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Serving the womyn' s
community
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since 1983
Herland Celebrates
International Women's Day 2010
Herland All That Jazz
Party Celebrating International Women's Day
with an
All That Jazz Party
Saturday, March
6th
6-9 pm
tThe Boom Club and Restaurant
Saturday, March 6, 6- 9 pm
The Boom Club and Restaurant, 22 18 NW 3 9th Street
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Music by the Dynamics
Dancing, hors d'oeuvres cash bar
Artwork silent auction
Festive and fancy attire
encouraged!
$12 donation at the door
Herland Supper Club 8:
Game Night
Saturday March 13 5:30 pm
Los Amigos, 4101 N. MacArt hur
Joi n us as we try out a new place
(for us) t his mont h. Los Amigos is a
family-owned Mexican restaurant
that ' s been recommended t o us
several times. Meet at Herland at 5
pm if you wish to carpool or at the
restaurant at 5:30 pm . Games afterwards at Herland at 7:30 pm.
Many thanks to our friends at Cimarron Alliance Foundation
for co-sponsoring this event.
International Women's Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and
social achievements of women past, present and future . In some places, like China, Russia, Vietnam and Bulgaria, IWD is a national holiday. For more information about International Women's Day check out www .i nternationalwomensday.com
Save the Dates!
Herland Spring Ret reat May
14- 16 Roman Nose Stat e Park
Herland Fall Retreat October
22- 24 Lake Eufau la Stat e Park
The Herland Voice is a publication of Herland Sister Resources, 2312 NW 39th, OKC, OK 73112 . Our bookstore/lending library is
open Saturdays from 1-5 pm. Call us at (405) 521-9696 or email us at herland@herlandsisters.org. Visit us on the web at
www .herlandsisters .org.
Okla. Strikes Down Law That Would Have
'Undressed' Women
From ABCnews.go. com
T
he Oklahoma County District Court ruled on February 19 that a
law passed by the legislature in 2009 that imposed restrictions
on abortion is unconstitutional, according to the Center for Reproductive Rights, which had challenged the law.
A Michigan protester's murder sparks national fury over the abortion
debate. The court ruled that bill 1595 addressed too many topics, and
therefore violated the Oklahoma constitution's "single-subject" rule.
One of the most contentious parts of the law was the creation of a
Web site whereby any woman who had had an abortion would have
been required to provide personal details pertaining to her choice,
including her relationships, financial situation and motivation for
seeking an abortion.
The center filed a challenge against the law in September on behalf of
former state representative Wanda Stapleton and Shawnee, Okla.,
resident Lora Joyce Davis.
"A friend said it best: It's like undressing women in public, exposing
their most personal issues on the Internet," said Lora Joyce Davis, one
of the co-plaintiffs.
In addition to mandating the new Web site for abortion-related demographics, the legislation also redefined various abortion terms,
banned sex-selective abortion and created other new reporting requirements.
The law went into effect in November 2009 and the Web site would
have launched in March.
"We are very pleased with today's ruling," said Jennifer Mondino, staff
attorney at the Center for Reproductive Rights. "The government has
no business running a grand inquisition into the private lives of Oklahoma women and wasting a quarter of a million dollars of taxpayers'
money in the process."
Called the Statistical Reporting of Abortions Act, the law would have
required all doctors to file information on a woman's age, marital
status, education level, number of previous pregnancies, cost and
type of abortion , as well as the mother's relationship to the father,
with the Oklahoma Department of Health.
Though it did not ask for names, the form posed 37 questions detailing
a woman's personal situation. Critics said the first eight questions
alone could easily lead to the identification of a woman who lived in
one of the state's many small communities .
Doctors who failed to provide information would face criminal sanctions and loss of their medical licenses.
Last year, the organization used the same argument to successfully
strike down a 2008 law that would have required women seeking abortions to have an ultrasound within an hour of the proceedings and require doctors to describe the picture to their patients in great detail - down to the number of fingers and toes.
Monday March 2, 7 pm OKC
Pride Meeting electing new
board members at the Days
Inn, 1-44 & N May
Monday March 2, 7 pm PFLAG
OKC/Edmond Channing Unitarian Universalist Church,
2800 West 15th Street in Edmond
Tuesday March 3, 5: 30 pm
Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish
the Death Penalty, Boulevard
Cafeteria, NW 11 & Dewey,
OKC
Thursday March 11, 11: 30 am
Louise Goldberg fr Mary Reynolds at Noontunes Downtown
OKC Library
Thursday March 11, 7 pm
Norman PFLAG St Stephens
Methodist Church, 1801 W
Brooks in Norman
Friday March 12, 8 to 11 pm
Miss Brown to You UCO Jazz
Lab in Edmond, $7
Friday March 26, 7-9 pm
Louise Goldberg fr Mary Reynolds Full Circle Bookstore, 50
Penn Place, no cover
Wednesday March 31, 9 am-2
pm LGBT Lobby Day at the
Oklahoma State Capitol.
Wednesday nights 7-9 pm
"A Tribute to Mary Daly"
Women only study group
Church of the Open Arms,
3131 N Penn
The First International Women's Day
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n 1869 British MP John Stuart Mill was the first person in Parliament to call for women's right to
vote. On 19 September 1893 New Zealand became the first country in the world to give women the
right to vote. Women in other countries did not enjoy this equality and campaigned for justice for
many years.
In 1910 a second International Conference of Working Women was held in Copenhagen. A woman
named Clara Zetkin (Leader of the 'Women's Office' for the Social Democratic Party in Germany) taInternational bled the idea of an International Women's Day. She proposed that every year in every country there
Women's Day should be a celebration on the same day - a Women's Day - to press for their demands. The conference of over 100 women from 17 countries, representing unions, socialist parties, working women's
clubs, and including the first three women elected to the Finnish parliament, greeted Zetkin's suggestion with unanimous approval and thus International Women's Day was the result.
The very first International Women's Day was launched the following year by Clara Zetkin on 19 March (not 8 March). The
date was chosen because on 19 March in the year of the 1848 revolution, the Prussian king recognized for the first time the
strength of the armed people and gave way before the threat of a proletarian uprising. Among the many promise he made,
which he later failed to keep, was the introduction of votes for women.
Plans for the first International Women's Day demonstration were spread by word of mouth and in the press. During the
week before International Women's Day two journals appeared: The Vote for Women in Germany and Women's Day in Austria. Various articles were devoted to International Women's Day: 'Women and Parliament', The Working Women and Municipal Affairs', 'What Has the Housewife got to do with Politics?', etc. The articles thoroughly analyzed the question of the
equality of women in the government and in society. All articles emphasized the same point that it was absolutely necessary
to make parliament more democratic by extending the franchise to women.
Success of the first International Women's Day in 1911 exceeded all expectation. Meetings were organized everywhere in
small towns and even the villages halls were packed so full that male workers were asked to give up their places for women .
Men stayed at home with their children for a change, and their wives, the captive housewives, went to meetings. During
the largest street demonstration of 30,000 women, the police decided to remove the demonstrators' banners so the women
workers made a stand. In the scuffle that followed , bloodshed was averted only with the help of the socialist deputies in
Parliament. In 1913 International Women's Day was transferred to 8 March and this day has remained the global date for
International Women's Day ever since.
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College rather than admit men to some of her classes, died on January 3 in Gardner, Mass. She was 81 and had lived for
many years in Newton Centre, Mass. Professor Daly maintained a long, often uneasy relationship with Boston College,
the Jesuit institution where she had taught theology since the 1960s.
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Daly challenged orthodoxies from the start. She came to wide attention in 1968 with
the publication of "The Church and the Second Sex" (Harpe:- E:-~), in which she
argued that the Catholic Church had systematically oppressed women for centuries.
Her next book, "Beyond God the Father: Toward a Philosophy of Women's Liberation" (Beacon, 1973), explored misogyny i n religion in general.
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images that create oppression and the world of communion in true being. She labeled
these two areas Foreground and Background respectively. Daly considered the Foreground the realm of patriarchy and the
Background the realm of Woman . She argued that the Background is under and behind the surface of the false reality of the
Foreground. The Foreground, for Daly, was a distortion of true being, the paternalistic society in which she said most people
live. It has no real energy, but drains the "life energy" of women residing in the Background. In her view, the Foreground ereates a world of poisons that contaminate natural life. She called the male-centered world of the Foreground necrophilic, hating
all living things. In contrast, she conceived of the Background as a place where all living things connect.
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One of the Best Kept Secrets-Fly
Fishing in Oklahoma!
T
o commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots,
OutHistory.org is offering five prizes for
the best online exhibits on the local LGBTQ
histories of villages, towns, counties, cities, or states in the US since June 1969. We
expect this contest to draw attention to
LGBTQ histories outside of major cities, as
well as in major metropolitan areas. We
hope to receive at least one submission
from every state, but there is no limit on
the number of entries per state.
Prizes range from $5,000 for the first place
winner, $4,000 for the second, $3,000 for
the third, $2,000 for the fourth, and
$1 ,000 for the fifth place winner. To be
eligible for the contest, first drafts of exhibits must be posted on OutHistory by
March 31, 2010. A panel of judges, convened by OutHistory.org will assess the
exhibits and the top five exhibits announced on June 28, 2010.
This contest is supported by the Center for
Lesbian and Gay Studies at the City of New
York Graduate Center and funded by the
Arcus Foundation.
New PFLAG OKC/
Edmond Location
P
FLAG OKC/EDMOND meets ?pm
every first Tuesday of the
month. Come join us Tuesday
March 2nd at our new location at Channing Unitarian Universalist Church at
2800 W. 15th St, Edmond, OK. For more
information go to our national website
www.pflag.org and click on Oklahoma. To reach us directly call (405)525
-3800 or email us at
www.pflagokc@yahoo.com .
A
re you interested in
learning to fly fish or
even improve your fly fishing
skills? You're in luck! Jean has
offered to instruct an introductory class on fly fishing using a
fly rod and / or ultra-light equipment. The first class will be at
Herland from 2 to 5 pm on Saturday, March 6.
Roman Nose State Park stocks
their lake with trout, and at
the Spring Retreat on May 15, Jean will take the group to
practice their new talents. If this time and / or date don't
work, other dates may be possible. Please call 521-1556 or
SAHatwork@aol.com to reserve your space so we'll know how
many to expect.
OGLPC is Reorganizing
T
he Oklahoma Gay and Lesbian Political Caucus (OGLPC) is an
established and respected organization, non-profit and nonpartisan, known primarily for the Voter Guide that is mailed to over
3,000 individuals, businesses, and organizations. The Voter Guide is
the results of a survey sent to candidates for a variety of offices,
asking about issues important to the LGBT community. OGLPC has
been a supporter of many community events, such as the Pride Parade & Festival, and rallies for LGBT rights.
In September 2009 the board of OGLPC discussed disbanding the organization, due to the resignation of the Male Co-chair, Paul Thompson, and the Treasurer, and lack of participation by the members,
primarily in the mailings to members and friends. Letters were sent
to 200 paid members announcing the dilemma, and requesting a response.
A Town Hall style meeting was held February 15, 2010 to decide the
fate of the organization. As a result, the organization has revived,
and a new board will be elected at the regular meeting on April 5,
which is the second Monday of the month. A slate of people willing
to serve as Female Co-Chair, Male Co-Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer
will be presented to the board at the March 8 meeting. The current
Female Co-Chair, Jeanne Flanigan, and Secretary, Victor Gorin, are
willing to continue to serve.
The organization will be updating their website, mailing procedures,
and activities to reflect the goals of the new board and membership.
Contact Jeanne Flanigan at ok.glpc@yahoo.com to volunteer, to
serve on the board and/or as an officer. Visit the website:
www .oglpc.org , and join the Yahoo Group or Facebook group.
"A rose is a rose"
W
e're all familiar with that famous quotation. But recent polls have indicated that that might not be the case any more.
If you think there's no difference in using "gay or lesbian" and the word "homosexual" take a look at the following
polls...
According to a recent NY Times/CBS poll, 59 percent of Americans say they now support allowing "homosexuals" to serve in the U.S. military, including 34 percent who say they strongly favor
that. Ten percent say they somewhat oppose it and 19 percent say they strongly oppose it.
But the numbers differ when the question is changed to whether Americans support "gay men
and lesbians" serving in the military. When the question is asked that way, 70 percent of Americans say they support gay men and lesbians serving in the military, including 19 percent who
say they somewhat favor it. Seven percent somewhat oppose it, and 12 percent strongly oppose
it. This poll was conducted among a random sample of 1,084 adults nationwide, interviewed by
telephone February 5-10, 2010.
An ABC-Washington Post poll on the same subject revealed several sharp demographic divides.
Men (65 percent) and seniors (69 percent) are far less likely than are women (84 percent) and
young adults (81 percent under age 30) to say that gays should be allowed to serve if they have
disclosed their sexual orientation . Knowing a gay person makes a big difference: Among those who say they have a gay friend or
family member, 81 percent support allowing gay people to serve openly, compared with 66 percent who say they do not know
someone who is gay. The poll was conducted by telephone Feb. 4-8 among a random national sample of 1,004 adults. The margin
of sampling error is plus or minus three percentage points.
They say "Thoughts become things, so be careful what you think." Perhaps we need to be more careful of what we say.
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please join The Equality Network (TEN) for LGBT Lobby Day at the State Capitol on Wednesday, March 31st, from 9 a.m.-2 p.m. Our legislators are considering important pro-LG BT legislation on hate crimes and domestic partner
benefits for public employees. It is critical that we show them that Oklahomans
support fairness and equality for the LGBT community .
We will first convene in Room 534A (5th floor) for a Lobbying 101 /Plan of Action
workshop. Refreshments will be served. We will then lobby individual legislators.
Following lunch on your own, we will depart the Capitol at 2 p.m.
Will you spend a day working for equality? See http:/ /eqfed.org/ten/events/LGBTLobbyDay/details.tcl
No matter who you are o
are on life's journey, y
welco.me here! .
- Reverend Dr. Kathy Mc~allie
www,.openarms.org
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