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They were joined by 15 other women from our state and others from across the United States for the “We Are Woman” congressional day of action and rally for the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA). Each came with their own personal story of why this was important. They came with hopes for their granddaughters, to honor their mothers and grandmothers, their sisters, themselves — and to advocate for removing the deadline on the passage of the ERA. They carried decorated umbrellas as a symbol that they all were united under one umbrella for this cause — women’s equality. Read more about this experience on page 38. Coming up: Two years advice about divorce and family law November’s theme is “slow down, ago, Ann matters. It became apparent that they speed up.” What would you like to Manning could help the women legally, but that slow down or speed up? Tell us in journeyed there was nowhere for the women to go 150 words or less. Send to editor@ to Utah for to escape abuse. They had a vision for womenspress.com the Women’s a safe house for women. Their dream Deadline: Oct. 10 Congress for became the first women’s shelter in the November advertising sections: Future Genera- country, Women’s Advocates. Read • Education and Lifelong Learning tions. The agenda about their story on page 16. Guide was lofty, focusing Women who saw a need and acted • Girlfriends’ Guide to Giving on how women could change cul- on it. Women who heard a call and • Holiday Guide tural attitudes and behaviors to sup- said yes. Someone else was not doing • GoSeeDo Guide port a sustainable environment and it — they needed to. In this issue you’ll Deadline: Oct. 10 provide economic justice for future read stories of women called to action, generations to thrive. Manning knew even when the resources seemingly December is our annual there needed to be a second congress were not there, even when they didn’t Changemakers issue. What would and that it needed to be in Minnesota. have all the answers but knew some- you like to see changed for women Tell us about it. People told her that it would take at thing needed to be done and did it. or girls? least three years and that there weren’t Read about how Patricia, Shannon, Send up to 150 words to enough resources, but she got to work. Erin, Arvonne and others all listened to [email protected] The second Women’s Congress will be their own “personal” story and made Deadline: Nov. 10 held Nov. 7-9 in the Twin Cities. Read it “political.” What is your “personal/ December Advertising Sections: more about it on page 8. political” story? • Holiday Guide • Spirituality Guide Forty years ago, Sharon Rice and Vaughan and Susan Ryan worked in a • GoSeeDo Guide legal aid office where women called for Co-Publishers Deadline: Nov. 10 Minnesota Women’s Press, October 2014 5 YOUSAID YOURTHOUGHTS Art + Business = Success GOTANOPINION? Each month we ask our readers to respond to a question. For Beth Bergman of Wet Paint is a Like something in MWP? October, we asked: How has the personal been political for you? See more thoughts online at www.womenspress.com. personal friend and independent Or disagree? business colleague, and I have to We want to hear from you. say “great article and great sub- #YesAllWomen Write to editor@ ject.” [Profile, MWP, Sept. 2014] Following the May 2014 shootings at the University of Keeping the story of independent womenspress.com. Include California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), involving Elliot Rodger and businesses forefront in the public your name, address and his underlying misogynist beliefs, a social movement formed mind is as important as support- phone number for verifica- on Twitter with the hashtag #YesAllWomen. Twitter, a site ing those businesses. Thank you. tion. Letters are assumed commonly known as a place for meaningless updates and triv- Karen Fisher, Muncie, Ind. to be for publication and ial thoughts, has transformed into a space for political activism may be edited for length for certain individuals, and this hashtag is a perfect example. Fan mail Sustained by women sharing stories of patriarchy and misogyny, and clarity. The September magazine was the #YesAllWomen hashtag was found in thousands of tweets fabulous and a testament to what Minnesota Women’s Press in a matter of days. Some women shared experiences of sexual does the best: revealing great, original, creative, alternative, harassment, while others divulged narratives of rape. sustainable, humane work being done by women in our neigh- #YesAllWomen became a moment of solidarity and unification borhood! Excellent issue! for some women following the tragedy at UCSB. It has allowed Mary Voight, St. Paul more women to understand that they are not alone. It has been a place for women to share their stories and for other women to get Fixity’s solution help. It has taught men that they might not all be rapists, but that In the spirit of recycling and reuse, I checked out Katherine many accept the common misogyny and patriarchal narratives Hayes’ website after reading her story about “Fixity” in the in our society. September magazine. Bad news — she’s gone out of business. While Twitter might not be the perfect way to break down Her concept is great; it’s a shame she closed her business, but we oppression in our society, hashtags like #YesAllWomen are a can watch for her Fixit Clinics. step in the right direction to change in our culture. Len Jennings, St. Paul Haley Larsen, Wayzata

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Only in the (racially divided) USA St. Louis artist Mary Engelbreit, popular for cheerful, apple- cheeked figures, posted a print on her Facebook page titled “In the USA” with the lettering “Hands up! Don’t shoot” after a black teenager was killed by police in Ferguson, Mo. (All proceeds were to go to the teen’s memorial fund.) When the image drew a barrage of angry comments, Engelbreit didn’t back down. She posted: “If anyone uses words like ‘thug’ or ‘animal’ or any other derogatory words to describe their fellow human beings, their comment will be deleted. That’s not free speech, that’s hate speech, and you can go pedal your hatred and bigotry on someone else’s Facebook page.” Source: Mary Engelbreit, via Facebook

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MWP: Why a congress of women? Why tions, for telling the stories of how they Women are coming together. We are not just a congress? survived and what is needed in the future. taking seriously our responsibility and Carolyn Raffensperger: We have had a Theories of power that come out of creating a space where we can explore congress mostly defined by men for a longWashington politics give a sense of power that responsibility. time. How well has that worked to pro- as coercion or domination. One of the This is not the equal rights of the emerg- tect the environment? How well has that ideas that we are testing out is power as ing, early feminism. This is the next stage worked to protect living wages, health, communion. We are so often isolated in of claiming responsibility. And where bet- mental health? We have run an experi- any of our struggles — whether it’s for ter than the Midwest to claim our respon- ment in government for 200 years. a fair wage or against a mine or a pipe- sibility for all our of neighbor’s children I think our experience says that intui- line. One of the questions we often have and the honeybees, the birch trees, the tively women have something different is “what can I do?” Alone, we don’t have mussels in the river — all of them? a lot of power. But together, our power is to contribute. In our political ecology, the MWP: What is the connection between magnified. whole register of women’s voices is miss- the environment and the economy? ing. We are giving a chance for women’s MWP: Why has this idea resonated Raffensperger: [In the United States] voices to be raised. with women? there is a sense that we’ll gamble with the MWP: How would inclusion of women Raffensperger: Women are the first envi- Earth; it’s a casino. And guess who will bring different outcomes? ronment; we bring life into this world. We bear the brunt of the gamble when it goes Raffensperger: Women are dispropor- are responsible for making sure that life bad? The public, the Earth and future tionately affected by economic decisions continues and that the great-grandchil- generations. One of the things that we are in the country and around the world. dren are not alone, that they have butter- saying is that we will not accept [corpora- Therefore, women are sources for solu- flies, white pelicans and clean water. tions’] bad bets. If you are going to make a Minnesota Women’s Press, October 2014 9 bet using “the commons” — these things all regulations for their impact on future times it’s that story or a color, and some- that we all share — we are not going to generations, [who] would create a legacy times it’s the song that starts deep in the accept that bet. plan for how to pass them on in better chest as a lullaby for hard times. shape than we got them. If we have the right questions, after the MWP: What are the goals and desired And one of the things from the congress, women and study groups can outcomes of the Women’s Congress? Women’s Congress is that we withdraw come together and apply these ideas and Ann Manning: We see ourselves as a part our consent to the failed experiment that move them forward in their own commu- of the bigger movement and we are begin- we’ve run for a couple of hundred years. nities. For example, you could challenge

In our political ecology, the whole register of women’s voices is missing. “ We are giving a chance for women’s voices to be raised. — Carolyn Raffensperger, founder of Future First ” ning a new tributary to the movement. We give our consent to the things that ful- the economic suppositions of mining or One of the key goals of the 2014 Women’s fill our responsibility — to making sure pipelines. Congress is to see how the constellation of our neighbors are well fed, to the children One of the most important things is that environmental problems is connected to to come, to future generations. people will walk out knowing: “What’s our current economic structures. We can the one little thing I can do and what’s MWP: Tell us more about that consent. change this by making those connections the big thing I’m going to work on?” The more visible to people. Raffensperger: We’re looking at new small things we can do individually in We want to shift the worldview from methods and institutions for giving con- our households, such as energy conser- isolation and separation to the intercon- sent. One emerging idea is that not only vation. And the only way we can address nectedness of all things. We’re building do we have individual rights — religion, the magnitude of any of these enormous deeper coalitions among people in the free speech, to carry a gun — but there are issues is by joining together with others. movement and bringing new people to rights of community, rights that we share That is power. That is communion. That the movement — a mix of activists and — the rights to the commons, to healthy is recognizing that the future is in our women and men who are sitting alone rivers. hands. with their fear and grief about what is One of the ideas of the Women’s happening, wanting a place to plug in and Congress — which has always been the IFYOUGO: not finding it. And lastly, that [personal] agenda of real democracy — is to extend What: 2014 Women’s Congress inner shift of how do I go home and start rights, looking at the rights of future gen- living a different way. People are ready erations. We can fulfill these by standing Where: Earle Brown Heritage Center, to engage in finding ways both large andtogether, to create new institutions. We Brooklyn Center small to make a difference protecting the can do that. When: Fri.-Sat., Nov. 7-9 with pre- planet for current and future generations. MWP: How would that happen? Congress event Thurs. evening, Nov. 6 Raffensperger: [We hope to have] some Raffensperger: We believe in priming Speakers include: Rianne Eisler, Joanna really rigorous intellectual work on the pump with good questions. Partly Macy (via video conference), Mary Pipher, what’s an economy for? What’s govern- because there aren’t any single answers. Sandra Steingraber, Sonia Davila-Poblete, ment for? Can we create new institutions? A good question is one of the most Lisa Daniels, Kimberly Wasserman, Imagine that we had a legal guardian powerful tools we have. The structure of Rachel Bagby for future generations, who was the voice the question opens up hearts and minds. Registration and information: of future generations, who would review Sometimes the answer isn’t words; some- FutureFirst.us or [email protected] ’ Mastel’s LUCIAS Health Foods 10% Off Your Entire Order (Juicers, special offers and any sale items not included) LULA VINTAGE CLOTHING One coupon per customer 1587 SELBY AVENUE Expires 10/31/14 RESTAURANT WINE BAR TO GO ST. PAUL, MN 55104 1526 St. Clair Ave., St. Paul www.lulavintagemn.com (2 blocks E. of Snelling) Check out this weekʼs menu! www.lucias.com 651.644.4110 651-690-1692 Oct 2014, 30-10 10 Minnesota Women’s Press, October 2014 PROFILE Patricia Torres Ray is working to launch

SARAH WHITING SARAH more women into elected office Primed for by Lisa Peterson-de la Cueva State Sen. Patricia Torres Ray is on the campaign trail even though POWER she is not running for re-election this year. She is busy working to get other women elected to political office. The Minneapolis DFLer often talks about the importance of diversifying the state Legislature and of bringing more women, especially women of color, into positions of power. “Each person has their own lens,” Torres Ray says. “We need more people who can share their experiences so that they may be able to say: ‘Now hold on, how might that affect someone like me — an immigrant, a minority, a woman of color?’” Reaching out to other women has always been important to Torres Ray. “I work with young women of all ethnic backgrounds trying to encourage them to move their ideas forward,” she says. Indeed, she has been intentional about recruiting women of color to run for office. She is supporting Iris Altamirano’s bid for a seat on the Minneapolis school board in the November election. Previously, she encouraged Melisa Franzen, a Puerto Rican candidate in Edina, to run for the state Senate (Franzen won a hard-fought race in 2012) and helped to elect Nelly Korman, a Latina, to the Bloomington school board in 2011. Torres Ray also has hired young women early in their careers as her aides, often encouraging them to move on to policy positions outside the halls of the Legislature. “If you’re going to work with me,” she says laughing, “you’re going to have a big plan for the future.” Foster-care advocate Torres Ray has carried out some of Patricia Torres Ray on the floor her own big plans during her eight years of the Minnesota Senate. in the Legislature. She authored 125 Minnesota Women’s Press, October 2014 11 legislative proposals in her first term and the majority in Colombia, she was viewed Torres Ray regularly comes in to talk to was vocal about pushing the Senate to go as a minority here. the group about life after high school, further on minimum-wage efforts. She “I didn’t know what a ‘person of color’ with the hope of opening their eyes to authored the Homeowners’ Bill of Rights or ‘a minority’ was,” she says. “But I opportunities and helping them to think — a measure she is very proud of — to found out that I was one.” of themselves in roles they might not protect homeowners facing foreclosure. Torres Ray says that this actually otherwise. The bill passed the Senate despite oppo- helped her learn about disparities in this sition on the part of some large banking country. She became curious about the institutions. She also authored a bill to difference between the Minnesota she If you’re going to work reform limited English proficiency (LEP) read and heard about, with its statistics policy, a measure she says “will transform about educational achievement, and the “ the way we teach children who speak Minnesota she was seeing. with me, you’re going to English as their second language.” “I realized that kids who look like me Torres Ray learned how to move bills weren’t getting ahead, and I kept asking have a big plan for the through the Legislature during her early, myself — especially with this outsid- formative professional years. A native of er’s perspective — why is this? How did future. — Patricia Torres Ray Colombia who met her husband when he this happen? How can we change this?” was studying abroad in her hometown of she says. ” Pasto, she came to Minnesota with a law Asking these questions has moved her In exchange, the girls help ground degree. When she was 23 and a recent career from legislative advocate to the Torres Ray. immigrant, she looked for work in her Office of Ombudsperson for Families to She compared and contrasted passing field and landed in legislative advocacy program administrator in the state Health the Homeowners’ Bill of Rights to her around foster-care issues. and Human Services Department to work with Latina teens. The biggest chal- “I was basically ‘adopted’ profession- state senator and now chair of the Senate lenge of passing the Homeowners’ Bill ally by a group of African-American Education Committee. of Rights, she says, was getting banking and Native American women, and a few And though this journey has put her institutions on board. Latinas, who were pushing legislation in positions of power, she now keeps one The challenge in her work with the to protect African-American and Native foot in the Legislature and one planted in Latina teens is finding a way to connect American children in the foster-care sys- the grass roots. with the girls that truly motivates them to tem,” she says. “I can’t imagine not being in the com- stay in school and think of themselves as Torres Ray helped these women lobby munity in some meaningful way,” Torres leaders. for legislation that would, among other Ray says. “It triggers big ideas for me. It “They can both be daunting tasks,” she things, place these foster children in gives me opportunities to see how things says. African-American or Native American we’ve passed in the Legislature might be At the very least, if Torres Ray’s efforts households. working or not working. I don’t think I to get more women of color elected to “These women, who were mostly can do policy that is relevant if I don’t see political office bear fruit, the girls will have women of color, were powerful voices,” the impact of my work.” more public role models to look up to. Torres Ray says, “They taught me so Mentor to teens much and they are the reason I didn’t go The profile appears in every issue of the Torres Ray is currently working into the private sector.” Minnesota Women’s Press. It reflects our on a mentorship pilot project in the founding principle and guiding philosophy ‘How can we change this?’ Minneapolis public schools that targets that every woman has a story. Readers Advocating for foster care with this 17 ninth-grade Latinas. The girls get are welcome to submit suggestions for group of women also taught Torres Ray together regularly to talk about home- profile subjects. Email your ideas to a surprising lesson. 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by Anne Hamre There are more than 1,500 battered women’s shelters in the United States today. Forty years ago, there were none — until Women’s Advocates opened its doors in St. Paul. Since then, the shelter has served over 38,000 women and children, housing 50 at a time — typically, about 30 kids (ranging from a few days old to late teens) and 20 women — and it receives about 16,000 crisis calls per year. Mary Brown has worked at Women’s Opportunities in a Safe Environment). vey so they could give women at least a Advocates for 25 of its 40 years, wearing ROSE stemmed from surveying women phone number to call about health care, multiple hats. She has accompanied fam- after they had left the shelter. employment or other concerns. In the ilies to court, aided moms in registering “What we heard was that once women process, they learned there was no place kids for school, and assisted women in get out in the community, that’s where for abused women and children to stay finding jobs, health care and housing, asthe hard part begins,” Brown says. “So we — other than a seedy hotel. “We couldn’t well as assisted them in removing barri- immediately stepped up.” Now, advo- believe it,” Vaughan says. ers to reaching their goals. Now women’s cates follow women into the community Meanwhile, a support group that Ryan and children’s program manager, Brown and help them settle in. In addition, the belonged to was looking for a place to get implements new programming, ensures shelter’s aftercare specialist serves as a life away — but not from domestic violence. appropriate staffing and generally keepscoach for them, she says. This group of feminists dreamed of buy- things running smoothly. Kitchen table validation ing a house where they could hold classes Over the years, she has seen some and support group meetings or host Women’s Advocates co-founders changes. Years ago, says Brown, most musical events. Sharon Rice Vaughan and Susan Ryan women at the shelter were 30 to 44. Now, “So we evolved from being a phone ser- were VISTA workers in a St. Paul legal- the biggest group is 18 to 29. “We are see- vice to being dead-set on getting a house aid office who were tasked with starting ing more trauma in the women and chil- for women and kids who needed it. The a phone service for women to call with dren we are serving now,” she says. other plan just dropped by the wayside, questions about divorce and other fami- Brown cites two key program develop- and the house instead became emergency ly-law matters. ments in the past seven years: the addition housing for women,” Vaughan says. Vaughan and Ryan, quickly realizing of a full-time mental health therapist and The women arrived before the house that multiple interrelated problems were an aftercare program called ROSE (Real did. The phone operation moved into usually at play, conducted a resource sur- ILLUSTRATION AND PHOTOS COURTESY OF WOMEN’S ADVOCATES OF WOMEN’S COURTESY AND PHOTOS ILLUSTRATION Minnesota Women’s Press, October 2014 17

Ryan’s apartment at Grand Avenue and Women would sit at the kitchen table, telling each other their stories. Avon Street in St. Paul, where the group “It was amazing to see. They validated each other. — Sharon Rice Vaughan took in its first residents: a mother and child who arrived at the Greyhound ” bus station with no money, hoping to start a new life. The operation shifted to Vaughan’s place after another tenant found a discarded diaper and Ryan was evicted: it was an adults-only building and didn’t allow kids. With thorough phone records and doc- umentation of harboring women in their homes, the group — by now calling itself Women’s Advocates — could show poten- tial funders the need for a shelter. Most important, Vaughan says, they developed a core philosophy: treating each woman as her own expert. They wouldn’t tell her L-R: Babette Jamison, Sharon Rice Vaughan and Mary Brown what she needed, but they would help her reach her own goals. new, you don’t just maintain it,” she says. PERSONAL STEPS: What can I do? “Once we got the money for the house, “You move it to the next level.” it was always full,” Vaughan says of the • Call 911 to report acts of violence in To that end, Women’s Advocates hosted emergency situations. Grand Avenue location that is still the two open-to-the-public “Community shelter’s site today. “Women would sit at • If you or someone you know is abused or Conversations” this past summer, explor- threatened, call the statewide domestic the kitchen table, telling each other their ing the root causes of and effective violence crisis line: 1-866-223-1111. stories. It was amazing to see. They vali- responses to domestic violence. Residents, • If someone is being abusive, encourage dated each other.” elected officials, health and human ser - them to seek help from local abuse Women’s Advocates began as a collec- vices professionals, law enforcement programs, such as Domestic Abuse tive, believing a hierarchy would dupli- authorities, and others participated. Project, 612-874-7063, or Wilder cate the system that kept women battered “They left their titles at the door and we Foundation, 651-280-2000. and silent. But when funders said they were a community,” Jamison says. “We • Donate time, skills or money to local needed a director, Vaughan thought: had an honest conversation.” She hopes battered women’s programs. Find one maybe so. to continue hosting them. here: www.dayoneservices.org/ “I applied, was hired and turned it back safe-locations.php “These conversations aren’t comfort- into a collective three weeks later,” she able. They’re not glamorous,” she says. • Learn about legislative proposals and says. “We were all advocates.” contact elected officials: “But they are necessary.” ‘Honest conversation’ www.mcbw.org/#!get-involved--- Rather like those kitchen-table conver- public-policy/c1hpe sations 40 years ago. Fast-forward to November 2013, when • Encourage your employer or faith Babette Jamison began as executive direc- CELEBRATE! Attend Women’s community to provide domestic violence tor. With a background in nonprofit training. Contact the Minnesota Advocates’ 40th anniversary celebration management and public health, Jamison Coalition for Battered Women, on Thursday, Oct. 23, 6-8 p.m. at the is grateful to have worked with many 651-646-6177. Minnesota History Center in St. Paul. strong female leaders. “I learned from • Teach kids alternatives to acting out them that when you step into something FFI: 651-227-9966 or www.wadvocates.org violently; talk to teens about dating violence.

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Linda Sharpe expresses her serious — and sometimes whimsical — opinions through a spontaneous, artistic approach

by Norma Smith Olson Picture this: A young woman in the early 1920s just coming into her own. Women have just won the right to vote. Yet there’s a bit of tentativeness. Women’s rights were still a new concept to society and to her — the woman in the painting on the cover of this month’s magazine (and at left). “I Decide” Cover artist Linda Sharpe hears the young With her sense of adventure, an affinity for woman saying “‘It’s my life and I decide.’ She risk-taking, and B.A. and M.A degrees in interna- has made up her mind, but it hasn’t sunk in yet,” tional relations, Sharpe and her husband started Sharpe says. their own clothing company in the mid-1970s. As For women to be strong and capable, to stand Quatre, they designed and manufactured wom- It’s almost up for the larger issues, is the underlying mes- en’s outerwear. The company grew fast, “too sage of this painting, according to Sharpe. fast,” she says, and they couldn’t secure financ- as“ if the painting In another painting, “Pay Attention Ladies,” ing to keep up with the demand. They closed Sharpe creates a scene during the 2000 Gore the company and moved to Hong Kong for five comes through me. vs. Bush election. The women are chatting and years, working as agents matching buyers with socializing while the two men, front and center, manufacturers in China, Japan and India. … Writers say their have their hands up in victory. “There were some Sharpe’s international relations background characters talk big decisions and a lot of repercussions from that and business interests continued when they election. I just wanted to scream: ‘Wake up!’ I moved back to the United States, settling in to them. I say the think women especially are burdened by every- Phoenix. They operated an Asian antiques, furni- day activities and we lose sense of the bigger pic- ture and accessories store for 10 years, importing same thing. These ture sometimes,” Sharpe says. goods from China, Taiwan, Thailand and India. A ‘whole world’ view Intuitive painting characters tell me Sharpe’s artistic side was encouraged by her Sharpe’s interest in painting had been rekin- their stories as parents. As a child, she took weekly, Saturday dled while living in the Southwest when an art- morning painting lessons at an artist’s home in her ist friend invited her for a weeklong “intuitive” I’m painting. They Highland Park neighborhood in St. Paul. During painting class. “I learned a whole new process of her youth, she also was given an entrepreneurial expressing creativity,” she says. practically paint mindset from both her father and grandfather, As Sharpe — who now lives in Minneapolis who owned outerwear and clothing manufactur- — explains, the key to intuitive or spontaneous themselves. ing businesses. Her sense of the larger world was painting is to just keep painting, to allow new expanded through study-abroad experiences — ideas to pop in, to get them on paper and, per- — Linda Sharpe” living in in Germany during high school and in haps most important, to drop all judgments. Austria for a year while in college. “You don’t audit or edit yourself, just paint every “[Those experiences] live with you forever. idea that comes up, even though your mind You see that the United States is not the only might say ‘oh, that’s stupid,’ ” she says. country on the planet,” Sharpe says. “I was She starts by choosing a color and painting adventurous, still am.” straight lines on paper or canvas. “Suddenly, an Minnesota Women’s Press, October 2014 21 idea pops into my mind, like that could be a fi gure or a face could be here,” Sharpe says. “You hear people say this, but it’s almost as if the painting comes through me. These characters want to be painted, and there they are. Writers say their char- acters talk to them. I say the same thing. These characters tell me their stories as SHARPE OF LINDA COURTESY I’m painting. They practically paint them- selves,” she says. Intuitive painting held Sharpe’s inter- est for many years and then she began exploring other painting styles, including the more impressionistic style of the cover painting, “I Decide.” In addition to her intuitive artwork, like the painting, “Pay Attention Ladies,” Sharpe paints custom images for families, often from their photographs. “That’s different, when you’re paint- ing to please someone else,” Sharpe says. “It’s much less whimsical, more technical. Linda Sharpe with her painting, “Pay Attention Ladies” Honestly, I enjoy both ways — the chal- lenge of doing commission work and the freedom to just paint what I want.” FFI: www.lindasharpe.net

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THROUGH 10/25 After the Glaciers Bonnie Peterson exhibits “After the Glaciers: Geoscience Embroideries,” in which she embellished maps or stitched phrases on velvet and silk to make large wall hangings about climate issues. Gallery hours: Mon.-Thurs., 10 a.m.-7 p.m.; Fri.-Sat., 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Community Gallery, Textile Center, 3000 University Ave. S.E., Mpls. FFI: 612-436-0464 or www.textilecentermn.org “Of Bogs and Benthos” by Bonnie Peterson Minnesota Women’s Press, October 2014 23 www.womenspress.com GoSeeDo Guide oct 10 – nov 2 10/9 THURSDAY Lisa Westberg Peters reads The Twin Cities author reads from her memoir, “Fractured Land: A Brilliant Waltz Between Past and Present The Price of Inheriting Oil,” about how she, as an environmentalist, wrestles with her family’s role in the North Dakota oil boom. Free. 7 p.m. Common Good Books, 38 S. Snelling By Moisés Kaufman; Directed By James Rocco Av., St. Paul. FFI: 651-225-8989 or 651.291.7005 | parksquaretheatre.org commongoodbooks.com

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ONYOURMIND Embracing green to reimagine your home CINDYOJCZYK Jane and Tom stepped into their newly remodeled home and closed the glass front door behind them. Walking from the light-filled entry to the bright, cheery kitchen, they were struck by the changes. They could sit at the table and be warm and cozy while gazing through windows once too clouded with moisture. Gone, too, was the menacing ceiling stain. In its place was peace of mind.

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Baldwin Every Door Direct Mail in the Health • Business To place your next ad: State Farm Companies Home Offices: Simplified Mailing Process Bloomington, Illinois quickdigitalprintinginc.com [email protected] 38 Minnesota Women’s Press, October 2014 ACTNOW KATHY MAGNUSON ERA? It’s time! Why would someone think it was a good idea to ride a bus overnight to Washing- ton, D.C., to spend a day and a half and then ride it back? Why would she think sleep- ing in a bed only one of those nights and eating at truck stops was a smart choice? When plans were announced for the Misinformation may be the biggest obstacle to fi nal “We Are Woman” rally — a congressio- approval. Many believe that the ERA happened a long nal lobby day and rally on the lawn of the time ago. The reality is that there are no guarantees against U.S. Capitol in support of the Equal Rights sexual discrimination in our Constitution. As we have Amendment (ERA) to the U.S. Constitution recently seen with reproductive rights, laws can come and — I signed up immediately. I became a go. An amendment makes a guarantee permanent. part of the 50-member delegation from At the rally, we cheered our own state Sen. Sandy Minnesota. Pappas at the podium sharing the story of the passage of Why? One woman on the bus trip Minnesota’s Women’s Economic Security Act earlier this said she was taking action like this year. And we were proud to hear Minnesota members of for the fi rst time and wantedthe to Women’s Veteran Initiative as they read the names of be a part of something big. Two women who gave their lives in service to our country — teenagers told me they were there but who were not protected from sex discrimination or because their mom made them sexual violence in that service. come — and if it was important We came with different areas of concern and activism to her, it was important to them. — sexual violence, traffi cking, women in the military, A woman spoke of being on the union alliances, tribal disparities, LGBT issues and paren- bus for her mother, who had died tal concerns. We stood together for something important, three years before. One of her moth- larger than any one of us. We lobbied for votes and action er’s greatest regrets was that the ERA had from our representatives who can make it happen. We never passed. A young activist thought it rallied, danced and sang for Many believe that would be a good way to build alliances. change. We witnessed each Many, some of whom were not mothers other’s stories and built alli- the ERA happened yet, spoke of wanting a better world for ances and connections going a long time ago. their grandchildren. I have three grand- forward. The reality is daughters and hope for a more equitable Was being on the bus such world for all women. And it is important a good idea? Yes. that there are for my grandson, too. When women are What can you say yes to? no guarantees treated equally, we all benefi t. FFI: www.wearewoman.us/era against sexual Some came with a friend. Others knew a few of the participants before the trip. Some discrimination in came alone. By the time we had traveled our Constitution. together, slept on the bus together, visited Congress members’ offi ces together, fought off the rally rain together and shared our stories along the way, we knew each other well. Written by suffragist Alice Paul, the ERA was intro- duced to Congress by Republicans in 1923. In 1971-72, it passed Congress with large majorities. The next step to becomng a per- manent part of the Constitution was ratifi - cation by 38 states. By 1977, 35 states had ratifi ed the ERA; Minnesota was 26th. The original arbitrarily set deadline was June 1979, and then it was extended to June 30, 1982, but passage remained stalled at 35 states. There is a new effort now to eliminate the deadline for ratifi cation with the goal to pick up three more states. Illinois is expected to vote on the ERA in November. Minnesota Women’s Press, October 2014 39 40 Minnesota Women’s Press, October 2014 SEE THIS QUIRKY COMING OF AGE COMEDY FOR JUST $25!

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