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volume twen~-f'our number one
amnesty international okc film fest
If you are already a human rights activist, or
just interested in the state of our world, you
won't want to miss the Amnesty International
Film Festival on Saturday January 14 and
Sunday January 15. The festival features 7
• compelling and powerful films that examine
some of the most important issues in the
world today. Challenging and inspiring,
these real life stories bring us together with
concerns we face as citizens of the world .
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amnesty international
On Saturday January 14 the films will focus
on international topics. starting at 11 am with information and
coffee followed by "Dreaming of Tibet," an intimate documentary that
follows Tibetan exiles on their arduous journey. The story of Tibetan exiles turns around one very dramatic scene: the flight from Tibet over the
Himalayas. A group of exiles describe how this pivotal moment has defined their lives, and how, despite apparently living ordinary lives, they
are deeply involved in working for the survival of their culture outside of
their homeland. Three equally powerful human rights films follow and
the day ends with a discussion and closing at 4:45 p.m.
Sunday January 15 the films shown will be in support of Amnesty's
global campaign to stop violence against women. The festival
starts at 1 pm with information and coffee, followed by a feature length
documentary that tells the story of Nepalese girls trapped in the international child sex trade. "The Day my God Died" is followed by two additional thought provoking films . Following the final discussion the festival
closes at 5 pm.
Amnesty International is the world 's largest grassroots human rights organization with over 1.8 million members worldwide. Amnesty International researches and takes action to prevent and end human rights
abuses, promotes the freedom of conscience and expression, and works
to ends discrimination, all within the context of their work to promote all
human rights
The film festival is free and will be shown at the Ronald J. Norick Library,
located in downtown Oklahoma City at 300 Park Avenue . For more information contact Katy Berrecloth at (405 ) 608 0383 .
The Her/and Voice is a publication of Her/and Sister Resources, 2312 NW 39th, OKC OK 73112. Our bookstore/lending library is open
Saturdays from 7-5 pm Call us at (405/ 521-9696 or ematl us at herlandsisters@coxnet Visit us on the web at wwwherlandsisters org.
supper club
The owners of More Than Muffins , on Classen, closed that popular restaurant this year and have recently opened a new one,
Cafe de
Brazil on NW 1 1th and Walker. It opened to rave reviews in November and we will sample their fine South American cuisine on Saturday, January 14, at 8 pm. Our activity for the evening will be before
Supper Club. We will also go to the 6 pm
OCU V. SNU basket-
ball game at OCU's Freede Center,
NW 27th between Kentucky
and Blackwelder. These are two of the top ranked women's teams in
the NAlA and it will be an exciting game. If you would like to carpool
to the game and then to dinner, show up at Herland at 5:30 pm .
video night
Join us on Saturday, January 28th at 7
Wal-Mart: The
High Cost of low Price, a
pm as we view
brilliant new film by Robert Greenwald
that tells the real story of the corrosive
effects that Wal-Mart wreaks upon the
communities in which it operates and
the men and women it employs .
This is an engrossing, muckraking
documentary ... but if you're expecting an angry diatribe, you're going to
be disappointed. WAL-MART: The High
Cost of Low Price takes the viewer on a deeply personal journey into
the everyday lives of families struggling to fight goliath. From a small
business owner in the Midwest to a preacher in California, from workers in Florida to a poet in Mexico, dozens of film crews on three continents bring the intensely personal stories of an assault on families and
American values.
scrabble night
Did you know a Canadian mathematician won the 2005 World Scrabble Championship by scoring 140 points for the word twistier7 We
might not have any plays that score quite that high, but you never
know Join us on Saturday, January 21, at 6 pm as we hit the
boards for an evening of fun and mental challenge. Remember, pizza
is ordered as soon as most of the players have arrived.
website of the month
www~amnesty.org
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ocu reading and discussion series on women's
autobiographies
"The Journey Inward: Women's Autobiography" is the
theme for the Let's Talk About it Oklahoma reading and discussion series hosted by Oklahoma City University with support
from the Oklahoma Humanities Council. A dancer, a scientist,
and a pioneer are a few of the fascinating women participants
will encounter, joining them on their journeys (both literally
and figuratively) into the heart of personhood . These five provocative and entertaining writers are some of our country's finest and most entertaining modern autobiographers, and their
works will challenge us to explore the relationships among their
lives and ours.
Oklahoma City University invites the community to come enjoy
this five-part series of lively book discussions Although participants may attend several sessions, all are encouraged to participate in the whole series to grasp the richness in
this series theme. At each session, a humanities scholar will
make a 30-40 minute presentation on the book in the context
of the theme. Small group discussion will follow with experienced discussion leaders. At the end, everyone will come together for a brief wrap-up. Anyone interested in participating is
encouraged to pre-register and borrow the reading selections.
To reserve your books, contact Harbour Winn at (405) 2085472 , or via e-mail at hwinn@okcu.edu. Information can also
be found on the web site of the Center for Interpersonal Studies
through Film & Literature: www okrn edtJ/film-liU
The series will be held in room 151 in Walker Center on the
Oklahoma City University campus from 7 to 9 PM on Tuesdays,
beginning January 10 and continuing on alternate Tuesdays
through February 21 . The final session will then be one week
later on February 28. Books, theme materials, and services for
this series are provided by "Let's Talk About It Oklahoma," a
cooperative project of the Oklahoma Library Association and
the Oklahoma Humanities Council. Funding for this series is
provided by a grant from the Oklahoma Humanities Council
and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Readings and dates:
January 10
Eudora Welty's One Writer's Beginning
Pulitzer Prize-winning Welty, one of our country's most distinguished writers, reflects upon memory as "that most wonderful
interior vision, " the very stuff of autobiography. She also describes memory as "terribly important, a source and a force,
too." Her richly detailed glimpse into her Southern childhood
yields a book that recounts inward and outward journeys, a
short gem that can catalyze the process of reflection for each of
us as well as launch our series theme. The scholar offering background and perspectives will be Dr. Elaine Smokewood .
January 24
Letters of a Woman Homesteader by Elinore Priutt Stewart
The frontier journal of Stewart, full of the tang of the prairies,
tells the story of a pioneer woman who helped settle the American West. First published in 1914, these letters of an "ordinary''
woman raised in Oklahoma reveal a born
writer who taught herself to read and write.
The weaving together in her reflections of
ebullience and reticence, joy and sorrow, optimism and perseverance, makes modern life
seem bland indeed . The scholar offering background and perspectives will be Dr. Harbour
Winn.
February 7
Zora Neal Hurston's Dust Tracks on a Road
Author of Their Eyes Were Watching God, one
of the most acclaimed novels in American literature, Hurston writes an exuberant account
of her journey from childhood poverty in the
rural south to prominence in the Harlem Renaissance, and then on to a pauper's death.
Collector of southern folklore and traditions,
she explores issues of identity, education, family, love, motherhood, work, voice, slavery,
activism, and the double jeopardy of being
black and female. The scholar offering background and perspectives will be Dr. Regina
Bennett.
February 21
My Life, by Isadora Duncan
Expressing herself in dance all her life, Duncan
lived on the edge of convention, of financial
security, and of intellectual currents. Her audacity, intensity, and extravagance always
amaze us. And yet, she writes of her impoverished childhood , her longing for education,
her struggles to balance career and personal
relationships, her lifelong quest for artistic fulfillment and recognition, and her hope for security and understanding. Candid and brave, a
book not to miss! The scholar offering background and perspectives will be Dr. Jennifer
Kidney.
February 28
Margaret Mead's Blackberry Winter
In The Feminine Mystique, Betty Friedan called
Mead the "most powerful influence on modern
women ." Although we now have others who
symbolize woman as thinkers, Mead and her
autobiography remain among the most famous. Interestingly, she focuses on family, not
career in Blackberry Winter. Rather than the
exotic South Seas people she studied, she instead reflects on her personal life as granddaughter, daughter, student, wife, mother,
and finally, grandmother. The scholar offering
background and perspectives will be Dr. Lloyd
Musselman.
two gay cowboys hit a home run
by frank rich, newyork times
WHAT if they held a culture war and no one fired a shot? That's the compelling
tale of "Brokeback Mountain." Here is a heavily promoted American movie depicting two men having sex - the precise sex act that was still a crime in some states
until the Supreme Court struck down sodomy laws just two and a half years ago but there is no controversy, no Fox News tar and feathering , no roar from the
religious right. "Brokeback Mountain" has instead become the unlikely Oscar favorite, propelled by its bicoastal sweep of critics' awards, by its unexpected
dominance of the far less highfalutin Golden Globes and, perhaps most of all, by
the lure of a gold rush. Last weekend it opened to the highest per-screen average
of any movie this year.
Those screens were in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco - hardly national
bellwethers . But I'll rashly predict that the big Hollywood question posed on the
front page of The Los Angeles Times after those stunning weekend grosses - "Can
'Brokeback Mountain' Move the Heartland?" - will be answered with a resounding
yes. All the signs of a runaway phenomenon are present, from an instant parody
on "Saturday Night Live" to the report that a multiplex in Plano, Tex. , sold more
advance tickets for the so-called "gay cowboy picture" than for "King Kong." 'The
culture is finding us," James Schamus, the "Brokeback Mountain" producer, told
USA Today. "Grown-up movies have never had that kind of per-screen average .
You only get those numbers when you're vacuuming up enormous interest from
all walks of life ."
In the packed theater where I caught "Brokeback Mountain," the trailers included
a National Guard recruitment spiel, and the aud ience was demographically all
over the map. The culture is seeking out this movie not just because it is a powerful, four-hankie account of a doomed love affair and is beautifully acted by everyone, starting with the riveting Heath Ledger. The X factor is that the film delivers a
story previously untold by A-list Hollywood . It's a story America may be more than
ready to hear a year after its president cynically flogged a legally superfluous jand
unpassable) constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage for the sole
purpose of whipping up the basest hostilities of his electoral base.
By coincidence, "Brokeback Mountain," a movie that is all the more subversive for
having no overt politics, is a rebuke and antidote to that sord id episode . Whether
it proves a movie for the ages or as transient as "Love Story," it is a landmark in
the troubled history of America's relationship to homosexuality. It brings something different to the pop cu lture marketplace at just the pivotal moment to catch
<J wave.
He<Jven knows there has been no shortage of gay-themed entertainment in
recent years. To the tedious point of ubiquity, gay characters, many of them upd<Jted reincarnations of the stereotypical fops and fussbudgets of 1930 's studio
comedies, are at least as well represented as other minorities in prime-time television. Entertainment Weekly has tallied nine movies, including "Capote" and
"Rent" with major gay characters this year. But "Brokeback Mountain," besides
being more sexually candid than the norm, is not set in urban America, is not
comic or camp, and, unlike the breakout dramas "Philadelphia" and "Angels in
America," is pre-AIDS.
As far as I can tell, the only blowhard in the country to turn up on television to
declare culture war on "Brokeback Mountain" also has an affiliation with the
American Family Association. By contrast, as Salon reported last week, other family-values ayatollahs have made a conscious decision to ignore the movie, lest
they drum up ticket sa les by turning it into a SpongeBob SquarePants cause celebre . Robert Knight of Concerned Women for America imagined that the film
might just go away if he and his peers stayed mum . Audiences "don't want to see
two guys going at it," he told Salon . "It's that simple ."
So he might wish. The truth is that the millions of moviegoers soon to swoon
over the star-crossed gay cowboys of "Brokeback Mountain" can probably put up
with the sight of "two guys going at it. "
gayol<c.com
presents the
state of our
community
2006
culture skirmishes
The American Family Association of Tupelo. Miss .• a leader in the 1997
anti-"Ellen" crusade, claimed this month that its threat of a boycott had
- led Ford to stop advertising its Jaguar and Land Rover lines in glossy gay
magazines. Last week Ford under fire from gay civil-rights organizations and no doubt many other mainstream customers. essentially
told
the would-be boycotters to get lost by publicly announcing
that it would not only resume its Jaguar and Land Rover ads in gay publications. but advertise other brands in them as well.
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