GROWING NEWS PAINS & NOTES August 1st marks a year since some Aug-Sept 1984 VoM, No 3 •Mama Bears' decided to rent the space we are in. There was no wiring, no plumbing, no side windows, and the floors were mostly dirt. Alice being who she is, looked at it and saw a M A M A B E A R S wonderful space. I could only look at it one eye at a time because all I & s^aw was a lot of work - and ask where BEACON PRESS all the money and energy would come from, anyway. * Proudly Celebrate Publication of Then things started to. happen. ANOTHER MOTHER TONGUE: Some very wonderful women held a par ty for us at which they raised about GAY WORDS, GAY WORLDS S900 to help us pay on our attorney's fees. Then our lawyer said, "Go ahead by and open a new space, don't worry Judy Grahn about paying me right now." Mickey Phillips (Arlene Slaughter's son) W ith a Party at Mama Bears from Central Realty not only arranged the lease for us, but believed in the > Sunday, August 5, 1984 vision enough to arrange some loans 4 PM for us. The I Ching said, "It'fur thers one to cross the great water." uie invite you—our sisters & brothers—to join We-were on our way. w ith us and Ms. Grahn in marking this joyous Several other; loans and donations event came to us; ranging from $10'to-$1000 from wonderful women who believed in Preface us. A small legacy ($2000) also ar rived about that time from a woman one who had been a true and active femin Interview With Judy Grahn Sashay Down the Lavender Trail • l ist, whose,suicide was at.least part Hermes, Diana. Lavender, Amethyst. Narcissus, HyacinLhus, Pansy Pinky Rings ly due to alcohol and disillusionment [Alice Moll.oy, Interviewer, and JUDY: I know what you mean...I used a with the women's movement. Packaged Eloise, Poet, met with Judy Grahn kind of code-word, a sentence of TWO with the loans and donations were be at Mama Bears, July 6, 1984] A']Ice's: "When action proves..." The Original Underground 21 lief in us and the project, and the Closet, Coming Out. Demeter/Kore, Pomegranate, ALICE: That was Ursula LeGuin. enormous amount of energy needed to ALICE: I get the feeling that your Shamanism. Baubo, Dike keep us going. new book ANOTHER MOTHER TONGUE was JUDY: Oh, "When action proves unpro THREE Needless to say, there were delays something you had to do, a mission. fitable gather information." From Gay Is Very American 49 (we were Supposed to open Sept. 15, How, or when, did- you y n ceive of the . LEFT HAND OP DARKNESS, by Ursula Das, Murfidal. Winkle. Huame, Koshkadaka. NadJe, but didn't until Oct. 30) and unex scope of the project? • LeGuin. Well,...I suffered Turquoise Hermaphrodite. Joya, WUa-Numpa pected expenses, but here we are and we're surviving. JUDY: In the early 70's I think I had more with that than anything else FOUR However, we're having growing a great desire to write something I've done, because I would say, 'who Fairies nnd Frtry Q ueens • u pains. Some of the loan* made to us about Gay people and had an und^r- , are you to do this?'. I had to work Fairy Tattooing, Ear rings, Halloween. Drag Queens are coming due and need refinancing-. standing that there was a connection it through, kind of lead myself around the tunnel hand over hand, and rive We need to raise some capital to fix between Gay people and women and that We Go Around the World 101 up the coffee house part» We need an women's history of matriarchy was that was very hard. It came together in pieces, a piece at a time and -get Spinsters. Oya. Eshu. Ondele. Angakok, Shamanism. ice machine so's we can have iced somehow connected to Gay history. Fricatrice, Bonzes, SahacaL Lollepot, Mariposa. ting feedback. I finally found that drinks and get the salad bar happen Maflcona. Links % ing. We need to get a hood installed ALICE: You had a'sense...-? people were bringing me information six so's we can have soup and a real oven once I knew vJhat questions to ask. JUQY: After reading Elizabeth Gould Pretty soon these people began to be Butchtt, Bulldaqs and the (Oakland Health Dept, laws are very Davis and SCUM MANIFESTO and numerous strtct about this). Wp need a slicing anthropologists who would say, Q ueen of BulldiKery 133 other things that were out at the Boudlca. Buildike. Buiidagger. Bodacious Butch. machine and we really would like to "ch§ck out this paper, because this time. I had finished writing A WOMAN information really needs to surface." Femme. Tomboy Amazon Queens. Joan of Arc do something about the floors. IS TALKING TO DEATH and I felt that I r Earlier this year we got one loan had pretty much summerized everything seven I knew in poetry up to that point and .ALICE: Did the scope change as you that enabled us to buy a large re Riding with the A mazons 163 fridge/freezer and another to buy air that in order to go further with a went along? African and Caucasus ML Amazons. Penthesilea. Rhard of Jhansi. Judith the Hebrew, King Nzihgha cleaning equipment (presently back thought I would have to undertake JUDY: I- discovered very early on ordered). You've prpbably figured out prose, whether I wanted to or not. that I couldn't tell the women's e iO M T by now that what I'm trying to do is Poetry is such a synthesis and I had story without telling the men's story ask fdr money, but it's hard, wh$t run out of things to synthesize. I nor understand the traditions and, Flaming, Flaming Faggot Kings 203 FaggoL Flnnochio. Fagus. Enarees, Rufus, Thomas, with working-class pride and all that.' thought, "I have to go and dig in the that there is a women's culture. And mountain; I have to go and get the Normans, King Sacrifice, Butch/femme, Camp. Up to now women have come to us that's what gave me the understanding. Transvestite, Gala. Clranus, Rainbows and that was so much easier But, the raw material because I have run out." Thje scope gave itself to me - by woman'who loaned us the money for the That was as far as I could think at broadening the scope the information nine air cleaners wanted to know-why we ^:he time... would come. Friction A m ong Women 233 hadn't asked. So, I'm asking. Besides, The project is about men and women, Am a Terasu. Uzume, Arani, Kali, Fricatrice, I know you're all tired of cheese Elizabeth Gould Dav/i$ said women tribal people and modem people, in- "• Tribadism. Frigging have had power before. Well, that was sandwiches, anyway, and it's really duStrialized Gay culture and folk Gay ten in your self-interest to move-us a new idea. I said, what if Gay peo culture, all different kinds of peo ple had power before? And how could I Gay Is Good and Gay Is Also Baed 263 along. Love IT Affection, Carol ple. It's an immense scope. I didn't BaedelL Baed, Buggery Crossroads find out? It seemed like such varied think I could tell the story without information. So, I began by making having that broad of a perspective. lists of words and cultural charac teristics and researching them along ELOISE: Do -you think that Gay men and with the women's culture, women's - Lesbians formerly had more in conroon? ideas and other thinqs. I did them JUDY: It varied from culture to cul all in time and I called them all ture. Certainly at times when both benefit for prose. Now I will do prose. were being persecuted there was com In fact, this book was originally monality, and ig some social func footnotes for the novel ancl it just tions. In those societies where both mama bears turned into a full-sized book very have been spiritual leaders there gradually. I did presentations about would be some, kind of overlap of un Linda (Tui) Tillery, Mary it. By 1980 I thought I had an 85 derstanding^. ..having to do with the • Watkins, Joy Julkes, and page book, which I had with Perse fact that all these particular people phone Press when they went down. I were the spiritual leaders of that Bonnie Johnson--playing was revising it and finally under particular group. I'm sure there*are together to help Mama Bears stood that I had abput 300 pages. plenty of fairies and faggots and raise money. Sunday, August ELOISE: How did you proceed from the dykes in Hollywood who...overlap 19, 3’6 pm. . 'face of no knowledge' to the sense their knowledges and information. of expertise? . cont. on page 2 2 JUDY GRAHN INTERVIEW - CONTINUED And she dreamed. About the women who had lived, long ago. hamc haa. Who ALICE: More so than in the grocery JUOY: That's what I'm hoping for, had lived near caves, near streams. Who had known magic far beyond the simple business? that everybody will check out their Charms and spells the modems knew. Who were the Spider. The Spider Medicine own corner of the world...go digging JUDY: Yes. Society.' The women who created, the women who directed people upon their true and find twenty-five more things. paths. The women who healed. The women who sang. 'ALICE: Who are your favorite authors, ELOISE: The education system seems to the ones who've touched you and moved have the notion that we're supposed you, that you've learned from? to throw off all our history, jetti Paula Gunn Allen JUDY: It's really a long list. I've son the past. It leaves you fairly certainly been touched and moved by naked and alienated. O goddess the Southwest furthers, my feminist colleagues...Audre Lorde, ALICE: It's a special problem in the Diane DiPrlma, Adrienne Rich...even the oracie said academic circles, this losing our My hand on midnight air H.D. when I did QUEEN OF WANDS. history and'adopting the academic ap rye* closed to the dart and the light. and I taste the cool wet north [With this book] I went to the proach. It's very sterile. work of non-fiction writers. I was lead me where the sky touches the earth very taken wi.th the work of Margaret JUDY: And also dangerous. Academic I u b aware of the steps. hold myself silent Murray who is an English anthropolo people suffer terribly from the kind the chain Restore your ancient Power gist who decided to study her own of alienation they have to undergo. in the posing late night air— people. Lawrence Durden Robertson put [While I was writing this book I had] I know you. knowing sun and dark together a magnificent encyclopedia to remind myself over and over again I am not afraid. Halifax. Nova Scotia of goddesses. He's an Irishman who that it was OK to do what I was doing. -v. July 1975 side by side. lives In a castle and he's a very If we know what the cold, hard, dry pro-female matriarchal 1st. In his facts of history are, then what are C o y o t e 'S D a y l i g h t T r ip SHADOW COUNTRY work I find that Sappho's title was the warm, wet, soft facts of history? 'Tribass' and that the most sacred rites of the female religion were ALICE: That reminds of the 'thou The Woman Who Owned tribad1c rites. My friend Robert life Gluck. I love his work. Paula Gunn sand nights of pleasure' from EDWARD The Shadows Allen influenced me tremendously, THE OYKE. personally as well as in her work; JUDY: Well, history should be They had especially loved the shadows. Where they grew, lavender, violet, pur for giving me information about humorous and sexy. ple, or where those, shadows would recede on the mountain's slopes and closer by, American Indians and the nature of ceremonial light and the term 'cere ALICE: Which brings us back to your beneath the shading trees. And the blue enfolding distance surrounding the world monial lesbian' with the extremely book Jhd the sections oh sexuality. that meant the farthest peaks. Shared between them in their eyes, in their stories, important idea that we have a cul JUDY: I took the subject of sexuality but where, together, they had never been. ' tural position that eventually and, using my own as an example, reaches to the gods, as It did in talked about it from four different the past. And Sappho, whom I final directions. The first being physical, Paula G u n n Allen helps explain the woman-based philoso ly believe I understand...the kind phy prevalent in Indian tribalism, especially m Allen's own the second mental, the third psychic, of world (she) must have functioned southwestern pueblos You cannot understand Indians' ways of and the fourth transformational. thinking she says, without understanding that they stem frokn l. ‘1n and who she must have been and spmt based, rather than a family-based, system. "A m o n g Amen- then fit the translations of her ALICE: Talk a little about the fourth 11 fragments to the work of American n • can Indians,'' she writes, "Spint-related persons are perceived as domain and the problem of jealousy. more closely linked than blood-related persons. Understanding lesbian poets such as Amy Lowell, this primary difference between Amencah Indian values and mo d Emily Dickinson, Gertrude Stein, JUDY: If you mean that what I said in e m Euro American [udeo-Chnstia^^alues is cntical to under Adrienne Rich, Audre Lorde, and etc. the fourth section is - that in order standing Indian familial structures V I the context in v M c h Les to have a group, tribal, psychic, n bians functioned For Amencan Indi»i people, the primary value ELOISE; What do y6u think Sappho was sexual mind we all have to sleep to was relationship to the Spirit world All else was determined by the 11 trying to do? gether, I didn't say that. Nor do I essential nature of this understanding. Spirits, gods and goddesses, JUDY: I think she was teaching people believe It. You get jealous because metaphysical/occult forces, and the right mejns of .relating to your girlfriend's running out on' you 1 them, determined the tribes' every institution, every custom, every appropriate behavior toward the uni verse and toward the gods in order to with someone else. I have a monoga endeavor and paitime This was not peculiar to inhabitants of the mous marriage, but I still believe Western Hemisphere, incidentally, it was at one time the primary effect a world of grace and beauty. m value of all tnbal.people on earth." 11 It's possible for us to have a group ALICE: Do you read junk? sexual mind. We don't have to jump 11 Paula Cuan Allen. "Beloved Women Lesbians In Amencan Indian around in'each other's beds in order Cultures," Condition* 7 |I9SI| p TO.' ANOTHER MOTHER TONGUE J u d y G n fin M JUDY: Like mysteries and thrillers? 0< WOODS GAY WOKLDS No, When I do research I get burned to develop this mind. out from reading and I don't read, for ALICE: Why do you suppose we're hear pleasure. I go to movies, I love . ing 'women's community' these days Another difference between ihese two ways of perceiving reality lm m movies. I like to go to plays and I instead of 'women's movement'? the tendency at the American Indian to view space at tphercal and time as watch an incredible amount of TV. cyclical, whereas the non-Indian lends lo view space as linear and lime as 1 love HILL ST. BLUES, boxing matches, JUDY: I think 'women's movement' has sequential The circular concept requires all "points’ that make up*ihe sphere at being lo have a •gnifcant identity and function, while the linear INDIANA JONES and STAR TREK. I watch always been the political entity and model assumes ihai some ''points are more sigmfcam than others In the a huge amount of sitcoms. What I do that 'women's community' is a cultur me. significance a a necessary Uctor at being m rtsetl whereas m the other read are dictionaries, encyclopedias, al entity, and that they shift back significance is a function of placement on an absolute scale that n hu d m maps, word derivation sources, that and forth depending on where a given nme and space The Sac red Hoop A Contemporary flrripecut* sort of thing. person 1s putting her energy. They're not mutually exclusive at all^they from Studies m American Indian literature | Paula G u m Alisa ALICE: What's your mind doing while are both very important and I think you're watching TV. there are waves which shift back and JUDY: I love to analyse cultural forth between the political arena Grandmother of the Sun, Grandmother of the Night things. What I love to do best is to and the cu-ltural arena. connect the intellectual with the ALICE: Speaking of waves, what do you Before the world was made, in the vast shining midnight of mundane and the spiritual- with the see happening in the next few years? the eternal void, the grandmothers slept. They meditated. They crass. I love to mix the sacred and sang AJone in the darkness they sang. And coming together, the profane. In-fact, I really t>e- JUDY: There's been great movement in lieve you can't have one without the, the direction of integrating racially, they thought They dreamed of making the darkness shine so other. understanding differences, as well as bright. They dreamed of making the stars. So they came ALICE: Isn't that a part of our re comnonalities, bringing up issues of together, so they thought. So they dreamed. volution, that this culture has flass, drafting bills, running for separated these things? office, being very public out there. The spirituality movement has also . But, now 1 have slept _ _ JUDY:. That's right. And by integra come and people are trying that out a^ night wrapped in your blanket, the one woven S h a d O W C O U R t T y ting them#again we can find power with varying degrees of success. with the colors of the setting sun. hv Pat ib» GitfVl Allen within ourselves and project it into There is more and more articulation I have read your poems and you are ringing. ° Y OUnfl Mlien a world that, at last, belongs to us. of genuine spirituality, genuine god m y elders are singing and we are still up the sky b y Jo Cochran, ALICE: That's something you do in force for this continent...[for in stance] the anti-alcohol work fits in 6ATHERIN6 GROUND your book, reconnect things that were separated. A lot of us are starting because alcoholism destroys spiritu to look for the things you found in ality. We have a very good chance of resurrecting genuine female power , history, the connections. I think Wouldn’t ii be good for feminist* to know ihai there it's going to have a very powerful that ts not only public but is cos have been recent social models from which us dream descends and to effect on our thinking. mological, [1e] more -nd more female presence in the public sphere. which its adherents can look for models? fmitCunn x.im ELOISE: Instead of the ideology of ALICE: To what do you attribute the WHO Is Your Mother? Red Roots-of White Femuuun SINISTER WISDOM 23 deviance you put Gay and Lesbian Culture into an historical framework, recent change in your social style? free people to find their own connec The Johnny Carson Show? IN*PRAISE OF THE WOMAN WHO OWNED THE SHADOWS tions. JUDY: I turned forty. 3
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SAT AUG 18 FRI AUG 3 OPEN TIL 11 PM OR LATER 7:30 pm women only, $3"5 * OPEN TIL 11 PM OR LATER GALLERY RECEPTION: MARJORIE MOUNT FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCIALIZING FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCIALIZING THURS AUG 9 Come and meet the artist whose works OPEN TIL 11 PM OR LATER are currently hanging in Mama Bears. SAT AUG 25 * (See article elsewhere in this issue.) SAT AUG 4 * FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCIALIZING BLEND IN'...POETRY, MUSIC‘S LAUGHTER COMEDY £ HUMOR: KAREN RIPLEY...MARGA JOYLETTA A. ALICE GOMEZ...MONICA*PALAC I OS...3 LIVE.WIRES & special guest FRI AUG 10 SILVIA KQHAN BECKY REARDON: SONGS FROM THE HEART KAREN RIPLEY, as Mar^a-Bears regulars OPEN TIL 11 PM OR LATER £ OTHER CHAKRAS know,is a very funny-woman who never JOY, a Nebraskan in her late 20s, iden FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCIALIZING loses touch with the'depths from which tifies herself as a poet, but she's‘ " BECKY REARDON sings and accompanies her our humor springs....and she brings also an accomplished singer, humorist, self on guitar, and there will be a wonderful women to entertain with her.1 £ graphic artist, and is now studying special-guest appearance by JUDY MUNSON Tonight, sharing the stage are MARGA video. Joy said recently that 'telling SAT AUG 11 on bass. BECKY* is best known for the GOMEZ and MONICA PALACIOS. MARGA de the story' is her driving motivation; songs she sings in the 'Peanuts' TV scries herself as "a former New Yorker so, renaissance woman that she is, she BARBARA STACK FIDDLES FRENCH specials £ movies, and has sung at Fan who loves to laugh, serves on the board will use every medium there is. nies, Trinity Place, The Plushroom, 01- of directors of her own charity, and As she says in her recently published Fiddler pa / excellence BARBARA STACK lies, & the Purple Onion, where she reads bilingual ballots in her spare SECRETS: VOL h performed at a garlic festival recently headlined for 2 years. BECKY played An t i me ." •I write because we have & for it she immersed herself in French nie £ Nancy in Bay Area-product ions of M0N.ICA PALACIOS, who says she recently things to say & French-Canad ian musilc (gar I i c*f rench Annie Get Your Gun and Oliver, and in led the Gay Parade on her own contin and starting will begin -gourmet)..she may or may not enter in the 70's performed in local clubs with gent, Dykes On A Salad Bar, also says the ending we've avoided a cloud of heavenly g^rljc aroma., but her own group, The Amelia Earhart Sur she plans to continue wjth comedy so for too long she will play (and sing some) gypsy, vival Band. Welcome home, Becky! JUDY she can open a feminist cafe £ sell Joy is now putting together a second folk,.popular, £ classic music. MUNSON composes music for movies £ TV woman burgers. Monica's a swifty. and is a whiz on th^ synthesizer... book of poems, AND THEN I REMEMBERED 7:30PM women only $3’5 8PM women only $^»-6 MY LIFE. she's made a space music tape that you can hear at Mama Bears, and maybe she In her stints as MC at Mama Bears Open will do a whole show for us one night. Mike Nites, Joy not Qnl.y entertains us SUN AUG 2 6 9 y N AUG 12 This should be a wonderful evening, as reyally, she is also c'are-ful and nur- Becky's voice £ songs envelop us in DYKE DOG SHOW Xvir«nt o< tKe w riters I musicians who OPfN HIKE HUSIC t HUMOR NITE warmth £ intimacy. com*, many of them young & nervous.... The Mama Bears Patio is open now, £ it it isn't everyone who can or will pro Our July Music £ Humor Nite was fabu 8:3J>PM (sharp--please arrive at least seems like a nice time.to have a DYKE mote and appreciate the talent Of. oth lous! Those o f you who weren't here to 15 minutes earlier) women only $3 DOG SHOW. Who knows, there may even be ers.. (Speaking of which, Joy wants to enjoy it really missed a treat. Seems Special Category prizes....we won't get a poets group together: interested like every third woman in town is parties should leave a message at Mama burst ing with talent. SUN AUG 19 say what*the categories are, cuz we Bears or catch Joy during a show.) ' don't want any boning up, heh. heh. A Performers: it's helpful if you call or dyke and her d o g ... so often we're not 8PM women only $3'"\5 LINDA This book--by JUDY GRAHN--reunites us TUES AUG 14 with our lesbian and gay history, and MON AUG 27 ELAINE BLAKE DISCUSSES LEO Its emergence is a*major event. The MON AUG 20 OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM party starts at kpm t goes on til 8pm. P.S. Don't exactly let on to Judy, but Back in 1971 we did a^survey of the wo OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM we're also celebrating her birthday. We man's movement activists, and Leos were hope that all of us «ho have been moved way in the majority. Is this still by her writings over more than a decade t*ue? Leos, come out and glow together. TUES AUG 28 now, will be able to attend and share A/valuable evening for anyone who's a OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM In the joy. ' Leo or has a Leo in hef life or just TUES AUG 21 wants to know more about Leo (bf- ire- OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM pared). ELAINE, an astrologer, ♦ MON AUG 6 does mini-readings at Mama Bears .very Thursday evening. OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM WED AUG 29 7:30PM women only $3”5 ' WED AUG 22 READING:, JUDITH MC DANIEL OPEN MIKE WRITING £ HUMOR NITE WED AUG 15 JUDITH MC DANIEL, is a lesbian writer £ One by one, the writers, somewhat shyer TUES AUG 7 teacher, a co-founder of Spinsters Ink, VERA AT 10$ S PSYCHIC STATES than musicians, are starting to come and author of the receritly published OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM out...last month's Open Mike Writing NOVEMBER WOMAN. JUDITH, who is visiting Nite was both .absorbing and entertain Tw readings by the ever-fascinating here from the East Coast, will read ing. Performers: it's helpful if you BARBARA STACK...who delighted us with from her works as well as, perhaps, come by Mama Bears or telephone, to WED AUG 8 her fiddling last Saturday'.. BARBARA tell us how it feels back there. - 1 is really hot this month in a.ll dir sign up in advance, but not required. 7:30PM en only $2 -1* POETRY READING: ections, so we invited her to go 7:30PM women only AURORA LEVINS MORALES ahead and do it! . VERA AT 105 is from and a book in progress, i is about the time WENDY MARYOTT-WILHELMS Barbara spent with Vera, the last 3 months of her life. PSYCHIC STATES is., THURS AUG 23 THURS AUG 30 well...we'11 find out. AURORA LEVINS .MORALES is a Puerto Rican OPEN TIL 11 PM OR LATER OPEN TIL 11 PM OR LATER Jewish writer whose work de*ls with 7:30PM women only ’ $2-** FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCIALIZING FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCIALIZING 5. SAT SEPT 8 THURS SEPT 13 SAT SEPT 22 * OPEN TIL 11 PM OR LATER CONVERSATIONS WITH PAT BONO RIPLEY 6 CHANDLER — HUMOR I SONG Calendar FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCIALIZING Our woman-to-woman-hi story is our Humorist KAREN RIPLEY & singer TERESA treasure, and Mama Bears treasures Pat CHANDLER are back at Mama Bears with a- any Mama Bears event; Bond for her heroic, passionate great nother night of magical entertainment. theatre one-woman shows, which bring FRI SEPT 14 Not to be missed. Teresa belts out rvations are advisible. our lesbian history to life. The energy OPEN TIL 11 PM OR LATER blues like you wouldn't believe, and PAT summons up enriches and vitalizes FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCIALIZING KAREN gets you in the heart while you us all. PAT did her Gertrude Stein and belly laugh. Lorena Hickok shows here, and tonite, PM women only FRI AUG 31 we see CONVERSATIONS...an absorbing 8 $**-6 evening of observations and anecdotes SAT SEPT 15 MAX DASHU READS FROM HER MS. ON THE on growing up gay in the bOs and 50s, £ WITCHHUNTS about being a WAC. Not to be missed. SPOTLIGHT! --A J0YLETTA A. ALICE PRODUCTION 8PM women only $5"7 As mentioned under our August ** event, SUN SEPT 23 Joy I"ikes nurturing and promoting new talent-. Tonight she presents exciting OPEN MIKE MUSIC S HUMOR NITE newcomers ANGIE ROBINSON, from Jamaica SUN SEPT 9 * and KATHY CASHMAN, both singer-guitar- Come and show*us your stuff...all kinds Ists. Let's welcome them to Mama Bears okay.(We say that because sometimes AYANNA PRESENTS___ in style. women slink up to us * say 'I just do EXCERPTS FROM THE MUSICAL, DUNBAR pop tunes, not wom©#^ s mu.s ic'. .. he y , i f 8PM women only $3"5 you're doing it, we-want to hear it.) AYANNA (Eleanor Elliott) is a woman who Performers don't ne£d to sign up in ad gets an idea in her head and then goes vance, but it helps. out and makes i,t happen. We got to know her because she got the notion that SUN SEPT 16 7:30PM women only Zora Neale Hurston's masterpiece, The i r Eyes Were Watching God, should become a MOTHERPLUCKERS j a m s e s s i o n theatre piece, and bought dozens of MO*l SEPT 24 copies of it from us as she worked to We're delighted to announce that the make it happen; as Jump the Sun, it was MOTHERPLUCKERS have decided to make OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM a big success here as well as in New their home at Mama Bears! They will jam York last year. Before that, AYANNA had here every third Sunday of the month, gotten the idea that Paul Laurpnce Dun beginning this month. Bluegrass, folk, bar's poems should be set to music- and country .. .'br ing your voice 6 instrument presented as theatre. She made that L join in, or settle back & enjoy. TUES SEPT 25 happen too, on both Coasts; it was very 3"6PM $2(donation) successful, audiences loved it and it JUDY GRAHN'S WRITERS WORKSHOP and the cast received several 'best' STARTS TONIGHT. awards. Mama Bears applauds women who Highlights from as-yet-unqublished wrf- MON SEPT 17 This is a 15-session class, and tings on the witch in pagan folk cul make wonderful things happen, jo we've the members give a reading at Mama invited AYANNA t^come and treat us to ture, her confrontation with churchmen, PAULA GUNN ALLEN'S CLASS COMPARING Bears at the end.. The class will of. the highlights of DUNBAR, which and the genesis of the burnings. Max SPIRITUALITIES STARTS TONIGHT meet Tuesday evenings at Mama Bears. will discuss selections from important is September 15 at the Inner City Ms Allen's class is an intensive delv To register, call Ms. Grahn*, 526-6872 witch trials. MAX has been researching S ural Center under the auspices of ing into varieties of spirituality and this book since 19 70 . ICCC and The E^A, Elliott Production Company. Performing, with AYANNA today what they have in common. 8 sessions 8PM women only $2-1* are: QUITMAN FLUDD III, NIKITA GER (H Mondays & k Wednesdays, evenings MAINE, LUENELl CAMPBELL, and GLEN at Mama Bears, beginning tonight. WED SEPT 26 To register.call Ms. Allen, 526-6872 SAT SEPT 1 PEARSON. This ,i s a fundraiser for OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM Ayanna's future productions. OPEN TIL 11 PM OR LATER 3PM $5 FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCIALIZING THURS SEPT 27 MON SEPT 10 TUES SEPT 18 Su n s e p t 2 OPEN TIL 11 PM OR LATER OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCIALIZING WED SEPT 19 FRI SEPT 28 MON SEPT 3 TUES SEPT 11 OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM OPEN TIL 11 PM OR LATER OPEN 10 AM TO 6 PM FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCIALIZING ELAINE BLAKE DISCUSSES VIRGO All right Virgos and Virgo watchers, here's your chance...what would we do THURS SEPT 20 SAT SEPT 29 * without our Virgos...and what would TUE$ SEPT 4 they do without us...making it all go OPEN TIL 11 PM OR LATER LAURIE MATTI0LI t DEIRDRE MC CALLA OPEN 10 AM T'0 6 PM positively, that's the trick. Goodness, FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCjALIZING *jhat will a heavy dose of Virgo do to Two hot singers team up tonight. Both Mama Bears? LAURIE and DEIRDRE perform original material, and each is working on her 7:3QPM women only $3”5 FRI SEPT 21 'first album. WED SEPT 5 8PM women only $J*-6 MEDITATION WITH CRYSTALS--CONDUCTED BY AUDITIONS FOR THE GERTRUDE STEIN OPERA WED SEPT 12 SUZANNE & VICKI OF CRYSTAL VISION COMPANY'S NEW PRODUCTIONS AND TRAIN ING The crystals on sale at Mama Bears are PROGRAM TEAR GAS/MACE. CERTIFICATION CLASS provfded by SUZANNF * VICKI, who also SUN SEPT 30 Brifig «n aria or a song, or.just vocal .Given by JUDITH FEIN, of WORTHINGTON- sell them*weekends on Telegraph (in ize with us. FINE fr ASSOCIATES. This is a one-time. front of Cody's)... these women are in the forefront of our reclaiming of al OPEN MIKE WRITING I HUMOR NITE 7PM women only State-licensing course, in'which Judith will jrain certify you to use te^r ternative woman's technology. Tonight Poetry, prose, works in progress, dra gas & m«ce for self-defense. This class they will lead a crystal meditation matic theatre pieces, humor...it's all costs $20, plus $6.50 for the State workshop... you are invrted to partici welcome. Per formers needn't sign up in THURS SEPT 6 license. Advance reg istrat.ion requested pate. advance, but it helps. OPEN Tlk 11 PM OR LATER --call JUDITH at S^*~91 ^*0 to. register. 7:30PM women only $2(donation) 7:30Pm women only Dr. Fein has a doctorate in physical ' FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCIALIZING education and ex.ercise physiology and a black belt in Karate, and has been tea M am a Bears ching self-defense to women for over 12 65 3 6 Telegraph at 66 St. Oakland FRI SEPT 7 years. She the author of Are You A Target. available at Mama Bears. ^ (415) 428-9684 Open -every day OPEN TIL 11 PM- OR LATER FOR WOMEN-ONLY SOCIALIZING 7-9:30PM en only 6 Through the use of an electronic filter, WAR RESEARCH STATE OF it is possible to measure the degree of lilriitg communicated vocally. W h a t the filter does is eliminate the higher fre us? who Is this quencies of recorded speech, so that IN TUITION G.I.?, that's using words are unintelligible but most vocal qualities remain. <______this method, who has electronic filters This method allows lull to find out, In any way, who needs a given message, just h o w inconsistent them, not from d1, and facultas, the information communicated in words meaning aptitude (are and the information communicated vo you apt?>. aptitude cally really are. 1s the same word as (The actions take attitude.______place 1n space -right brain mode - whereas It 1s 1n deed It is indeed [difficult I to k now what the "logical, object difficult to know another person really feels. H e says one ive" verbalizations what an other person thing and does another; he seems to take place In time - feels. But then, so 1s mean something but we have an uneasy left brain mode.) walking for example feeling it isn’t true. t11 one Is practiced. The early psycho analysts, facing this problem of incon Intuition analyzes sistencies and ambiguities in a person's and Interprets the communications, attempted to resolve it through the concepts of the conscious same Information, but and the unconscious. hollstlcally.______ Some analysts insisted that in- ferring the clients unconscious wishes alcompletclv m h » l i » H n m m i ^ " completely intuitive Intuit means to look and Into, acknowledging ers thought that some nonverbal be more objective the using of posture, havior, such as posture, position and are not contradictory. position, and movement m o v e m ent, could be used in aim ore obi 1n deinystlfying the liectivejway to discover the client’s feel- word intuition. A favorite technique of Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, for example, was to .imitate a client’s posture herself in order to obtain some |feelingl for what he i experiencing. ^ ______ figure 19. t h * sound (vocal) and the word (verbal) and ONE PROBLEM ABOUT the image (facial/body) BEING PART OF A (sheet 2 of 2) she was using empathy, TEAM IS THAT THEN which means feeling 1n, I'M HARNESSED. literally, (sym pathy, parasym pathy) Basically an Intuitive process. made conscious, that is,, done with awareness. FROM THE TOP: LINDA (TUI) TILLERY, MARY WATKINS, JOY JULKES AND BONNIE JOHNSON. THEY'LL BE MAKING MUSIC AT MAMA BEARS — EXCERPT FROM IN OTHER WORDS SUNDAY AFTERNOON, AUGUST 19, 3 TO 6 PM. BY ALICE MOLLOY $ 5. THIS IS A BENEFIT FOR-MAMA BEARS. 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Helen Thomas, the American version of the English handsome girl. passion passive In her ideal completeness she would have been unaggresslvely determined passion passive pathy a trifle brutal impassion impassive empathy entirely impersonal compassion a woman of passions dispassionate but not of emotions passionate sympathy parasympathy capable of long sustained action passage sympathetic nervous system Incapable of regrets pass parasympathetic nervous system In this American version . pace it amounted at its best apathy to no more than a brave bluff. word 10. feeling, suffering (sub plus ferre) In the strength of her youth (pati-, pass-) Helen still thought of her self as the unfrustrated ideal. the passive one feels She had as yet no suspicion of her weakness. 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