The Herland Voice : v.13: no.3(1995)
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- The Herland Voice : v.13: no.3(1995)
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- The Herland Voice is the monthly publication of Herland Sister Resources, a womanist organization with a strong lesbian focus based in Oklahoma City.
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- 1995-03
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- Herland Sister Resources
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March, 1995
"PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
HERLAND
COFFEEHOUSE
ACT" TO GUT ANIT-POVERTY
PROGRAMS
Part of the Republicans' IO-point "Contract with
America, " the Personal Responsibility Act represents "welfare
reform" taken to its cruelest extremes. The PRA would
implement massive cutbacks to a host of programs designed to
alleviate the effects of poverty -- Aid to Families with Dependent
Children, Food Stamps, WIC, school lunches, almost all other
domestic food programs, Supplemental Security Income, and all
major low-income housing programs. For example, cuts in
nutrition programs would amount to an estimated $18 billion over
four years.
The PRA would encourage states to care for children
whose funding was cut off by placing them in orphanages. (It
would provide limited funds for that purpose.) Combined with
the cuts in aid to poor children, this would have the effect of
recreating the very situation that AFDC was designed to prevent
in the first place--family breakup due solely to the lack of
resources that would allow children to be cared for in their own
homes.
Futhermore, the PRA would place a cap on federal
funding for state AFDC programs, meaning that even if their
citizens' needs suddenly increased (due, say, to a recession), they
would be unable to get more federal money, and would be forced
to cut services even further.
In addition to funding cuts, the PRA would institute
severe limits on who could receive help, and for how long. In one
of the worst cases, aid would be denied, throughout childhood, to
any child born out of wedlock before the mother's 18th birthday
(states could opt to raise this age limit to 21), or to any child born
within 10 months of the mother's receipt of AFDC. This aid
would denied even if the mother did not seek aid until long after
the child was born.
The PRA would also deny aid to a child until her
paternity was established, consigning virtually every child whose
paternity was not established before AFDC was sought (currently
about 29% of all children receiving AFDC) to lengthy periods of
denial. (Studies have found that waiting times for paternity
checks can average more than six months in length.) The only
exception would be if the mother could prove that the child was
born as the result of rape or incest.
Families who are not excluded by these provisions will
hit another barrier to needed aid--a lifetime limit on aid of 60
months, with no plan for employment or service programs at the
(continued on next page)
Volume 13 Number 3
Join us for a special evening with JJ ru DlJ ~ ~
CSmDDcowm'iY. Saturday, JJ0irucrcwo ~©, 8 p.m. to 10
p.m. at Herland Sister Resources.
MARCH 11 - Garage sale to benefit Harland Sister
Resources. If you have items that you would like to
donate, please bring them by Harland's during
weekend business hours (Saturday, 10 - 5 and
Sunday, 1 - 5) and leave them in the garage.
MARCH 12 - Last month's POTLUCK for Harland
volunteers was so successful that we're having
another one this month. If you are a volunteer or are
interested in volunteering, join us on Sunday at 5
p.m. For more information call Joni at 720-0044.
MARCH 18 - Workday at Harland! Wear your old
clothes and bring any tools you might have lying
around the house and prepare to have fun! We have
several areas that need painting and some minor
repairs in others.
MARCH 26 - Carla Sciaky will be performing a
concert at the City Arts Center, OKC Fairgrounds,
beginning at 7:00 p.m . Opening for Carla will be
Freefall (Ginger, Rhonda, Louise, and Tamara). For
ticket information call Rhonda at 843-4434.
MARCH 30 - Harland Newsletter Folding Party!
Can you think of a better way to spend an evening?
I didn't think so. The fun begins at 6:30 p.m. and
lasts until we're done (which does not take a good
deal of time if lots of women show up!).
Harland Sister Resources
2312 NW 39, OKC, OK 73112
PRA (continued.from previous page)
end of the time period. And states could choose to shorten this
period to as little as 24 months--an exceedingly cruel
implementation of President Clinton's "two years and out" plan,
where "out" would mean being left alone to the ravages of abject
poverty. ·
Furthermore, single parents receiving AFDC would be
forced to work in unpaid jobs for a minimum of 35 hours a week.
Even if this didn't violate minimum-wage laws (even the most
generous AFDC grant would amount to less than $2.50/hour
under such a plan), it would mean leaving untold millions of
children without any care for the time that their parents were at
work.
Finally, legal immigrants would be denied AFDC funds
under the PRA, and barred from receiving aid under most other
federally funded means-tested programs, regardless of their needs
or of how long they have lived in the United States.
In all, it is estimated that more than half of all current
AFDC recipients would be ineligible for such aid if the Personal
Responsibility Act were in effect. Five to six million poor
children would be plunged into even more dire poverty than they
now face, without the resources to reach even bare subsistence
levels of food, clothing and housing.
(Adapted from Welfare Reform News, a publication of the Center on
Social Welfare Policy and Law, 275 Seventh Avenue, 6th Floor, New
York, NY 10001-6708, 212-633-6967.)
CELEBRATE WOMEN'S
HISTORIC MONTH WITH
SOME HISTORIC WOMEN
Judy Grahn, noted lesbian author, will keynote the conference
"Crossing the Boundaries, Femiilisms Inside and Outside the
Universities" at Tulsa University, March 17-19.
YOUNG GAY AND LESBIAN
ALLIANCE OUTREACH AT
RED ROCK
The Young Gay and Lesbian Alliance (YGLA) is an
affirming and supportive group for young adults up to 20 years of
age (parental consent necessary if you are under 18), looking for
ways to meet new people and have fun. We meet bi-weekly for
support and social/educational groups. Our support group meets
every Tuesday evening from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at Red Rock Mental
Health Center.
Every Sunday evening from 7:30 - 10:00 p.m. at OASIS
Resource Center, 2135 NW 39th Street, OKC, we meet for free
activities, (unless otherwise noted). Our March schedule is:
SUNDAY, March 5, 7:30 p.m.; we will watch "Before Stonewall"
and have pizza. Discussion following.
SUNDAY, March 12, 7:30 p.m.; Destiny Foster will discuss the
aspects of being a Female Impersonator.
THURSDAY, March 16, 8:00 - 11:30 p.m.; St. Patrick's Day
Dance at the Wreck Room in OKC. Door prizes, auction,
entertainment, and dancing. There is a $3 cover and all ages are
invited to attend.
SUNDAY, March 19, 7:30 p.m.; Tom Collins, from Open Your
Heart, will share his personal story of how HIV has affected his
life and the choices he makes.
SUNDAY, March 26, 2:00 p.m.; we're going to the ZOO! Meet at
OASIS to carpool. Dinner afterwards.
If you are interested in any of these groups or just want
more information about becoming involved with the YGLA, call
Betsy Murphy or Kim Johnson at Red Rock Mental Health
Center, 4400 N. Lincoln Boulevard, (405) 425-0399. ~
Sarah Brady, founder of Handgun Control will speak in OU's
Oklahoma Memorial Union at 7:00 p.m. on March 22. Contact
Lucia Perri 282-6429 for more information.
ATTN: WORKSHOP PRESENTERS!
Dr. Jean Kilbourne, internationally known media critic, will
speak on "The Naked Truth: Advertising Image of Women" at
7:00 p.m., March 20 in the Student Union Theatre at OSU.
Contact Angela at 405-744-5215 for more information.
We need people to begin signing up for workshop
presentations to be offered at the spring retreat. If you are
interested in presenting a workshop at the Spring Retreat to be
held May 19-21 at Roman Nose State Park, please contact Joni at
720-0044.
Dr. Margarethe Cammenneyer, Bronze Star recipient, VA
Nurse of the Year, and author of Serving in Silence will speak at
7:00 p.m. on March 28 in the Student Union Theatre at OSU. Call
Angela at 405-744-5215 for more information.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
Herland Spring Retreat, May 19-21, Roman Nose State Park
Herland Fall Retreat, October 27-29, Fountainhead State Park
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Her/and Voice
March, 1995
Published by: Herland Sister Resources, Inc. 2312 N.W.
39th, Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Circulation: 1200
The Voice is offered as an open forum for community
discourse. Articles reflect the opinions of the author and not
necessarily those of Herland Sister Resources. Unsolicited
articles and letters to the editor are welcomed and must be
signed by the writer with full name and address. Upon request,
letters or articles may be printed under a pseudonym or
anonymously. Subscriptions to The Voice are free upon
request. The Voice is printed on recycled paper.
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CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?
....I
by MOC
Herland is a seriously non-profit organization that
serves the Oklahoma "progressive" community, and especially
the lesbian and women's communities, in a myriad of ways; some
of which are:
We have established the Herland Legal Defense Fund to
support lesbians in custody cases, and have raised (and dispersed)
many thousands of dollars for it.
We operate a bookstore, where we sell books mostly
unavailable at mainstream stores, as well as other merchandise;
and have a lending library which contains many out-of-print
feminist and lesbian books and magazines . The bookstore
accounts for about half of our annual revenues.
We offer musical and cultural events for education and
entertainment, and hold frequent coffeehouses and open mikes to
showcase local and regional talent. Our bi-annual retreats (our
only women-only activities) provide women with a safe place to
relax, learn, play, meet and exchange ideas, and hear nationally
acclaimed performers.
We provide leadership training and develop a variety of
skills in our Board members and volunteers. We are an entirely
volunteer organization. Our 10 - 15 woman Board, and scores of
volunteers, donate thousands of hours of their time and energy to
Herland each year. Their only compensation is pride and
satisfaction.
We offer space for meetings for a variety of groups:
Simply Equal, CoDA, NOW, G&L Teachers, HLDF, Video
nights, Counseling Groups, CIR classes, are some of the groups
which meet or have met at Herland.
We publish this very newsletter which you are reading at
the moment, to inform, encourage, educate and amuse. Included
with the newsletter is a calendar which publicizes events of local
interest to the peace, women's, lesbian, gay, bi -sexual and
transgendered communities.
Also included with this particular issue is a selfaddressed envelope; and we are asking you to use that envelope to
contribute in a monetary way to help Herland thrive. We depend
on contributions from our friends and definitely on the kindness
of strangers ... we often receive donations from people who as far
as we know have no connection with us other than this newsletter.
If you want to be a part of Herland, to help her continue with her
various activities and work, please give as generously as you can.
Thank you very much . ~
WHERE ARE THE BORROWED
BOOKS?
There are a good number of books that have been
checked out for quite some time now from Herland's lending
library. If you have SOQ:le of these books lying around the house
and have finished your reading of them, we would like to
encourage you to return them so that others may enjoy them.
Herland receives donated books quite often and it might
be worth your while to come by and see what's new.~
Congress May
Hold Hearings on
"TheGayAgenda"
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At a recent town meeting in
Kennesaw, Georgia, Speaker of the
House Newt Gingrich confirmed to
Cathy Woolard, HRCF Deputy
Director of Public Policy, that he has
indeed promised Radical Right leader
-·-·-
Lou Sheldon that he will probably hold
hearings on "the Gay Agenda" and
gay-related school curricula sometime in August, once the
Contract and budget proceed through Congress.
The Radical Right agenda on the hearings is being
pressed by Rev. Lou Sheldon, who is known for advocating the
confinement of HIV-positive people in concentration camps. He
has mobilized boycotts and campaigns against any positive
portrayals of lesbians and gays in the media. He was also behind
legislation that sought to impose federal control on schools with
programs that address lesbian and gay concerns.
The Radical Right will likely use these hearings to
promote negative images of gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans,
and to advance legislation that will single out gay youth for
discrimination in public schools, where they already face
intolerance and harassment. Sheldon's sole agenda is to demonize
gay and lesbian Americans and to promote discrimination. If he
succeeds, the results will be detrimental to gay and lesbian youth.
You might want to write to the Speaker and urge him to
resist pressure from extremists and to focus instead on the issues .
Send him a reminder of his pledge to stand against persecution,
and make it clear that by holding hearings he is simply catering to
extremists on the right and setting the stage for homophobic
rhetoric.
Write to:
The Honorable Newt Gingrich
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
(Reprinted from February, 1995 issue of FANews Action Alert)
STARTING IMMEDIATELY!
DISCUSSION/SUPPORT GROUP FOR
PARENTS WHO ARE GAY OR LESBIAN
WHERE? OASIS Resource Center, 2135 NW 39th, OKC
WHEN? First Tuesday of every month, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
HOW? This group is co-sponsored by OASIS Resource Center
and Red Rock Mental Health Center.
WHY? To offer support and education to parents who are lesbian
or gay.
WHAT? Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 7th.
We will be showing the movie "Serving in Silence". Discussion
.will Follow.
For more information, call Betsy Murphy at 425-0399.~
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Her/and Voice
March, 1995
RITA MAE BROWN, JANIS IAN TO APPEAR
AT NATIONAL WOMEN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL
Rita Mae Brown, the best-selling author of "Rubyfruit Jungle" and "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers'
Manual," and Janis Ian, an impressive presence on the music scene since breaking onto the charts at 15 with "Society's Child," will
appear at the National Women's Music Festival in June.
Brown will give the keynote speech on Thursday, June 1. She also will lead a workshop on Friday. Performing on the festival's
Mainstage will be Ian, who now composes in Nashville and also writes a column for ''The Advocate."
The festival will be June 1 - 4 on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington, Indiana. It is the longest-running celebration
of women's music and culture in the country. Advance registrations are now being accepted. Concerts and workshops are the main
components of the festival, which is in its 21st year. There also are dances each evening. The festival is held in campus buildings. Dorm
housing and meals are available, as is access to local stores, restaurants and motels. A 24-hour support service is available for women in
recovery, and all events are wheelchair-accessible. Special headsets, seating and interpreters are available for the Deaf and hard-ofhearing. Free Child care is offered to those who pre-register.
A four-day pass costs $160 before April 30 and $180 after. One or three day passes and individual concert tickets also are
available. Those wishing to work during the festival in exchange for a reduced-cost pass may do so. Information on that option is in the
registration brochure. Registration brochures are available at women's bookstores or by writing P.O. Box 1427-PR, Indianapolis, Ind.
46206-1427. You also may call (317) 927-9355 and leave your name and address. The deadline for mail pre-registration is May 15.
You also may register on-site.~
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
WOMEN'S STUDIES
BROWN BAG LECTURE SERIES
March 8
Kathryn Crouch
OU Women's Studies Senior
"Researching the Women's Studies Program:
Learning from the Past"
April 19
Dr. Eve Bannet
Chair, Department of English
and Professor of Women's Studies
''The Marriage Act of 1753: A very cruel act for Women!"
The Eighth Annual
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Get out your pen, pencil, lipstick, crayon, marker
and make a note of a very important weekend ...
March 31·April2, 1995*
at the Radisson Hotel on Town Lake
For more details, call the TLC '95 Hotline (512) 326-4453 or
write to us at P.O. Box 200546, Austin, TX 78720-0546
*In addition to TLC, Sunday, April 2 is the
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UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA, NORMAN CAMPUS
NINilI FLOOR DALE HALL TOWER
12:00NOON
BRING YOUR BROWN BAG LUNCH
We are marching because seven people in Texas were
murdered because they were gay in 1994.
They must not die in vain.
For more information or accommodations on the basis of
disability call 325-3481 .
For more information call (512) 474-5475
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March, 1995
Sponsored by
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Reduce Aid For Dependent
Corporations To Fund
Working Poor
by Pat Gowens
Editor, Welfare Mother's Voice
Dykes To Watch Out For
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YES.
If we as a nation have given up
the possibility of business paying living
wages to non-professional workers,
logically we need to create a government
aid program for the working poor.
However, it makes no sense to fund it by
eliminating the nation's ONLY public
child support program (AFDC) for very
poor dependent minors and their
caregivers.
Aid for Families with Dependent
Children costs $15 billion a year and
provides an average of $370 a month
child support for four million families
(90% have only one parent). Only $5
billion gets to the families. Ten billion
goes to bureaucrats to police, punish and
FORCE poor moms to: 1) report every
dollar they earn or receive and every
person who helps them and 2) go through
mandatory dead-end job search/training
programs.
Why take funds from an
insignificant, punitive child support
program (in a country where 75% of all
fathers fail to support children after
leaving them) to fund welfare for the
"working poor"? We would be taking
from poor children to fund their poor,
working moms! Neither dependent
minors nor their caregivers can afford to
subsidize the workplace.
They
desperately need their support, whether
The obvious source of funding for the working poor is the Aid for Dependent Corporations programs. Dependent corporations
receive $104 billion in federal welfare each year from us generous taxpayers - $51 billion in direct subsidies and $53.3 billion in tax
breaks. And dependent corporations do not need the government handouts they receive. Many corporate welfare recipients are on the
Forbes 400 list of richest Americans!
Aid for Dependent Corporations provides: $100 million to Sunkist, Gallo, M&M's, Campbells Soup, McDonald's, etc to
advertise their products abroad; $1 billion for Continental Grain, Cargill Inc, Louis Dreyfus Corp. to receive free shipments of wheat,
com and other commodities from US reserves (some commodity program!); $55 million to pay the grazing fees for livestock of wealthy
ranchers. (We pay $7 out of every $9 per animal grazing fee, even for multi-millionaires like J.R. Simplot); $135.6 million to private
forestry companies who owe taxpayers for timber purchased, but are allowed to default with no consequences!; $48 million for land
titles to mining companies who pay less than $4,500 for each title instead of the millions that the land is worth.
We can easily shave $50 to $75 billion off of the Aid for Dependent Corporations program to subsidize the working poor. Then
we need to clean up the Aid for Dependent Children program to rid it of its punitive, destructive nature. With the $10 billion spent to
police moms, we can guarantee all dependent minors support to the age of 18 with no strings attached. This will give moms the RIGHT
to work without losing any of their children's support. Like Social Security Survivor's benefits, we should also guarantee mom support,
as the primary caregiver, until she earns $7000 a year.
After using the exorbitant Aid for Dependent Corporations dole to fund enslaved employees, and guaranteeing all dependent
minors a secure income, we will recognize the value in guaranteeing ALL Americans a secure income. Then ALL Americans will share
in the wealth of this nation and we will find peace and harmony in this country:'Cf
5 Her/and Voice
March, 1995
LESBIAN-ONLY COUNSELING • group or individual counseling. Contact Jo L. Soske M.E.D./M.H.R./I.CA.D.C./L.P.C. at
321-0134.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (for possible publication) on the stories and lives of gay & lesbian librarians. Gay and lesbian librarians
have lead highly creative professional lives . They have done much to further the course of gay and lesbian writing, studies and culture.
They have confronted and opposed homophobia, and they have also resisted censorship challenges. Who are these librarians? What
have they to say about their lives, professional work, relationships, users and gay culture? Submit essays or personal accounts
(1250-2500 words max., double-spaced) on themes such as ... coming out experiences at library school; coming out experiences and
working in the public, academic, school or special library; coming out experiences and living with HIV/AIDS: a gay librarian's
perspective; experiences of a gay or lesbian librarian of color; confronting and challenging homophobia, racism, sexism in libraries and
in the community; censorship challenges: victories and defeats. Include a short bio. Anonymous submissions are welcome. Deadline
is March 31, 1995. Send submissions with Canadian SASE to Norman Kester, Editor, 1418-620 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, M4Y 2R8. Call (416) 944-9319 or fax (416) 922-0824 for more information.
UNGRATEFUL is a new zine/newsletter for poor and working class lesbians. Articles about clothes, police brutality, invisibility,
prostitution, the right to housing, and ideas for a discussion group are in the first issue. The zine is free to lesbians making less than
$7500 a year and costs up to $3 for lesbians making more (cash only). For more information write to Ungrateful, P.O. Box 7471,
Minneapolis, MN 55407.
POETRY/SHORT STORY CONTEST. $100.00 prize and publication in each category. Stories 1,500 word maximum. Authors
retain copyrights . Enclose $5.00 reading fee for each entry. Any topic relating to women. Deadline: July 31, 1995. SASE for winner
list. Southern Women's Words Quarterly. Attn: Diane Tait, Box 32294, Raleigh, NC 27622. Qualified non-winners will also be
published.
THE LESBIAN HEALTH BOOK. Submissions are currently being solicited for an anthology of non-fiction essays by lesbians about
their personal experiences with health and health-related issues. Lesbians need a forum for discussing health and how it affects our lives.
We need a space where we can learn and share the tools we need to maximize our health. We seek lesbians of diverse, distinctive
backgrounds to share their personal experiences so that others can learn from their wisdom. We intend this anthology to provide a
healing catharsis for women in pain and to be a source of comfort and strength for women struggling to survive in our health care system.
We will give primary consideration to first person narratives and conversational interviews. Deadline for submissions is April 30, 1995.
Typed, double-spaced manuscripts preferred. Mail submissions and/or queries to: Jocelyn White, M.D. and Marissa Martinez, P.O. Box
10003, Portland, OR 97210. Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) with all submissions or queries.
LESBIAN BOOK CATALOG AVAILABLE. Heartland Books, a company run by two Vermont women, has announced the arrival
of the latest Heartland Books catalog. The 16-page annotated and illustrated Heartland catalog contains approximately 120 book
selections, covering such categories as fiction, biography, relationships, erotica, sexuality and humor. Catalogs are distributed free upon
request by writing to: Linda Weiss and Joyce McKeeman, P.O. Box 1105A, East Corinth, VT 05040.
WANTED: works from Black lesbians for anthology of coming out stories. Your story could be in the form of journal entries,
autobiographical fiction, poetry or whatever way the words came together to describe your coming out. Even if you don't think you're a
writer, your story is important. Send submissions to: Lisa Moore, P.O. Box 861, Decatur, GA 30031. Deadline is June 30, 1995.
SERVING IN SILENCE: NBC is getting a lot of hate mail regarding the Monday Night Movie, Serving Jn Silence that honestly
portrayed the life of the highest ranking woman officer in the U.S. military to be discharged because she said she was a lesbian. Call
NBC at 212-664-3370 to tell them how much you appreciated the broadcast of Serving in Silence.
TELL MTV TO PLAY FAIR: MTV is a frequent advertising site for the DeMoss Foundation's "Life: What a Beautiful Choice" ads
(the latest version plugs the anti-abortion movement's "crisis pregnancy centers," which attempt to harass women out of having
abortions). Yet they refuse to air NARAL's counter-ad, "Choice: What a Beautiful Life," which gives the abortion-rights response. Call
MTV at 212-258-8462 or leave a message on MTV On-line on America On-line and tell them to give equal time to Choice: put "Choice:
What a Beautiful life" on the air!
NOW ANTI-VIOLENCE MARCH ON DC IN APRIL: NOW has announced a rally in Washington, DC on Sunday, April 9. The
agenda is anti-violence: at clinics and against poor women via the Contract On America. They are seeking campus organizers and other
assistance. The march will coincide witl1 NOW's Young Feminist Summit on Violence in DC April 7-8. Contact your local NOW for
more information.
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March, 1995
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"PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
HERLAND
COFFEEHOUSE
ACT" TO GUT ANIT-POVERTY
PROGRAMS
Part of the Republicans' IO-point "Contract with
America, " the Personal Responsibility Act represents "welfare
reform" taken to its cruelest extremes. The PRA would
implement massive cutbacks to a host of programs designed to
alleviate the effects of poverty -- Aid to Families with Dependent
Children, Food Stamps, WIC, school lunches, almost all other
domestic food programs, Supplemental Security Income, and all
major low-income housing programs. For example, cuts in
nutrition programs would amount to an estimated $18 billion over
four years.
The PRA would encourage states to care for children
whose funding was cut off by placing them in orphanages. (It
would provide limited funds for that purpose.) Combined with
the cuts in aid to poor children, this would have the effect of
recreating the very situation that AFDC was designed to prevent
in the first place--family breakup due solely to the lack of
resources that would allow children to be cared for in their own
homes.
Futhermore, the PRA would place a cap on federal
funding for state AFDC programs, meaning that even if their
citizens' needs suddenly increased (due, say, to a recession), they
would be unable to get more federal money, and would be forced
to cut services even further.
In addition to funding cuts, the PRA would institute
severe limits on who could receive help, and for how long. In one
of the worst cases, aid would be denied, throughout childhood, to
any child born out of wedlock before the mother's 18th birthday
(states could opt to raise this age limit to 21), or to any child born
within 10 months of the mother's receipt of AFDC. This aid
would denied even if the mother did not seek aid until long after
the child was born.
The PRA would also deny aid to a child until her
paternity was established, consigning virtually every child whose
paternity was not established before AFDC was sought (currently
about 29% of all children receiving AFDC) to lengthy periods of
denial. (Studies have found that waiting times for paternity
checks can average more than six months in length.) The only
exception would be if the mother could prove that the child was
born as the result of rape or incest.
Families who are not excluded by these provisions will
hit another barrier to needed aid--a lifetime limit on aid of 60
months, with no plan for employment or service programs at the
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Volume 13 Number 3
Join us for a special evening with JJ ru DlJ ~ ~
CSmDDcowm'iY. Saturday, JJ0irucrcwo ~©, 8 p.m. to 10
p.m. at Herland Sister Resources.
MARCH 11 - Garage sale to benefit Harland Sister
Resources. If you have items that you would like to
donate, please bring them by Harland's during
weekend business hours (Saturday, 10 - 5 and
Sunday, 1 - 5) and leave them in the garage.
MARCH 12 - Last month's POTLUCK for Harland
volunteers was so successful that we're having
another one this month. If you are a volunteer or are
interested in volunteering, join us on Sunday at 5
p.m. For more information call Joni at 720-0044.
MARCH 18 - Workday at Harland! Wear your old
clothes and bring any tools you might have lying
around the house and prepare to have fun! We have
several areas that need painting and some minor
repairs in others.
MARCH 26 - Carla Sciaky will be performing a
concert at the City Arts Center, OKC Fairgrounds,
beginning at 7:00 p.m . Opening for Carla will be
Freefall (Ginger, Rhonda, Louise, and Tamara). For
ticket information call Rhonda at 843-4434.
MARCH 30 - Harland Newsletter Folding Party!
Can you think of a better way to spend an evening?
I didn't think so. The fun begins at 6:30 p.m. and
lasts until we're done (which does not take a good
deal of time if lots of women show up!).
Harland Sister Resources
2312 NW 39, OKC, OK 73112
PRA (continued.from previous page)
end of the time period. And states could choose to shorten this
period to as little as 24 months--an exceedingly cruel
implementation of President Clinton's "two years and out" plan,
where "out" would mean being left alone to the ravages of abject
poverty. ·
Furthermore, single parents receiving AFDC would be
forced to work in unpaid jobs for a minimum of 35 hours a week.
Even if this didn't violate minimum-wage laws (even the most
generous AFDC grant would amount to less than $2.50/hour
under such a plan), it would mean leaving untold millions of
children without any care for the time that their parents were at
work.
Finally, legal immigrants would be denied AFDC funds
under the PRA, and barred from receiving aid under most other
federally funded means-tested programs, regardless of their needs
or of how long they have lived in the United States.
In all, it is estimated that more than half of all current
AFDC recipients would be ineligible for such aid if the Personal
Responsibility Act were in effect. Five to six million poor
children would be plunged into even more dire poverty than they
now face, without the resources to reach even bare subsistence
levels of food, clothing and housing.
(Adapted from Welfare Reform News, a publication of the Center on
Social Welfare Policy and Law, 275 Seventh Avenue, 6th Floor, New
York, NY 10001-6708, 212-633-6967.)
CELEBRATE WOMEN'S
HISTORIC MONTH WITH
SOME HISTORIC WOMEN
Judy Grahn, noted lesbian author, will keynote the conference
"Crossing the Boundaries, Femiilisms Inside and Outside the
Universities" at Tulsa University, March 17-19.
YOUNG GAY AND LESBIAN
ALLIANCE OUTREACH AT
RED ROCK
The Young Gay and Lesbian Alliance (YGLA) is an
affirming and supportive group for young adults up to 20 years of
age (parental consent necessary if you are under 18), looking for
ways to meet new people and have fun. We meet bi-weekly for
support and social/educational groups. Our support group meets
every Tuesday evening from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at Red Rock Mental
Health Center.
Every Sunday evening from 7:30 - 10:00 p.m. at OASIS
Resource Center, 2135 NW 39th Street, OKC, we meet for free
activities, (unless otherwise noted). Our March schedule is:
SUNDAY, March 5, 7:30 p.m.; we will watch "Before Stonewall"
and have pizza. Discussion following.
SUNDAY, March 12, 7:30 p.m.; Destiny Foster will discuss the
aspects of being a Female Impersonator.
THURSDAY, March 16, 8:00 - 11:30 p.m.; St. Patrick's Day
Dance at the Wreck Room in OKC. Door prizes, auction,
entertainment, and dancing. There is a $3 cover and all ages are
invited to attend.
SUNDAY, March 19, 7:30 p.m.; Tom Collins, from Open Your
Heart, will share his personal story of how HIV has affected his
life and the choices he makes.
SUNDAY, March 26, 2:00 p.m.; we're going to the ZOO! Meet at
OASIS to carpool. Dinner afterwards.
If you are interested in any of these groups or just want
more information about becoming involved with the YGLA, call
Betsy Murphy or Kim Johnson at Red Rock Mental Health
Center, 4400 N. Lincoln Boulevard, (405) 425-0399. ~
Sarah Brady, founder of Handgun Control will speak in OU's
Oklahoma Memorial Union at 7:00 p.m. on March 22. Contact
Lucia Perri 282-6429 for more information.
ATTN: WORKSHOP PRESENTERS!
Dr. Jean Kilbourne, internationally known media critic, will
speak on "The Naked Truth: Advertising Image of Women" at
7:00 p.m., March 20 in the Student Union Theatre at OSU.
Contact Angela at 405-744-5215 for more information.
We need people to begin signing up for workshop
presentations to be offered at the spring retreat. If you are
interested in presenting a workshop at the Spring Retreat to be
held May 19-21 at Roman Nose State Park, please contact Joni at
720-0044.
Dr. Margarethe Cammenneyer, Bronze Star recipient, VA
Nurse of the Year, and author of Serving in Silence will speak at
7:00 p.m. on March 28 in the Student Union Theatre at OSU. Call
Angela at 405-744-5215 for more information.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
Herland Spring Retreat, May 19-21, Roman Nose State Park
Herland Fall Retreat, October 27-29, Fountainhead State Park
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Her/and Voice
March, 1995
Published by: Herland Sister Resources, Inc. 2312 N.W.
39th, Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Circulation: 1200
The Voice is offered as an open forum for community
discourse. Articles reflect the opinions of the author and not
necessarily those of Herland Sister Resources. Unsolicited
articles and letters to the editor are welcomed and must be
signed by the writer with full name and address. Upon request,
letters or articles may be printed under a pseudonym or
anonymously. Subscriptions to The Voice are free upon
request. The Voice is printed on recycled paper.
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CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?
....I
by MOC
Herland is a seriously non-profit organization that
serves the Oklahoma "progressive" community, and especially
the lesbian and women's communities, in a myriad of ways; some
of which are:
We have established the Herland Legal Defense Fund to
support lesbians in custody cases, and have raised (and dispersed)
many thousands of dollars for it.
We operate a bookstore, where we sell books mostly
unavailable at mainstream stores, as well as other merchandise;
and have a lending library which contains many out-of-print
feminist and lesbian books and magazines . The bookstore
accounts for about half of our annual revenues.
We offer musical and cultural events for education and
entertainment, and hold frequent coffeehouses and open mikes to
showcase local and regional talent. Our bi-annual retreats (our
only women-only activities) provide women with a safe place to
relax, learn, play, meet and exchange ideas, and hear nationally
acclaimed performers.
We provide leadership training and develop a variety of
skills in our Board members and volunteers. We are an entirely
volunteer organization. Our 10 - 15 woman Board, and scores of
volunteers, donate thousands of hours of their time and energy to
Herland each year. Their only compensation is pride and
satisfaction.
We offer space for meetings for a variety of groups:
Simply Equal, CoDA, NOW, G&L Teachers, HLDF, Video
nights, Counseling Groups, CIR classes, are some of the groups
which meet or have met at Herland.
We publish this very newsletter which you are reading at
the moment, to inform, encourage, educate and amuse. Included
with the newsletter is a calendar which publicizes events of local
interest to the peace, women's, lesbian, gay, bi -sexual and
transgendered communities.
Also included with this particular issue is a selfaddressed envelope; and we are asking you to use that envelope to
contribute in a monetary way to help Herland thrive. We depend
on contributions from our friends and definitely on the kindness
of strangers ... we often receive donations from people who as far
as we know have no connection with us other than this newsletter.
If you want to be a part of Herland, to help her continue with her
various activities and work, please give as generously as you can.
Thank you very much . ~
WHERE ARE THE BORROWED
BOOKS?
There are a good number of books that have been
checked out for quite some time now from Herland's lending
library. If you have SOQ:le of these books lying around the house
and have finished your reading of them, we would like to
encourage you to return them so that others may enjoy them.
Herland receives donated books quite often and it might
be worth your while to come by and see what's new.~
Congress May
Hold Hearings on
"TheGayAgenda"
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At a recent town meeting in
Kennesaw, Georgia, Speaker of the
House Newt Gingrich confirmed to
Cathy Woolard, HRCF Deputy
Director of Public Policy, that he has
indeed promised Radical Right leader
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Lou Sheldon that he will probably hold
hearings on "the Gay Agenda" and
gay-related school curricula sometime in August, once the
Contract and budget proceed through Congress.
The Radical Right agenda on the hearings is being
pressed by Rev. Lou Sheldon, who is known for advocating the
confinement of HIV-positive people in concentration camps. He
has mobilized boycotts and campaigns against any positive
portrayals of lesbians and gays in the media. He was also behind
legislation that sought to impose federal control on schools with
programs that address lesbian and gay concerns.
The Radical Right will likely use these hearings to
promote negative images of gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans,
and to advance legislation that will single out gay youth for
discrimination in public schools, where they already face
intolerance and harassment. Sheldon's sole agenda is to demonize
gay and lesbian Americans and to promote discrimination. If he
succeeds, the results will be detrimental to gay and lesbian youth.
You might want to write to the Speaker and urge him to
resist pressure from extremists and to focus instead on the issues .
Send him a reminder of his pledge to stand against persecution,
and make it clear that by holding hearings he is simply catering to
extremists on the right and setting the stage for homophobic
rhetoric.
Write to:
The Honorable Newt Gingrich
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
(Reprinted from February, 1995 issue of FANews Action Alert)
STARTING IMMEDIATELY!
DISCUSSION/SUPPORT GROUP FOR
PARENTS WHO ARE GAY OR LESBIAN
WHERE? OASIS Resource Center, 2135 NW 39th, OKC
WHEN? First Tuesday of every month, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
HOW? This group is co-sponsored by OASIS Resource Center
and Red Rock Mental Health Center.
WHY? To offer support and education to parents who are lesbian
or gay.
WHAT? Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 7th.
We will be showing the movie "Serving in Silence". Discussion
.will Follow.
For more information, call Betsy Murphy at 425-0399.~
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March, 1995
RITA MAE BROWN, JANIS IAN TO APPEAR
AT NATIONAL WOMEN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL
Rita Mae Brown, the best-selling author of "Rubyfruit Jungle" and "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers'
Manual," and Janis Ian, an impressive presence on the music scene since breaking onto the charts at 15 with "Society's Child," will
appear at the National Women's Music Festival in June.
Brown will give the keynote speech on Thursday, June 1. She also will lead a workshop on Friday. Performing on the festival's
Mainstage will be Ian, who now composes in Nashville and also writes a column for ''The Advocate."
The festival will be June 1 - 4 on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington, Indiana. It is the longest-running celebration
of women's music and culture in the country. Advance registrations are now being accepted. Concerts and workshops are the main
components of the festival, which is in its 21st year. There also are dances each evening. The festival is held in campus buildings. Dorm
housing and meals are available, as is access to local stores, restaurants and motels. A 24-hour support service is available for women in
recovery, and all events are wheelchair-accessible. Special headsets, seating and interpreters are available for the Deaf and hard-ofhearing. Free Child care is offered to those who pre-register.
A four-day pass costs $160 before April 30 and $180 after. One or three day passes and individual concert tickets also are
available. Those wishing to work during the festival in exchange for a reduced-cost pass may do so. Information on that option is in the
registration brochure. Registration brochures are available at women's bookstores or by writing P.O. Box 1427-PR, Indianapolis, Ind.
46206-1427. You also may call (317) 927-9355 and leave your name and address. The deadline for mail pre-registration is May 15.
You also may register on-site.~
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
WOMEN'S STUDIES
BROWN BAG LECTURE SERIES
March 8
Kathryn Crouch
OU Women's Studies Senior
"Researching the Women's Studies Program:
Learning from the Past"
April 19
Dr. Eve Bannet
Chair, Department of English
and Professor of Women's Studies
''The Marriage Act of 1753: A very cruel act for Women!"
The Eighth Annual
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March 31·April2, 1995*
at the Radisson Hotel on Town Lake
For more details, call the TLC '95 Hotline (512) 326-4453 or
write to us at P.O. Box 200546, Austin, TX 78720-0546
*In addition to TLC, Sunday, April 2 is the
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BRING YOUR BROWN BAG LUNCH
We are marching because seven people in Texas were
murdered because they were gay in 1994.
They must not die in vain.
For more information or accommodations on the basis of
disability call 325-3481 .
For more information call (512) 474-5475
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If we as a nation have given up
the possibility of business paying living
wages to non-professional workers,
logically we need to create a government
aid program for the working poor.
However, it makes no sense to fund it by
eliminating the nation's ONLY public
child support program (AFDC) for very
poor dependent minors and their
caregivers.
Aid for Families with Dependent
Children costs $15 billion a year and
provides an average of $370 a month
child support for four million families
(90% have only one parent). Only $5
billion gets to the families. Ten billion
goes to bureaucrats to police, punish and
FORCE poor moms to: 1) report every
dollar they earn or receive and every
person who helps them and 2) go through
mandatory dead-end job search/training
programs.
Why take funds from an
insignificant, punitive child support
program (in a country where 75% of all
fathers fail to support children after
leaving them) to fund welfare for the
"working poor"? We would be taking
from poor children to fund their poor,
working moms! Neither dependent
minors nor their caregivers can afford to
subsidize the workplace.
They
desperately need their support, whether
The obvious source of funding for the working poor is the Aid for Dependent Corporations programs. Dependent corporations
receive $104 billion in federal welfare each year from us generous taxpayers - $51 billion in direct subsidies and $53.3 billion in tax
breaks. And dependent corporations do not need the government handouts they receive. Many corporate welfare recipients are on the
Forbes 400 list of richest Americans!
Aid for Dependent Corporations provides: $100 million to Sunkist, Gallo, M&M's, Campbells Soup, McDonald's, etc to
advertise their products abroad; $1 billion for Continental Grain, Cargill Inc, Louis Dreyfus Corp. to receive free shipments of wheat,
com and other commodities from US reserves (some commodity program!); $55 million to pay the grazing fees for livestock of wealthy
ranchers. (We pay $7 out of every $9 per animal grazing fee, even for multi-millionaires like J.R. Simplot); $135.6 million to private
forestry companies who owe taxpayers for timber purchased, but are allowed to default with no consequences!; $48 million for land
titles to mining companies who pay less than $4,500 for each title instead of the millions that the land is worth.
We can easily shave $50 to $75 billion off of the Aid for Dependent Corporations program to subsidize the working poor. Then
we need to clean up the Aid for Dependent Children program to rid it of its punitive, destructive nature. With the $10 billion spent to
police moms, we can guarantee all dependent minors support to the age of 18 with no strings attached. This will give moms the RIGHT
to work without losing any of their children's support. Like Social Security Survivor's benefits, we should also guarantee mom support,
as the primary caregiver, until she earns $7000 a year.
After using the exorbitant Aid for Dependent Corporations dole to fund enslaved employees, and guaranteeing all dependent
minors a secure income, we will recognize the value in guaranteeing ALL Americans a secure income. Then ALL Americans will share
in the wealth of this nation and we will find peace and harmony in this country:'Cf
5 Her/and Voice
March, 1995
LESBIAN-ONLY COUNSELING • group or individual counseling. Contact Jo L. Soske M.E.D./M.H.R./I.CA.D.C./L.P.C. at
321-0134.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (for possible publication) on the stories and lives of gay & lesbian librarians. Gay and lesbian librarians
have lead highly creative professional lives . They have done much to further the course of gay and lesbian writing, studies and culture.
They have confronted and opposed homophobia, and they have also resisted censorship challenges. Who are these librarians? What
have they to say about their lives, professional work, relationships, users and gay culture? Submit essays or personal accounts
(1250-2500 words max., double-spaced) on themes such as ... coming out experiences at library school; coming out experiences and
working in the public, academic, school or special library; coming out experiences and living with HIV/AIDS: a gay librarian's
perspective; experiences of a gay or lesbian librarian of color; confronting and challenging homophobia, racism, sexism in libraries and
in the community; censorship challenges: victories and defeats. Include a short bio. Anonymous submissions are welcome. Deadline
is March 31, 1995. Send submissions with Canadian SASE to Norman Kester, Editor, 1418-620 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, M4Y 2R8. Call (416) 944-9319 or fax (416) 922-0824 for more information.
UNGRATEFUL is a new zine/newsletter for poor and working class lesbians. Articles about clothes, police brutality, invisibility,
prostitution, the right to housing, and ideas for a discussion group are in the first issue. The zine is free to lesbians making less than
$7500 a year and costs up to $3 for lesbians making more (cash only). For more information write to Ungrateful, P.O. Box 7471,
Minneapolis, MN 55407.
POETRY/SHORT STORY CONTEST. $100.00 prize and publication in each category. Stories 1,500 word maximum. Authors
retain copyrights . Enclose $5.00 reading fee for each entry. Any topic relating to women. Deadline: July 31, 1995. SASE for winner
list. Southern Women's Words Quarterly. Attn: Diane Tait, Box 32294, Raleigh, NC 27622. Qualified non-winners will also be
published.
THE LESBIAN HEALTH BOOK. Submissions are currently being solicited for an anthology of non-fiction essays by lesbians about
their personal experiences with health and health-related issues. Lesbians need a forum for discussing health and how it affects our lives.
We need a space where we can learn and share the tools we need to maximize our health. We seek lesbians of diverse, distinctive
backgrounds to share their personal experiences so that others can learn from their wisdom. We intend this anthology to provide a
healing catharsis for women in pain and to be a source of comfort and strength for women struggling to survive in our health care system.
We will give primary consideration to first person narratives and conversational interviews. Deadline for submissions is April 30, 1995.
Typed, double-spaced manuscripts preferred. Mail submissions and/or queries to: Jocelyn White, M.D. and Marissa Martinez, P.O. Box
10003, Portland, OR 97210. Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) with all submissions or queries.
LESBIAN BOOK CATALOG AVAILABLE. Heartland Books, a company run by two Vermont women, has announced the arrival
of the latest Heartland Books catalog. The 16-page annotated and illustrated Heartland catalog contains approximately 120 book
selections, covering such categories as fiction, biography, relationships, erotica, sexuality and humor. Catalogs are distributed free upon
request by writing to: Linda Weiss and Joyce McKeeman, P.O. Box 1105A, East Corinth, VT 05040.
WANTED: works from Black lesbians for anthology of coming out stories. Your story could be in the form of journal entries,
autobiographical fiction, poetry or whatever way the words came together to describe your coming out. Even if you don't think you're a
writer, your story is important. Send submissions to: Lisa Moore, P.O. Box 861, Decatur, GA 30031. Deadline is June 30, 1995.
SERVING IN SILENCE: NBC is getting a lot of hate mail regarding the Monday Night Movie, Serving Jn Silence that honestly
portrayed the life of the highest ranking woman officer in the U.S. military to be discharged because she said she was a lesbian. Call
NBC at 212-664-3370 to tell them how much you appreciated the broadcast of Serving in Silence.
TELL MTV TO PLAY FAIR: MTV is a frequent advertising site for the DeMoss Foundation's "Life: What a Beautiful Choice" ads
(the latest version plugs the anti-abortion movement's "crisis pregnancy centers," which attempt to harass women out of having
abortions). Yet they refuse to air NARAL's counter-ad, "Choice: What a Beautiful Life," which gives the abortion-rights response. Call
MTV at 212-258-8462 or leave a message on MTV On-line on America On-line and tell them to give equal time to Choice: put "Choice:
What a Beautiful life" on the air!
NOW ANTI-VIOLENCE MARCH ON DC IN APRIL: NOW has announced a rally in Washington, DC on Sunday, April 9. The
agenda is anti-violence: at clinics and against poor women via the Contract On America. They are seeking campus organizers and other
assistance. The march will coincide witl1 NOW's Young Feminist Summit on Violence in DC April 7-8. Contact your local NOW for
more information.
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"PERSONAL RESPONSIBILITY
HERLAND
COFFEEHOUSE
ACT" TO GUT ANIT-POVERTY
PROGRAMS
Part of the Republicans' IO-point "Contract with
America, " the Personal Responsibility Act represents "welfare
reform" taken to its cruelest extremes. The PRA would
implement massive cutbacks to a host of programs designed to
alleviate the effects of poverty -- Aid to Families with Dependent
Children, Food Stamps, WIC, school lunches, almost all other
domestic food programs, Supplemental Security Income, and all
major low-income housing programs. For example, cuts in
nutrition programs would amount to an estimated $18 billion over
four years.
The PRA would encourage states to care for children
whose funding was cut off by placing them in orphanages. (It
would provide limited funds for that purpose.) Combined with
the cuts in aid to poor children, this would have the effect of
recreating the very situation that AFDC was designed to prevent
in the first place--family breakup due solely to the lack of
resources that would allow children to be cared for in their own
homes.
Futhermore, the PRA would place a cap on federal
funding for state AFDC programs, meaning that even if their
citizens' needs suddenly increased (due, say, to a recession), they
would be unable to get more federal money, and would be forced
to cut services even further.
In addition to funding cuts, the PRA would institute
severe limits on who could receive help, and for how long. In one
of the worst cases, aid would be denied, throughout childhood, to
any child born out of wedlock before the mother's 18th birthday
(states could opt to raise this age limit to 21), or to any child born
within 10 months of the mother's receipt of AFDC. This aid
would denied even if the mother did not seek aid until long after
the child was born.
The PRA would also deny aid to a child until her
paternity was established, consigning virtually every child whose
paternity was not established before AFDC was sought (currently
about 29% of all children receiving AFDC) to lengthy periods of
denial. (Studies have found that waiting times for paternity
checks can average more than six months in length.) The only
exception would be if the mother could prove that the child was
born as the result of rape or incest.
Families who are not excluded by these provisions will
hit another barrier to needed aid--a lifetime limit on aid of 60
months, with no plan for employment or service programs at the
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Volume 13 Number 3
Join us for a special evening with JJ ru DlJ ~ ~
CSmDDcowm'iY. Saturday, JJ0irucrcwo ~©, 8 p.m. to 10
p.m. at Herland Sister Resources.
MARCH 11 - Garage sale to benefit Harland Sister
Resources. If you have items that you would like to
donate, please bring them by Harland's during
weekend business hours (Saturday, 10 - 5 and
Sunday, 1 - 5) and leave them in the garage.
MARCH 12 - Last month's POTLUCK for Harland
volunteers was so successful that we're having
another one this month. If you are a volunteer or are
interested in volunteering, join us on Sunday at 5
p.m. For more information call Joni at 720-0044.
MARCH 18 - Workday at Harland! Wear your old
clothes and bring any tools you might have lying
around the house and prepare to have fun! We have
several areas that need painting and some minor
repairs in others.
MARCH 26 - Carla Sciaky will be performing a
concert at the City Arts Center, OKC Fairgrounds,
beginning at 7:00 p.m . Opening for Carla will be
Freefall (Ginger, Rhonda, Louise, and Tamara). For
ticket information call Rhonda at 843-4434.
MARCH 30 - Harland Newsletter Folding Party!
Can you think of a better way to spend an evening?
I didn't think so. The fun begins at 6:30 p.m. and
lasts until we're done (which does not take a good
deal of time if lots of women show up!).
Harland Sister Resources
2312 NW 39, OKC, OK 73112
PRA (continued.from previous page)
end of the time period. And states could choose to shorten this
period to as little as 24 months--an exceedingly cruel
implementation of President Clinton's "two years and out" plan,
where "out" would mean being left alone to the ravages of abject
poverty. ·
Furthermore, single parents receiving AFDC would be
forced to work in unpaid jobs for a minimum of 35 hours a week.
Even if this didn't violate minimum-wage laws (even the most
generous AFDC grant would amount to less than $2.50/hour
under such a plan), it would mean leaving untold millions of
children without any care for the time that their parents were at
work.
Finally, legal immigrants would be denied AFDC funds
under the PRA, and barred from receiving aid under most other
federally funded means-tested programs, regardless of their needs
or of how long they have lived in the United States.
In all, it is estimated that more than half of all current
AFDC recipients would be ineligible for such aid if the Personal
Responsibility Act were in effect. Five to six million poor
children would be plunged into even more dire poverty than they
now face, without the resources to reach even bare subsistence
levels of food, clothing and housing.
(Adapted from Welfare Reform News, a publication of the Center on
Social Welfare Policy and Law, 275 Seventh Avenue, 6th Floor, New
York, NY 10001-6708, 212-633-6967.)
CELEBRATE WOMEN'S
HISTORIC MONTH WITH
SOME HISTORIC WOMEN
Judy Grahn, noted lesbian author, will keynote the conference
"Crossing the Boundaries, Femiilisms Inside and Outside the
Universities" at Tulsa University, March 17-19.
YOUNG GAY AND LESBIAN
ALLIANCE OUTREACH AT
RED ROCK
The Young Gay and Lesbian Alliance (YGLA) is an
affirming and supportive group for young adults up to 20 years of
age (parental consent necessary if you are under 18), looking for
ways to meet new people and have fun. We meet bi-weekly for
support and social/educational groups. Our support group meets
every Tuesday evening from 6:30 - 8:00 p.m. at Red Rock Mental
Health Center.
Every Sunday evening from 7:30 - 10:00 p.m. at OASIS
Resource Center, 2135 NW 39th Street, OKC, we meet for free
activities, (unless otherwise noted). Our March schedule is:
SUNDAY, March 5, 7:30 p.m.; we will watch "Before Stonewall"
and have pizza. Discussion following.
SUNDAY, March 12, 7:30 p.m.; Destiny Foster will discuss the
aspects of being a Female Impersonator.
THURSDAY, March 16, 8:00 - 11:30 p.m.; St. Patrick's Day
Dance at the Wreck Room in OKC. Door prizes, auction,
entertainment, and dancing. There is a $3 cover and all ages are
invited to attend.
SUNDAY, March 19, 7:30 p.m.; Tom Collins, from Open Your
Heart, will share his personal story of how HIV has affected his
life and the choices he makes.
SUNDAY, March 26, 2:00 p.m.; we're going to the ZOO! Meet at
OASIS to carpool. Dinner afterwards.
If you are interested in any of these groups or just want
more information about becoming involved with the YGLA, call
Betsy Murphy or Kim Johnson at Red Rock Mental Health
Center, 4400 N. Lincoln Boulevard, (405) 425-0399. ~
Sarah Brady, founder of Handgun Control will speak in OU's
Oklahoma Memorial Union at 7:00 p.m. on March 22. Contact
Lucia Perri 282-6429 for more information.
ATTN: WORKSHOP PRESENTERS!
Dr. Jean Kilbourne, internationally known media critic, will
speak on "The Naked Truth: Advertising Image of Women" at
7:00 p.m., March 20 in the Student Union Theatre at OSU.
Contact Angela at 405-744-5215 for more information.
We need people to begin signing up for workshop
presentations to be offered at the spring retreat. If you are
interested in presenting a workshop at the Spring Retreat to be
held May 19-21 at Roman Nose State Park, please contact Joni at
720-0044.
Dr. Margarethe Cammenneyer, Bronze Star recipient, VA
Nurse of the Year, and author of Serving in Silence will speak at
7:00 p.m. on March 28 in the Student Union Theatre at OSU. Call
Angela at 405-744-5215 for more information.
MARK YOUR CALENDAR!
Herland Spring Retreat, May 19-21, Roman Nose State Park
Herland Fall Retreat, October 27-29, Fountainhead State Park
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March, 1995
Published by: Herland Sister Resources, Inc. 2312 N.W.
39th, Oklahoma City, OK 73112
Circulation: 1200
The Voice is offered as an open forum for community
discourse. Articles reflect the opinions of the author and not
necessarily those of Herland Sister Resources. Unsolicited
articles and letters to the editor are welcomed and must be
signed by the writer with full name and address. Upon request,
letters or articles may be printed under a pseudonym or
anonymously. Subscriptions to The Voice are free upon
request. The Voice is printed on recycled paper.
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CAN YOU SPARE A DIME?
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by MOC
Herland is a seriously non-profit organization that
serves the Oklahoma "progressive" community, and especially
the lesbian and women's communities, in a myriad of ways; some
of which are:
We have established the Herland Legal Defense Fund to
support lesbians in custody cases, and have raised (and dispersed)
many thousands of dollars for it.
We operate a bookstore, where we sell books mostly
unavailable at mainstream stores, as well as other merchandise;
and have a lending library which contains many out-of-print
feminist and lesbian books and magazines . The bookstore
accounts for about half of our annual revenues.
We offer musical and cultural events for education and
entertainment, and hold frequent coffeehouses and open mikes to
showcase local and regional talent. Our bi-annual retreats (our
only women-only activities) provide women with a safe place to
relax, learn, play, meet and exchange ideas, and hear nationally
acclaimed performers.
We provide leadership training and develop a variety of
skills in our Board members and volunteers. We are an entirely
volunteer organization. Our 10 - 15 woman Board, and scores of
volunteers, donate thousands of hours of their time and energy to
Herland each year. Their only compensation is pride and
satisfaction.
We offer space for meetings for a variety of groups:
Simply Equal, CoDA, NOW, G&L Teachers, HLDF, Video
nights, Counseling Groups, CIR classes, are some of the groups
which meet or have met at Herland.
We publish this very newsletter which you are reading at
the moment, to inform, encourage, educate and amuse. Included
with the newsletter is a calendar which publicizes events of local
interest to the peace, women's, lesbian, gay, bi -sexual and
transgendered communities.
Also included with this particular issue is a selfaddressed envelope; and we are asking you to use that envelope to
contribute in a monetary way to help Herland thrive. We depend
on contributions from our friends and definitely on the kindness
of strangers ... we often receive donations from people who as far
as we know have no connection with us other than this newsletter.
If you want to be a part of Herland, to help her continue with her
various activities and work, please give as generously as you can.
Thank you very much . ~
WHERE ARE THE BORROWED
BOOKS?
There are a good number of books that have been
checked out for quite some time now from Herland's lending
library. If you have SOQ:le of these books lying around the house
and have finished your reading of them, we would like to
encourage you to return them so that others may enjoy them.
Herland receives donated books quite often and it might
be worth your while to come by and see what's new.~
Congress May
Hold Hearings on
"TheGayAgenda"
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At a recent town meeting in
Kennesaw, Georgia, Speaker of the
House Newt Gingrich confirmed to
Cathy Woolard, HRCF Deputy
Director of Public Policy, that he has
indeed promised Radical Right leader
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Lou Sheldon that he will probably hold
hearings on "the Gay Agenda" and
gay-related school curricula sometime in August, once the
Contract and budget proceed through Congress.
The Radical Right agenda on the hearings is being
pressed by Rev. Lou Sheldon, who is known for advocating the
confinement of HIV-positive people in concentration camps. He
has mobilized boycotts and campaigns against any positive
portrayals of lesbians and gays in the media. He was also behind
legislation that sought to impose federal control on schools with
programs that address lesbian and gay concerns.
The Radical Right will likely use these hearings to
promote negative images of gay, lesbian and bisexual Americans,
and to advance legislation that will single out gay youth for
discrimination in public schools, where they already face
intolerance and harassment. Sheldon's sole agenda is to demonize
gay and lesbian Americans and to promote discrimination. If he
succeeds, the results will be detrimental to gay and lesbian youth.
You might want to write to the Speaker and urge him to
resist pressure from extremists and to focus instead on the issues .
Send him a reminder of his pledge to stand against persecution,
and make it clear that by holding hearings he is simply catering to
extremists on the right and setting the stage for homophobic
rhetoric.
Write to:
The Honorable Newt Gingrich
U.S. House of Representatives
Washington, DC 20515
(Reprinted from February, 1995 issue of FANews Action Alert)
STARTING IMMEDIATELY!
DISCUSSION/SUPPORT GROUP FOR
PARENTS WHO ARE GAY OR LESBIAN
WHERE? OASIS Resource Center, 2135 NW 39th, OKC
WHEN? First Tuesday of every month, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.
HOW? This group is co-sponsored by OASIS Resource Center
and Red Rock Mental Health Center.
WHY? To offer support and education to parents who are lesbian
or gay.
WHAT? Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday, March 7th.
We will be showing the movie "Serving in Silence". Discussion
.will Follow.
For more information, call Betsy Murphy at 425-0399.~
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March, 1995
RITA MAE BROWN, JANIS IAN TO APPEAR
AT NATIONAL WOMEN'S MUSIC FESTIVAL
Rita Mae Brown, the best-selling author of "Rubyfruit Jungle" and "Starting from Scratch: A Different Kind of Writers'
Manual," and Janis Ian, an impressive presence on the music scene since breaking onto the charts at 15 with "Society's Child," will
appear at the National Women's Music Festival in June.
Brown will give the keynote speech on Thursday, June 1. She also will lead a workshop on Friday. Performing on the festival's
Mainstage will be Ian, who now composes in Nashville and also writes a column for ''The Advocate."
The festival will be June 1 - 4 on the Indiana University campus in Bloomington, Indiana. It is the longest-running celebration
of women's music and culture in the country. Advance registrations are now being accepted. Concerts and workshops are the main
components of the festival, which is in its 21st year. There also are dances each evening. The festival is held in campus buildings. Dorm
housing and meals are available, as is access to local stores, restaurants and motels. A 24-hour support service is available for women in
recovery, and all events are wheelchair-accessible. Special headsets, seating and interpreters are available for the Deaf and hard-ofhearing. Free Child care is offered to those who pre-register.
A four-day pass costs $160 before April 30 and $180 after. One or three day passes and individual concert tickets also are
available. Those wishing to work during the festival in exchange for a reduced-cost pass may do so. Information on that option is in the
registration brochure. Registration brochures are available at women's bookstores or by writing P.O. Box 1427-PR, Indianapolis, Ind.
46206-1427. You also may call (317) 927-9355 and leave your name and address. The deadline for mail pre-registration is May 15.
You also may register on-site.~
UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA
WOMEN'S STUDIES
BROWN BAG LECTURE SERIES
March 8
Kathryn Crouch
OU Women's Studies Senior
"Researching the Women's Studies Program:
Learning from the Past"
April 19
Dr. Eve Bannet
Chair, Department of English
and Professor of Women's Studies
''The Marriage Act of 1753: A very cruel act for Women!"
The Eighth Annual
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March 31·April2, 1995*
at the Radisson Hotel on Town Lake
For more details, call the TLC '95 Hotline (512) 326-4453 or
write to us at P.O. Box 200546, Austin, TX 78720-0546
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BRING YOUR BROWN BAG LUNCH
We are marching because seven people in Texas were
murdered because they were gay in 1994.
They must not die in vain.
For more information or accommodations on the basis of
disability call 325-3481 .
For more information call (512) 474-5475
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Working Poor
by Pat Gowens
Editor, Welfare Mother's Voice
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YES.
If we as a nation have given up
the possibility of business paying living
wages to non-professional workers,
logically we need to create a government
aid program for the working poor.
However, it makes no sense to fund it by
eliminating the nation's ONLY public
child support program (AFDC) for very
poor dependent minors and their
caregivers.
Aid for Families with Dependent
Children costs $15 billion a year and
provides an average of $370 a month
child support for four million families
(90% have only one parent). Only $5
billion gets to the families. Ten billion
goes to bureaucrats to police, punish and
FORCE poor moms to: 1) report every
dollar they earn or receive and every
person who helps them and 2) go through
mandatory dead-end job search/training
programs.
Why take funds from an
insignificant, punitive child support
program (in a country where 75% of all
fathers fail to support children after
leaving them) to fund welfare for the
"working poor"? We would be taking
from poor children to fund their poor,
working moms! Neither dependent
minors nor their caregivers can afford to
subsidize the workplace.
They
desperately need their support, whether
The obvious source of funding for the working poor is the Aid for Dependent Corporations programs. Dependent corporations
receive $104 billion in federal welfare each year from us generous taxpayers - $51 billion in direct subsidies and $53.3 billion in tax
breaks. And dependent corporations do not need the government handouts they receive. Many corporate welfare recipients are on the
Forbes 400 list of richest Americans!
Aid for Dependent Corporations provides: $100 million to Sunkist, Gallo, M&M's, Campbells Soup, McDonald's, etc to
advertise their products abroad; $1 billion for Continental Grain, Cargill Inc, Louis Dreyfus Corp. to receive free shipments of wheat,
com and other commodities from US reserves (some commodity program!); $55 million to pay the grazing fees for livestock of wealthy
ranchers. (We pay $7 out of every $9 per animal grazing fee, even for multi-millionaires like J.R. Simplot); $135.6 million to private
forestry companies who owe taxpayers for timber purchased, but are allowed to default with no consequences!; $48 million for land
titles to mining companies who pay less than $4,500 for each title instead of the millions that the land is worth.
We can easily shave $50 to $75 billion off of the Aid for Dependent Corporations program to subsidize the working poor. Then
we need to clean up the Aid for Dependent Children program to rid it of its punitive, destructive nature. With the $10 billion spent to
police moms, we can guarantee all dependent minors support to the age of 18 with no strings attached. This will give moms the RIGHT
to work without losing any of their children's support. Like Social Security Survivor's benefits, we should also guarantee mom support,
as the primary caregiver, until she earns $7000 a year.
After using the exorbitant Aid for Dependent Corporations dole to fund enslaved employees, and guaranteeing all dependent
minors a secure income, we will recognize the value in guaranteeing ALL Americans a secure income. Then ALL Americans will share
in the wealth of this nation and we will find peace and harmony in this country:'Cf
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LESBIAN-ONLY COUNSELING • group or individual counseling. Contact Jo L. Soske M.E.D./M.H.R./I.CA.D.C./L.P.C. at
321-0134.
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS (for possible publication) on the stories and lives of gay & lesbian librarians. Gay and lesbian librarians
have lead highly creative professional lives . They have done much to further the course of gay and lesbian writing, studies and culture.
They have confronted and opposed homophobia, and they have also resisted censorship challenges. Who are these librarians? What
have they to say about their lives, professional work, relationships, users and gay culture? Submit essays or personal accounts
(1250-2500 words max., double-spaced) on themes such as ... coming out experiences at library school; coming out experiences and
working in the public, academic, school or special library; coming out experiences and living with HIV/AIDS: a gay librarian's
perspective; experiences of a gay or lesbian librarian of color; confronting and challenging homophobia, racism, sexism in libraries and
in the community; censorship challenges: victories and defeats. Include a short bio. Anonymous submissions are welcome. Deadline
is March 31, 1995. Send submissions with Canadian SASE to Norman Kester, Editor, 1418-620 Jarvis Street, Toronto, Ontario,
Canada, M4Y 2R8. Call (416) 944-9319 or fax (416) 922-0824 for more information.
UNGRATEFUL is a new zine/newsletter for poor and working class lesbians. Articles about clothes, police brutality, invisibility,
prostitution, the right to housing, and ideas for a discussion group are in the first issue. The zine is free to lesbians making less than
$7500 a year and costs up to $3 for lesbians making more (cash only). For more information write to Ungrateful, P.O. Box 7471,
Minneapolis, MN 55407.
POETRY/SHORT STORY CONTEST. $100.00 prize and publication in each category. Stories 1,500 word maximum. Authors
retain copyrights . Enclose $5.00 reading fee for each entry. Any topic relating to women. Deadline: July 31, 1995. SASE for winner
list. Southern Women's Words Quarterly. Attn: Diane Tait, Box 32294, Raleigh, NC 27622. Qualified non-winners will also be
published.
THE LESBIAN HEALTH BOOK. Submissions are currently being solicited for an anthology of non-fiction essays by lesbians about
their personal experiences with health and health-related issues. Lesbians need a forum for discussing health and how it affects our lives.
We need a space where we can learn and share the tools we need to maximize our health. We seek lesbians of diverse, distinctive
backgrounds to share their personal experiences so that others can learn from their wisdom. We intend this anthology to provide a
healing catharsis for women in pain and to be a source of comfort and strength for women struggling to survive in our health care system.
We will give primary consideration to first person narratives and conversational interviews. Deadline for submissions is April 30, 1995.
Typed, double-spaced manuscripts preferred. Mail submissions and/or queries to: Jocelyn White, M.D. and Marissa Martinez, P.O. Box
10003, Portland, OR 97210. Please include a self-addressed, stamped envelope (SASE) with all submissions or queries.
LESBIAN BOOK CATALOG AVAILABLE. Heartland Books, a company run by two Vermont women, has announced the arrival
of the latest Heartland Books catalog. The 16-page annotated and illustrated Heartland catalog contains approximately 120 book
selections, covering such categories as fiction, biography, relationships, erotica, sexuality and humor. Catalogs are distributed free upon
request by writing to: Linda Weiss and Joyce McKeeman, P.O. Box 1105A, East Corinth, VT 05040.
WANTED: works from Black lesbians for anthology of coming out stories. Your story could be in the form of journal entries,
autobiographical fiction, poetry or whatever way the words came together to describe your coming out. Even if you don't think you're a
writer, your story is important. Send submissions to: Lisa Moore, P.O. Box 861, Decatur, GA 30031. Deadline is June 30, 1995.
SERVING IN SILENCE: NBC is getting a lot of hate mail regarding the Monday Night Movie, Serving Jn Silence that honestly
portrayed the life of the highest ranking woman officer in the U.S. military to be discharged because she said she was a lesbian. Call
NBC at 212-664-3370 to tell them how much you appreciated the broadcast of Serving in Silence.
TELL MTV TO PLAY FAIR: MTV is a frequent advertising site for the DeMoss Foundation's "Life: What a Beautiful Choice" ads
(the latest version plugs the anti-abortion movement's "crisis pregnancy centers," which attempt to harass women out of having
abortions). Yet they refuse to air NARAL's counter-ad, "Choice: What a Beautiful Life," which gives the abortion-rights response. Call
MTV at 212-258-8462 or leave a message on MTV On-line on America On-line and tell them to give equal time to Choice: put "Choice:
What a Beautiful life" on the air!
NOW ANTI-VIOLENCE MARCH ON DC IN APRIL: NOW has announced a rally in Washington, DC on Sunday, April 9. The
agenda is anti-violence: at clinics and against poor women via the Contract On America. They are seeking campus organizers and other
assistance. The march will coincide witl1 NOW's Young Feminist Summit on Violence in DC April 7-8. Contact your local NOW for
more information.
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