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(May 1991)Broadsheet-1991-187.Pdf M a k i n g it right: women an 187 MAY 1991 $4.50 | ' ,v' '•: -■* , 'Yj Out It Outs ASE iU C K I Alternative 3 MAY m i a m s m m m S « i v- "r • •' \r , ' ‘ - . • ’ . s-rflssi; It's been a very moving experience Yes we’ve shifted! Broadsheet is now located at W.E.A. and published by Womanfile Inc. You can phone u$ at 0-9-360 1897 Write to us at Box 56 147 Auckland or Visit us at 131 A Williamson Ave, Grey Lynn, Auckland, 2. Broadsheet - true as it ever was. GO ON Subscribe ! support BROADSHEET Name Address ordinary sub (11 issues/year) 1 yr $50 □ 2 yr $95 □ 3yr$140 □ Post to: sustaining sub (sub plus donation) Womanfile 1 yr $70 □ 2 yr $120 □ 3yr$175 □ PO Box 56 147 Auckland visa □ bankcard □ cheque □ cash □ card N o.D D D D n II__ DD __ II__ OD __ II__ ID expiry date I II I I II I signature Broadsheet M ei PUBLICATION DATE! 1 MEI 1991 NUMBER 187 o o -C Q_ 2 herspective Athina Tsoulis 3 letters 4 fronting up 5 broadcast March of Anger 0 Treaty Hui 0 Chess Champs 0 May Day 01993 History Projects 0 Notes on Language features 10 Making It Right Women and Aids Sally Shipway 13 Living With HIV AH Tells Her Story 16 Feminist Population Policy Marge Berer 20 Shallow Smiles and Short Stories Sheridan Keith Megan Fidler 23 Young, Lesbian and Proud Rhiannon Thompson 26 Margaret Thatcher Whose Sister? Anne Goslyn 28 Poetry Pages 30 Dworkin on Dworkin Elizabeth Brae man and Carol Cox 47 Sabbage Blows Lisa Sabbage 34 arts 0 Visual Cutout Art 0 Homage to Potatoes 0 Inheritance 0 Women Jewellers 0 Nga Wahine 0 Film Distant Voices, Still Lives 0 Men Don’t Leave 0 Video Living With HIV 0 Music Queen Ida 0 Books Staying Power: Long Term Lesbian Couples 0 Birth Without Doctors 0 Women’s History of the World 0 At School I’ve Got a Chance 0 Beyond the Barriers 48 classified Policy is made by the Womanfile collective : Helen Courtney, Megan Fidler, Cathy Hall, Lisa Howard-Smith, Juliet Jacques, Claire-Louise McCurdy, Pat Rosier, Lisa Sabbage, Athina Tsoulis. Main areas of responsibility are: ADVERTISING: Lisa Howard-Smith EDITORIAL: Megan Fidler, Pat Rosier FINANCES: Cathy Hall SUBSCRIPTIONS: Edith Gorringe. THANKS TO : The Print Centre, Ann Purdy, Glenda Laurence, Michelle Quinn. 1 BROADSHEET is on file at the Women's Collection Special Dept, Northwestern University Library, Evanston, Illinois 60201, USA. SUBSCRIPTION $50 for 10 issues. Overseas surface $70. Overseas a ir: Europe $120, America / Asia $110, Australia / South Pacific $77. Laser prints by Paradigm. Printed by Putaruru Press. ISSN 01 10-8603. Registered at the GPO as a magazine. Published by Womanfile Inc., PO Box 56 147, Auckland. Registered office: 131 A Williamson Ave, Grey Lynn, Auckland. Phone 0-9-360 1897. 1 9 9 1 MAY BROADSHEET 1 Herspective o realise that I am out of step with the times does not current intellectual guru. Sounding incomprehensible has make me feel terrific. But then, I think I always have returned as the sign of being one of the chosen and been out of step. It is depressing to be dismissed as communicating to a few a sign of great intellect instead of Thaving a ‘dinosaur mentality’ or ‘living in a time warp’ a return to authoritarianism. simply because I adhere to a set of ideas which flourished We live in an age where image is the new icon. An in the sixties and seventies. For all their faults some of exponent of this view is the filmmaker, David Lynch. these ideas did stress non-hierarchical, non-competitive, Currently David Lynch’s Wild at Heart is doing the non-violent values which would lead to a better world. cinema circuit rounds. This classy film won the best film I see people who had these ideas in the sixties and award at Cannes. It displays freaks as the ultimate image seventies ditching them, along with non-sexist or non­ tum-on. Laughing at fat, ugly, misshapen people is now racist ideals. They have become part of the present image back in fashion. What is depressing is that although Wild conscious age, a direct opposite to their beliefs of the at Heart may look good it is one long litany of misogyny mid-sixties and seventies. Now for these people image is and racism. all, money and shallowness reign supreme. Among them Lynch’s television series Twin Peaks, is being are those vacuous young women who do misogyny’s advertised by TV3 with a huge black billboard, containing dirty work by proclaiming that feminism is passe and a 3-dimensional model of a naked woman wrapped in being a woman has little relevance to their lives plastic with the headline, Who killed Laura Palmer? This and insecure men who hysterically label Broadsheet and billboard has chilled many women who have been feminists ‘gender Nazis’. confronted with it on the street. The misogynist world I I’m not suggesting that we cling to a set of beliefs as thought we were leaving behind is now seen as rigidly as to a life buoy - discussion, reappraisal and progressive, new and refreshing: the sexism and racism in moving ideas along are essential - but there is nothing this film can be conveniently overlooked in the name uniquely wonderful in abandoning a set of beliefs of art. But all we have got here is a re-emergence of wholesale because someone decrees they are old- perverted Playboy male sexuality. As long as it is a fashioned. Fashion is an enemy when it is applied to pretentious well shot film it apparently doesn’t matter ideas. what it is saying. I am coming to the sad conclusion that for a certain This is a reflection of the wider political arena where section of the population certain ideas to which I am the poor certainly don’t look cool. Lets pretend they don’t committed were a fad which they are ditch in middle age exist, or attack the welfare state for breeding such to move on the the new fad. Feminism or left-wing unfashionable people. And we certainly won’t be ideology is being depicted to the young as being “not concerned with them because that is definitely not cool. where it’s at”. Intellectual ideas have not been immune to Fortunately there are still uncool people, who don’t a return to elitism. In the sixties and seventies just follow ideological fashion, who still believe what you communicating was seen as important, now we have to think is more important than what you look like. But the grapple with new jargonistic theory — in film criticism seduction of the image will tempt many and in the process for example — which changes according to who is the perpetuate their oppression. Athina Tsoulis Womanfile collective member CONTRIBUTIONS: Articles and illustrations should be sent with SASE enclosed and remain the property of the contributor. Permission must be sought from Womanfile and from the contributor before any item is reprinted. LETTERS: The Womanfile collective may not agree with views expressed in letters. Some letters are edited in consultation with the writer. We do not publish personal attacks. Letters from men are published at the discretion of the collective. Letters that are addressed to the collective or the editor are assumed to be intended for publication. Please indicate clearly if they are not. ADVERTISING: All copy and artwork is subject to approval. The collective reserves the right to cancel any advertisement. We do not advertise cigarette or alcohol products. We ask readers to let advertisers know you saw their product in Broadsheet. 2 BROADSHEET MAY 1991 * those basic necessities like food. obviously unable to breed in any Now when I see advertisements on TV numbers and consequently their for financial assistance for Third World population suffered a decline. This I countries I allow myself a wry smile as believe, as the evidence presented the voice over explains how my shows, is the only logical conclusion. donation would allow a child a decent Sylvia Baynes THE PAVLOVA PARADISE - diet, give them the opportunity of a Auckland WAS IT ALL A CREAM better education and improve their DREAM? health and well being. The irony doesn’t DEAR MS SHIPLEY... escape me. I grew up believing in this small nation Eliza Storey Full exposure to Jenny Shipley’s of ours. You know; kiwi ingenuity will Auckland unedited comments was a good idea. I always save the day, and all you need is think it’s important to see for ourselves a piece of number 8 fencing wire! I still SPEARS AND SWORDS NOT the calibre of the MPs who claim to have immense pride that ‘down under’ ENOUGH represent us by using a lot of windy we produce so many greats - Kiwis are words that don’t contain very many hard always up there with the best. However, I have just watched two episodes of the facts. these days the feeling of national pride is new television series The Celts and have I take issue with most of what fast being replaced by one of noticed how few women are featured. Minister Shipley said, but will mention disillusionment. I find myself experi­ We seem to have huge numbers of men only the Domestic Purposes Benefit, as encing real fear, what is happening to marching around brandishing spears and the women who receive it have become God’s-own? swords, yet there seem to be almost no the particular public target of Irate New Zealand/Aotearoa was once the women.
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