caress of smooth skin.
warm memories counsel;
feeling peaceful
in an open field
Sally Venard

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(Friday) FERRON
LUCIE BLUE TREMBLAY
CASSELBERRY· DU PREE
ROBIN FLOWER &
THE BLEACHERS
(Friday) JASMINE
HEATHER BISHOP
*SENSIBLE P.U.M.P.S.
* REEL WORLD STRING BAND
TRACY CHAPMAN
THE WASHINGTON SISTERS
* THE SCALLION SISTERS
CAROL MACDONALD
RACHE ALPERT
*TENORE
AND SPECIAL GUESTS

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ROBIN TYLER (in performance)
JUDY CARTER
LEA DELARIA
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FESTIVAL LIMITED TO 2000 WOMEN
WORKSHOPS & DAY STAGE

We encourage women to do workshops.
Share professional skills, different
cultures, Interests, etc.
If you wish to be listed in the program
send a short description of your workshop or If you wish to play on the day
stage send a tape. Send these along
with your ticket order by April 20th.

MEMORIAL
DAY WEEKEND
MAY 22nd· 25th, 1987

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scale. Children8 and under free; 9-16, $20 to helpdefrayfoodcosts. Ali children MUST
be pre-registered for childcare by April 20th . U.S . currency only. NO PERSONAL
CHECKS after April 20th. Money order, certified check, cash only. For tickets, send selfaddressed, legal size, stamped envelope to: SWMCF, 13514 Hart Street, Van Nuys,
CA 91405 (818) 904-9495.
ABOVE TICKET PRICES INCLUDE: 4 days & 3 nights of music, comedy, lectures,
workshops, crafts show, raquetbali, basketball, tennis, swimming, dance every night,
~ot showers, camping, food & FUN!
Concerts interpreted for hearing impaired. Food and childcare provided. (NO OVER
NIGHT childcare, 'POTIY-TRAINED' only). Boys under 1 0 welcome. There will be some
Woman-Only space. Craftswomen invited to display. No dogs permitted, except seeing
eye or hearing impaired (must be registered). Festival ENDS Monday, 3 P.M .

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TICKET ORDER FORM: More than 1 person per envelope- use an extra stamp per person.

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At Gate, tickets $1 0.00 more · CASH only.

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JO ANN LOULAN (Lesbian Sex)
NAN HUNTER (Director, A.C.L.U.
National Lesbian/Gay Rights
Project)
SONIA JOHNSON
(Going Out of Our Minds)
JOYCE HUNTER, M.S. W.C.S. W.
(Director, N. Y. City Institute for
the Protection of Lesbian &
Gay Youth)
VIVIAN SHAPIRO (National Co·
Chair, Human Rights
Campaign Fund)

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CITY
*$115-Space in cabin (very, very
limited)
$95 to $1 05 Sliding Scale-4 days
(camping)
$130 R.V.; no hook-ups; (includes
1 ticket)
$20 Additional for workshift
substitution
$20 per 9-1 6 yr. old woman (and 910 boy)
$80 to $90 very limited Sat. noon to
Mon. passes (camping)
TRANSPORTATION: I am willing to
give rides from Atlanta to Festival
(name will go on list and be given to
those needing rides)

WILLING TO HELP

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CITY

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STATE/ZIP

I CAN LOAN OR RENT THE FESTIVAL

D Carpentry
D Health care
D Disabled Resources
D Childcare
D Sign-inlerpreting
D Other _ _ _ _ __
D Electrician
Work-exchange - write detailed letter, re : skills &
situation or call.
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Available frorn Uerland:
MURDER AT THE NIGHTWOOD BAR
By Katherine V. Forrest

($8.95)

Dory Quillin, nineteen years old, her
white-blonde hair ruffled by th~ gentle
breezes of a June evening, lies dead in
the parking lot of a lesbian bar. Her
bewildered silver-blue
eyes
stare
beseechingly into the mind and soul of the
woman who kneels beside her: LAPD homicide
detective Kate Delafield.
The investigation into the murder of
Dory Quillin is far from a simple matter.
Traveling a circuitous path that leads into
the "gay city" af West Hollywood, Kate uncovers shocking facts about the brief life
Of the murdered young lesbian. She finds her
road to the killer
obstructed by
Dory
Quillin's uncooperative, judgmental parents,
the waning interest of her own partner, and
most frustrating of all, the open hostility
of women who should be her allies-- the
lesbians who frequent the Nightwood
Bar.
Kate's emotional equilibrium is futher disturbed by her powerful attraction to one of
those women, the enigmatic Andrea Ross.
Who killed Dory Quillin?

Bored with MTV? Does the top 10
traumatize your brain? Perhaps your
ready for something eclectic, electric,
and the exception? HAWKINS & DELEAR is
finally out for your listening consumption. You remember the great duo that
performed at the spring retreat, the
Second Fret, and before that in Norman.
These two performers, with the help of
electric drums, computerized key boards,
guitars, horns, and all kinds of percussion instruments, make you feel as
though you are hearing a 5 piece band.
The cassette includes "Midnite Silence",
"Sweet Boy", and 3 other cuts. Be the
first on your block to have this great
new cassette from Berland.

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Postage Stamp Pins

THE COLOR PURPLE
The wondrous Pulitzer Prize winning
novel, now a major motion picture! A
story of two sisters, one a missionary in
Africa and the other a child wife in the
South, that breaks ground in its portrayal
of the bonding of women.
Small Paperback $3.95

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY
POSTER

March was chosen as National
Women's History Month in
recognition of International
Women's Day, March 8th. The
date commemorates the
tremendous labor struggles of
the 19th century, organized by
and affecting thousands of
women in the garment trades.
The full color, ceramic tile
portraits on this stunning poster
symbolize the international
connectedness of all women
and our roles as workers in the
world.
18" x 24"

RED BEANS AND RICE: Recipes for
Lesbian Health and Wisdom
by Bode Noonan
Essays that serve up a wacked-out,
politically and spiritually conscious, full
course dinner of Lesbian thought that
gets at those ideas which all too often
whiz by unnoticed. Illustration and
design are by Diane Souza who also
manages to express things you hadn't
even noticed were on your mind.
Paperback $5.95

HOW TO BE A COUPLE AND STILL
BE FREE
by Tina B. Thssina and Riley K. Smith
'Iradition seems to say that we can give
up our "self" and have a close, loving
relationship or we can be free, and lonely.
Tussina and Smith have derived a clear,
gentle, pragmatic method for solving
problems so both couplehood and freedom
are possible. Their perspective specifically
includes gays who are seeking a model for
being a couple that is not based solely on
heterosexual examples.
Paperback $6.95

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A WOMEN'S PUBLISHING COMPANY
NOW ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS

Sagewoman magazine is one of the femi.o.ist,
grass-roots quart.erlys
centered on women's
spirituality, and earth-based spiritual practices.
Sagewomen is dedicated to our inner
visions and the strengthening of those visions to
transform our world.
SageWoman began publicatio.o. in fall, 1986.
They welcome articles. poems. drawings, short
fictio.o.. black and white photographs. book
reviews. short fiction, ritu&ls. music. and letters.
Yearly subsc.riptio.o.s a.re $13: single copies a.re
S...,o. Deadlines for copy are: November 1 for
wi.o.te.r, February 1 fo.r spring, May
1 for
summer. and August 1 for fall. Women who want
to help produce the magazi.o.e and will be i.o. the
Portland. Oregon area during November. February,
May, or August please write fo.r i.o.fo.rmation.
SageWoman Magazine
P.O. Box 1"'78
Hillsboro, Or 97123
Only women bleed • •. but instead of sharing
and celebrating , we are often ashamed and
secreti v e . I am a woman author compiling a
book of menstrual stories.
I would like
contribut.i ons from women at all
stages of
life - from those
a waiting
their
first
periods to those who no longer bleed and
everyone in between .
Please share
your
joyous , sad , frightening , silly , embarrassing
and enlightening stories with me and other
women .
I would appreciate knowing your age
and any personal details you care to include,
All contributions will be published anony mousl y - you need not identify yourself, My
addre ss is :
Taylor Olson
P . o . Box 211453
Anchorage , Alaska
99521-1453

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FOR PIECEWORK
A QUARTERLY POETRY JOURNAL
POETRY , ORIGINAL ARTWORK &
PHOTOGRAPHY BY WOMEN
SPRING DEADLINE : MARCH 15
SUMMER DEADLINE : JUNE 15
Visibilities, a new magazine for lesbians,
seeks writers. Visiblities is an eclectic
magazine which will include profiles of
women in the community, feature articles,
columns, poetry, short fiction , etc.
We are looking for writers in these
categories, as well as movie, theatre and
music reviewers, photographers and cartoonists. If interested, please send samples
of your work to Visibilities, PO Box 1258,
Peter Stuyvesant Station, New York, NY
10009-1258. Material will be returned if you
enclose SASE. (We hasten to add that, at
the moment, NOBODY is getting paid; we
certainly plan for the day when this will no
longer be true!)

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FRAMELINE , a non-profit lesbian and ga y
media organization ,
is now accepting entries
for the 11th San Francisco
Internationa l
Lesbian and Gay Film Festival , June 19-2 8,
1987 .
Held each year during San Francisco ' s
Lesbian/Gay Fr eedom Celebration , the Festival
brings together the best in feature , docu mentary and short films and video works by
and about lesbians and gay men .
Frameline
presents the annual Festival to promote a
demand for quality productions and wider
exhibition of film and video works by and
about lesbians and gay men .
Awards will be
presented in sev eral categories : Best Feature
Film , Best Short Film , Best Video , Best
Documentary , Best Super-8 , as well as an
Audience Award for best film or v ideo in the
Festival .
Formats accepted are 35mm, 16mm ,
super-8 , 3/4 inch and 1/2 inch VHS
NTSC
video cassettes , The deadline for entries is
Wednesday , April 15 , 1987 .
For more information and entry forms contact :
FRAMELINE ,
PO BOX 14792 , SAN FRANCISCO , CA 94114,U . S . A.
or call (415)861-5245.

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Nancy Day will be the featured musician
at the Herland Benefit Music Concert
'
presented in conjunction with the South
Central Women's Studies Association
~onference, March 28, 1987, 8:00 p.m.,
in the Choral Room of the Catlette
Music Center, located on the corner of
Boyd and Elm in Norman Oklahoma.
Opening for her will be two of Oklahoma
City's, rapidly rising to fame, local
musicians, Peggy Johnson and Donna
Desalvo.
Tickets for this event will be available at Herland March 7, 1987. They
may also be purchased from individual
ticket sellers, or be calling 672-6459.
Since making Pittsburg her home, Nancy
Day has excited audiences at such events
as the National Women's Music Festival
in Bloomington, Indiana, 1983, 1984,
and 1986; she also performed at the
New England Women's Music Festival in
1984. In 1980, her first album was
released, entitled "Nancy", which
consisted of ten original compositions
and featured ten other musicians. In
1983 she composed, recorded and produced
a cassette entitled "Lavender", and
composed the music for an original
musical in 1986, entitled "Time and
Time Again."
The year, 1986, continued with Nancy
opening for Holly Near, performing at
the GAIA Canadian Music Festival, and
being voted Pittsburgh's pianist of
the year.
Nancy has presented at various community
fundraisers, such as for women's shelter
houses in Pittsburgh, Community AIDS
Fundraiser, and Clean Water Action
Project, to name a few. She has
presented workshops on creativity and
composition for the gifted children in
the Pittsburgh school system.

NANCY DAY
in
CONCERT
($5)

There are many quotations as to Nancy's
r,erforman7e • . J. Casselberry states ....
The combination of technical proficiency
and life spirit in a performer is a joyous
find. Nancy Day possesses both qualities.
She's refreshing, vibrant, and pure in
her approach to music ••.• " Kay Gardner
states .•. "Nancy Day's music is rich
vibrant, and strong. I'm sure we'li be
hearing much more from this young artist
in years to come."
I've heard Nancy Day in Bloomington and
would like to add to the many quotes by
.
"I l'isten to Nancy's music alsaying....
most every day. Her music reaches the
depths of my soul.
Now I feel privileged
to have the opportunity to present her
to you." (Barbara Cleveland)
Please purchase your tickets in advance.
It helps with pre-concert expenses.

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east of Tucson. Beautiful desert
and mountains.
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P.O. Box 691
Sonoita, Az. 85637
602/455-5823
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