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Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 1

Changing the Universe through Women’s Stories

Women in history issue Women’s March reflections

ERA — unfinished business

Femicide Report

Brenda Child, Ojibwe historian

CARMEN MCCULLOUGH CARMEN Motherlines

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PAUL, MN 55114 WWW.WOMENSPRESS.COM 4 Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 THISISSUE NORMASMITHOLSON Marching on KATHYMAGNUSON We are all history makers — like it or not, claim it or not. History is being made and we are a part of it, whether we have jumped right in or are on the sidelines. The future of our country, state and communities depends on what we do or don’t do as individuals this week and this month and the next. Kathy had made plans to attend the history-making inau- dom or national parks guration of the fi rst woman U.S. president with her daugh- preservation, water and ters and oldest granddaughter in January. They were going pipeline issues, climate to attend a gala ball and celebrate. change or education. Instead, as women often do, they improvised. They aban- 3. You can’t fi x it all, doned the hopeful ball gowns for raincoats and fl eece mit- but don’t let that be an tens and joined the Women’s March at our state capitol with excuse for doing noth- a huge crowd of determined, thoughtful women and allies ing. What amount of time can you commit? Decide if you to make a statement about values on human rights, free- will spend 15 minutes a day, two evenings a week, every dom and truth. They showed up and took a stand. Saturday morning, or whatever is right for you. But make a And now what? commitment. Do something. In this issue, with a theme of women’s history, we 4. Find like-minded people to support your personal look back — and forward. We look at how women work, then share ideas and take collective actions. Or build have been and are represented in science, sports, the your own circle of allies, starting with friends or neighbors. History arts and the legal arena. You can read the facts of the 5. Then, fi nd people who are not like-minded. Talk to history of domestic violence in Minnesota. As we them. We need to hear each other’s stories. Where are the look at where women have come from, we also look ahead. commonalities? Most women want equal pay. Moms gen- How do we get to the future we want without becoming erally want good schools for kids. We all want to be safe in overwhelmed, sad or immobilized in the process? our neighborhoods. What does that mean to each of us and Here are ten ideas for action: how do we take action together? 1. Focus on a positive vision of the future you want. Don’t 6. Actions can take different forms. If you have a yard or get caught up in simply trying to create a less negative sit- a window, put up a sign. Even this simple act can express uation, but hold a proactive vision. Be informed with facts support and solidarity. — and don’t wallow in negativity. 7. Buy lots of postcards. Mail them on a regular basis to 2. Ask what work is yours to do. Identify one or two those in public offi ce, thanking them for support of an issue causes that are dearest to you. Maybe it’s reproductive free- or expressing your disappointment for the lack of support. Tell them why you want a certain vote and that you are their constituent. 8. Ditto on phone calling. Use this tool from the League of Women Voters to fi nd out who represents you and get their contact information: https://tinyurl.com/LWVconnect Enter their contact information in your phone under P for Politician to quickly pull them up. Maybe you are reluctant to make phone calls. Get over it! Do you want to tell the next generation that you did not resist injustice because you were afraid of the phone? 9. Give gifts of subscriptions to local, fact-based, independent media, including this one. Write checks to causes you support. 10. Find someone running for offi ce in 2018 who shares your values and ask to volunteer on their campaign. When one of Kathy’s granddaughters who is “strong willed” acts up, someone often points out that she comes from a long line of strong women. Let’s all be strong willed. Let’s remember the strong women who came before us. Let’s recognize we have power to step up and Kathy Magnuson and her make a better future. daughters and granddaughters and at the St. Paul Women’s March. Co-Publishers Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 5

Coming up: YOUSAID April’s theme is Global Women. Letters from Minnesota Women’s Press readers. What’s your global story? Suicide Survivors Club Diverse voices Tell us about it. Thank you for having an article about cop- I love the diversity of highlighted arti- Send up to 150 words to ing with suicide in your January magazine. cles by Nausheema, Nekima, Suzanne and [email protected] [YourStory, Rebecca Anderson and Laurie Tami in the “Thinking Women” e-newsletter. Deadline: March 10 Phillips, MWP] I sent the article to my friend The essays are all great, quick-reads and all April Advertising Sections: whose husband committed suicide. She is empowering. Thank you! • Celebrations Guide going to order the books for herself and her Kathy McKay, St. Louis Park • Home Guide family. I think it was helpful for her to see Editor’s note: Do you get the Minnesota • Spirituality Guide someone who is a few years out able to artic- Women’s Press e-newsletter? Sign up online • GoSeeDo/Calendar Guide ulate some of the feelings that she and her at womenspress.com Deadline: March 10 family went through. Thanks again for telling us about import- The view from here May’s theme is Generations. How ant women’s issues. Tami Mohamed Brown’s column is a very would you like your generation of Megan Gangl, Shoreview powerful statement. [MWP, SheSaid, Feb. women to be remembered? 2017] It is so true in these times to be aware, Listening as an act of rebellion Tell us about it. Send up to 150 present and not be afraid to jump in and get words to [email protected] As a member of Women Against Military involved. Thank you for sharing. Deadline: April 10 Madness (WAMM) I have had occasions to Molly Stern, Minneapolis work with Suzanne Al-Kayali. [LeaderVoice, Watch for the results of MWP’s MWP, Feb. 2017] annual What Women Want readers’ Her essay about listening reflect this char- GOTANOPINION? survey in the May issue! acteristic of hers, which not only makes her Like something in MWP? May Advertising Sections: a most valued director of this organization, Or disagree? • Grrrls Go Green Guide but a most dependable individual in all her We want to hear from you. Write to editor@ • Just for Kids Guide dealings. WAMM is lucky to have her as womenspress.com. Include your name, address • GoSeeDo/Calendar Guide their executive director. and phone number for verification. Deadline: April 10 Polly Mann, Minneapolis 6 Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 THINKABOUTIT The ﬁ erce Oregon governor from Roseville Oregon’s Kate Brown, who grew up in Roseville, Minn., is not only the fi rst “The way to right elected bisexual governor in the U.S., but a radical voice for activism. During wrongs is to turn the the Women’s March she declared, “In light of truth upon my Oregon, and under my leadership, women are in charge of their own bodies. them.” — Ida B. Wells In my Oregon, immigrants and refugees are welcome with open arms.” Voice from history She said progressives must be ready Women have long been now to reform voting rights, replace the Kate Brown fi ghting as activists, jour- Electoral College, and undo Citizens nalists and advocates to United. “Amending the Constitution is hard work, so we better get combat social injustice and started, right?” Brown believes under Obama there was a level of defend freedoms. One of “complacency in this country that it was going to be O.K. Now we them, featured in an online compilation by Upworthy. know that this is not going to be easy. It may feel like you’re hitting your com, was journalist/suffragist Ida B. Wells (1862-1931) head against a wall. But, in the end, that only makes you stronger.” who led an anti-lynching crusade in the 1890s. Source: New Yorker

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Ojibwe women Brenda Child, scholar of Native history, speaks to her family’s stories

by Taylor Rose Payer As a teenager, Brenda Child held her grandfather’s cedar knocking sticks for the fi rst time. It was these knocking sticks, a tool used by Ojibwe people to harvest wild rice, that would later inspire her interest in the history of Ojibwe labor and the writing of a book inspired by the family heirloom. Now, the current chair of American Studies at the University of Minne- sota, Professor Brenda Child is a historian, curator of public history exhibitions and one of the tribal members rewriting the constitution of the Red Lake Nation. “In some sense, I have always been a historian. History books were the fi rst I checked out from the library. History has always fascinated me,” Child says. Her passion for history, particularly American Indian history, stems from what she describes as a debt to her grandparents and other ancestors. “I am the benefi ciary of their survival, and that is why I wish to tell our family’s story.” Her most recent book is a family history entitled “My Grandfather’s Knocking Sticks: Ojibwe Family Life and Labor on the Reservation.” LISA MILLER/UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MILLER/UNIVERSITY LISA On the power of Ojibwe women While writing “Knocking Sticks,” Child got to spend her time thinking critically about Ojibwe women and the importance of gender as a tool of analysis. As Child puts it, “I never understood how Ojibwe society worked in the past until I learned how Ojibwe women controlled the entire economy.” Originally, Child associated her grandfather’s cedar knocking sticks with tradition but later learned that her grandfather was in the fi rst generation of men to harvest wild rice. Prior to 1940, wild ricing was traditionally done by Ojibwe women. For generations, the women ran the wild rice economy and established mature legal systems to dictate who riced where. She wants people to study that history: “As Ojibwe people, as Native people, we have to take a very long view of history in order to see gender and women’s place in society.” Why study history? Child wants to ensure that people not only know the history in their family stories, but also study formal history. “American Indian people, young and old, seem to have a strong sense of history, because it’s so much a part Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 9

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by Jennifer Hyvonen HISTORY THEATRE HISTORY

Laurie Flanigan Hegge struck gold when she was inter- “Hormel Girls” staged at the History Theatre, 2007 viewing many women who worked in the Lake Michigan shipyards of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, during World War II. She learned about a woman whose brother was fi ghting over- seas. “She felt he needed a home cooked meal,” the Minnesota

COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY playwright says. With much love, the sister roasted a chicken, packaged it up and mailed it to him. “Here he opens the box to this rotten chicken.” Switch brother to boyfriend, and Flanigan Hegge had the love-interest plot point for her fi rst play “Loose Lips Sink Ships,” a fi ctional dance musical based on the real lives of women who worked in shipyards when America’s men were called off to war. The idea for the play came about when Flanigan Hegge was a performing member of the Northern Sky Theater, formerly known as American Folklore Theatre, in 1998. She noticed a void of plays with a female perspective and she nudged the company’s primary playwright, saying, “You should do a women’s story.” The playwright nudged back, “Why don’t you do it?” The idea took root when she was playing cards with future collaborators on the project, lyricist Jacinda Duffi n and music composer James Kaplan. “We leapt in, as if we knew what we were doing,” Flanigan Hegge remem- I realized there was nothing bers. that women can take for granted. Word got out about the play’s development, and soon their phones were “ ringing off the hook with leads for women to interview. “My mom, my We owe our ability to be who we aunt, that kind of stuff,” says Flanigan Hegge. “All the women said their want to be to the women before us lives were not very interesting, but they talked for hours.” Common themes of empowerment and transformation emerged. who could not be what they wanted “The women would all say, ‘It was the last job I ever had, but I raised my daughter differently, to work.’” to be. — Laurie Flanigan Hegge Flanigan Hegge had gone into the research seeing the stories as elderly ” women who held different expectations, hopes and desires. She emerged 10 Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 11

seeing stories full of emotional complexity that directly related PROFILE to her everyday life. History “I realized there was nothing that women can take for granted. We owe our ability to be who we want to be to the women before us who could not be what they wanted to be,” she says. Adele Della Torre, DDS Alice M. Ottavi, DDS Women’s Staging women’s history Lesley C. Knox, DDS “See Jane Vote,” written by Flanigan Hegge, premiered at the Angela M. Hastings, DMD American Folklore Theater in 2006. Her move from Chicago to (612) 377-6108 history on the Twin Cities gave rise to two History Theater productions — “Hormel Girls” in 2007 and “Twenty Days to Find A Wife” in 2232 Hennepin Avenue South 2009. “Hormel Girls” is a fictional story of the real-life touring Minneapolis, Minnesota 55405 center stage swing band comprised of G.I. Janes home from World War II. Prevention through Art, www.adtdental.com The band was sponsored by the Minnesota company Hormel Science & Compassion www.facebook.com/adtdental Playwright Laurie and its brand products, including SPAM. For “Hormel Girls,” created with collaborator Perrin Post, Flanigan Hegge Flanigan Hegge’s research and development methods remained 31-11 creates theater much the same. “For six characters, I interviewed 20 women and got 50 stories.” Themes emerged and characters were created from local stories. out of the various perspectives. “Women’s perspectives are not represented on stage enough. by Jennifer Hyvonen It’s the same way that we need to hear voices of color and voices

HISTORY THEATRE HISTORY that represent a variety of human perspectives,” Flanigan Hegge says. She believes that audiences are eager for stories telling the whole human experience, and that theater with its immersive, multi-sensory experience is a powerful conduit to examine our Laurie Flanigan Hegge struck gold when she was inter- subconscious biases and roles in humanity. “Hormel Girls” staged at the History Theatre, 2007 “Music and humor are great mechanisms to create empathy viewing many women who worked in the Lake Michigan for your characters. When audiences care about vulnerable shipyards of Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin, during World War II. and accessible characters, their hearts open and there is space She learned about a woman whose brother was fi ghting over- to listen.” seas. “She felt he needed a home cooked meal,” the Minnesota Who’s in the spotlight? The Dramatist Guild of America, along with The Lilly Awards,

COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY playwright says. With much love, the sister roasted a chicken, studied three years of data from production in regional theaters packaged it up and mailed it to him. “Here he opens the box across America. The 2015 results showed that 63 percent of the- to this rotten chicken.” ater productions are written by American white males. American Switch brother to boyfriend, and Flanigan Hegge had the love-inter- white women wrote 14 percent, with 9 percent by Americans of color, and less than 1 percent by foreign men and women of est plot point for her fi rst play “Loose Lips Sink Ships,” a fi ctional dance 2300 Central Avenue NE musical based on the real lives of women who worked in shipyards when color. “It has been said that the reason for the disparity is that America’s men were called off to war. there are not enough female playwrights in the pipeline, but that Minneapolis, MN 55418 The idea for the play came about when Flanigan Hegge was a perform- is not true. We are here,” Flanigan Hegge says. Flanigan Hegge’s next production is a collaboration with ing member of the Northern Sky Theater, formerly known as American We teach adults: Folklore Theatre, in 1998. She noticed a void of plays with a female per- writer and director Post and composer Dina Maccabee. Adapted spective and she nudged the company’s primary playwright, saying, “You from the movie of the same name, “Sweet Land, the musical” , oml, Cnese should do a women’s story.” The playwright nudged back, “Why don’t opens at the end of WWI with Inge Altenberg immigrating to you do it?” America to marry Olaf, a Norwegian farmer. However, the n pns (including medical and legal) discovery of Inge’s German nationality evokes community The idea took root when she was playing cards with future collaborators lele clss sceuln on the project, lyricist Jacinda Duffi n and music composer James Kaplan. scorn. Forbidden to marry and unable to leave, Inge engages in “We leapt in, as if we knew what we were doing,” Flanigan Hegge remem- a life-or-death struggle for independence, love and acceptance in www.lnuecenrl.us 12.31.20 I realized there was nothing bers. a small Minnesota town. With partial help from the Minnesota State Arts Board, “Sweet that women can take for granted. Word got out about the play’s development, and soon their phones were ringing off the hook with leads for women to interview. “My mom, my Land, the musical” went through five developmental workshops “ to refine scripts and songs. “Our big challenge was how to use We owe our ability to be who we aunt, that kind of stuff,” says Flanigan Hegge. “All the women said their music and movement to capture the scope of the land that is so want to be to the women before us lives were not very interesting, but they talked for hours.” Common themes of empowerment and transformation emerged. prominent in the movie,” says Flanigan Hegge. The musical pre- who could not be what they wanted “The women would all say, ‘It was the last job I ever had, but I raised my mieres April 29, 2017, at the History Theater. daughter differently, to work.’” Flanigan Hegge looks forward to opening night. “It’s pure joy to be. — Laurie Flanigan Hegge Flanigan Hegge had gone into the research seeing the stories as elderly to watch the audience and see how they engage with the story.” ” women who held different expectations, hopes and desires. She emerged FFI: historytheatre.com 33- 12 Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 BOOKSHELF History DUCHESS HARRIS When your grandmother is hidden In 2011, my mother Miriam Mann Harris was approached by the National Aeronau- tics and Space Administration (NASA) to provide an oral history of her mother, Miriam Daniel Mann, who was in the fi rst cohort of Black women to work at NASA in 1943. My grandmother was born in which allowed us kids to get tours of BOOKSHELF: Covington, Georgia, on July 25, 1907. the wind tunnels and see some of the For more books written Her father was a barber and her actual planes that they did the math or edited by Duchess mother was a schoolteacher. She grew for. When NACA became NASA, my Harris check out: up in Macon, Georgia, and graduated Mom worked on John Glenn’s fl ight Black Feminist from Talladega College in Alabama ship and was present when he came to Politics from with a major in chemistry and a minor show his appreciation for their work. Kennedy to Clinton in mathematics. After teaching school After becoming a widow she contin- (Contemporary Black a few years, she married William S. ued to work. My mother retired from History) Mann, Jr. and had three children while NASA in late 1966 because of ill health My mother’s they lived in Savannah, Georgia. In and passed in May 1967.” Racially Writing the early memories 1942 the family moved to Virginia I was born two years after my grand- Republic: Racists, are of her where Bill Mann became a professor at mother passed, in 1969, which was the Race Rebels, and Hampton Institute (now University). year that the United States landed on Transformations of mother talking In 1943, my grandmother heard the moon. I was inspired by my moth- American Identity about doing math about NACA (The National Advisory er’s 2011 Oral History. In 2013 I was Black Lives Matter problems all day. Committee for Aeronautics, which granted sabbatical and decided that (Special Reports) preceded NASA) looking to hire my project would be to write about the Back then a lot of women to do calculations by hand. Black women of NASA. To learn more about My mother’s early memories are of In 2014, Margot Lee Shetterly the math was the lesson plans her mother talking about doing math and I won a grant from the Virginia done with a #2 within Hidden Human problems all day. Back then a lot of the Foundation for the Humanities and Computers: The Black pencil and the aid math was done with a #2 pencil and travelled to the NASA Archive. Women of NASA, of a slide rule. the aid of a slide rule. Margot decided to write “Hidden see online: “Human My mother wrote, “I remember Figures.” I decided to write “Hidden Computers at NASA” the talk of plotting graphs, logs, Human Computers: The Black Women http://omeka. doing equations and all sorts of of NASA.” My book is aimed at 6-12 macalester.edu/ foreign-sounding terms. She would graders and has the only lesson plan humancomputer relate stories about the ’colored’ sign for this narrative in the country. project/about on a table in the back of the cafeteria. Duchess Harris is professor and chair She brought the fi rst one home, but of American Studies at Macalester there was a replacement the next day. College. Her legal name is Miriam. New signs went up on the bathroom She carries the tradition of three door, ’colored girls.’ generations of Black women in her As my mother continued: “Once the family who have either made history war was over, security wasn’t as rigid, or written it. Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 13 SHESAID History

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This is what we know from our reports: due to lack of resources. They do not tell us about • Every year between 20 to 40 people, mostly the many women who end up homeless or incar- women, have been killed due to domestic cerated due to the abuse they have faced. These violence in Minnesota; statistics simply refl ect the disturbing and stark • Almost half of these deaths were murder- reality of domestic violence in our communities. suicides; After several years of collecting and analyzing • Half of the victims were killed with fi rearms; data for this report and tracking these cases, I can In over 75 percent • Most of the victims were murdered while say one thing for certain: none of us is safe from of women’s homi- attempting to leave the abusive relationship; domestic violence until all of us are safe from cides in Minnesota • And in 1 in 3 cases, children were either domestic violence. present at the time of their mothers’ homicides The victims of domestic violence do not live in the last decade, or discovered the body. their lives in silos, and they deserve a response the perpetrator that is multifaceted and that recognizes their We also know that in over 75 percent of wom- was a current or en’s homicides in Minnesota in the last decade, lived reality. Domestic violence is not simply a the perpetrator was a current or former intimate private issue between two people. It is a public former intimate partner. In the same time period, between 30 to safety issue; we need accountability and effective partner ... Between interventions for perpetrators. It is a public health 40 percent of all homicides in Minnesota were 30 to 40 percent domestic violence-related. issue; abuse and trauma can severely impact There are no stereotypes when it comes to survivors’ physical, emotional, and mental of all homicides in domestic violence homicides. The victims in our well-being. It is an economic justice issue; leaving Minnesota were an abusive relationship will not result in safety if reports represent all races and all socioeconomic domestic backgrounds. These homicides have happened in a survivor faces homelessness and poverty. the richest urban neighborhoods to the poorest And most importantly, domestic violence is violence-related. rural communities across Minnesota. a community issue. All of us — in our roles as While these statistics are horrifying and should family members, friends, neighbors, educators, shock us to our core, they only give us a glimpse and employers — must believe and support sur- into the impact of domestic violence in our com- vivors of domestic violence. Services can only go munities. They do not tell us that in 2016 alone, so far. It takes a community to keep victims safe. over 65,000 survivors and their children sought Saﬁ a Khan is a program manager for Criminal services from domestic violence programs in Justice System Advocacy at the MN Coalition for Minnesota — many of whom had unmet needs Battered Women. www.mcbw.org/femicide-report

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by Norma Smith Olson The two young cousins on the cover of this issue are posed in their Sunday best clothes, out in the backyard on a farmstead in tter Tail Township, in northwestern Minnesota. It’s 1955. h goodness, these two girls, aren’t they awesome says Carmen McCullough, of her mother, Mary Ann, on the left and her mom’s cousin, Bernice. erhaps it’s a confi rmation day or some special event. I just loved this photo. My mom is dressed up. They weren’t fancy people, so this was a special occasion. And there was something about Bernice the glasses, that hat. I thought, oh my word, these girls are up to something,’ she says. The image was found in a collection of vintage photographs that came to McCullough in an old blue suitcase that had been her grandmother’s. McCullough is a mied media artist who creates story collages from old photos and other fi nds. “They were too smart” In the background of her artwork, They were too smart, is a page from McCullough’s childhood diary and also a page from a ancy Drew book. I loved ancy Drew. I read all of her books from the library when I was young. Sepia tones nowing that McCullough fi nds inspiration working with Even months vintage photos, many have been given to her by friends and relatives. Certain photos speak to me, she says, even though later, I’ll see some- she sometimes does not know who the people are in the images. “ I sometimes see a photo and think that needs to be in a thing in a ﬁ nished collage.’ She fi nds other creative elements from antiue shops, piece that I didn’t such as old letters or envelopes, maps and diaries. She uses a fl uid, sepia-toned acrylic paint — an Dyke brown plan on. There’s a — as a wash over her fi nished creations to give them a warm, historic look. She often adds wry words or witty phrases to serendipity to it her artwork to give a contemporary feel — often capturing an sometimes. intention or tender moment, such as the journey is the prize or simply, empty nest. — Carmen McCullough I often try to think of clever things to go with the photos. ” I’ve created a few collages where I think nobody is going to get this, because it’s so personal to me. But I have found over time that those are the pieces that people identify with. Those sell uickly, McCullough says. A gallery in erham, Minn., features her artwork. Weekend artist Although McCullough was an artsy kid, she chose a prac- tical path when making career choices. She has a degree in communications and has worked in corporate marketing over Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 21 many years in west central Minnesota. For the past five years she has worked with Perham’s Chamber of Commerce. “I save my art [time] for the weekends,” McCullough says, who began to work with mixed media about 12 years ago, when her two sons were young and she desired a creative outlet for herself. “I never did get that fine arts degree, so I am definitely a self-taught artist. But we’re very fortunate, because there are so many art tutorials and technique videos posted on the Internet. You can learn to do almost anything if you really want to.” McCullough has authored two books, using her collage work and her wry sense of humor, “When She Turned 40-Ish” and it’s sequel, “When She Turned 50-Ish.” She’s currently working on a third book. Grandmother muse In addition to vintage photographs, inspiration for McCullough’s collages comes from her Dutch family heritage and heirlooms, music and travel. “Seeing the world out there, my creativity goes crazy.” One of the images that is often used is of her grandmother, Marie, who came to the United States with her family from Carmen McCullough made a rubber stamp of a photo of her Holland around 1910. “I remember her as my grandmother, mother’s mother, Marie, who she calls her “muse.” old and a bit tired, having lived on a farm all her life. And, then I found this picture of her, as a young classy lady. I thought … ‘Wow!’” She loved the image so much she had FFI: You can see McCullough’s original artwork at it made into a rubber stamp that often finds its way into Bridgette’s Main Frames Art Gallery in Perham, Minn., her collages. “Marie is my muse,” McCullough says. and online at www.StrangeFarmGirl.com. Her art continues to surprise her. “Even months later, I’ll see something in a finished piece that I didn’t plan on. There’s a

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3/7 TUESDAY Healing from trauma Trauma is often considered an event, but new studies reveal that trauma flows, carrying suffering and vulnerability across generations. What does healing from trauma mean? Dr. Shelly Rambo, theology professor at Boston University, will offer a keynote address in the two-day Mahle Symposium, titled “Resurrection in the Afterlife of Trauma: Making Sense of the Wounds That Mark Us.” Free, registration requested. 7 p.m. Sundin Music Hall, Hamline University, 1531 Hewitt Ave., St. Paul. FFI: 651-523-2878 or hamline.edu/mahle Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 23 womenspress.com GoSeeDo Guide WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH/ INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY “Be Bold for Change” is this year’s theme. Sunday, March 5 — The 3rd annual Women United International Women’s Day celebration. Free. 3-6 p.m. Prive, 315 N. First Ave., Mpls. FFI: [email protected] Wednesday, March 8 — The theme is gratitude at the International Women’s Day celebration by Isuroon, which supports Somali woman. Free. Grandview Restaurant, 312 W. Lake St., Mpls., 6-8:30pm. RSVP: https://tinyurl.com/IWD2017-tickets Wednesday, March 8 — National Geographic photographer Annie Griffiths presentation. Free. 4:30-6 p.m. St. Catherine University, “Primordiale” by 2004 Randolph Ave., St. Paul. FFI: http://tinyurl.com/IWD-Griffiths Mary Francis Judge Thursday, March 9 — Viewing and discussion of the documentary “Equal Means Equal,” about how the struggle for women’s equality MARCH 4-31 continues. Free. 6:30-8:30 p.m. Roseville Library, 2180 Hamline Ave. N. Women of Schmidt at Cty. Rd. B. FFI: 651-772-3311, DoGoodRoseville.com. The 28 women artists of the Schmidt Artist Lofts in Thursday, March 9 — Daylong programming at KFAI radio by, for St. Paul will exhibit over 50 artworks at three galleries — and about women. 6 a.m.-midnight; concert in evening; around the Landmark Gallery, Tunnel Gallery and Pig’s Eye Gallery, “Be Bold for Change” theme. FFI: kfai.org in the Schmidt Artist Lofts, 900 W. 7th St., St. Paul, Saturday, March 11 — Pulitzer Prize-winning Sheryl WuDunn will use entrance door #1, the Brew House. Galleries open deliver a keynote address as part of a focus on women’s economic to public on weekends Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m.; empowerment. Free. 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Hamline University, Mon.-Fri., noon-5 p.m. by appointment. Anderson Center, 774 Snelling Ave N., St. Paul. Register: FFI: [email protected] http://bit.ly/2fER14O

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3/17 SATURDAY Providing for family Author Jung Yun, in con- junction with Riveter magazine, reads from her debut novel “Shelter.” Free. “Chacaltaya” 7 p.m. Magers & Quinn, by Betsy Ruth Byers 3038 Hennepin Ave. S., Mpls. ONGOING THROUGH 4/15 FFI: magersandquinn.com Jung Yun Slow movement over time 3/25 SATURDAY Inspired by the Icelandic term jokulhlaup (a glacial flood), as well as historical studies of glacial change and the philosophy Challenging Islamaphobia of how our senses create our reality, Betsy Ruth Byers exhibits The local chapter of the Council on American-Islamic “Sensitive Indicators.” Free. Artist reception March 25, 7-9 p.m. Relations is hosting an event to kick-off a campaign to Gallery hours: Sat., Noon-4 p.m.; Thurs., March 2 and April 6, activate 10,000 Minnesotans in the fight against bigotry. 5-9 p.m. Kolman & Pryor Gallery, Studio 395, Northrup King The event will feature noted Muslim scholar Dalia Mogahed, Building, 1500 Jackson St. NE, Mpls. FFI: 612-208-7812 or Rep. Ilhan Omar, and civil rights leader Nekima Levy- kolmanpryorgallery.com Pounds. $0-10. 4-8 p.m. O’Shaughnessy Auditorium, 2004 Randolph Ave., St. Paul. FFI: cairmn.com Compiled by Mikki Morrissette Minnesota Quilters Inc.

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Day and evening workshops All level of artists are welcome April 26 - May 1 Crowne Plaza Aire Mall of America Hotel 26 Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 HISTORYFEATURE History Equal rights – unﬁ nished business Don’t women already have equal rights under the law? No.

by Gail Kulick & Betty Folliard The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution that would prohibit discrimination on the basis of sex. It was originally written by Alice Paul and Crystal Eastman, and in 1923 it was introduced in Congress for the fi rst time. Americans now The text of the ERA is simple and straightfor- fundamental rights named in the Constitution, have an increased ward: “Equality of rights under the law shall not such as the prohibition of discrimination on the be denied or abridged by the United States or by basis of religion, race, country of origin and free- appreciation of the any State on account of sex.” dom of speech. However, gender discrimination importance of Didn’t that pass in the 1970s? No. The ERA is not defi ned or prohibited in our Constitution. Constitutional did not get included in the U.S. Constitution. When courts are dealing with gender discrimina- While it passed both houses of Congress in 1972, it tion laws, they apply a lower standard of review, rights. In fact, needed to be ratifi ed by 38 states, and it achieved known as intermediate scrutiny. 96 percent of ratifi cation in only 35 states (Minnesota being Why now? All of the negative arguments that Americans agree one) before an arbitrary deadline was imposed the fear-mongers of the 1970s predicted the ERA that we should all upon it, causing the ERA to expire in 1982. There would bring — that an equal rights amendment have been many amendments to the constitution would cause women in the military, unisex bath- have equal rights. over our 240-year history, and very few received rooms, same-sex marriage — have already come Yet 72 percent of a fi xed deadline for ratifi cation. Somehow, when to pass without an ERA. Americans now have citizens think that it came to women’s rights, Congress found it an increased appreciation of the importance necessary to impose a 10-year timeframe. of Constitutional rights. In fact, 96 percent of the ERA passed The only guaranteed right for women in the Americans agree that we should all have equal sometime last Constitution is the right to vote, and even that rights. Yet 72 percent of citizens think that the century. came 132 years after the Constitution was fully ERA passed sometime last century. ratifi ed, and only after decades of struggle. The Younger generations have a heightened sense good news, though, is that Congress had the of equality. We as a society need to acknowl- power to impose a deadline and they also have edge that our piecemeal approach to gender the power to remove that deadline — by a simple fairness laws hasn’t corrected the problems majority vote. we face. Women still make 78 cents for every Do women have equal rights under the law? dollar men make doing the same job, with much No. What we have are piecemeal laws addressing greater inequities for women of color: 64 cents inequality. Courts apply the highest standard of for African American women and 56 cents for review, called strict scrutiny, to laws that affect Hispanic women. Sexual violence is still a norm Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 27

Strength givesgives youyou thethe in America. Women in the military powerpower to to can fight and die for our country, but changechange still don’t have equal rights and are thethe world. world. effectively shut out of the opportu- DiscoverDiscover yours. nity for serving on the Joint Chiefs PHOTO COURTESY yours. of Staff. People all across the U.S. continue PPersonalersonal TTrainingraining to work toward passage of the ERA. fforor WWomenomen State organizations partner with the national groups and are working at KKARIARI LLARSON,ARSON, CCPFTPFT the state legislature level. This year 763-473-4840763-473-4840 Nevada and Florida are states to www.KariLarsonFitness.comwww.KariLarsonFitness.com watch because of major efforts there to finally ratify the ERA. 26-12 Remade ad / website link error There are new efforts in 2017 to effect legislative action at the fed- Gail Kulick, left, and Betty Folliard eminis ea eminis ea eral and state levels. A bill in the wi a nainal wi a nainal U.S. Senate to remove the deadline euain euain on passage of the amendment is supported Gail Kulick lives in Milaca. She serves as a by Senators Amy Klobuchar and Al Franken. district court judge for Mille Lacs County and Valuing connection to Valuing connection to At the local level, bills that would enable is a former state legislator. self and others self and others Betty Folliard is president of ERA Minnesota, Minnesota to become the 24th state to embed Supporting a woman’s Supporting a woman’s an equal rights amendment into the state executive producer of A Woman’s Place radio journey to ﬁ nd her show on AM950, and a former state legislator. journey to ﬁ nd her constitution has been re-introduced by chief own voice own voice authors Sen. Richard Cohen, Sen. Scott Dibble, JOININ: Providing a safe Providing a safe Rep. Ilhan Omar, and Rep. Frank Hornstein. envi ron ment In Minnesota, anyone interested in advocating envi ron ment Bills to remove the ERA deadline at a state for women’s growth level were introduced by Sen. Sandy Pappas for the Equal Rights Amendment can contact for women’s growth and Rep. Rena Moran. ERA Minnesota on their website at Indi vid u al, Couple & Family Indi vid u al, Couple & Family MindBody Skills Group Constitutional rights are considered the www.eramn.org. MindBody Skills Group foundation of our society. U.S. Supreme Court Many national organizations are working 61-39-640 61-39-640 Justice Ruth Bader Ginsberg noted in an inter- toward passage of the ERA in our St. nton ain St. nton ain view that every constitution in the world writ- U.S. Constitution: ten since 1950 provides for equal citizenship ERA Coalition eracoalition.org stature for women and men. We owe it to our ERA Action eraaction.org mothers, aunts, sisters and daughters to allow Fem FemFederation femfederation.org for equal access to justice and for full citizen- Progressive Democrats of America ship to be set forth in our Constitution on par pdamerica.org/our-issues with all of the other fundamental rights that We Are Woman wearewoman.us define this great country.

l 20 eember 20 eal2017 ide WOMEN’S ad coner o bw HUMAN RIGHTS FILM SERIES 28 Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 YOURTHOUGHTS History Each month we ask our readers a question. For March we asked: Given the chance, what woman from history would you interview and what would you ask? See more thoughts online at womenspress.com. Maya Angelou it on TV, back in the late 1960s, recorded Ida B. Wells Is ‘Maya Angelou’ the most obvious it on VCR tape, and now own the DVD. My dream interviewee is Ida B. Wells. answer to this question? Because it is for It is my go-to movie when I need to chill I admire her mastery in wielding her pen me. When the topic of anger came up out. My question would be “What did she for the advancement of racial equality [in a conversation with comedian Dave think of the movie and on what did she and racial justice. She skillfully waged Chappelle], Angelou said something that base her novel ... real experience?” war through her publications and work has stayed with me. “If you’re not angry, My paperback novel, yellowed pages, as editor of Memphis Free Speech and you’re a stone,” she said. “You should ripped and taped in parts, has a place of Headlight. She continued to strategically be angry.” honor on my bookshelf as inspiration. advance social change while serving as The important thing, she said, is to be Nancy Johnson, New Richmond, WI a journalist with Chicago’s Daily Inter able to transmute that anger into some- Abigail Adams Ocean and the Chicago Conservator, thing more productive, to use the anger. “Don’t forget the ladies,” Abigail one of the oldest African-American news- “You write about it, you paint it, you Adams wrote to her husband when he papers in the United States. She used dance it, you march it, you vote it, you do was helping to put together a government her power of writing as advocacy for everything about it. You talk it. You never for the new country, later known as the the powerless. stop talking it.” United States. I would like to interview Our interview would explore the fol- So, yes. Maya Angelou. I’d pick her. her and ask how she would have changed lowing questions: How can writing Fierce, tender-hearted, beloved soul, laws or our constitution so she wouldn’t be used to educate diverse audiences, Maya Angelou. I wouldn’t so much have to get her husband’s signature on organize social change initiatives, and “interview” her, wouldn’t even talk really, the many transactions she made when she advocate for societal reform? You once I don’t think. But I would listen. I would ran their farm in Massachusetts while he stated, “the way to right wrongs is to shed listen with reverence and gratitude and was in Philadelphia working on forming a light upon them” — what is the source deep admiration. I would listen, with our government. I would ask her why of your moral courage? What is one everything I’ve got. she was interested in education. I would small action we each can take to make a Hilal Isler, St. Paul ask her what she would have done differ- difference in the world? Marian Berry Hafnor ently if she had been a representative to Artika R. Tyner, St. Paul I’ve been fortunate to interview thou- the Continental Congress to make women Hannah Duston sands of women, but the one I want to more equal citizens in the new country. I would go back to 1697 and talk with return to, to talk with more, is my mother. Finally, I would ask her what she thinks my ancestor Hannah Duston — the fi rst Marian Berry Hafnor (born in 1915) was a is missing from the many biographies American woman to have a statue erected woman of history — one of the last of the written about her. in her honor. pioneer babies in western South Dakota. Arvonne Fraser, Minneapolis She was taken, with her infant daugh- She lived in a sod house with no running Zora Neale Hurston ter and midwife, and marched, with a water nor indoor toilet, no refrigeration Who would not jump at the chance 14-year-old boy, away from her life in except that provided by a cave carved in to pose questions to a creative, talented, Haverhill, Massachusetts — and her eight the banks of a small dam. Here are some resourceful, classy and self-confi dent children — toward the Canadian border of my missed opportunity questions: As a writer, author, folklorist and anthropol- as a hostage of the French. Her six-day- child, what was the hardest part of your ogist? A woman who had the audacity old girl was smashed against a tree. Six life on the prairie? Did you resent the lack to say, “Sometimes I feel discriminated weeks later she led the three of them in of career choices? Did you ever contem- against, but it does not make me angry. It a late-night attack against their captors. plate divorce? What was the hardest part merely astonishes me. How can any deny They escaped by canoe, returning with of raising four children when you became themselves the pleasure of my company? scalps as proof. a widow at 42? When did you start feel- It’s beyond me.” I would ask my 10th generation grand- ing like an older woman? What decision I’d ask Zora Neale Hurston, “What mother, whose descendants included would you like to re-do? I want more time were the events in your life that let you a long line of strong-minded women, with her! Carpe Diem! know that you were a force to be reck- including my grandmother and mother Mary Hafnor Hanson, Minneapolis oned with?” and “What advice, strat- (and daughter), how she found the deter- Grace Metalious egies or techniques would you give to mination, through such a physically and emotionally draining ordeal, to not only If I had the opportunity I would like to young women in support of their efforts to be change agents in their communi- keep going, but to stand up and fi ght so meet Grace Metalious, the author of my she could live to see a brighter day. Did favorite book “Peyton Place.” I read this ties?” “For what do you most want to be remembered?” Then I would sit back and maternal rage fuel her? book, under the covers, in bed at age 16, I’m proud to come from a line of “nasty after I bought it when I worked at the WT listen carefully to every word she said. Beverly Cottman, Minneapolis women.” Grant store in St. Paul. How delicious! 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For complete writer’s guidelines, go to www.womenspress.com and click on “About us.” 38 Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 ACTNOW History Where are the women coaches? Media coverage? by Kathy Magnuson “Girls are watching. When they are playing sports and they see who is coaching and who is not, who is in the media and who is not, [what they see and hear] communicates worth and value,” says Nicole LaVoi of the University of Minnesota Tucker Center for Research on Women & Girls in Sport. She does not mince words. “We are communicating the wrong message.” Sports matter in our society. Sports are a powerful Today, 43 percent of women’s teams are coached by social institution. If we see more women in positions of men — down 90 percent since 1972 — and two percent power in sports, “it communicates that women are and of men’s teams are coached by women. can be confi dent leaders in a context that matters, that In media coverage, the gap grows even wider between they are competitive and are visible,” LaVoi says. men’s and women’s sports. In data from 1989 to 2014, According to the Women’s researchers at Purdue found that women athletes were Sports Foundation, high covered less in media over time. The study noted a mixed school female athletes are less blessing in this coverage: In 1989, 5 percent of coverage likely to be involved in an was given to women athletes, but “it often was com- unintended pregnancy, more monly either in the role of comical object of the sports likely to get better grades anchor’s joke or as sexual object.” in school and more likely to Today women and girls receive 2-4 percent of media graduate than girls who do coverage, says LaVoi. “Who you see tells you who is not play sports. Girls and important.” women who play sports have LaVoi observes that Title IX may always be under higher levels of confi dence attack because it provides women equal access and and self-esteem and lower lev- opportunity to positions of power and strength. els of depression. “We fought [opposition] back in the 1990s, and I expect Many think that Title IX — that some battles that will be waged are yet to come,” the 1972 landmark legislation she says. that bars gender discrimina- LaVoi challenges us to do something. tion in education, including “At the schools or sports clubs or youth teams, pro- sports in educational settings gressive women have to insist that women be repre- Nicole LaVoi — is part of history. It is and sented in positions of power, get up and get involved.” it isn’t. LaVoi suggests when you see that female athletes are Because of Title IX, female not getting media coverage, tweet or post about it. That Women need to participation in high school tweet in the moment, when a sports event is happen- sports has increased by more ing, can be the most effective. Let your print and broad- support each other. than 900 percent in 45 years, cast outlets know that you notice and you expect to see Women“ have to advocate according to the Women’s equitable coverage. Sports Foundation. Today, the In our workplaces, community organizations and for each other, to be number of high school girls more, LaVoi says, “women need to support each other, role models. You have participating in sports has advocate for each other. We have to be role models. risen tenfold, and women in You have to be visible, be active, be heard.” to be visible, be active, college sports is up six times FFI: www.tuckercenter.org be heard. — Nicole LaVoi since 1972, yet men and boys still participate at higher rates than women and girls. RESOURCES: In” high schools, close to 4 million young men partici- “Now You See Her, Now You Don’t.” pate in sports, compared to 2.7 million for young women. TEDx Gustavus Adolphus College Mary Jo Kane at the Tucker Center indicates that www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAcipMsqwaw in one to two generations we went from girls hop- “Paradox, Pitfalls, & Parity: Where Have all the ing there would be a team to hoping they made the Women Coaches Gone?” team. The paradox is that in those same generations, Tucker Center Distinguished Lecture Series, 2016 Fall women went from dominating coaching positions www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rz23_H4soJA&t=12m40s for women and girls’ teams to being a minority — two very different trends. Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017 39 WOMEN’SMARCHREFLECTIONS

On Saturday, Jan. 21, 2017, an estimated 4.8 million people took part in 673 Women’s Marches around the world. While the primary march took place in Washington, D.C., there were “sister marches” on all seven continents. It is estimated that 90,000-100,000 attended the Women’s March in St. Paul. We asked our readers to share their reflections from the March. Find more reflections at womenspress.com.

I marched for gender/racial/LGBTQ out her last handcrafted congo pink hat I live in Minneapolis but felt called to equality, and economic justice. I marched and handed it to me. Thank you! I made March on Washington, D.C. I wanted my in support of a woman’s right to make a donation to Planned Parenthood to young son to know that everyone’s voice choices for her own body. My daughters acknowledge your gesture. matters, that it’s worth standing up for Carol Walsh, and I marched in St. Paul and Washington, St. Paul your convictions, and I wanted him to D.C. The absolute kindness, goodness and be proud of his mom and to witness the positive energy we all felt standing with We were thrilled to have a Facebook strength of women. over half a million like-minded spirits has message the Friday before the Saturday I stayed with a friend in Pennsylvania given us the start-up fuel we need to be Women’s March. A last-minute march whom I haven’t seen in more than 20 better, more active citizens for the rest of was being organized for Grand Marais. years since we were in Peace Corps our lives! We said yes, expecting there would be just together in Ukraine. Marching with her, Jackie Henning, Minneapolis a few of us that marched from the court- and her dear friend from Canada, made house to the harbor in Grand Marais on it even more meaningful for me. In the metro and on the street, it was so packed I’m 69 years old, a disabled trans woman, an icy morning. at times you couldn’t move left, right, for- and needed to be counted as a voice By the designated start time, we had wards or backwards. It had the potential of love in the face of hate. I went with well over 100 people. We read our signs to be downright scary, but it was so civil. people from First Universalist Church. declaring our commitments to the earth, Marchers generously thanked National Younger members helped, loading my humanity and each other. We sang, we Guard and civilians helping to direct wheelchair and pushing me along. To see laughed and then we left with renewed crowds, moms and dads pushed stroll- that many women and men moving as faith in our community. Marcia Hyatt, ers or carried babies in carriers, toddlers one, looking out for each other, standing Grand Marais on shoulders. Those with disabilities in love in the face of hate, was inspira- and seniors marched or were pushed in tional. My heart sang, knowing as long as The last time my daughter and I had wheelchairs. Whole families with several we remained united, we would prevail. been at the capitol was to watch Governor generations represented proudly, joy- It was truly healing! Dayton sign gay marriage into law in ously marched. Jessica Wicks, Minneapolis Minnesota. It seems so long ago now — Being in the crowd helped me feel con- my nine-year-old barely remembers that nected to something larger than myself. I’ve had an underlying “low grade day — but it was only a few years ago. It gave me the hope I knew I would need depression” from the systemic, institu- There was quite a crowd on that day in to buoy me on the days to come when I tionalized, cultural oppression over the 2013, but it was nothing compared to the might be despairing. And it inspired con- last 10+ years — after being engaged crowd for the Women’s March. tinued action. Perhaps the most mean- in women’s empowerment in 1970’s to I nearly didn’t go. We had other obli- ingful aspect of the march for me was the 1990’s. The March was inspiring — in gations, I told myself. We would be there long bus ride to and from Washington numbers, in content, in being together! in spirit. I spoke enthusiastically about from Pennsylvania on a YWCA-chartered I have been able to breathe again! I want the March to my daughter that Saturday bus, where I met other women from all to conspire (“breathe together”), there- morning. I told her about how thousands walks of life, and where we talked about fore, I am seeking active engagement in of women would be marching in cities the critical need to keep up the momen- women’s community. all over the world uniting for women’s tum — to let the march be the spark that Lynn Scott, Minneapolis rights. “Are we going?” she asked, in ignites us to stay engaged, stay awake, a way that didn’t feel like a question, and stay active. and my reasons for not being able to go For me the March is a well I continue ost-march, I walked back through P seemed so much harder in the face of her to draw from when I need to be reignited, downtown St. Paul and met two expectation. “Yes,” I said, “We’re going.” reconnected to that something bigger than pink-hatted women standing outside the I hope my nine-year-old remembers for myself. Candyland door. The line was out the a long time that we weren’t just there in Aimee Jackson, St. Louis Park door! I asked where I could get a pink hat. spirit. We were there. One reached into her backpack, pulled Mindy Rhiger, Minneapolis 40 Minnesota Women’s Press, March 2017