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In sharing the story of her life’s work, Evans clues Addiction robs you of everyday . us in about why women’s history matters. moments Shannon Drury, in this month’s “home” feature, ruminates on Hazelden gives you the time to reclaim them. her role as a “housewife.” This radical stay-at-home-mom takes a look historically at what this “home” role meant in her grand- mother’s and her mother’s generations. Several writers in this issue focus on the topic of home—fi nd- ing home, working with homeless youth, books about a sense of place, thoughts about cleaning homes for a living, appli- ances that drive us crazy, and the simple act of turning on a faucet—an action that led two women to think globally. In our “global women” feature we hear stories from businesswomen at Midtown Global Market who have made Minnesota their home. March 8 is International Women’s Day, whose roots go back nearly 100 years. It was inspired by European women who organized for working women’s rights. 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[SheSaid Cranial-Sacral • Column, 1/21/09] If the character of a person is measured For Home Use YLEO Raindrop by how many challenges they have overcome, then you are a person of pristine character. Awesome column, thanks for sharing! Brian Tischleder, Eagan Woodbury: 651-222-4325 Bloomington: 952-886-4325 www.healinginsights.net gotanoPInIon? Write to [email protected] or send to 771 Raymond Ave., St. Paul, MN 55114. Include your name, address and phone number for verifi cation. Unless notifi ed, letters are assumed to be for publication. Letters may be edited for length and clarity. What is home? Each month in the Women’s Press we ask for your thoughts on a topic. Here is a sampling of your ideas when we asked “What is Home”? Home is a place deep within myself where I am whole, fully aligned and completely loved. It’s a feeling and a state of beling with those I love. —Shannon Murphy Robinson
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Women in the cabinet Master’s Programs and Certificate And we don’t mean the kitchen cupboard. The Tracks designed for working adults. National Organization for Women (NOW) is urging women to ask President Obama to create a cabinet-level Founded on the holistic principles Office on Women. Recently NOW helped organize a coalition of nearly 50 national groups, which sent a letter of Adlerian psychology. to President Obama and Vice President Biden urging gender balance in executive appointments and advocat- ing the creation of a new Office on Women. The director would hold cabinet rank and report directly to the presi- dent. “Let’s face it,” said NOW’s website, “many of our Located at Cedar & 494 in Richfield federal programs were designed at a time when women’s Phone: 612.861.7554 roles in our society were very different, and these pro- grams need to be reviewed and reassessed.” Email: [email protected] Meanwhile, the Obama administration has set up a new White House page on women. Check it out at www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/women/ www.alfredadler.edu Source: now.org 8 Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2009 homeFeature
I saw other housewives in action on utilitarian garment to a fashion accessory. channel 9’s late-night rerun lineup: “I Women today are busier than ever at Love Lucy,” “Dick Van Dyke” and “The home and work. There’s no reason why Feminists Mary Tyler Moore Show.” The shows’ we can’t have fun and be fashionable in respective housewives, Lucy Ricardo, our family life.” Laura Petrie and Sue Ann Nivens But one woman’s necessity (Rose in the (who adopted the moniker The Happy needed to keep flour off her dress) is Homemaker despite being unhappily another woman’s ball and chain (leg- unmarried) were all completely nuts. endary women’s libber Betty Friedan) In fact, one could watch the latter two is another woman’s fashion (Meyer’s kitchen shows and imagine the feminist trajec- customers today). How can a few pieces tory of Mary Tyler Moore, as she dumped of fabric say so much? her boring kitchen in New Rochelle Historian Glenna Matthews suggests for the independence of paid work in in her book “’Just a Housewife’: the Rise As culture goes, Minneapolis. I sure did. I didn’t go to and Fall of Domesticity in America,” that Carleton for my MRS degree, thank you the emotional loading of motherhood the apron follows very much. was a necessary byproduct of the new But guess who ended up in Rose’s consumer culture of the early 20th cen- profession anyway? Me. I’m a housewife, tury. Thanks to technological advances, by Shannon Drury too. basic household functions were now modern sahm done by machines, not hands. Thus a When my beloved Grandma great portion of the housewife’s justifica- There are essential differences between tion for existence vanished. Matthews Rose died in 2003 at the age us, however. Easy access to effective argues that women had to be newly of 89, it made sense that contraception limited my brood to two. I convinced of their emotional utility to the thaw most of our family’s meals, but my American family. By 1920, any idiot could my eulogy at her memorial homemade banana bread is the envy of buy a machine-sewn apron from a retail the neighborhood. My sewing is limited store, and advertisers knew it. service opened this way: to replacing buttons. I adore gossip in In 1963, New Jersey housewife Betty My grandmother is the all forms, but I do less of it over picket Friedan’s book “The Feminine Mystique” fences than I do online. sounded the alarm that domestic com- smell of butter. And online is a terrific place to argue placency was doing just that: turning the merits and limitations of the next women into idiots. You know what For she was. Even today when generation of at-home caregivers, happened then. Friedan kick-started SAHMs (that’s Stay at Home Moms), and feminism’s second wave, and millions of I smell onions browning in the homemakers, happy or otherwise. women threw their emotionally loaded stuff, or I get a bite of a home- Where else can you angrily debate aprons into the trash. The Right Thing To Do? Whether Linda made cookie baked with the Hirshman, whose 2006 book orders Kitchen reclaimed real thing, not Crisco, I think of women to “Get to Work … and Get a How fascinating, then, that the Life Before It’s Too Late,” is a prophet or third wave of feminists, the women of her. Grandma Rose was my first a kook? (For the record, I’m in the latter Generation X and the Riot Grrrl move- model of a 20th century house- category.) ments of the 1990s, never met a womanly apron strings art they didn’t like. The quintessen- wife. She raised six kids, cooked tially third wave magazine Bust, whose and baked like a champ, sewed Phony or no, the mommy wars are founder Debbie Stoller holds a Ph.D. in here to stay, due in no small part to the whatever needed sewing, women’s psychology from Yale, has in exalted place that the mother plays in her magazine hipster fashion spreads, gossiped with the neighborhood American cultural mythology. When celebrity interviews, and sex-toy ads gals, and scrubbed everything in we think of that iconic mother, we don’t sharing space with craft tips, apron pat- see her in a power suit. We see her in an terns, and comfort food recipes from the her path to a squeaky, sparkling apron. staff’s mothers and grandmothers. clean. But as much as I adored My grandma Rose sewed her own. So Many of the new wave of women does Charlot Meyer, a Woodbury-based stitchers and bakers see kitchen work her, I never wanted to do what graphic artist who sells her recreations of as a reclamation of a lost culture that she did for a living. vintage aprons in the online marketplace belonged only to women. The clothing Etsy. Said Meyer of her aprons, “I like follows suit: What a dashiki might be to the idea of [the apron] moving from a Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2009 9 a Black Panther, an apron might be to a Grandma Rose loved her family but How fascinating that the feminist blogger of the 21st century. we all knew that she hadn’t opted-out of I wish I could ask what my grandma paid work, like Hirshman tells you I did. third wave of feminists, the Rose would think of all this, but I can’t. Rose never had the opportunity to opt My sadness over losing this part of my in. I often wonder if she’d be proud of women of Generation X and “herstory” could explain why I fi nd me, or just really confused. With so many myself inexplicably drawn to aprons as career options, she might wonder, why the Riot Grrrl movements lovely and familiar as Charlot Meyer’s. on earth would Shannon choose this one? “[My aprons] evoke memories of home life my grandmother, who never was seen of the 1990s, never met a without an apron,” Meyer said, “and my One part of my job involves taking my mother, who owned a sewing shop and 3-year-old daughter, Miriam, to a park womanly art they didn’t like. made most of my clothes when I was board dance class. I recently witnessed two moms put the staff through its paces young.” Cultural movements, like everything about the amount of trans fats lurking in else, are cyclical. Rose was at the beck and she cooks, too the park’s popcorn machine. Nowadays and call of her large family, making One of my favorite cookbooks, “How it is not enough to cook; one must cook popcorn when they wanted it the only it All Vegan,” was written by two properly. Their sons, Parker and Hunter, way she knew how. My working mom, a Canadian women who pose on the cover cannot be allowed to eat that kind of poi- second-wave feminist, taught us to toss in adorable vintage housedresses (full son, no matter how much they crave it. prepackaged bags into the microwave disclosure, neighborhood: this book is Grandma Rose made popcorn better if we were hungry after school. Today the source of my banana bread recipe). than anyone. A huge iron pot soaked those bags are known to be unhealthy at Co-author Sarah Kramer accentuates her in vegetable oil popped the corn, then best and carcinogenic at worst. Hunter’s with a double strand of pearls, several melted the stick of butter that she’d mom will cook him homemade popcorn, large tattoos, and a lip ring. The look is a drizzle onto our bowls. She handed us with organic everything. Which way is conscious attempt to link the DIY ethos terrycloth towels to wipe off our fi ngers. the Right Way To Do It? I don’t know. of the punk movement with the gotta Yummy. Friedan and Matthews suggest that our do it yourself reality of the mid-century culture has a stake in keeping us doubt- housewife. Ladies, we can have it all! ful of every choice we make, even going Veganism is something my Grandma so far as to obscure whether or not we Rose just couldn’t get. As I mentioned have one. before, butter was the woman’s natural For as far as Friedan’s movement has milieu; I think she probably dabbed it taken us, statistics don’t lie. Women’s behind her ears. She was born in 1914, paychecks are still short 23 cents for into a North Dakota farm family every dollar earned by a man. Child care where home cooking wasn’t costs in Minnesota are estimated to be a lifestyle “choice.” The only as high as $11,000 per year. Mathematics choices she knew were to cook proves that our playing fi elds still aren’t or starve. Rose left North level. Dakota during the Great Yet I’m proud that I could put all my Depression, when the latter college writing skills to work eulogizing option seemed a woman who was one hell of a grand- increasingly mother and housewife. In it, I noted likely. a truth that would seem shocking if uttered about a mother of a differ- ent generation: I can’t remember Grandma Rose ever telling me she loved me. That stern North Dakota mien never left her. She showed me, though, in her amazing cooking. I returned her affection by eating.
Shannon Drury is a SheSaid columnist for MWP. You can read her August 8, 2006 column, The Phony Mommy Wars, online at www.womenspress.com.
To see more of Charlot Meyer’s (left) Mia aMber ProCaCCiNi Sorella Aprons go to miasorellaaprons.etsy.com 10 Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2009 gloBalWomenFeature ‘My ambition is to flourish’ mercado Women like Mary Kumar. Kumar owns Geetanjoli’s Sari Fashion, a clothing bou- tique located in the heart of the market just off the central plaza, an open space filled with tables, chairs and a stage for local musicians and dancers. Kumar sells saris, mentality scarves and more from her market space. “All of the clothes I sell are handmade and hand stitched,” she said, pulling an intricately embroidered tunic top from a stand. Not only that, but all of the clothes in her stall were sewn by Kumar’s employees. Midtown Global Market “Three years ago I opened a factory in India. It is just eight machines,” she said. Eight machines might not sound like a lot, but for the women who work in Kumar’s businesswomen factory, which is located share their stories in a small town outside of New Delhi, those by Kelly Westhoff machines are a lifeline. The factory sits across “A lot of the vendors come from the street from the local cultures with a mercado mentality and school. Women are able are used to the idea of collective work. to get their children to
This business model is comfortable class in the morning WeStHoff Kelly by PHotoS for them,” said Atum Azzahir, chair of and pick them up in the afternoon. Should a child the Midtown Global Market board and become ill, there is space founder and executive director of the inside the factory for him Cultural Wellness Center. The nonprofit or her to pass the day center fosters economic development while mom continues to and cross-cultural understanding in the work. “I am a woman advocate,” Kumar said, Phillips and Powderhorn neighborhoods “and I believe we can of Minneapolis, where the Midtown share what we have with Mary Kumar, above, Sharon Richards-Noel, below Global Market (MGM) sits. others. I feel so good “The market is an attractive envi- knowing I am helping women in India and ronment for women business owners women here, too. because it’s neighborly, friendly and “Seventeen years offers a chance at consensus style ago when I came to decision-making,” Azzahir said. Minnesota, I was like an outcast. There were “The vendors who are involved with it no Indians, but now we now are grassroots people, small are on every corner,” she business owners, and many of them are said. “I like the diversity first-time business owners,” Azzahir here in the market,” she said. “They are very much a part added. “I wish I could of the economic machine in this get bigger and hire more people,” she said. “My neighborhood.” ambition is to flourish.” MGM is full of small business owners Kumar is not alone in from several countries selling interna- her ambition. tional foods, trinkets galore, and hand- made wares. They are women business ‘I like to consider people’s health’ owners who have stories to tell. Sharon Richards-Noel has infused her MGM small business with spirituality. Her food booth and catering company, West Indies Soul Food, is dedicated to the memory IFyougo: of her oldest son, who died in a car crash several years ago. His framed photograph hangs centered above the front counter. “I miss him,” Richards-Noel said, “but I had midtown global market fun with him while he was here. I love him and I keep him with me wherever I go.” The 2929 Chicago Ave. loss of her son was a crushing blow as she’d long hoped he would join her in the restau- Minneapolis, MN 55407 rant business. Since his death, she’s had to scale back her hopes for two locations. 612-872-4041 “The restaurant business isn’t easy. It’s really tough, but I love cooking, I love meet- www.midtownglobalmarket.org ing people, and I love the sense of doing my own thing,” said Richards-Noel, who’s
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Sara Evans has written six books. Her most recent, “Born for Liberty,” has been translated into 10 languages, including Arabic. The Korean edition is special to her because she has a Korean daughter.
“At school, they are going to tell you slavery was Scott is now 87 and retired; her 1970 book “The not the cause of the Civil War,” Evans remembered Southern Lady: From Pedestal to Politics, 1830- her mother telling her. “They’re wrong.” 1930” has never gone out of print. Perhaps her mother’s words instilled the skeptical Evans headed from Durham to Chicago—with her It’s crucial independence that enabled Evans to create, essen- husband, whom she’d married right after college, “ tially, a do-it-yourself women’s studies program as who was enrolled at the University of Chicago— to understand a graduate student. ready for big things. “In every class, whatever the subject, all you had After majoring in history in college, she’d earned that people like to do is write a paper on women,” she recalled, an M.A. in political science. She envisioned a us have made a chuckling. “You just create it.” research job, or a teaching post at a community col- Evans—recently retired from her post as University lege. “I was thinking I was credentialed to do inter- difference—we of Minnesota Regents Professor—went on to create esting things,” Evans said. “But no one wanted to a career as one of the preeminent women’s history know about anything but my typing skills. Period.” haven’t been on scholars in America. Under her guidance over the She worked as a secretary at a University of past 32 years, the University’s women’s history Chicago chapel—not the position she’d been look- the sidelines, or program became one of the top 10 in the nation, ing for, yet not a dead end. according to U.S. News and World Report—in such In the chapel basement was an offset printer, always doing the company as the University of Wisconsin-Madison, used to produce a local left-wing newspaper. There, same things the Rutgers, Yale, Columbia and Berkeley. Evans was able to “meet and chat with all these radi- over-educated secretary cal people,” she said. “And pretty quickly it became same way. Along with her parents, Evans cites Anne Firor clear I was one of them.” Scott—among her undergraduate professors at Hardly a wide-eyed neophyte—she’d been ” involved with SDS, Students for a Democratic — Sara evans Duke University—as a role model. Women’s history wasn’t yet a formal field of study in the mid-1960s, Society, at Duke—Evans was receptive when asked, but Scott was already laying the groundwork. “There’s a group of women meeting—would you “She was proof to me that there was something like to come?” out there,” Evans said. “I was so primed to hear about feminism,” she recalled. Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2009 13 Thus, Evans joined what she thinks of North Carolina. Twelve years later, in Victoria to Hillary,” focused on the legacy may have been the first feminist con- 1981, she and her then-husband adopted of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton within sciousness-raising group in the country. a baby girl. the context of the many women who have She’s still in occasional touch with some Between these two events, Evans was run for president, starting with Victoria of the “brilliant women” she met there hired at the University of Minnesota. She Woodhull in 1872. (and interviewed a few for her first book, had responded to an ad for a women’s Her lecture was delivered exactly two “Personal Politics: The Roots of Women’s history professor. It was 1976, and there weeks after Barack Obama, who defeated Liberation in the Civil Rights Movement were still very few such positions, so sift- Clinton for the Democratic nomination, and the New Left,” listed by the New York ing through the Help Wanted ads didn’t was elected president. As a longtime civil Times as one of the best books of 1979.). take long. rights advocate, Evans found his cam- new questions “By the 1970s, the old boys’ network paign “incredibly inspiring” as well. Consciousness on the rise after a year had been rendered illegal,” Evans noted. “I kept saying, ‘Pinch me,’” she said in Chicago, Evans returned to North No longer were professors simply call- with a laugh, recalling the primary race. “I Carolina in 1968. For the next year, she ing their old friends, asking “Who’ve you was unwilling to be for one in a way that worked as a labor and community orga- got?” and hiring them sight unseen. would diminish the other in any way.” nizer—“and on the side, history’s future? of course, I was busy Concerning the future organizing women’s of the women’s history liberation groups,” she History is just change over time. When I was in college, field, Evans said, “There said. In September 1969 “ are big arguments going she began grad school at all the textbooks were written as if women weren’t there—or as on now.” Some wom- the University of North en’s studies programs Carolina in American if it didn’t matter that they were there, because they were not have been renamed history, emphasis on “gender studies,” or women. important to change over time. — Sara evans combined with the So—what is women’s more recently emerg- history? ” ing field of GLBT stud- “History is just change ies. (At the University over time,” Evans said. “When I was in Evans had offers from the University of of Minnesota, it’s “Gender, Women, and college, all the textbooks were written as Minnesota and Sarah Lawrence, a small Sexuality Studies.”) if women weren’t there—or as if it didn’t liberal arts college in New York. She never Just as when she was a child on the matter that they were there, because they regretted her choice, citing the chance to playground, Evans doesn’t shrink from were not important to change over time.” train Ph.D. students, as well as her belief the argument. Thus, “we had to ask a whole new set in public education. “I think there is and always will be a of questions just to find them” she contin- Many years later, in 2003, Evans’ par- place for people who want to center their ued. “Most of us weren’t interested in just ents needed her; she returned to North questions on women,” she said. finding heroic women, but in understand- Carolina to care for her mother and father, Retired after 32 years of teaching, Evans ing the lives of ordinary women” and who were both ailing. still seems to have no regrets. “I loved all their components, even housework— It was a bittersweet time: While there, teaching women’s history, because people “which turns out to have a very fascinat- Evans heard from University of Minnesota really wanted to be there,” she said, not- ing history.” President Bob Bruininks that she had been ing its status as an elective. Women’s history, Evans said, demands named a Regents Professor. It’s the highest As for her own future, just as in her stu- rethinking what politics is. In the tradi- recognition a University faculty member dent days, it’s clear that she’ll just go ahead tional view, it’s about government and can receive, the pinnacle of an academic and create it. Having lived a life of the elections. But the 19th century saw an career. mind, she now chooses to spend much of “incredible upsurge of civic organizing, “It was nice to be able to share that her time in the great outdoors; she learned often headed by women,” she noted. with them in person,” Evans said. Her to downhill ski in her 50s. She credits this Much of this organizing sought to address parents—her activist role models—died development to her 2002 marriage to her social needs, through the creation of set- in 2007. second husband, “an environmental law- tlement houses and orphanages. Evans’ latest academic honor came yer and real adventurer.” In March they’ll Why does women’s history matter? in 2008, when she was named Ada be kayaking in Baja California. “Understanding the past is crucial to Comstock Distinguished Women Scholar. Change over time, indeed. effective engagement in the present,” This award/lecture was created by the the profile appears in every issue of the Evans said. “It’s crucial to understand that University of Minnesota Women’s Center Minnesota Women’s Press. It reflects our people like us have made a difference—we to recognize the accomplishments and founding principle and guiding philosophy haven’t been on the sidelines, or always leadership of distinguished women fac- that every woman has a story. Readers doing the same things the same way.” ulty, and offer a forum for them to share their insights with the campus and are welcome to submit suggestions for From “help Wanted” broader community. profile subjects. Email your ideas to to highest honor Evans’ presentation, “The Presidential [email protected]. Evans’ son was an infant when she Glass Ceiling is Broken: The Path from started graduate school at the University 14 Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2009 BooKshelF geography of the heart Books with a sense of home Think about this as a description of “home-within” from writer Rumer Godden: glenda “There is an Indian proverb that says that everyone is a house with four rooms, a physi- martIn cal, a mental, an emotional and a spiritual. Most of us tend to live in one room most of the time, but unless we go into every room every day, even if only to keep it aired, we are not a complete person.” This quote provided an amazing beginning Missouri. This novel originally was published when 12 women met in Salon at my house by Coffee House Press in Minneapolis. in Arizona to discuss the theme, “What is “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Home? Geography of the Heart?” Women Pie Society” by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie came with poetry, pictures of loved homes, Barrows is about a group of book lovers on meaningful objects from home, memories of Guernsey, one of Britain’s Channel Islands, favorite places, books that touched an indi- during Nazi occupation in WWII. In 1946, vidual sense of home. a writer is looking for her next subject and Among the books they brought were from her exploration comes a book of letters, “The Peacocks of Baboquivari” by Erma a book about books, a connection of humans BooKshelF: J. Fisk, “The Woman at the and a bit of history, as individuals preserve Glenda Martin recommends Washington Zoo” by Marjorie home and find new home. “The Table these five books for further Williams, “The Ladies of The fourth novel, “People of the Whale” reading on a sense of home. Where Rich Seneca Falls” by Miriam by Linda Hogan, is set in a Native American Gurko, “The Woman’s Bible” community in northwest USA and in war- a Country Called Home by People Sit” by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, time Vietnam. What can this have to do Kim Barnes (2008) is a book I “The Dollmaker” by Harriette with “home,” and can whales be part of the the Cape ann by Arnow, and “The Floor of the “Geography of the Heart?” It’s a power- Faith Sullivan (1988) recommend for Sky” by Pamela Carter Joern. ful book, of land and water, of spirituality, Dakota: a Spiritual Not your usual collection of war, and the ongoing human search for everyone from Geography by around house/home. These place. Kathleen Norris (1993) age 3 to 93. books might not elicit a feel rich, indeed of home for everyone, but for Home by Marilynne A must-read for the value of home, sense those women who shared their books, deep Robinson (2008) of place, landscape, geography, is by self- connections were spoken. described “desert druid,” Byrd Baylor. “The the Painted Drum by Four novels Table Where Rich People Sit” is a book I rec- Louise Erdrich (2005) That Salon was a prelude to two Arizona ommend for everyone from age 3 to 93. For Reading Retreats offered by Minnesota years I have read it aloud to many groups. Women’s Press in February and March. The young daughter in the story believes her What’s on your Participants read four novels for discussion family is not rich and wishes to record on bookshelf? also around the same theme: ‘What is Home? paper how much money they have. Geography of the Heart?’ The four books are “But, Mountain Girl,” says Dad. “I thought Send us 500 words about an unusual collection of books about house/ you knew how rich we are.” your booklife, plus your list home. Her parents begin by putting values on of five related books. “Consider This, Senora” by Harriet Doerr sunrises and sunsets, the changing colors [email protected] takes place in a small Mexican village. Four of mountains, the feel of the wind, the smell North American expatriates connect to land of the rain, the sound of coyotes, the sight and people of the village as they find new of eagles, and so much more. She ends by meaning of home for themselves. recording on paper the worth in dollars of Sandra Benitez’s novel, “A Place Where what her parents describe. “Now my paper the Sea Remembers,” is a story of love, anger, says four million and sixty thousand dol- hope and tragedy. It is set in a coastal village lars—and we haven’t even started counting in Mexico, yet it offers a universal portrait actual cash.” of human life. Benitez, who lives in Edina, Clearly, this is “Geography of the Heart.” spent her youth in Mexico, El Salvador and Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2009 15 BooKtalK
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Youth Performance Company’s “Goddess Menses & the Menstrual Show” has its world film premiere on March 9. Pictured (left to right) are Kaitlin Ziehr, Meg Crawford and Kelly Adams.
Surprised by the embarrassment she ences and schools The decision was made small- saw, Knight resolved to bring the subject to make it into a DVD. out into the open. The result is a frank and The SNL-esque format of the show funny theatrical production that is now reflects Knight’s belief that humor is a screen making the transition from stage to DVD. great way to convey important facts to “Goddess Menses and the Menstrual teenagers, especially if the message is Show” sprang from YPC’s “PG-13 somewhat embarrassing. “It’s all very goddess Initiative” program, which was estab- informative, but [sketch comedy] has an lished in 2002 to allow its young artists to incredible appeal to teens,” she explained. by tracey Paska create original works addressing issues “[It’s] entertaining enough that they’d Aunt Flo. The Curse. most relevant to them. Each of the 14 girls actually stay and watch.” Although these from diverse ethnic, economic and reli- shows combine entertainment with infor- Monthlies. Period. gious backgrounds in the inaugural group mation, “we are not ‘sexperts,’” Knight Menstruation is a natural wrote a monologue of her own experience stressed. “We can be a great tool for . . . the and they became comedy sketches and experts [but] our role is to be a messenger part of womanhood, so why musical numbers for the show. of a story.” She hired a consulting firm to don’t women just call it what Knight saw a perfect opportunity to create an educational guide for the DVD to it is? That’s exactly what Jacie create not only an all-female show “about encourage discussion between teens and the wacky, crazy, weird things that occur adults. In the meantime, “Goddess” hopes Knight wanted to know. “[In when you get your period,” but also one women of all ages will learn to celebrate high school and college], I that provides young girls with straightfor- this part of womanhood. Period. really noticed how girls were ward facts. The original production played just four performances in YPC’s “black very undercover about talk- box” theater, a stripped-down venue used IFyougo: ing about it, almost to the to try out new works. The audiences were What: Women’s History Month Red Carpet point that they were ashamed small but their response to “Goddess” was World Premiere Screening of Goddess huge. “People went crazy! I was stunned Menses & the Menstrual Show of the fact that they had their that they were reacting that way because When: Monday, March 9, 5:30 p.m. people [had been] negative about [the period,” recalled the founder Where: Riverview Theater, topic],” Knight recalled. “It was really 3800 42nd Ave. S., Minneapolis and artistic director of the evident that we had hit this nerve.” Youth Performance Company More performances followed, includ- Cost: Free, but call to reserve tickets: 612-623-9080 (YPC) in Minneapolis. “To me, ing the 2004 Fringe Festival where it was one of the best-reviewed shows. Soon, ffi: www.youthperformanceco.com it’s a natural function of your educators and healthcare providers who DVD available through Youth Performance body, [like] runny noses.” had seen “Goddess” were clamoring for Company Knight to bring the production to confer- Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2009 17
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Her environmental paintings, includ- In 1984, as a young wife and mother, feeling weighed down by ing her “scarred sacred earth” series begun in expectations of society the 1980s, express her concern for forests and Evershed was on the move—to London, to West and religion. water. These concerns continue as a theme in Virginia and then later to Minneapolis. It was a her artwork today. troublesome time in her personal life. “I realized Her “power of women” paintings speak of that my marriage was not working out and I her belief in the need for women’s voices to had to find a way out,” she said. “Art was the be equal with men’s. Evershed wants women only thing I could do well.” Her way out was to to prepare themselves to be seated at the table develop a line of art cards and posters. of global consequence. “Humanity is hopping “I felt welcomed and am thankful to people in along unbalanced on one foot, with 90 percent Minneapolis who helped get me started on my men ruling the world. Women aren’t there,” she path as an artist.” She credits Scott Cramer at said. “We need a larger percent.” Northern Sun Merchandising who was the first to invest money in getting her cards and artwork global shaping printed. And over 20 years ago, Karen Hanson, Connecting nature and women’s voices owner of Avalon gift shop in St. Paul, was the in global contexts has deep roots in her life. first to carry Evershed’s cards, and still does. Evershed has been shaped as an artist by her earth as home experiences in many parts of the world. She was born in England and at age 9 moved to South A strong focus in her artwork today continues Jane Evershed with an to be nature and Evershed’s concern for the “earthling” friend Africa. Growing up under Apartheid “had a profound influence on me,” she said. “All of earth. “We’ve come so far away from nature my art has a social justice connection because of [as a society],” she said. And, as the founder of FFI: my experiences in South Africa. I realized the “terra-ism,” she calls herself a one-woman art www.evershed.com debasement of a beautiful culture by the white genre to help people find their way back home supremacist elements of my race. I was jailed for to nature. protesting. I didn’t Evershed considers the planet earth to be want to be a part of it her home. “I’m an ‘earthling’ by the river,” she [Apartheid].” said, describing her current home in the woods Evershed has a of Wisconsin. “Home is a place where one’s pur- vivid memory of pose is fulfilled. Home to me, is where one can writing an imaginary be an ‘earthling.’ Home is where we can eat and letter to friend when talk,” she said. “People confuse having a house she was very young. with a home. Our home is this earth, and we all The letter was made need to realize that pretty quick, lickety-split.” of curves and lines Evershed’s home is in a beautiful setting, but rather than words. it lacks the space needed for her artwork. While She credits her it’s being rebuilt to add studio space, she’s Auntie Rene, who perching with friends. She has a vision of turn- lived in England, as ing her home into an affordable retreat space having a profound for artists and writers so others can join her for influence on her. a time and be inspired by nature, to join her as Her aunt sent art “earthlings.” The Sisterist Twist 24 Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2009 shesaId my homeland is in my heart Kavang Growing up as a first generation Hmong American, I often felt like an outsider in America. I felt torn between two cultures with one foot firmly planted in America and the other foot planted in Laos. I was born in a CIA military base in the northern mountains of Laos and came to this country when I was 5 years old. Growing up, I often felt like a character in a Salman Rushdie novel who was searching for the “imaginary homeland,” a place where I could really belong. Sometimes people have made me feel unwanted ate eastern and western cultures. I wanted to have in America with hateful remarks, such as, “Go back my own “Roots” experience where I would finally to your own country!” However, those messages of come home. Wrong! There was no one waiting for being unwanted were even more sinister when they me at the airport, exclaiming, “Welcome home, son were subtle. I didn’t see anyone who looked like of Kunta Kinte!” me on television as being good, beautiful or smart. Instead, eastern Asians made fun of me because I I saw no Asian-American leaders, athletes or movie liked to eat cheese. (Many Asians are lactose intol- There were days stars. Like some of Rushdie’s characters I drifted erant.) They sneered at my western mannerisms when I could from shore to shore, searching for answers to help and called me an “ABC” or American born chink. me decide where my home was. But it wasn’t until Though I made a few good friends, I spend most have fought off a recently that I realized the searching was not for my of my time dreaming of America with her amber hundred samurai home, but for my identity. waves of grain and purple mountain majesty. There Don’t get me wrong, I love the United States were days when I could have fought off a hun- to get my hands of America. My family has prospered here. We dred samurai to get my hands on a hot dog, which on a hot dog. wouldn’t have had the same opportunities if we is not sold in Asia. Believe me, I looked in several were still living in Laos. Because I am a woman and countries from Taiwan to Thailand. I knew with a part of a society that allows women equal rights, I certainty when I returned to the United States that could grow up to be more than a wife, mother and I was indeed an American woman. No amount of farmer. There are still inequalities between men racism, xenophobia and sexism would make me and women in this country. But for the most part, doubt my place in this society. With the election of growing up in America has given me opportunities Barack Obama as our president I feel even more I could never have dreamed of in Laos, including an proud to be an American. education and access to international travel. The old American saying is true, “Home is where I have traveled to 39 countries, most recently to the heart is.” It doesn’t matter where I live, what Peru in the summer of 2008. I think my desire to matters is in my heart. My homeland is in my heart. find my homeland has spurred me to travel. I have My heart is filled with the folktales of my ances- lived in London. I am sure that I lived in Taiwan tors, noodles, rice, Hmong New Year celebrations, because I wanted to know what it was like liv- as well as, hamburgers, John Steinbeck novels, jog- ing in a country where I was not in the minority. I ging around Como Lake and hunting for the St. wanted to experience living in a place where every- Paul Winter Carnival medallion. one looked like me, ate the same food as me, and Ka vang is a poet, playwright and community activist. most important, where I wouldn’t have to negoti- Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2009 25 The friendly corner Dr. Judith St. Clair Mastel’s drugstore is not a Chiropractor thing of the past! 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PatrIcIa neal a different game “One of the most powerful things we can do on the planet, to create the change needed, is elevate the feminine face of the divine.” This was said by my dear friend, Pele Rouge Chadima, carrier of an ancient body of Earth Wisdom teachings. It is time for women to step forward in action. “What is the world that we want to our real power—which means being who we see for ourselves, women and men, and our truly are. As feminine leaders we are humans children?” asked Kavita Ramdas, president first; we come from, and can lead from, the and CEO of the Global Fund for Women, who perspective of wholeness (versus “authority exemplifies feminine leadership. over”) to create the foundation for a world “The most striking thing about the interna- that works for all. tional women’s movement is that it isn’t an Just as it is Many women are gathering—in our com- anti-male movement,” Ramdas said in a Sept. munities and organizations, locally and all 2004 interview in Alliance magazine. “We’ve powerful for my over the world—to form alliances, bringing gone beyond asking to be allowed to play forth the voice of feminine leadership for the game, because we’ve realized that the grandsons to see social change. This still-emergent movement game we’re all playing is a terribly unfair one a biracial man as is quietly, persistently changing the world as where people get hurt. we learn to author our lives. “Women today are saying, ‘Let’s play a dif- our president, In the Twin Cities there are many organiza- ferent game,’” Ramdas continued. “When the it is powerful for tions that support feminine leadership. Three women’s revolution is complete, both men that I have been engaged in are Awesome and women will have more opportunities, me to see other Women, Honoring Women Worldwide and, free from stereotypical expectations about most recently, the Women’s Leadership what they can and cannot do.” women as leaders Forum. How exciting and scary! This change in making a I connect deeply with each of these orga- leadership is a dramatic departure from what nizations. They give me an opportunity to we have been taught. Let’s gather the people difference. experience the growing of my own leader- that will help us grow and succeed together, ship voice, while having the honor to witness and create a world that works for all. others doing the same. Just as it is powerful Patricia Neal is president of Heartland Inc. for my grandsons to see a biracial man as our Heartland convenes conversations, programs, president, it is powerful for me to see other trainings and communities of engagement, women as leaders making a difference with and is dedicated to creating a world that new ways of being and acting. Much like a works for all. www.heartlandcircle.com. pause that reveals a crucial question. Wholeness is created when we make the space to ask vital questions that lead to right
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Forty-two years later, the act of hiring a house- To date I’ve retained a third of my original cleaner continues to reveal acres about social hier- clientele and the rest I got through word of mouth. archies and local conventions. Unlike Agnes’ gen- When I’ve been let go, it was usually due to eration though, where only the leisure class could financial or relocation considerations. I’ve been afford extra help, today it is working women from fired once or twice, too. Mostly by folks who used all socio-economic strata who hire the cleaners. to have “servants.” I know my customers appreci- The distance we’ve traveled in four short decades ate what I do for them because they leave thank Why do I has even changed the relationship between the you notes, occasional baked goods, and generous continue to do customer and cleaner, narrowing the social divide end-of-the-year gifts. Some have become good and punishing considerably. For one thing, we cleaners are not permanent friends. called the ‘help’ anymore. I was in my 30s when I started and now have manual labor Sixteen years ago I found new-construction to ask myself, why in the heck am I still cleaning? without the aid cleaning to supplement my income. What started I’m smart, resourceful, own multiple degrees, and out as two jobs a month eventually grew into am not hiding any deep, dark secrets—not now, of health, vacation three permanent ones on the weekend. As a single anyway. So why do I continue to do punishing or pension parent raising a young daughter, the work was manual labor without the aid of health, vacation or ideal because it didn’t take much time and it paid pension benefits? Why don’t I have a real job yet? benefits? Why weekly. Four years later, when a cleaning contrac- Because I am a dreamer. don’t I have a tor offered to sell me her client list for a song, I When I dust, I develop plots for screenplays; as jumped at the deal because I saw a chance to pur- I vacuum, characters from a book start to chat- real job yet? sue my lifelong dream of filmmaking. Of course ter and argue; and while applying cleanser to the it meant I had to purchase my own liability and toilet bowl, I draft proposals for agents, hoping to medical insurance, but gaining freedom from the capture their imagination with my pitches. While 9-to-5 grind more than made up for it. all around me a house or building gets scrubbed Cleaning is good, productive work, but what and purged, a mortgage payment makes it to the really matters to me are the people I meet, the rela- bank, and somewhere else, a new story begins. tionships I form. Most important, decent wages Mickie turk has made several narrative films and and flexible hours allow me to follow my life’s documentaries, including “Wayward Girls.” She passions. On occasion over the past 10 years, I’ve works creatively in photography and screenwrit- taken breaks to develop and implement film proj- ing, and is currently writing a mystery. She lives in ects, write screenplays, short stories and novels. Edina and enjoys travel. Each time I returned to grateful and understand- ing customers who made it all possible.
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nancy hedIn appliance envy Saturday I made two pies, a quiche and a cake pan of tater tot hotdish, and wouldn’t you know it, the oven wouldn’t turn on. For a moment I thought I could fix it myself. I have this delusion that I am a handyperson when actually I am a handyperson wannabe who likes to shop. I have home-repair manuals, hand tools, power saws and cordless drills but no discernible skill using any of them. I made a bookcase for my daughter that doesn’t have a square angle and lists right. I once changed a tire on my car and put the tire on backwards. I didn’t notice until I couldn’t locate the valve stem. My partner knows about my delusion and We nearly had a fire because I forgot I was when something malfunctions she gently using the toaster. On a positive note, the suggests, “Let’s call my brother, Jay.” Jay is smoke detector is working fine. My partner like our husband—actually something bet- The furnace quit the following Thursday. knows that ter than a husband because we don’t have The first place I called could maybe come to sleep with him, cook for him or do his Monday but could for certain get there by although I am laundry, but he kindly helps us with things Wednesday. I thought of heating the house good at taking he knows how to do. Plus, our kids love with the oven or possibly the toaster. The things apart, to see him. So when things don’t work in next place I called sent a repairman out the house, I know I should call Jay and that in less than two hours. Three hundred I’m not so good there is an unwritten rule that I am forbid- and eighty dollars later the furnace was at putting them den to take anything apart. My partner working and I was skimming a pamphlet knows that although I am good at taking about a home appliance service plan. Later together again— things apart, I’m not so good at putting that afternoon the furnace stopped again. I suffer from a them together again—I suffer from a kind Another repairman came that evening, of Humpty Dumpty syndrome. So when added another part, and got the furnace kind of Humpty the oven quit and Jay was already being going. He gave me another brochure about Dumpty some other family member’s better-than-a- the service plan. For less than 15 bucks a husband, I called a repair place. month they will cover parts and labor on my syndrome. Home repair places operate in a different furnace, stove and water heater and for an time/space reality. It seems to be an industry additional $4.50 per appliance I can cover standard to offer a ballpark figure of when nearly everything in my home. I am ready to they might show up. I got the promise of sign on the dotted line and to ask how much a repairman sometime between the hours it would cost to cover the car, van and lawn of 8 a.m. and whenever on one of the days mower. Also, would they cover my partner, ending in y, and it would cost $65 for him to since she has no health insurance? The parts ring our doorbell, and another $75 an hour might be a problem but she’s not that old a for labor after that. The guy showed up and model. the oven worked. He was a nice repairman, The next day, we had no hot water. farm fed, and he called me ma’am with Feeling frustrated and impotent, I went to sincerity. I paid $75 for him to see our oven Target and bought a new toaster. work and bought a one-year service plan for Nancy Hedin is a freelance writer who lives another $80. in St. Paul. Next to the stove is the toaster, which no longer toasts because the doohickey lever won’t stay down. I thought I was being laughing Matters. You bet it does! Who clever when I noticed that the rubber spatula said feminists can’t be funny? Write to us. was just the right size to wedge in above the LaughingMatters submissions must be toaster lever. Great idea! The spatula holds 500 words or less. Email editor@ the lever down, the toaster heats and the womenspress.com. toast toasts. Unfortunately, with a spatula wedged in, the lever cannot pop up again. Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2009 29 RRR Construction Green plumber Make your home Woman-owned RIANGLE CCOUNTING Recommend water-saving T A fit your life! fixtures & gas-saving appliances/water heaters Providing Quality, Affordable P Bookkeeping/Accounting Services Designed for your Affordable P Check Writing Small Business Emergency services P Complete Payroll Services F M, LLC Free Initial Consultation ■ kitchens ■ bathrooms C R P Tax Preparation ■ restoration ■ room additions P P JEANNE SCHNITZEN P Special Projects ■ remodeling ■ storage 651-451-2775 The Reliable Remodeler Emergency 612-384-3085 P Peachtree® Specialist 651-641-1807 www.rrrconstruction.com www.frankemechanical.com Accounting for the Way You Do Business [email protected] License #MN068141-PM State License #6955 StP 20090000028 Mpls PCM1152
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When I came to the U.S. in 1988 as an interna- I remained clueless about my whiteness and its tional student, it took me about a minute and a unearned privileges for an embarrassingly and half to come out as a feminist, then about another problematically long time, even while suppos- 30 seconds to come out as a dyke, and not much edly challenging racism. To this day my whiteness I remained clue- longer to come out as butch. One of the beautiful is something that I have to consciously remind less about my things I was introduced to during this short and myself to examine, though that same whiteness is stressful (but oh so sweet) process was the concept very identifiable and meaningful to many people whiteness and of identity politics. of color, both historically and presently. its unearned Identity politics was a gift that I embraced with I share this abbreviated personal timeline before fervor. I claimed my sexual orientation and gender talking about my work as a community organizer privileges for an expression—the identities that existed within an because my community organizing has—unsur- embarrassingly oppressive system—with fierceness and deep com- prisingly—mirrored that personal process. As a queer young adult, I knew that I wanted and problemati- mitment. However, the same did not happen with my dominant 1404 identities, especially that of being to work with GLBT youth and I was aware that cally long time. white. my desire to engage in such work was largely This proof is sent to you for typographical correctness and is not intended to show quality of paper or printing. Celebrating 20 years of Smiles
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As a result, the two women addition, if there are no proper sanitation facili- founded “H2O (Help To Others) for Life” with a ties available, one in 10 girls drops out of school mission of providing funds to make clean water when she starts menstruating. available and sustainable to schools in develop- help from minnesota ing countries. In the 2007-08 school year, 16 other If it doesn’t seem like someone in Minnesota schools joined in with projects in Kenya, Sudan, Mozambique, Mali and Nicaragua. could do anything to make a difference about Where do you see Now in the 2008-09 school year, H2O For Life water supplies on the other side of the world, women connecting includes 115 schools—from elementary schools you haven’t met Patricia Hall and Val Johnson. and making change in to a group at Winona State University that will Johnson, a parent volunteer with an eighth your world? grader at Highview Middle School in New fund 100 water projects. One group of students Send me your story, Brighton, and Hall, a teacher at the school, took at Wayzata High School walked a mile and half to school and back each day in December, raising magnuson@womens up the challenge. Instead of deleting an email press.com from an acquaintance in Kenya asking for help money while learning how far three miles really when his village’s water supply dried up, Hall is. Highview Middle School hosted a community took the request to a group of teacher friends on family fun night as a fundraiser. Pen pal options FFI a pontoon boat ride. are available in some of the countries, and stu- www.h2oforlifeschools.org This conversation led to a project launched dents have exchanged letters and photos. during the 2006-07 school year by a group of stu- Just do it www.unwater.org/ dents at Highview with a goal of raising $3,000 “We are helping people to get a basic right to worldwaterday for the village. From a small group of students, water and we are teaching our own students to March 22 is International the project became a whole-school passion. They be activists for change. They can see what they do World Water Day. raised $13,000. Fundraising efforts were inex- makes a difference,” Johnson said. “The key is to Get information, including pensive so that anyone could participate. In let them do their own thing.” tools to promote it— one effort students collected extra change in the “One of the things we are trying to teach is photos, epostcards and lunchroom. They sponsored a “Walk for Water,” that we need to be outraged that 5 million kids a how to print your own getting pledges for a three-mile walk around the year die from lack of water and sanitation. [The T-shirts school track carrying buckets of water to under- students] get it,” Johnson said. “And they don’t www.womenforwater.org stand what the young people in their partner vil- understand why it can’t be fixed, so they just fix A network of more lage were doing. “You didn’t have to be the cool- it. They take action and make it happen.” than 1 million women. est kid or the best athlete to participate,” Johnson said. In the summer of 2007, Hall made a trip to Makuieni District in Kenya where the Minnesota students’ money had paid for a well for 20 peo- ple. The villagers hosted a celebration in Hall’s honor and showed off the monument they had made to the New Brighton students. “Giving kids the opportunity to participate in something that is making a difference lets life of H2o for CourteSy them know that by working together things can change. This is a huge thing that will carry through for their lifetimes,” Hall said. Keep it flowing Hall thought the project was a one-time occur- rence, but the students wanted to keep the project the
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