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Changing the Universe through Women’s Stories

Body Awareness issue

What do you love about your body?

Jennifer Almanza: Midwife with a cause

Lara Tate: Menopausal Superhero!

Learning how to live and die

Girls on the Run

Women at the Fringe DAWN ROSSBACH DAWN

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In it, Tippett examines might rise closer to “beautiful.” We wisdom from many perspectives — claim our right to self-define beauty. Coming up: the poetry of words and language, For this “body awareness”-themed September’s theme is Callings. lessons of faith, hope and love, and the issue we asked readers, “What is What call to action have you wisdom we can become aware of by something you love about your body answered? How did you recognize listening to our bodies. Tippett shares and why?” Readers told us that their it as your call? Tell us about it. experiences both personal and from bodies can run fast, bend well. They Send up to 150 words to the many thoughtful people she has love their scars earned in surviving [email protected] interviewed for her radio program, cancer and that loving one’s self is a Deadline: August 10 “On Being.” She is a wise woman. radical act. 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In this Women’s Directory with the I live and move and to most “traditional” issue, we talk with nurse September issue. women’s magazines midwife, Jennifer Almanza have my being ... and an industry of about her professional and October’s theme is “the earth is therefore, which we typically personal experience of this my home.” Tell us: What is your are critical?) Inspired ability of creation from climate change story? I become. by Tippett’s book, we the center of women’s bodies. Many Send up to 150 words to — Krista Tippett, are thinking about women have experienced illness and [email protected] from “Becoming Wise”” qualities of beauty the uncertainty of body function. We Deadline: September 10 that are the inner talk with Brenda Hartman, who has October Advertising Sections: kind — a person’s strength, gentle- lived for decades with ovarian cancer. • Health and Wellness Guide ness, their smarts and authenticity. It’s Marie Marquardt shares her story of • Her Money Guide not the kind of beauty that is depen- gratitude for receiving donated kid- • Home Guide dent on the latest hairstyle or fashion neys that allow her to continue living. • Women and Pets Guide that we can wrap ourselves in. It’s not Our bodies hold happiness and • GoSeeDo/Calendar Guide about our height or weight or shape. grief, sweet and sad memories, vitality, Deadline: September 10 It’s not what we are but who we are. beauty and wisdom — and have much In Tippett’s interview, Novogratz to teach us, if we listen. goes on to say, “Beauty is visible, palpable, in moments when human and beings reach across the mystery of Co-Publishers each other.” Ah, mystery. In spite of the bombardment of cultural messages in media and Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 5 YOUSAID YOURTHOUGHTS Letters from Women’s Press readers. Each month we ask our readers to respond to a question. For August we asked: What is one thing you love about These troubled times your body and why? See more thoughts on page 30. You are making a difference, but like most, the difference My Scars is not quantifiable today, or even tomorrow. [OnYourMind, Lisa Gray, MN Women’s Press, July 2017] If you are doing It may seem strange to say that what I love most about all the things you list, you are educating yourself and my body are my scars. I am a cancer survivor and have been others, you are contributing to the work of democracy, you through numerous complex surgeries. I earned these scars are sharing your compassion for others through resistance and wear them proudly … much like badges of honor. I know to what is harmful ... together with all those you do touch, that my many scars are a testament to the fact that what tried and all those who are doing what you do, it demonstrates to hurt me didn’t win. By G-d’s grace and the prayers and human kindness, and there are far more of us doing that support of many, I came out the victor in some of the worst than people realize sitting alone in their kitchens. battles of my life. Every day, my scars remind me of where Kathleen Laurila, Crystal I’ve been and, most importantly, to realize how very blessed I am and the grace that I’ve been given. Because of these A community of women scars, I am truly grateful for every new day and that today, If there is any way to pass on my heartfelt thanks and I was on the wake-up list. appreciation to Yasmin Mullings and Karen Kugler, please Denise Redgate, Minneapolis do! [Profile, MWP, July 2017] Their roles and work are so Miles to go very important and I value them tremendously. Thank you to these women, and to the respected John Choi, also I love what my body can do, physically. I love that, at the at Ramsey County, who make it their jobs to “show the age of 57, I can run a mile in under ten minutes, and that underbelly.” It’s those hidden stories — if only more peo- I can comfortably do 5K races, 10Ks if I train. I love that my ple knew the realities! The public perception of trafficking body bends well, and that I have the flexibility and stamina is often seen as a choice rather than as the exploitation and for vigorous yoga classes, and playing on the floor with my brutality that it is. How do we make people more aware? one-year-old grandson! I love that I can bike 50 miles or more As always, yours is a treasured publication and we and enjoy the ride. are so lucky to have you here locally. My massage practi- Lisa Burke, St. Paul tioner, Linda Knapp, and my estate-planning lawyer, Chris Step by step Tymchuck, are both Women’s Press advertisers. There are The one thing I love about my body is my pair of legs. so many artists, authors and activists in MWP that I have I used them to walk away from an abusive situation where learned have connections to my friends. What a wonderful I was mistreated and had no power, to a place where I and respected circle of women. I treasure this community. grew and overcame and turned into more of the person Jean Abbott, Lakeville I was meant to be. I walked into a job where I was able to earn my own money, thereby earning my own power. GOTANOPINION? I used them to walk into a driver’s training school, where I learned to drive and got a driver’s license. I used them in the Like something in MWP? Or disagree? daily process of raising my four kids. I used them to walk We want to hear from you. into St. Catherine University to study and earn my bachelor’s Write to [email protected]. Include your name, degree in communications. address and phone number for verification. 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As they noted, “Someone could According to a report from the conservative think tank American Women-Owned Businesses,” statistics about reasonably ask, why does marriage make married women more Enterprise Institute, the gender pay gap in the Trump White House is women in Minnesota’s elected offices, conservative, rather than making men more feminist?” They three times larger (37 percent) than it was in the last year of the Obama and the economic status of Minnesota’s suggest one answer: “Women consistently earn less money and Administration (11 percent). At the median level, the typical woman in older women. hold less power, which fosters women’s economic dependency the Trump White House earns 63.2 cents per $1 earned by a typical male on men.“ Source: OESW staffer — a salary of $72,648 compared to $115,000. Source: The Conversation Compiled by Mikki Morrissette Source: Washington Post 8 Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 BODYFEATURE

COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY Life gifts At a young age, Marie Marquardt knew the power of changing lives through organ donation by Anne Hamre During adolescence, almost Subtle awareness of changes everyone is hyper-aware of their About eight years ago, Marquardt body. But when you’re diagnosed began noticing “little things” that sig- naled her body was rejecting the donated with a serious disease, body organ. “The kidney was just tired,” she awareness takes on heightened says. “I knew it was dying a slow death.” significance. Her doctors gave Marquardt only a one percent chance for another success- At 14, Marie Marquardt was diagnosed ful transplant because she had become Marie Marquardt with lupus, a chronic inflammatory “sensitized” — meaning her body had disease in which the body’s immune sys- harmful antibodies that would attack tem attacks its own tissues and organs. foreign tissue. These antibodies develop She used crutches and a wheelchair through previous exposure to foreign She told me her mother in high school and was taught mainly tissue, such as through transplants. by tutors. By 19, she was in renal fail- passed away when she was Marquardt’s situation was exacerbated ure; she traveled an hour to and from “ by the unusually long time since she had young. She said: ‘I look at dialysis three times a week while living her first transplanted organ. in college dorms. At 21, Marquardt — you and your kids, and I don’t She went back on dialysis — this time still in college — underwent her first overnight, for 12 hours at a time, so she want them to grow up kidney transplant. could have treatments at home instead of She was told the kidney, which was without their mother.’ at a dialysis center. After several months, from a deceased donor, would likely Marquardt says, “I decided: I can’t live — Marie Marquardt function for about seven years before this way, hooked up to a cable 12 hours ” her body rejected it. But she (and the a day.” She searched online for clinical kidney) beat the odds: it lasted 21 years. trials, ultimately self-referring herself to Marquardt finished college, worked the Mayo Clinic for a special procedure as a Certified Public Accountant, mar- called a positive cross-match transplant, ried, gave birth to a son and adopted using living donors. Unexpectedly, a daughter. a volunteer donor came forward: her About 15 years post-transplant, husband’s boss’s wife. Marquardt learned that the mother of the Marquardt was grateful, but given the organ donor wanted to meet her. degrees of separation, she felt she had to “I was scared,” recalls Marquardt. “I ask: Why? thought, my life is going great — why “She told me her mother passed away would I want to open up this Pandora’s when she was young. She said: ‘I look Box?” So she did not. at you and your kids, and I don’t want “As I look back on it now, I was self- them to grow up without their mother,’” ish. It wasn’t until I became a mother says Marquardt, her voice cracking with myself that it haunted me,” she says. But emotion. by then, the donor’s mother had moved, leaving no forwarding address. Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 9

The transplant, seven years ago, was upon obtaining or renewing hunting and followed by several days in intensive fishing licenses. care when Marquardt’s blood didn’t clot. It’s anticipated that the new law might She and her husband made the deci- boost donor registration among men. sion to move from Alaska to Minnesota, Women are slightly more likely than men where she could be close to Mayo for to register, according to Larson. monitoring. Currently about 120,000 Americans are An ambassador for donation awaiting a transplant, including some 2,900 Minnesotans. Kidneys are the most PHOTO COURTESY Last year, as her son graduated from common organ transplanted. high school, Marquardt pondered: Marquardt, at 50, continues to keep ‘What’s my passion?’ She thought anew tabs on her body, monitoring its signals. of the mother of her first kidney donor, “There’s a very slow [kidney] rejection who later wanted to meet. She couldn’t going on,” she said in mid-June. “It’s not change the past, but she could still acute — it’s a minor chronic rejection — give back. Marquardt reached out to so I’m not alarmed by it.” She knows at LifeSource, the regional nonprofit that some point she’ll have another decision manages the organ and tissue donation to make about how to proceed. process, supports donor families and In the meantime, she’s living her life, educates the public. Now she’s among keenly aware of and grateful for the gifts the organization’s ambassadors, who her body has received. When she meets share their stories with student drivers donor families at events and hears their and at information booths and otherwise stories, Marquardt says, “I start phys- spread the word about the importance of ically shaking and burst into tears — organ donation. because I know they have changed some- The message has found fertile ground one’s life.” Susan Mau Larson in Minnesota, where 63 percent of adults are registered as donors, compared to 54 percent nationwide, according to Susan Mau Larson, director of partner Say yes and community relations at LifeSource. LifeSource helps with more than organ donation. Both of Marie Marquardt’s “Minnesotans are very generous,” knees and hip joints have been replaced, because of required and prolonged says Larson, noting that the state’s res- steroid use that affects joints. She needed to re-replace a knee with donated bone idents also have high rates of donating and knee tissue. “Without this donation I would not be walking today.” to charity and voting. In addition, the According to LifeSource: state has enacted laws bolstering organ • One donor can save and heal up to 60 lives through organ, eye and tissue donation awareness and registration. For transplant. example, driver education classes must include information on organ donation. • In cases where a deceased person had expressed no preference on donation This year, Minnesota became the first and surviving families make the decision, about half the time families say no. state to let people register as donors • You can say yes by registering to be a donor at: DonateLifeMN.org

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Culturally COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY competent midwifery Jennifer Almanza has become the midwife she once looked for

by Jennifer Thaney When Jennifer Almanza gave birth to her first child at age 22, she wanted a midwife who looked like her. Almanza, who is biracial, iden- tifies as Chicana. She wanted a Latina midwife but couldn’t find one. When she graduates in 2018 with a doctorate of nursing practice from the University of Minnesota, Almanza will be a certified nurse midwife (CNM) who can start Jennifer Almanza filling that void.

The seeds for what Almanza refers Almanza added to her resume: neonatal American and American Indian babies to as this “long and winding path” had intensive care unit (NICU), high-risk die in their first year of life as do white been planted when she was 19. A friend obstetrics case management. babies, according to a 2014 report by asked for Almanza’s support during The next twist on her path came in the Minnesota Department of Health. the birth of her child. “I realized … 2016, when she left HealthPartners for Countries that encourage midwifery what a profound place that is to be [yet] the University of Minnesota, where care for normal, low-risk pregnan- it felt like that wasn’t being held, or she currently works as a project man- cies have improved infant outcomes, seen, or witnessed, or even afforded in ager at the School of Health Policy and Almanza says. But it’s not enough to the room during birth,” Almanza says. Management. Almanza is a researcher have more midwives, she adds. These She noticed similar indifference during for a program examining the relation- midwives need to look, speak, pray and her own birthing experience. ship between birth outcomes and racial celebrate like the women they care for. Spurred by witnessing birth even inequities across the United States. The She is keenly aware of how significant before delivering her own, Almanza goal is to uncover best practices for this is. “I know so many people who pursued her doula certification in culturally-centered prenatal care. would be amazing midwives,” but life 2001. In 2005, she received a degree as Disparities in infant mortality has presented too many barricades, she a registered nurse and worked seven said. As the mother of three children The disparities in Minnesota are years in labor and delivery at Regions — ages 19, 15 and 5 — Almanza said glaring. Two times as many African Hospital. Over the next several years, she couldn’t have afforded the $100,000 Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 11 price tag of her CNM degree without the finan- To Almanza, the key is acknowledging and cial support of a Bush Fellowship, which she welcoming the ways of being, history and indi- received in 2015. vidual stories that each woman brings to a birth. Almanza’s vision of providing culturally Basing care on evidence is vital, she says, but competent midwifery care is not hers alone. we also need to be sure we are not basing our She mentions there are networks of doulas and care on past traumas and bias, of both mothers midwives that provide prenatal, birth and post- and providers. “We know that that type of care, Our womb as partum services for families, such as Ahava and other factors, has brought us down a path female is connected BirthWorks and Roots Community Birth Center, of immense health disparities for black and “ both in north Minneapolis. Almanza also serves brown babies.” to an entire line, on the board of Indigenous Roots Cultural Arts Almanza laughed as she recalled how long Center in St. Paul, a collective of artists and orga- ago her journey started, as a 19-year-old with an entire collective nizations dedicated to promoting and practicing a crockpot of healing herbs in tow as she stood holistic well-being through indigenous arts, beside a friend in labor. “I’m not from aca- female body. culture and traditions. demia,” she declares, despite years pursuing The collective female body various degrees. She believes anyone with this — Jennifer Almanza” calling can manifest it over time. “I’m just a Almanza contends that traditional, cultural scrappy doula who made her way to midwifery approaches to pregnancy and birth are very school. That’s all I am.” different from that of western medical prac- For the women she will serve, that will tices. Many cultures share in the belief that “our be enough. womb as females is connected to an entire line, an entire collective female body,” Almanza says. In contrast, she continued, western practices FFI: tend to value quantifiable data and can be dis- Cultural Wellness Center culturalwellnesscenter.org connected from the sacred nature of birthing. MN Cultural Birthworkers facebook.com/mnculturalbirthworkers Referring to menstruation, Almanza says, Ahava BirthWorks ahavahbirthworks.com “Generally we are not very aware of our bodies. Roots Community Birth Center roots-midwifery.com We don’t pay attention unless we’re trying to plug it up or get rid of the cramps. Being in touch The profile appears in every issue of the Minnesota Women’s Press. with our womb can help to center and ground It reflects our founding principle and guiding philosophy that every us. Many find hypnobirth or yoga during preg- woman has a story. Readers are welcome to submit suggestions for nancy to be a deeply profound experience.” profile subjects. Email your ideas to [email protected]. By reclaiming the traditions of Mexican midwives (parteras) that she has studied with, and by lifting up birthers in her own community, Almanza believes outcomes for both mothers and babies will improve. “The system is too big,” she says. “We can do better. On so many levels, we can do better.”

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Learn how to live, choose how to die Cancer survivor Brenda Hartman is changing the conversation about death and healing by Emily A. King

Brenda Hartman was 32 and a strong, healthy graduate student working on two PhDs when she got the news — she had cancer. And not just any

cancer: stage IV ovarian cancer, one of the worst PHOTO COURTESY kinds. She was given a 5 percent chance of living 24 months. Her doctor told her to prepare to die. She did prepare, but she did not die. Now, 30 years later, she’s using the “twisted gift” that cancer gave her to counsel others facing terminal illness and death. A key message in her clinical therapy practice is “listen to your body.” “I’m thinking and feeling my body from the inside out,” Hartman says. “You learn to scan your body — how’s it doing, how’s it feeling?” Many patients or survivors get caught in a “cancer loop”: “Any ache or pain, our first thought is, ‘Is this cancer?,’” which leads to persistent fear and worry that needs to be managed. A beautiful death Hartman was awarded a Bush Foundation Fellowship this year to pursue her desire to change the end-of-life narrative from fear and denial to the healing process. She will study practices from different cultures, religions and spiritual traditions, and teach health care professionals how to have conversations with patients about end-of-life planning and death. Brenda Hartman “I’ve helped people die,” she says. “I believe death can be a beautiful and healing experience.” I was born, I was working on healing, and when I’m healed, Health care providers “need to guide people to that peace- I leave my body. Some people call that death.” ful place,” but their medical training is focused on treatment, She tells clients, “Pray for 95 percent healing so you have a recovery and even cure, not dying. reason to be here.” She likens the process to throwing clay on a pottery wheel, with hands inside and out shaping and smoothing a pot. The Different paths to the end patient is working the inside of the body with nutrition, spir- Her mantra is, “I’m alive. I’m well. I’m healing until further ituality and self-care. The doctors work the outside. “[They] notice.” She goes on: “I have looked at my death and I know need to work together to heal this crack.” I’m going to die. Not everyone has that” with their cancer “Healing” is not synonymous with “cure,” Hartman points experience, because better treatment options have changed out. “What healing means for me is that from the moment the expectation of survival. Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 17

I would never give up my cancer experience. It taught me important things. I appreciate my body. “ I’m really happy to be alive to experience [things like] chemotherapy and aging. — Brenda Hartman ” Hartman loves metaphors, and she “Everyone has a ‘this is how I want to die’ It’s a matter of trying to understand compares life to walking a path with based on what I know and heard about.” a new normal, Hartman says. After her others. Everyone’s path is slightly differ- A friend or family member’s death expe- diagnosis, “I had to grieve the life I had, ent — different footfalls, strides and place rience shapes their ideas of what it means and grieve the dreams that I had, so that in space — and everyone’s path forks to die. I could get healing” and look at what was at some point. “When I am at my fork, Hartman tells clients to read at least five next: death or living. I want to know I’m there,” she says. stories about people in similar situations “It’s like aging: Looking back, there The fork between conscious living and “so they realize there isn’t one path. How are things our teenage selves did that we conscious dying is a personal place — does your body respond, what feels right wouldn’t expect to be able to do in our deciding whether chemotherapy, for for you? Because I can’t [tell them].” thirties and beyond,” she explains. We can example, is helping to gain or is taking People want to know what she did so look at the results of illness the same way. energy, or whether it’s time for palliative they can do the same. But, Hartman says, “I would never give up my cancer or hospice care. “When you’re at your “what I did would not work for them, experience,” Hartman says. “It taught me fork, what is your body saying?” because it worked for me.” important things. I appreciate my body. She counsels families to react with It’s a bit like parenthood, she notes. I’m really happy to be alive to experience grace and understanding when a family Expectant parents may plan to do every- [things like] chemotherapy and aging. member talks about wanting to stop treat- thing perfectly and by the book (or like “I do the best that I can and offer the ment. Choosing to stop is not giving up or their friends), but they don’t know the most that I can to the people I interact failing, she says; it’s listening to what the baby’s temperament, sleeping patterns, with,” she says. “It’s a good life.” body needs. etc. “You can’t possibly know until you’re FFI: healingthroughlife.com “How we approach death and how there and you can’t go back. It’s a one- we die is our last conscious and uncon- way street.” scious act of teaching,” Hartman explains. 18 Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 SHESAID TAMI MOHAMED My heart BROWN In a clinical setting, every part of the body that is hidden away, invisible to the eye, can be compared to that which we can see. My father shared this with me years ago upon artery of my heart. I was sent home the next day learning he had bladder cancer, the blemished with a diagnosis of coronary heart disease and organ compared to a grapefruit by his physician, didn’t have the option to ignore the workings of associated with something known. my fl awed cardiovascular system. In fact, I was I’d always had an aversion to grapefruit — to forced to think about it a lot, attending cardiac their bitterness — and in the grocery store later rehab classes to learn about changing my behav- that night, feeling bitter, I remember holding iors, about risk factors and about the anatomy of one up to where I believed my bladder to be. the heart. I did not become ill or ineffective. I took Approximately. my own blood pressure and pulse. I educated It would take up a lot of space in there, I decided, myself on medications, on cholesterol levels. and quickly replaced it. And I learned that it wasn’t the workings of the It scared me to think about my body and its body that frightened me as much as the idea of workings too much. my own mortality — of anyone’s impermanence. It terrifi ed me that I couldn’t bring myself to think of my life simpli- while I went about I once played a nurse on stage in a theatre fi ed to the functions of cells. I couldn’t stand the production. After weeks of emoting through the idea that a split-second pause of breath affected my business every hospital room scene, I began to think — “Maybe the lungs, the heart, the oxygen to the brain. It day, making I should be a nurse.” I already had the uniform, frightened me to consider the frailness just under decisions and the stethoscope, the necessary props that would the skin, the body’s delicate balance of veins and give me access to understanding the science of tissue and nerves. It terrifi ed me that while I went shaping my future, the body. about my business every day, making decisions beneath the I was accepted into a nursing program where and shaping my future, beneath the surface I had surface I had I enrolled in basic chemistry, in medical termi- absolutely no control. None of us really do. nology, in human anatomy. And while the other absolutely no students in my cohort scribbled frantic lecture In a clinical setting, every part of the body that control. None of notes, I sat at my desk, lightheaded, my breathing is hidden away can be measured by that which is us really do. shallow, the pulse points at my wrist throbbing visible, compared to that which we can see. hard. I could barely watch the demos on drawing The heart — I’m told — is the size of a fi st. blood or even taking a patient’s blood pressure I hold up my own hand and hold it to my chest, without becoming ill. Ineffective. When rounds small and tight, imagine my heart within beating, were assigned in an actual hospital, I left the pro- pumping, hard and fast and alive with awareness. gram, my days as a nurse quickly reduced to a But from there, there is nothing against which recollection that I had played one, once, on stage. I can measure the remarkable size or shape of what lies inside. Three years ago, unexpectedly and very quickly, Tami Mohamed Brown lives in Bloomington with I had a stent placed into an abnormally blocked her family.

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32-3 Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 19 ONYOURMIND ABIGAIL What I love about my body DILLON Standing naked in the mirror, in the name of research, is harder than I expected. I’m supposed to fi nd something about my body that I LOVE and explain why. Surely, I can fi nd one thing. Staring at myself, I take note of the double muffi n top, back fat and boobs saggy enough to trip over. And the stretch marks on my stomach look like a road map to Hell. Seriously, how am I supposed to love a body that I don’t even like? At fortysomething, my body has seen saluting sailors, with just a little duct tape better days. The short shorts and crop tops and a cross beam, they can still turn a head have long come and gone. These days, it’s or two. They literally fed two human beings Bermuda shorts and girdles. My body has for months. ... How awesome is that? really changed over the years but it has a As diffi cult as it is to gaze at my naked story to tell. It’s been cut open and stitched body, I’m actually impressed. I am in awe of My body has really back together. Bones broken and healed. It its resiliency. It’s capable of so much that I has given life and been given second chances. never thought to give it credit for. I mean, changed over the My arms aren’t as alluring as they once even a weathered old tank is still a force with years but it has were. For years, they carried book bags which to be reckoned. That, at least, deserves a story to tell. and diaper bags. They’ve endured binding my respect. And that’s a start. bra straps and cradled heavy sleeping chil- So here’s my pledge: I will be as kind and It’s been cut open dren. My arms actually deserve a little credit loving to my body as I am to other people. and stitched back though. They are pretty talented. They let I’m hoping that through honoring its accom- together. Bones me paint and work and love. plishments I can grow to, some day, love my My belly hardly resembles its former self. body ... all of it. broken and healed. It still bares those wretched C-section scars Abigail Dillon lives in Woodbury and is an It has given life and from years past. (I’m defi nitely blaming the artist. artofawoman.net been given second kids for this mess.) Each stretch mark rep- chances. resents the lengths to which my body was WHAT’SONYOURMIND? pushed. But, it’s pretty remarkable when We’d like to hear it. Check page 4 for you think about it. This belly manufactured upcoming themes. For writer’s guidelines, and housed two loves of my life, an honor no go to womenspress.com, click on “AboutUs.” other belly can claim. Bonus: I can just keep Email your 450-word personal essay to telling myself the fat rolls are just like brown [email protected] bubble wrap protecting its valuables. That’s still a work in progress. And did I mention my National Geographic boobs? Although they aren’t still

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Just get started Dawn Rossbach creates artwork in multiple mediums and styles by Norma Smith Olson Paint-by-numbers oil painting kits bought for her by her mom, and making little books of drawings from free reams of paper from Lampert Lumber brought home by her dad, helped Dawn Rossbach develop a strong interest in art as a kid. Although she took art classes in high school, she had put the idea of being an artist on hold “for a long time. It was a “The Dancer” nice little hobby,” she says. But her thinking changed, at age 34, when she went back to school, first to Itasca Community College in Grand Rapids and then transferring to Bemidji State University. Planning to be an English teacher, she decided to take a drawing class. “This is my only chance,” she recalls feeling. It was a turning point for her. Her professor suggested she try for a BFA. “I had no idea what this was, but I jumped through the hoops, not realizing that out of the 10 [art students applying] only two of us got accepted.” The BFA program put her on the road to becoming an art teacher. She later earned her Master’s in Education at Hamline University. Today she teaches art classes to students in grades 7 through 12 in Menahga, Minn. Teaching as a springboard “When I started teaching, my personal art exploration took off,” Rossbach says. She covers a wide range of techniques in her classroom — from printmaking to ceramics to mixed media to “whatever that flavor of the day is.” Her own artwork reflects that diversity. “I couldn’t possibly narrow it down. I don’t stick to one thing,” she says, when asked to describe her work. “It stretches all over the place. You might Deep down, the art is going to not recognize it as being done by the same artist.” emerge in some way. If you can tap into Considering herself a teacher first, Rossbach believes that art “ instructors need to be active artists themselves. She exhibits her that, instead of trying to control it, you work in galleries a few times a year. She feels that being in exhib- can let the art speak back to you.” its benefits her teaching, and teaching students benefits her own artwork. “You learn from the kids and they learn from you. It’s a — Dawn Rossbach nice balance,” Rossbach says. Inspiration from anywhere “The Dancer” on this month’s cover emerged from a series Rossbach has been painting of people with a similar, big body Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 21 shape and narrowly defined legs. This “Naked Waiter” houses for you and series of paintings tends to be humorous. “It was a ‘let’s me,” from a song by play today’ day — that’s how I often work. Ideas sit in John Mellencamp. A my head and kind of percolate,” she says. “When I go to series of images is in paint, what’s in my head and what comes out on the can- the works that incor- vas are two different things. I have learned to embrace porates pink houses. that and go with the flow.” She loves the process “The Dancer” suggests to Rossbach a time of “silly, of figuring out compo- little freedom and enjoying life” — a time of dancing sition possibilities and with abandon with her then-young daughter to the song exploring a variety of “What I Am” by Edie Brickell. “There was no intent art mediums. with the painting, it wasn’t planned. It happened in the “I work on some- spur of the moment” — like dancing with her daughter. thing until I’m Dawn Rossbach is the illustrator of “The Cookie “You grab what satisfied — that’s true Garden,” by Linda Henry. To cultivate kids’ and life is offering you for a lot of artists. parents’ imaginations, a do-it-yourself cookie-seed and take it.” Sometimes, it’s not packet and instructions on growing your own cookie A conversation or what I expected. Then garden are included. thecookiegarden.com music can get the I have to walk away visual ideas spin- from it,” she says. ning for Rossbach. As a teacher, Rossbach encourages her sometimes “I can draw inspi- reluctant, over-thinking students to just get started. ration from just “Something will develop,” she says. “Deep down, the about anything if art is going to emerge in some way. If you can tap into it intrigues me that, instead of trying to control it, you can let the art enough.” An idea speak back to you,” she says. “It’s a lifetime journey. that’s been sitting in If you embrace it early enough, you can create some her head for about fabulous stuff.” 25 years comes FFI: dawnrossbach.com

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Spy in the House of Men: Denial of Service One-Woman Show With Balls The casual bantering of three electrical engineering grad This “laugh out loud” story by transgender Penny Sterling students turns tense as their political views collide, picking at maps her journey through a life-long coming-out process. identities and heritages, as they react differently to a tragedy Where: Bryant Lake Bowl, 810 W. Lake St., Mpls. impacting a friend. The name refers to the inability of a When: Thurs., 8/3, 5:30 p.m.; Sat., 8/5, 8:30 p.m.; network server to respond to a request for service because Sun., 8/6, 8:30 p.m.; Tue., 8/8, 7 p.m.; Sat., 8/12, 4 p.m. it is overwhelmed by malicious requests. Where: University of Minnesota Rarig Center Xperimental, 330 21st Ave. S., Mpls. When: Fri., 8/4, 5:30 p.m.; Sun., 8/6, 8:30 p.m.; Thurs., 8/10, 7 p.m.; Sat., 8/12, 10 p.m.; Sun., 8/13, 5:30 p.m. Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 23 womenspress.com GoSeeDo Guide

The Memory Box of the Sisters Fox Beyond Limits Based on the true story of Kate and Maggie Fox, who This is the true story of Nikki Abramson, who refused to convinced their community they could talk to spirits, accept the predictions of her doctors after being told at age kicking off the Spiritualist Movement. They suffered later five that she would die in her teens of a rare genetic disorder. in life and one sister announced it was a hoax. This story Her story of hope and humor is also about the identity of is told in the form of a séance. being an adoptee and a woman of color. It is an extension Where: University of Minnesota Rarig Center Arena, of her popular 2016 production “No Limits.” 330 21st Ave. S., Mpls. Where: Ritz Theater Studio, 345 13th Ave. N.E., Mpls. When: Fri., 8/4, 10 p.m.; Sun., 8/6, 4 p.m.; Mon., 8/7, 8:30 p.m.; When: Thurs., 8/3, 8:30 p.m.; Sat., 8/5, 4 p.m.; Thurs., 8/10, 7 p.m.; Sun., 8/13, 5:30 p.m. Tue., 8/8, 5:30 p.m.; Fri., 8/11, 7 p.m.; Sun., 8/13, 2:30 p.m.

Medusa A mythological priestess’s heroic story of blind devotion, fiery wrath and cursed fate. Features contemporary dance and fire performance set within original music and video environ- ments. Audience Choice pick in 2014 and 2015. Where: Boom Island Park, outdoor space (bring blankets and chairs if desired), 724 Sibley St. N.E., Mpls. When: August 3-12 nightly, 8:30 p.m. Age appropriate: 7 and up

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ONGOING THROUGH 8/24 Interpretive Blendings Two local artists are featured in a new exhibition. Brenda Litman offers abstract paintings of nature in bold, gestural strokes. Farida Hughes creates oil and resin paintings to explore issues of “hybrid identity” using color, shape and transparency. Free. Meet the artists: Sat., Aug. 12, 1-3 p.m. Gallery hours: 10 a.m.-5 p.m., Mon.-Fri. Above: “Blend #3” by Farida Hughes California Building, Left: “How We Bloom” by Brenda Litman 2205 California St. NE, Mpls. FFI: californiabuilding.com/ events.html

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8/4 FRIDAY & 8/14-15 MONDAY-TUESDAY What’s cooking at Dakota Donna Grantis, a fiery guitarist formerly with Prince, 3RDEYEGIRL and the New Power Generation, has been critically acclaimed by national media. She performs Fri., Aug. 4. $30-55, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Soulful singer Ruthie Foster, of Austin, Texas, is a three-time Grammy nominee for Best Blues Album. She brings her gospel roots to Minneapolis Mon. and Tues., Aug. 14 and 15. $35-45. 7 p.m. Dakota Jazz Club, 1010 Nicollet Mall, Mpls. FFI: 612-332-5299 or dakotacooks.com Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 25 womenspress.com GoSeeDo Guide 8/6 SUNDAY See more calendar listings at womenspress.com “Rare Birds” Look for the MWP at these events in August: • Needlework Guild of Minnesota’s Annual The mythic stories in “Rare Birds” are about an Retreat Aug. 9-13 eclectic group of neighbors in a Northern Minnesota • FEW August: Sex Trafficking in Central MN, iron mining town and explore the microcosm of Terebinth Refuge, Aug. 9 community, the assimilation of immigrants, and • Deborah Strebel Pierce, The Art of Power/ the timeless striving for something more. Author The Power of Art, Aug. 10 Kathleen Novak, the granddaughter of Italian • ChallengerHER Opportunities for Women in and Croatian immigrants to the area, was a 2016 Federal Contracting, Mpls/St. Paul, Aug. 15 Minnesota Book Award finalist with her novel “Do • Speed Friending for Women, Aug. 15 Not Find Me.” Free. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m. Walker Art • Orr Center Expo Homesteading & Center, 8th floor Garden Terrace, 725 Vineland Place, Sustainable Lifestyles, Aug. 19-20 Mpls. FFI: kathleennovak.com • Art of Counseling workshops • CanCan Wonderland events 8/18 FRIDAY • Irene Greene, MSED: Growth & Training “Bird’s Eye” workshops & events • League of Women Voters—South Tonka events Adina Burke’s poetic journey, “Bird’s Eye,” • MN Peacebuilding Leadership Institute explores a cocktail of “-isms” the author addresses film series daily: feminism, anti-Semitism, and confronting • MN Women in Marketing & Communications able-ism from her Minneapolis life in a wheelchair. (MWMC) workshops & events Free presentation. 7 p.m. Magers and Quinn, • NAWBO—MN events 3038 Hennepin Ave., Mpls. • PACER Center workshops & events FFI: magersandquinn.com • Second Saturday Divorce Workshop for Women • Women Entrepreneurs of Minnesota events • Women Leading in Technology events • Women in Networking (WIN) events • Women’s Environmental Institute (WEI) events • Women’s Initiative for Self Empowerment 8/18 FRIDAY (WISE) events THROUGH 9/17 SUNDAY GOSEEDO? You can enter women-focused events into the Clay women Women’s Press online calendar yourself through A juried exhibition an easy-to-use form at womenspress.com, click on of Minnesota Women “calendar” in the upper menu, then “add event.” Ceramic Artists will be For print consideration, send info and high resolu- showcased at the Arts tion images to [email protected] by the Center of St. Peter, 8th of the month. 315 S. Minnesota Ave., “SoloWavelet” St. Peter. FFI: mnwca.org

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LaraLara Tate:Tate: Menopausal Superhero! Superhero! by Shannon Shannon Drury Drury

I magine a world in which the When Buchwald started experiencing “The OB/GYN doesn’t tell you that this burning heat of a menopausal hot symptoms of menopause herself, it was can be a playful time,” Buchwald says. no laughing matter: “I haven’t slept well “[The web series] is an antidote to that.” flash can be harnessed to reduce for three years,” she says. She also had On the show, Lara Tate learns to har- an obnoxious husband to a pile anxiety, brain fog, hot flashes and many of ness her new superpowers with a mys- of ashes, or to disable an attacker the 34 symptoms that Lara Tate’s doctor terious guide played by Buchwald’s lists in the first episode. real-life husband Danny Woodburn, a with dryness in a place so sensi- The 34 symptoms aren’t an exaggera- character actor best known for his work tive the perp no longer can walk. tion for comedic effect: they are the real on “Seinfeld.” The couple also write the No, it’s not the setting for a 22nd cen- deal, including a bizarre symptom called episodes together. Response from men to tury Wonder Woman sequel: it’s the world “burning tongue.” Buchwald says her the show has been especially gratifying, of “Hot Flash: The Chronicles of Lara Tate, first thought was: “This is nuts. … I’ve got Buchwald says. “Some have said they Menopausal Superhero,” the hilarious to make [menopause] something good understand [menopause] more, that they web series created by writer and actress instead of something that is making me have to be more sympathetic!” Amy Buchwald. A Minneapolis native miserable.” Women viewers are opening up about and former member of the Children’s One symptom in particular provided their journeys with menopause. “When Theatre Company, Buchwald developed the catalyst for the transformation to we’re open about it we can say, ‘hey, the project when she realized how few Lara: “When I started getting hot flashes I have vaginal dryness too, what do you public and private conversations were a couple years ago,” Buchwald says, use?’ and we can better support each occurring around an important women’s “I thought: this has to be a super power! other.” Lara Tate makes these discus- health issue. I could light up the whole city with this!” sions much less embarrassing, Buchwald Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 27

says. “Humor is a great way to approach things that are unpleasant.” “Usually when you see superheroes, you see them in Christian Louboutin [shoes] and latex,” Buchwald says. 34 Menopause Apropos of her power source, however, a Menopausal Symptoms Superhero wears only breathable fabric. In fact, in the second episode, Lara finds her secret training lair by giving COMMON SYMPTOMS a clothing saleswoman the code words “loose, breezy and 1. Hot Flashes cool.” Buchwald says, “This is what a woman in her fifties would experience!” 2. Night Sweats Aging, Buchwald says, “can 3. Irregular Periods be empowering. Many women 4. Loss of Libido start a second career, and their 5. Vaginal Dryness kids are grown up — it can be 6. Mood Swings a great new beginning.” Now based in Los Angeles, CHANGES Buchwald is working to secure 7. Fatigue funding for future episodes of 8. Hair Loss Lara Tate’s adventures, includ- 9. Sleep Disorders ing a possible comic book tie-in that could bring Lara to 10. Difficulty Concentrating an even wider audience. 11. Memory Lapses “There used to be such a 12. Dizziness 2310 Como at Doswell - St. Paul stigma about getting your Open Every Day 7AM - 10PM 13. Weight Gain 651-645-7360 period,” she says. Today, 14. Incontinence [email protected] families can buy first-period Fresh Gourmet CoffeeCoffee & Sandwiches Daily! gift packs online. Buchwald Amy Buchwald 15. Bloating AlwaysAlways FreshFresh MeatMeat && Bread & Produce!Produce! says that “menopause is also 16. Allergies very much a time of ‘oh no, When I started 17. Brittle Nails 25:1 what’s happening to my getting hot flashes a 18. Changes in Odor 30-4 body,’ like puberty, but we 19. Irregular Heartbeat talk about it less. It can be “couple years ago, 20. Depression cloaked in mystery, which I thought: this has makes it even harder to find 21. Anxiety a support system.” to be a super power! 22. Irritability Reducing stigma and find- 23. Panic Disorder ing support is at the heart of I could light up why Buchwald founded the the whole city PAINS Mulberry Tree Group, the 24. Breast Pain arts nonprofit that produced with this! 25. Headaches the web series. Mulberry Tree — Amy Buchwald 26. Joint Pain Group develops projects about ” 27. Burning Tongue taboo subjects that can be illu- minated through media, including music, dance and spoken 28. Electric Shocks word pieces. “The more you discuss [something], the less 29. Digestive Problems it can be shameful or hidden,” she says. Recent work has 30. Gum Problems included poetry for Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers and 31. Muscle Tension a stage musical about domestic violence. Buchwald encourages anyone in menopause to see herself 32. Itchy Skin as a superhero, just like Lara Tate. “Don’t let anyone stop 33. Tingling Extremities your momentum,” she says. “Keep generating a support OTHERS system for women so that you discuss things and empower 34. Osteoporosis each other. Then, when you’re successful,” she adds, “you Source: send the elevator back down, so that your sisters can come 34-menopause-symptoms.com up and join you.” FFI: Watch the first episode in the Hot Flash Menopausal Superhero series: tinyurl.com/MWP-Superhero 23-1 28 Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 YOURSTORY

JUDITHBRIN INGBER Happy dance What creates our private body image? So much started for me when I began my ballet studies at age seven. I was captivated by the energy, the music and what I’d seen on stage, but I also remember looking in the mirror, wishing I were different. We were disciplined to struggle for the for their dance and music prowess. They classic ideal of long legs and little, sleek, came from kibbutzim, where they were taut bodies. Even as I grew, my body strong, group-oriented dancers, because the didn’t conform to those proportions. Was farmer generations had created homegrown there a way to stop what seemed like an harvest celebrations. They helped to show insidious change as curves appeared of me so much more variety in dancers, full their own volition? of more excitement and verve than I had My body image shifted during my mod- ever imagined. ern dance studies in college. My instructor’s I live in Minneapolis, but as I write this I My body image shorter legs and longer back, like mine, am visiting New York City. My biggest treat had nothing to do with how effectively she in Manhattan is taking ballet class from a shifted during my moved. We were told to stop studying our- teacher who is a creative force and doesn’t modern dance selves so intently in the mirrors — curtains ignore his beginnings as a kibbutz folk- studies in college. would be pulled across them, since mirrors dancing kid. These classes are made up of My instructor’s don’t refl ect the ineffable nature of perfor- a variety of body shapes, sizes, colors and mance or intuition or expression. ages. What we all share is the joy of execut- shorter legs and Shortly after I graduated, I landed a job ing exhilarating combinations. After class, longer back, like as the editorial assistant at a dance mag- on the subway, a young woman stands up to mine, had nothing azine. My image of the dancing body offer me her seat. What body image does she shifted dramatically once again. I realized see when she looks at me — another tired, to do with how I had absorbed a hierarchy of values when grey-haired woman? Or does she see the real effectively she confronted by the images that the editor me: yes, a grandmother, but also a happy, moved. decided to feature on the cover: Folk dance satisfi ed dancer. above ballet? Judith Brin Ingber teaches and performs I didn’t really confront my bias, however, dance around the world. She will be partic- until I lived and worked in Israel. I saw ipating in Sally Rousse’s residency, June that effective and dynamic dancers weren’t 14-21, 2018, at the Cowles Center for Dance only those with studio training. They could and the Performing Arts. jbriningber.com come from family wedding celebrations in the Moroccan or Yemenite Jewish communities. They could be drummers and singers, admired in their neighborhoods

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Go to http://tinyurl.com/ NominateChangemaker and suggest your nominations Changing the Universe through Women’s Stories 30 Minnesota Women’s Press, August 2017 YOURTHOUGHTS Each month we ask our readers to respond to a question. For August we asked: What is one thing you love about your body and why? See more thoughts on page 5. PSA: I’m not pregnant — my stomach sticks out if that woman can look stunning with her chin the size of This is my body. I have survived anorexia and now … the Eiffel tower then so can I. your question. I’ve gained a mutual respect with my body. I can’t A few years ago I was asked if I was pregnant when change some things, but if I take care of her and work I wasn’t. I cried. I am open about my recovery from towards physical goals that are actually achievable, then eating disorders. [Sometimes] recovery can come with she will return the favor. This mutual understanding is bad days. my favorite part about her. I can accept her “witch chin” In recent weeks I’ve been asked several times if I’m and work around that to make pregnant, by a variety of people who mean well (all of myself feel beautiful, while Let me count the ways she uses the food I give her to whom apologized profusely). The reality is that my I hope you are inundated keep us alive. stomach protrudes. with women extolling the This is the skin I’ve been It’s not practical to walk around sucking in all the wonders of their bodies! given, so we need an under- time. I’m not particularly interested in giving up my How do I pick one thing? standing between us, and I’ve cute, form-fitting clothes. Most important, I don’t want Do I choose my legs that found one. to go on a diet. For me, the words “diet” and “death” are allow me to bike-commute Shiva Antoinette, Shakopee too close for comfort. And so, I’ve had to learn how to to work? The stripe of grey deal with people thinking I’m pregnant without turning Healthy hinges hair I’ve had since my knives into myself. I’ll be an octogenarian in childhood, something so This is my body. It takes up space in ways that some July. I’m stunned by the unfa- natural and unique to me? people do not readily understand. miliar appearance of my upper The constellation of subtle Loving yourself is a radical act. You can hate oppres- arms, chin and hands. There’s birthmarks on my thigh? sive systems and the self-doubt and presumed right- nothing fun in aging, but what The small breasts I hated as to-question that comes with them. You can forgive the I love about my body is that a young woman, but love people who push the buttons that are supposed to hurt my joints still turn. now that I see how they you (refusing to forgive can be righteous, too). I am I owe a great deal to good allow me to run and be active choosing to forgive others and myself, while working to genes and a daily devotion comfortably? The crooked change the culture. I am finding transcendence. to yoga, for I can bend, walk, kink in my pinky knuckles The best gift I can give to myself, my activism and the sprint, hike, lift and carry. just like my Grandpa’s? people who love me is to move on. The radical gift I have I have a deep appreciation Jean Abbott, Lakeville for all of us is to share this information without shame. for my healthy hinges, while Erin Matson, Arlington, VA some of my beloved friends have endured stiffness and Accepting my chin pain. I admire them, for they’ve taken positive, proactive As I’ve gotten older, I’ve realized that there aren’t measures all the way through rehab to have pain-free many things I can change about my physical appear- use of new hips or knees. One close friend has had both ance. I’ve always seen myself as unattractive for certain shoulders made new. features and subconsciously tried to hide them. My main During certain seasons in my life, I’ve known the “long struggle was the chin that stuck straight out of my face. streak of that bad luck” that Paul Simon sings about, but I’ve come to terms with my “bad” physical traits by I know how lucky I am in reaching 80 with limbs and seeing them in beautiful people on the streets — because digits still bendable and useful. Joanne Bergman, St. Paul

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