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VOLUME II, NUMBER 1
JANUARY, 1986
ABOUT LESBIAN LAND
by K.M., Norman
Cheney, Joyce, ed., Lesbian Land. Word Weavers,
$15.00
The dreams, hopes and visions of womyn living
on . the land abound in this well-balanced book.
Joyce Cheney kept notes, agendas and group fly.
ers from the collective she was a member of in
1976. In 1981, two years after the collective dissolved, she packed her car with the necessities
for writing a book and traveled throughout the
United States.
There are 27 lesbian lands represented in Lesbian Land. Several are not in existence now. The
womyn share their stories of womyn living on the
land, bought by womyn, for womyn's use as a
place to work, build, play, love, feel safe, support one another, and grow spiritually. They create a place where womyn are honored and
healed.
HERLAND SISTER RESOURCES, INC.
·1630 N.W. 19, Okla. City, OK 73106
This book was written to present a realisitic
view of what our sisters on · 1esbian land have
experienced. The work is hard, tedious and seemingly unappreciated at times. The womyn have
built buildings when they didn't even know they
could. They have spent hours in their bountiful
gardens on hot, miserable days.
They have struggled with familiar issues such as
competition, jealousy, class difference, power
dynamics, racism, and male children on the land.
It has been a time of growth, learning, pain,
rewards, tears, frustration and joy.
Thanks to these wild womyn with wild visions for
sharing their part of womyn's culture.
WANTE.D
WE HA VE lending library, book
and record sales, coffeehouses, resource
exchange, retreats, newsletter and special
events
The sizes of the communities range from a few
acres to 500-600 acres. In some places one woman owns the land and · welcomes all womyn to visit as long as they respect the land. Other lands
have as many as 20 names on the deed.
The policies or guidelines vary concerning land
payments, use of the land, work and fees for
visiting.
There is a variety in the types of womyn-only
spaces. A spiritual communitiy for womyn and
children of color is located in Arkansas. Womyn's
land for the disabled is in New York, although
they want able-bodied womyn there also. A retreat facility for womyn is ·in Northern California
where they hope to produce their own wine.
While some lands have permanent caretakers who
are able to support themselves on the land yeararound, other lands must be left through harsh
winter months. They leave, sometimes for lack of
buildings ·to keep wimyn warm, or for employment
to make the land payments.
WE NEED inexpensive or
donated space (TAX-DEDUCTIBLE, OF
COURSE!) with handicapped accessibility,
, restroom, temperature control capabilities,
room for library, book and other sales,
coffeehouses,
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LETTERS TO THE . EDITOR
Dear, dear friends:
For .the past month and a · half I have been mentally writing a grand literary effort to you in ·
appreciation for your growing 'support of my music. ConsequenttY, to date,· nothing has flowed
from my mind, · through pen, to paper a~d finally
to Elaine for publication.
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In that I have 1:mthored a song in wh~ch I proclaim "time to do it". (you know, all those things .
like books to · read, 'trips to take, letters to
write, etc.). I am drawing strength from that
song to pen you this letter.
In general, your support of the last year has
kept me hanging on to the dream that even I
can be a working musician. Specifically, the 'retreat to. Osage Hills flained my dying fire and the
en masse appearance· of so maiiy of you to the
Nov. Second Fret concert filled my cup. (Sometime I even us'e cliches:)
Please know
smiling faces
deed, needed
to impart to
me to care.
Sr. Pat's Dominican community was not involved
in this decision. They own several copies of Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence, and have made them
available at community discussions concerning the
topic.
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In Rosemary's and my appearances around the
country, several women have introduced themselves to us as grateful recipients of Sr. Pat's
spiritual direction. Many lesbian nuns, ex-nuns,
gay priests and brothers, and others have found
their way to Tucson after hearing about Sr.
Pat's healing work. It is distressing to think of
our lesbian sisters' and gay brothers' access to
her spiritual guidance being threatened.
Pat O'Donnell will continue giving workshops and
providing holistic counseling on an individual basis, but donations and support are being sought.
To send support to her, write: Pat O'Donnell,
2937 E. 22nd St~. Tucson, AZ 95726-6247.
Nancy Manahan and Rosemary Curb
Editors of Lesbian Nuns: Breaking Silence
that your . loving spirits and your
are special and beautiful and, inby me and the music I am trying
an ·often uncaring world: You help
In gratitude,
Johnson, OKC
Pe~gy
Dear Friends:
Sister Pat O'Donnell has been fired from her job
at Picture Rocks Retreat near Tucson, Arizona,
because of her ·piece in · Lesbian · Nuns: Breaking
Silence. She dis.cussed her contribution to the
book with the ''director,' ·of Picture Rocks, the
Rev. Lyle Konen, long before the book was published, and he had ~een understanding. Although
we don't know all the circumstances, pressure on
Father Konen following th~ book's publication
apparently pushed him to dismiss her.
KRISTINA S. MAREK
announces
the next meeting of the Collective
Open to the Public
Sunday, January 12, 1986, 6:30 p.m.
1630 N.W. 19
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LOCAL NEWS
. *IMJ.?f)RTANT*IMPORTANT*IMPORT ANT*
**The relocation of 14-15,000 Navajo and Hopi
Indians living around Big Mountain in northeastern Arizona has prompted the formation of .a Big
Mountain Support Group in Oklahoma. Contact
Leona Luecke, 2920 N. Robinson, OKC, 73103,
524-5577 for more information.
--from Norman Peace Alternatives, Vol. 1., No. 5
••on December 5, 1985, the United States tested·
a nuclear warhead at the Nevada Test Site. This
was the sixth test since the Soviets began their
testing moratorium on Aug. 6, 1985.
As a reponse to the Soviet moratorium on nuclear weapons testing, the Okla. Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign holds a vigil weekly on
Thursdays, from noon to 1:00 p.m., beginning at
the Journal Record Building, then walking to the
Old Post Office building in downtown OKC.
--from The Scissortail, Vol. 1, No. 6
**Individual Artists of Oklahoma is sponsoring an
informal poetry reading and discussion on Jan.
15, at 8:00 p.m., at IAO, 12 E~st California.
Deadline for entries for the IAO Val en tine mail
art show is Jan. 31. All entries must be sent
through the mail and all entries will be shown.
IAO is open Wednesday, Friday and Saturday,
11:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Phone 232-5514.
--from territory of Oklahoma, Fall 1985
**The OKC Chapter of the National Organization
for Women meets Wednesday, Jan. 8. Call for
the time and place, 528-0400.
Due to the nature of "some people," we will no
longer be forwarding the Berland Newsletter
without receiving address changes directly from
you, our readers.
Over the past year we have found the U.S. Post
Office to be somewhat unreliable about the accuracy and speed of the address changes they
provide us. We have received three notes to
date expressing offense at having been sent our
publication. Obviously, these are not the same
people who at one time expressed a desire to
receive our newsletter. · We get an average of 20
address changes each month (at 30 cents each),
the mafority of which we suppose are negotiated
accurately and which should mean you miss only
one issue. These three mishaps are three too
many since (1) we certainly do not intend to mail
this publication to anyone who does not want it;
(2) we are concerned that readers may move
in with parents or other relatives and not notify
us to discontinue the mailing; (3) the receipt of
unwanted mail can be reported to (some?) federal
agency and jeopardize our non-profit status, given
the nature of "some of the material."
The mailing list for this publication is maintained
with obsessive accuracy, timeliness and confiden- ·
tiality. It is for these reasons that we are discontinuing our forwarding service. "Address Cor.rection Requested and Return Postage Guaranteed" will continue to appear on your mailings,
for purposes of deleting you from our mailing list
unless we have heard from you personally.
We don't want to lose you as a reader! Please
use the change of address form provided on
every newsletter to notify us when· you move.
**The OU women's basketball team is rated 14th
in the country. Oklahoma is 7-0 for the seasop,
with Texas remaining number one.
*IMPORTANT*IMPORTANT*
**The Virginia Slims Tennis Tournament will be
held in OKC on Feb. 24. Thirty7two women will
participate in the tournament.
BERLAND
presents
MARY
**NOTE TO PATIENTS OF EDWINA JOHNSON,
D.D.S.: She is changing locations. Please contact
Dr. Johnson at 752-9604. Thank you.
Friday, January 31, 1986
8:00 p.m.
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January marks Herland's one year
anniversary as a non-profit collective.
Share birthday cake and toast to a
second great year.
NATIONAL NEWS
ANOREXIA/BULIMIA REPORT
The Program in Women's Studies at the University of Northern Colorado will hold its 10th annual Women's Studies Conference on Friday, Jan.
31, in Greeley, Colo. The topic of this year's
conference is "Feminist Theologians: The Search
and the Revelation." Registration is $20, $15 for
students. For further information, contact Thersa
Malumphy, Program in Women's Studies, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO 80639.
Two million women have suffered from anorexia
or bulimia, reports a new national poll. Another
one million teenage women also share these
problems.
Dr. Sue Bailey, who served as medical consultant
to this Gallup poll, said that it "dispels the myth
that this is only a teenage disease." She went
on to comment that 17% of the respondents
admitted to "excessive exercise" to burn off calories taken in during binges. This question had
been written "explicity to mean exercise for
'several hours' at a time."
A conference and museum exhibit entitled
"Daughters of the Desert: Women Anthropologists
in the Southwest, 1880-1980" will be held at the
University of Arizona, March 13-14, 1986. Registration is $5. For further information, contact
SIROW, 265 Modern Languages, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721, 602-621-7338.
Plainswoman is offering $200 in prizes in its
fourth annual fiction contest. Storiu must be
about women--realistic stories, fantasies, stories
of humor, conflict, suspense. Winning entries will
appear in the June-July 1986 issues, and all entries will be considered for publication in future
issues. Submissions must be one story of 4000 or
fewer words. Deadline is March 15. Mail typed,
double-spaced entries and SASE to Plainswomen
Contest, Box 8027N, Grandforks, ND 58202. Copies of previous summer fiction issues are available for $2 each.
Gay American Indians is now accepting contributions for a book-length anthology documenting
the past and present lives of gay American Indian men and women. The GAi anthology, the
first of its kind, will include essays, oral histories, stories, poetry and artwork. "Our history
project has already gathered references on traditional gay roles in more than 100 different tribal
societies throughout North America," a spokesperson said. "As gay men and women, we often had
a special place in the social, religious and economic life of our communities." Write Gay American Indians, 1347 Divisadero St., #312, San
Francisco, CA 94115.
Emergency Money for Unemployed Women is
Any age qualifies,
being offered by Altrusa.
older women are given preference, for $50-$500.
Must demonstrate plans to become employed
within a year of the award.
Write: Altrusa
International Foundation, Inc., 8 South Michigan
Ave., Chicago, IL 60603.
Silverleaf Press, a newly formed feminist publish·
er, is seeking short stories for a collection about
women with "nontraditional" lives, .iobs, relationships, attitudes, politics, living situations. They
are looking for "stories of survival outside the
mainstream of expectations in our culture." Send
stories (with SASE) to Silverleaf Press, P.O. Box ·
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70189, Seattle, WA 98107.
Bailey conducted a survey in the Washington
area earlier which found that 43% of college
women would consider trying to throw up after
binging, and 28% of eighth graders said the
same. Bailey added, "It shows they are vulner·
able to developing eating disorders."
Like feminists, she blames the increasingly thin
"ideal" of women and the current fitness craze,
plus the myth that women ought to be perfect,
as the reasons why women succomb. Bulimia and
anorexia can cause fatal heart irregularities and
other problems, such as pervasive tooth decay
(from stomach acid of vomiting), gastric ulcers,
cessation of menstrual periods and loss of
fertility.
--from Washington Post
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CLINIC
VIOLENCE FLARING UP
Washington, D.C.--The National Abortion Federation reports that violence against abortion clinics
rose last month with three major arsons reported
in one week.
A Charlotte, . N.C., clinic sustained
$20,000
worth of fire damage on Oct. 25. The Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms is pursuing the
possibility of conspiracy in the arsons of two
Baton Rouge, La., clinics. One clinic was leveled,
with $75,000 damage; the other suffered $20,000
damage.
NAF spokesperson Sammie Moshenberg said that
things had been "quiet for a while" before the
recent spate of arsons, but she indicated that
harassment of clients at clinics had continued
steadily.
The Guardian indicates that, for e,xample, Clinic
Eva, a private facility in a Los Angeles suburb,
is subject to antiabortion demonstrations every
weekend. Recent incidents at that clinic include
a woman's bursting into the recovery room to
take pictures of clients: a man dressed in a redspattered butcher apron, waving a fake meat
cleaver, invading the Planned Parenthood office
next door to the clinic and chasing clinic
patients around a parking lot; and one of the
antiabortionist leader's being threatened that
"God will see to it that this clinic burns down."
--from Off Our Backs, Vol. XV, No. 11, Paula
Krebs
SHIRLEY CHISHOLM BACK IN POLITICS
After a long-time absence from the national political scene, Shirley Chisholm, former congresswoman from New York, is .ba'ck.
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Asked if she would accept a position on the
Democratic Party's ticket if it were offered to
her in 1988, Chisholm said that it. is too early to
consider it.
"After 27 years in the political
arena, I have come to realize that racism is still
very much alive," she said. "If I were a white
woman with the credentials I . have, I might have
been on the ticket instead of Geraldine Ferraro.
The combination of being black and female · still
seems to get in the way of many bigoted personages in 'this country, even though I have proven
myself and know that J have the attributes and
requisites for leadership. I live my life one . day
at a time now and if it's. to be, it will be."
"The women's movement is not over," she went
on. "Sisters, we are semi-paralyzed! The backlash
on the current scene, primarily fueled b,y the
fundamentalists,
has· managed
to · dominate
American politics.
"And the older women, including myself, look on
with a certain sense of anxiety as the younger
seneration of women adopt an attitude of 'We
. ,don't-,. nee~. a women's movement, we are doing
. 'fairly well.' And with their Calvin Klein jeans
and their yuppie outlook, they dQn't seem to realize ·that what is here today may be gone tomorrow unless there is eternal vigilance and an in, volvement in the situation.
"So, black women in this country have decided
that by 1988, if they desire to ignore us at the
conventions, they can ignore us; but they're going to know that we're . going to be playing a
very important role at whatever convention, and
black women do not need any more surrogates.
We're saying, 'No permanent friends, no perma-'
nent enemies, just permanent issues.'"
--from Plexus, Vol.
Katherine Davenport
XII,
No.
10,
excerpts:
AIDS HITS BLACKS HARDER
Contrary to the myth that AIDS is a "white
man's disease," statistics show that black persons
in the United States are ·suffering in disproportionately high numbers from the disease, and that
the disproportion is even higher among newborns.
Dr. Wayne Greaves, chief of infectious diseases
at Howard University, told The New York Times
that black people are thought to account for
about 25% of the 14,000 AIDS cases reported in
the U.S. since 1979. Blacks make up 12.5% of
the total U.S. population.
Of the some 200 children with AIDS in this
country, 56% are black, Greaves said. Such cases
typically involve a mother with the AIDS virus
passing the disease along to her unborn child.
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