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Febru
2000
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By Deb Willis
Don't let the corporate bookstores be your only reading
or information source. The Oklahoma County Metropolitan
Library System (the one you pay for and belongs to you) has
many new titles of interest to our community.
For those pressing real-live concerns, take a look at How
to Legally Protect Yourseljin a Gay/Lesbian & Non-Marital
Cohabitation: The National Gay Lesbian Settlement Kit
(1999). This self-help book is designed to assist you with
preparing a "living-together friendly agreement with your
partner." Finish up that agreement then check out 4 Steps to
Financial Security for Lesbian and Gay Couples (1999) for
some "expert advice forreducingyourtax burden, increasing
your wealth, and protecting each other."
Getting too bogged down in those practical matters?
There's some great new fiction for your reading pleasure. Set
primarily in London during the 1890's, Tipping the Velvet
(1999), the first novel by promising British author Sarah
Waters, explores seven years in the life ofa young woman who
moves beyond the bonds ofVictorian behavior and sexuality.
For the short story reader, the third volume of the Lambda
award -winning lesbian short stories Hers 3: Brilliant New
Fiction by Lesbian Writers (1999) is also on the shelves. It
features stories from noted authors such as Emma Donoghue,
Barbara Wilson, Judith Barrington, and Donna Allegra, as well
as relative newcomers Amelia Maria de la Luz Montes,
Natasha Cho, and Carolyn Clark.
Of course, books aren't the only items available for
checkout at the library. Video titles include The Real Ellen
Story (1998) , a documentary on the rise and demise of the
Ellen Degeneres' sitcom - be sure to continue watching after
the ending credits - and Out ofthe Past (1997), a Sundance
Film Festival award-winner about a teenage lesbian's efforts
to get a "Gay-Straight Alliance" formed in her Salt Lake City
high school. Onthemusicfrontthere'sAniDifranco's Up up
upupupup(l998)and Vlali'sMachjchi (1994) both available
on compact discs.
If you have suggests for material you would like the
Metropolitan Library System to purchase, call your local
system library or call me at the Midwest City Library
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(732-4828 ext. 3)
Volume 18 Number 02
RELEASE
PARTY
Artists contributing to Dust Bowl Lullaby will perform at
aCDReleasePartyat7:30PM,Sunday,February6attheBlue
Door, 2805 N. Mc.Kinley in Oklahoma City. Confirmed
performers include Louise Goldberg, Mary Catherine Reynolds,
Peggy Johnson, Cuchla, Donna DeSalvo, and Wanda Jean.
Malaki will provide a special magical surprise.
Dust Bowl Lullaby can be purchased in Oklahoma City at
Herland, 2312 N. W. 39th, Music Go Round, 23 20 N. Meridian; Diversity Coffee Shop, 1739 NW 16; and the Earth at 49th
and Western and in Norman at Mystic Forest Treasures, 323
White on Campus Corner.
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FEBRUARY 1111/ITS
7:00 PM Saturday, February 5: Two-Spirit
Group at Her/and, 2312 NW 39, Oklahoma City.
7:30 P.M. Sunday, February 6: Dust Bowl
Lullaby CD Release Party. Blue Door, 2805 N.
McKinley, Oklahoma City .
5:30 P.M. Saturday, February 12: Her/and
Supper Club will meet at Chelino's, 4221 S.
Robinson, Oklahoma City. Everyone is
welcome!
4:30 P.M. Sunday, February 20: Hertand Board
Meeting at Herland, 2312 NW 39, Oklahoma
City. Anyone with an interest in learning more
about how Hertand works and becoming more
involved is encouraged to attend.
And Coming soon. ...
Her/and Spring Retreat, May 19-2 f at
Roman Nose State Park
Herland Sister Resources
2312 N.W. 39, OKC, OK 73112
KRIS DELMHORST - APPETrrE
by Ji/I Gamer
One ofthe greatest benefits ofthe Internet, in my opinion,
is getting to hear sound clips of music by artists I've never
heard. Kris Delmhorst is one ofthose artists who I listened to
one day, immediately ordered the CD, and have been thanking
my lucky stars ever since that I found her music.
Delmhorst is best known in the Boston area as a member
ofthe group Vinal Avenue String Band. The group, Kris, Ry
Cavanaugh, and Sean Staples, play bluegrass and old-timey
music at an Irish Pub called TjrnnOg. Her skills on cello, fiddle
and her wonderful voice also keep her in big demand by a lot
of other artists.
Delmhorst grew up in Brooklyn studying classical cello.
After she left New York, she was stuck in a one-room cabin
in aMaine winter after breaking her leg. So, she learned to play
guitarandfiddletokeepfrom goingcrazy. Now,manyyears
later, she's one ofBoston' s most exciting acoustic artists, and
I hope many of you will take the chance and discover what
Boston already knows!
Appetite, released in September of 1998, is Delmhorst' s
second solo effort. The first was a self-released cassette, Swim
for It. Five ofthe songs onAppetite are revised versions from
Swim for It, and six are new recordings. Appetite includes
guest performances by Patty Larkin, Jennifer Kimball, and
Catie Curtis, among others. Itwas produced by Alan Williams
who has also produced Dar Williams and Patty Larkin, among
others.
First I'll start with Delmhorst's voice. Have you heard
Catie Curtis, or even Ani DeFranco, and the way they can go
in and out of their upper range? Delmhorst can do that too,
just flip right in and out. It's pretty cool and I like both ranges
a whole lot. She has a beautiful voice.
Probably even better than her voice though are her songs.
She wrote all the songs on the CD. Her lyrics are intelligent,
not too simple and not so obtuse that you have no idea what
she's singing about. Her songs make me think and that's one
of the reasons, even though I've listened to this CD about a
million times, I'm nottired ofityet. There's only one song on
this CD that I don't particularly like, "Sink or Swim," and
believe me, I treasure CDs like that.
Where do I start? There are so many good songs that I
don't even have a favorite. One ofthe best is "Weatherman"
in which she warns a lover notto depend on herfor everything.
"I make a really bad umbrella just like I said I would, I'm full
of holes and I do not stay put, So don't think I'm keeping you
dry it just is not raining yet, When the clouds come to our sky
we'll both be soaking wet."
The song "North Dakota" reminds me a little of Ani
DeFranco' s style and it' sreally a fun, satisfying song. It begins
very sparsely with just her voice and a drum and then the
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guitars and the fiddle are added. "I love North Dakota cause
you have never been there, and the days go on forever and the
towns all look the same, and I can ride the back roads and I
can walk the main streets, and show someone your picture but
they would not know your name.
"Red Herring" is another fun song, even though it too is
about a flailing relationship. I love the harmonica on the song
and it's the most likely song that' II make you wantto get up
and dance. "You and I are like a red red herring baby, we go
nowhere at all, You and I are like a ten pin bowling, ten pin
bowling you just set us up and watch us fall, You and I are like
a weak cup of coffee, weak cup of coffee on a winter's day,
You and I are like a free lunch, there's no such thing but we
eat it up anyway."
Please, please, please treat yourself to this CD. You
deserveit! You'llprobablyhavetoorderitbecausel'venever
seen itaroundhere. You can order itthrough www.folkweb.com
or send a check or money order for $15 to Kris Delmhorst, Big
BeanMusic,POBox440283, W. Somerville,MA02144. I
HIGHLY recommend it and I hope you love it as much as I
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SECOND FEMINIST ExPosrrION
NATIONWIDE
& WORLDWIDE
Feminist Expo 2000, the first coming-together of the
feminist movement in the 21 •1 century, will be held March 31
- April 2 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA.
Feminist Expo 2000, which is produced by the Feminist
Majority Foundation, has more than 300 cosponsors and 65
international delegations and global participants.
Highlights ofthe expo include four general assemblies that
will be translated into Spanish and French for international
participants; some 250 feminist speakers, celebrities and
entertainers; more than 60 roundtables, symposia, and training
seminars, some ofwhich will be translated; and an interactive
Exhibit Hall organized around thetheme "Visualize a Feminist
Future" which will feature high-tech tools for organizing
women in the next century, book signings by many of your
favorite feminist authors and a Feminist Career Center.
Of particular interest to Oklahoma feminists is the ERA
Countdown Get Together/Reunion at 9 P .M.. on March 31.
The word is going out to as many of those who worked in the
Coundown campaign who can be located, and it should be a
wonderful event.
Registration fees are on a sliding scale. Full fees for
students are $95 (early) and $120 after January 31; and for
others $195 early and $245 later.
More information is available from the F eministMajority
websitewww.feminist.org/expo2000;byphoneat703-5222214; or email at expo2000@feminist.org.
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SAINT SYBIL
Dear St. Sybil,
I guess I'm playing the Devil's Advocate here, but can you
tell me just why we need aBlackHistory Month? {That would
be February, you know). We don't have a White History
Month, after all ..... All ofthis special treatment really starts to
gall me after a while.
Sincerely,
Tired of it
Dear Tired,
I think you are right about the special treatment, but I think
we need Black History Month to take notice ofall ofthe special
treatment African-Americans have received over the years:
Slave ships; Sold children; Sundered families; Jim Crow;
Lynching; Cross burnings; Segregated schools; Second-hand
books and third-class conditions in those segregated schools;
Red lining by insurance companies and mortgage companies;
Tokenism; Discrimination; Discrimination in hiring; Discrimination in college enrollment; Discrimination in housing; Past
injustices; Present inequities (think ten times the punishment
for black drugs-ofchoice compared to white drugs-of choice);
lower pay for harder work; Racial profiling; Racist jokes.....
Special treatment, indeed. Fie upon it, let's vow not to put
up with it any more, and let's for atleast one month ofthe year
CELEBRATE black history, a story of strength, pride, determination, endurance, achievement and triumph over conditions and public and private policy that any group of people
would have been excused for perishing under.
Lift every voice and sing
Till earth and heaven ring,
Ring with the harmonies ofLiberty;
Let our rejoicing rise
High as the listening skies,
Let it resound loud as the rolling sea.
Sing a song full of the faith that the dark past has
taught us,
Sing a song.full of the hope that the present has
brought us,
Facing the rising sun of our new day begun
Let us march on till victory is won.
Cl
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