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Herland Voice February 2010

UCO Women’s and Gender Studies Conference

February 27, 2010

The Association of Women’s Studies at the University of Central Oklahoma will host a Women’s and Gender Studies Conference on Saturday, February 27 from 8 am to 5 pm, at the College of Liberal Arts. There will be scholarly presentations from students and faculty from across the country, and a Charity Luncheon benefiting the Women in Military Service Memorial in Washington, DC. The Deadline for registration for presenters is February 6, and guest registration is due February 12.

The featured presenters include Betty Harris, Director of Women’s Studies at the University of Oklahoma; Brittany Novotny, Attorney at Law and candidate for the Oklahoma State House of Representatives (currently occupied by Sally Kern); and Andrea Gibson, poet and performance artist. The featured speaker at the Charity Luncheon is Major General LaRita Aragon of the Air National Guard, the first woman to become a General in the ANG.

Registration fees are $50 for student presenters, $40 for guests, $30 for UCO students, and $30 for guests attending the Charity Luncheon. Presenters will receive a conference T–shirt and access to the conference and luncheon. Guests will receive a conference T–shirt and access to the conference.

The College of Liberal Arts is located at the intersection of N Baumann Ave and E Campbell St. 2 blocks north of Edmond Road, on the UCO campus. There is free parking in the Red Commuter lots on the east and north sides of the Liberal Arts building.

For more information, online registration and driving directions go to: www.ucoaws.com or email ucoaws@gmail.com.

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Herland Celebrates

International Women’s Day with an All That Jazz Party

6–9 p.m., Saturday, March 6th At the Boom Club and Restaurant 2218 NW 39

Music by the Dynamics. Drinks, dancing, hors d’oeuvres. Artwork silent auction.

Gay attire encouraged! More details next month.

International Women’s Day (IWD) is a global day celebrating the economic, political and social achievements of women past, present and future.

For more information about International Women’s Day check out www.internationalwomensday.com

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16th Annual Norman Mardi Gras Parade

A Family Friendly Tradition

6:45 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 13th

King & Queen of Mardi Gras Senator John & Beth Sparks

Theme: “All You Need Is Love”

Norman’s Historic Downtown Arts District

Celebrating the arts and community spirit with a nighttime moving carnival featuring revelers, bands, performers, dancers, animals, and some things we just can’t describe. Entries Include: Artists, performers, families, friends, businesses, non–profits, faith groups, civic and youth orgs.

Prizes Awarded

Best Overall – The Fabulous Flanigan, “Best of” for In Theme, Music, Marchers, Lights

Funniest Entry & Unidentified Rolling Object, King & Queen’s Choice, Norman’s Wackiest Family

Plus, Doggiegras–you and your best friend leashed together and in costume

Route: We step off from the Santa Fe Depot on Jones St and go north, then east along the 100 & 200 blocks of Main to Crawford, south to Comanche, and back around the block for another loop.

$10 Registration Fee for entries – Doggiegras is free – contact NormanMardiGrasParade@gmail.com for a registration form or call Ed Kearns at 360–3279. Deadline: Feb. 10 Mail to: Norman Mardi Gras Parade, 127 W. Acres–Box H Norman, OK 73069

Share Your Heart Food Drive

Krewes and spectators are asked to bring non perishable food donations to benefit Norman families through the Community Action Agency’s Food Pantry. There will be drop off bins in the staging area and along the route. Donations can also be taken to the Norman Public Library.

The 2010 Norman Mardi Gras Parade is dedicated to Norman’s non–profit and public agencies who better the lives of our children, families, elders, and animal friends

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Film of Civil Rights Champion on February 24

Bayard Rustin, friend of Dr. Martin Luther King, is the subject of the documentary film “Brother Outsider” to be shown at the Holy Temple Baptist Church, 1540 NE 50th St., OKC, on Wednesday, February 24 at 6:30 pm. The showing is sponsored by the Peace House and Holy Temple Baptist Church.

Rustin was a gay man that Dr. King regarded as a friend and mentor. He organized the 1963 March on Washington where Dr. King gave his “I Have a Dream” speech, one of the largest nonviolent protests ever held in the United States. He was a tireless activist and a major strategist for many rallies, protests and other events. Despite these achievements, Rustin was silenced, threatened, arrested, beaten, imprisoned and fired from leadership positions, largely because he was an openly gay man in a fiercely homophobic era. Today, the US is still struggling with many of the issues Rustin sought to change during his long and illustrious career. His focus on civil and economic rights and his belief in peace, human rights and the dignity of all people, remain as relevant today as they were in the 1950’s and 60’s.

“Brother Outsider” is a winner of 8 Best Documentary awards, and Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival, and winner of the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Documentary.

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Surveys and Surveys and Surveys!

Several people and groups have contacted Herland lately, soliciting respondents for their surveys. They could impact you or someone you know, so take a few minutes and fill them out!

Ashley Mills is a genetic counseling student at Mount Sinai, NY, conducting a research study which aims to understand family history communication, and cancer beliefs and attitudes in the LGBTQ community. It is a one time, anonymous online survey that takes about 15 minutes, with no additional participation. Contact her at: Ashley.mills@mssm.edu

Memphis University GLBT Research Team is conducting a GLBT–affirmative study on same–sex parenting in relationship to legal parenting rights. Participants must by 18 or older, currently be in a relationship with the same–sex partner with whom they have planned and created a family, and have at least one child under the age of 18 living in their home. The research is important in advocating for parents to be fully recognized, and not be discriminated against. Contact glbtresearch.uofm@gmail.com The survey will take about 20 minutes.

Women, Action & the Media (WAM) is conducting a short survey on gender justice in the media. This is a way to find out what WAM is doing to improve gender perceptions in the media (film, TV, radio, and print). It is meant to find out what else can be done, and what is important to you. They want to hear from writers and readers, producers and viewers. Contact them at www.womenactionmedia.org. This survey takes about 5 minutes. Whew!

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A New Group: the Norman Queer Alliance

The Norman Queer Alliance is a community group for LGBTQ and other queer identified folk as well al queer loving straight allies living in Norman, OK. We believe building community and looking out for each other is an effective tool against homophobia.

Some of the things we do include organizing weekly events, producing a quarterly zine showcasing the art and writing of queer Oklahoma, and hosting a list serve. Events we have organized include the queer art shows, concerts, film showings, dance parties and discussion groups. We can be contacted at: normanqueeralliance@gmail.com, www.normanqueeralliance.wordpress.com, and Facebook group Norman Queer Alliance.

Submitted by Joseph B.

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The Twofold Group

A support group for Transgender Adults in OKC! Meetings, dinners, & parties Education, workshops, lectures

Confidential, safe and fun!

Contact: 405–443–4131

Email: info@twofoldgroup.org

www.twofoldgroup.org

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Declaration of Sentiments by Elizabeth Cady Stanton

[This declaration was signed in 1848 by 68 women and 32 men at the first women’s rights convention in Seneca Falls, New York.]

When, in the course of human events, it becomes necessary for one portion of the family of man to assume among the people of the earth a position different from that which they have hitherto occupied, but one to which the laws of nature and of nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes that impel them to such a course.

We hold these truths to be self–evident; that all men and women are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness; that to secure these rights governments are instituted, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the right of those who suffer from it to refuse allegiance to it, and to insist upon the institution of a new government, laying its foundation on such principles, and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and, accordingly, all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they were accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object, evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their duty to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security. Such has been the patient sufferance of the women under this government, and such is now the necessity which constrains them to demand the equal station to which they are entitled.

The history of mankind is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations on the part of man toward woman, having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over her. To prove this, let facts be submitted to a candid world.

He has never permitted her to exercise her inalienable right to the elective franchise.

He has compelled her to submit to laws, in the formation of which she had no voice.

He has withheld from her rights which are given to the most ignorant and degraded men – both natives and foreigners.

Having deprived her of this first right as a citizen, the elective franchise, thereby leaving her without representation in the halls of legislation, he has oppressed her on all sides.

He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead.

He has taken from her all right in property, even to the wages she earns.

He has made her morally, an irresponsible being, as she can commit many crimes with impunity, provided they be done in the presence of her husband. In the covenant of marriage, she is compelled to promise obedience to her husband, he becoming, to all intents and purposes, her master – the law giving him power to deprive her of her liberty, and to administer chastisement.

He has so framed the laws of divorce, as to what shall be the proper causes of divorce, in case of separation, to whom the guardianship of the children shall be given; as to be wholly regardless of the happiness of the women – the law, in all cases, going upon a false supposition of the supremacy of man, and giving all power into his hands.

After depriving her of all rights as a married woman, if single and the owner of property, he has taxed her to support a government which recognizes her only when her property can be made profitable to it.

He has monopolized nearly all the profitable employments, and from those she is permitted to follow, she receives but a scanty remuneration.

He closes against her all the avenues to wealth and distinction, which he considers most honorable to himself. As a teacher of theology, medicine, or law, she is not known.

He has denied her the facilities for obtaining a thorough education – all colleges being closed against her.

He allows her in church, as well as State, but a subordinate position, claiming Apostolic authority for her exclusion from the ministry, and, with some exceptions, from any public participation in the affairs of the Church.

He has created a false public sentiment by giving to the world a different code of morals for men and women, by which moral delinquencies which exclude women from society, are not only tolerated but deemed of little account in man.

He has usurped the prerogative of Jehovah himself, claiming it as his right to assign for her a sphere of action, when that belongs to her conscience and her God.

He has endeavored, in every way that he could to destroy her confidence in her own powers, to lessen her self–respect, and to make her willing to lead a dependent and abject life.

Now, in view of this entire disfranchisement of one–half the people of this country, their social and religious degradation, – in view of the unjust laws above mentioned, and because women do feel themselves aggrieved, oppressed, and fraudulently deprived of their most sacred rights, we insist that they have immediate admission to all the rights and privileges which belong to them as citizens of these United States.

In entering upon the great work before us, we anticipate no small amount of misconception, misrepresentation, and ridicule; but we shall use every instrumentality within our power to effect our object. We shall employ agents, circulate tracts, petition the State and national Legislatures, and endeavor to enlist the pulpit and the press in our behalf. We hope this Convention will be followed by a series of Conventions, embracing every part of the country.

Firmly relying upon the final triumph of the Right and the True, we do this day affix our signatures to this declaration.

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Herland Events

February

Herland Supper Club visits Norman for the Mardi Gras Parade!

Saturday February 13 5:00 p.m. Coach’s Restaurant 102 W. Main St. Norman

Join us for some good food and fun, at Coach’s Restaurant, 102 W Main St, at 5 pm. Then we’ll cross the railroad tracks to watch, laugh, and catch some beads or march in the parade. Herlanders and friends are invited to march with the Krewe of Patty & Pinky, who will appear in the parade as “Patty and Pinky’s Pots & Pans Band and Flagsters.” To participate, you will need a pot, a pan and something to bang it, or a flag to wave…you know what to do!

Sunday February 21st 4 pm: Herland Board Meeting, all are welcome. Dinner at Gushers afterwards.

March

Herland Jazz Party

Celebrating International Women’s Day Saturday, March 6th At the Boom Club and Restaurant

Herland Spring Retreat

Save the Date! May 21st–23rd: Roman Nose State Park

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Community Events

Saturday Feb 6, 7–9 pm Louise & Mary Full Circle Bookstore 50 Penn Place. No cover

Sunday Feb 7, 7:30 pm Beatrice Cole at the Santa Fe Depot, 200 S Jones, Norman. Louise and Mary are backup! No admission charge

Monday Feb 8, 7 pm Oklahoma Gay & Lesbian Political Caucus Town Hall Meeting “Leaders for the Future” at the Neighborhood Alliance, NW 36th and Classen. Call Jeanne at 255–3658 or email ok.glpc@yahoo.com for more information

Thursday Feb 11, 7 pm PFLAG Norman at St Stephens Methodist Church, Norman

Friday Feb 12 Mary and Louise play for the UCO Valentine’s Weekend at UCO Jazz Lab in Edmond

Saturday Feb 27, 6–9 pm PFLAG OKC/Edmond Fundraiser at the Boom

Saturday Feb 27 Women’s and Gender Studies Conference at UCO

PFLAG OKC/Edmond meeting TBA. Email Louisebakerhiho@gmail.com

Wednesday nights, 7–9 pm “A Tribute to Mary Daly” Beloved prophet, theologian, philosopher, and lover of women. Church of the Open Arms community hall, 3131 N Penn, OKC, Women only

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PFLAG OKC/Edmond Fundraiser

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website of the month

www.ucoaws.com

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