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Places & Spaces 12-19 • Minnesota: A Place of Refuge? Pat Marble takes Up Kayaking, page 6 • Nekessa Julia Opoti: Arbitrary Borders • Act Now: Immigration Welcome Steps Contact Us MWP team • Green Card Voices: Where Do I Belong?
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n my mid-30s, at a lower ebb in my life cycle, when I did not have a clear idea of what I wanted to do next — my funds were dwindling, I’d ended a relationship, my living Ispace was in flux, my freelance work life was light — I entered a writing contest, simply because the grand prize was a free round-trip ticket to Ireland. I wrote a short story about a loner who traveled to escape, who met an introvert who traveled to find.
I won! There was a reading in a New New Roots enable us to explore, inform, inspire, York City bookstore near me, then I was For many people, our identities are and bridge around particular issues. off, spending several weeks traveling almost inseparable from land. When we Currently, we are seeking your input through a country I love. I had gotten to are uprooted, sometimes traumatically, about who you are, and the issues that know Central Park horse-and-carriage from our origins, and relocated to a matter to you. Share your voice at a drivers who were from Ireland, and I place where we don’t know the plants Survey Monkey page, in our Reader stayed with some of their family and and waterways and spaces — where our Response questions, and on our social friends. One mother took me to daily histories are ripped away from us — media pages so that we know where to mass; a brother took me to confession. how do we regain a sense of belonging? focus our collective energies. A group introduced me to American I asked that question of Robin Details: tinyurl.com/MWPreaders blues music and the Cork Jazz Festival. Kimmerer, indigenous author and One helped me find parish records and science activist, when I met her a few tombstones in one of eight areas my months ago. She offered this: Our sense What's Trending Online? Irish ancestors came from. of innate connection is not only about In Galway, I took a hike through the land. “We are a part of the story. We In June we posted links on our social the hills and had a pivotal moment of cast a shadow on the ground.” media pages to retired soccer player Abby transcendence. I was seated on a rock Wambach's 2018 commencement speech Kimmerer called it “Re-story-ation.” at Barnard. She tells the story of how nestled high above a beautiful river, and It is in creating human community and was overtaken by a deep sense of head- the wolves reintroduced to Yellowstone reciprocity that we build our stories. National Park, once thought to be a threat, to-toe peace I had never felt before. Even in an urban environment, where were actually its salvation. She equates I found myself uncharacteristically we might feel separated from the land, women with the wolf. “Our landscape is chanting ebulliantly, “Life is good, life “I rely on you, you rely on me — that’s overrun with archaic ways of thinking is good.” where the belonging bond begins.” about women, about people of color, After I returned, a friend remarked about the 'other,' about the powerful and Many of the women you also will hear the powerless. And these ways of thinking that I was a changed person. My dark from in these pages tell the stories of the days largely drifted behind me. Within are destroying us. ... We will not Little Red difficulties of finding a home away from Riding Hood our way through life. We will weeks I was offered a publishing home, along with tips on how we can unite our pack, storm the valley together, management job that gave me the funds grow new roots together. and change the whole bloody system.” to buy a home and eventually have two children on my own. This is the work of our magazine. I believe it is in the spaces where we Telling Stories Together allow ourselves to be still, to be silent, to In the coming months, the Women's Our website audience so far is gravitating be in tune to nature, where we reconnect Press community will be connecting our toward our articles on exploitation. The with the potential of that which is larger stories in deeper ways. We will begin February story on “Making the Invisible Visible: Sex Trafficking Victims,” has been than our individual lives. a campaign soon to build a stronger website for digital storytelling. the most popular. Second most popular: Some of the women in these pages Our March BookShelf by Stephannie Lewis, this month tell those stories. We will launch a series of Minnesota “Understanding Implicit Bias.” Women's Press Conversations, building Details: womenspress.com on the success of our April event, that @mnwomenspress
4 Minnesota Women’s Press womenspress.com July 2018 Reader Response Where Have You Felt at Home? Grandma's House I had a difficult childhood growing up in Minneapolis. My safe place was all the way in Milwaukee, where my grandma lived. I'd take the train to spend spring breaks with her. For that one week, I knew I was free to be a kid. I keep her photograph on my desk. Her warm smile comforts me still. — Anne Curtin
Proactively Seeking a Support System I came to Minnesota from Nigeria to fulfill my mother’s From our friends at Tweed Museum in Duluth, as part of the exhibit “In Solidarity: Revolutionary Women of Print.” dream for me of getting a good education. I was going to be an excellent student and would have many friends. I started Puget Sound well, and I was doing well in my academics. I tried to make As a child I visited my aunt on Puget Sound, and the whole friends, which did not work for me. I did all I could, attended house and land felt like home instantly. When she died, I met events, joined organizations, and went to everything related her daughter/my cousin, and we went to my aunt's home and to networking. I did not have a support system. I made only we cooked together for the rest of our family. It was as if I one friend in the end. I'm grateful for her. had lived there for years. Everything was where I would have I was ready to book my flight home, but my mother wanted placed it, both in her kitchen and in her office/library. I felt me to earn my degree first. It was tough. I did not have very safe and comforted, despite the distance from home and enough to pay bills and rent. I struggled until I graduated. the sadness of her death. — Jane Wicherski Non-citizens hardly get any financial aid, or jobs due to visa restrictions. Co-working Graduating was the biggest deal for me because I had fulfilled the dreams of my mother. I was happy that she got Working for yourself, or working remotely from your to watch it live on video, even though she could not make it company or team can be very isolating. I need the energy of in person. other people being creative and productive. I feel at home at I would be honest to say I still have not found my people. The Commons, where I have my ‘tribe’ of coworkers — others I do create my own space. I make myself happy and remind in the same situation as me, working side by side, but not myself that I am worthy of all the opportunities that America for the same company or clients. It is my work-home, and has given me. My space is where I am at the moment. Home helps me to separate my home-home from my work life. No is where we make it. — Oluwatobi Oluwagbemi competition, no office politics. Just great people who care about me, support me, and cheer me on. — Peggy Stefan
The Art of the Blank Slate August theme: “Climate” Many years ago, a guided meditation led by a well-known Our political and environmental climates are heated. local psychic soothingly told us when we went “home” we Changes are coming. In this issue we want to know: could/would/should. . . I don’t remember the suggestion. “What is the change you seek?” Send up to 150 words I immediately began sniveling. I had just left my marriage or a visual to [email protected] and my home. Only a few weeks before, in this very same Deadline: July 10 college room, I had been attending my 25th reunion class September theme: “Story” gathering. Now life was empty — a void. This is a big storytelling issue for us. We want many My next impression was being totally held by love emanating submissions from our readers. Tell us now, while you are from the group. In only moments I realized that I am always thinking of it. Who are you and what do you believe at home no matter where I am. Life is always a blank slate — in? Send up to 150 words or a visual to we are the artists. — Barbara Vaile [email protected] Deadline: August 10
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The Salvation Army Booth Manor For seniors 62+ across from Loring Park • 1 bedrooms Smooth Sailing at 105 by Kelly Gryting • Utilities included • Activities Director and Service he themes throughout the varied so she could see the world's first bread- Coordinator experiences of Pat Marble's long life are slicing machine in Missouri and marvel at •Smoke-free about being comfortable, inquisitive, manatees in Florida. The two eventually building T and interested in the spaces around her. found themselves visiting relatives in Indiana. 1421 Yale Place, Minneapolis 612-338-6313 Marble was born in Indiana in 1912 and When Wiklund pulled out of the South Bend lived in a city, but learned to squirrel hunt driveway, intending to head back to their with her father and uncle. At 16, she met house in Richfield, she asked her mother if a farm family that enabled her to “get her she was ready to return home. Marble replied, Feminist therapy nose into everything,” spending weekends at “Not really.” Thus began an impromptu detour with a national their “playground” learning how to butcher through the Upper Peninsula of Michigan and reputation for chickens, drive a tractor, make lard, stuff Sault Ste. Marie. Valuing connection to sausage, and harness a horse. self and others By her 30s, she was raising children in frigid The Great North northern Minnesota with no electricity or Supporting a woman’s Marble spends her summers in northern journey to fi nd her running water. Minnesota, where she bathes outdoors and own voice At 65, she was forced to leave her job intends to celebrate her 106th birthday in because corporate policy said women could Providing a safe August. She originally moved to the area not work past that age. She was “a little teed off envi ron ment in 1945 to live among pine trees, which for women’s growth that the men could work longer,” and almost a doctor said would help her husband's boycotted her own retirement party. She Indi vid u al, Couple & Family lung condition. The two of them bought a MindBody Skills Group got her first passport in her late 60s, toured simple resort property with rustic cabins on Europe and spent three months in Thailand. 612-379-2640 Island Lake, nestled between Bemidji and St. Anthony Main Recently, Marble scored a perfect 29 hand International Falls. Her children walked to a in cribbage and acted as ballast in a sled country schoolhouse. Marble says she and her for a grandchild's winter strength-training husband “enjoyed early fall, when we could go exercises. She coaches how to bake bread from fishing. The kids were in school and we had scratch, makes stained glass lamps by hand, our days to ourselves and could roam in the and raises and butchers her own chickens. woods when the leaves were turning.” This spring, Marble meticulously tracked After running the resort for 10 years, the a 4,401-mile road trip with her daughter, family moved to the Twin Cities area for Peg Wiklund. Marble created an itinerary better job opportunities.
6 34-1 Minnesota updated Women’s Pressleaves womenspress.com July 2018 Marble learned to kayak for the first time just before age 90, with a grandchild. She says, “When you kayak, you are low in the water. You look down and there are so many things to see.” Less than a week after ice-out this year, Marble was on the lake. Last year while kayaking, she says, “There was a strong WIKLUND PEG COURTESY wind. A little duck was isolated and trying to swim out of the way of a motor boat, which went fast and then stopped, sending a big wave toward the little duck. I put my hand out and it swam into my hand. I've handled chicks of course, but the feeling of that little duck was the sweetest of all, as it was fighting for its life. The waves went down and I set him back in the water. There are just so many glorious things out there!” Marble has three children, 11 grandchildren, 17 great- grandchildren, and one great-great-grandchild. They include mountain climbers, world travelers, anglers, skiers, environmentalists, hikers, bikers, and backpackers. As her daughter puts it, “We all prefer to hang out around the woods and nature. Well, mostly! Everybody likes a little adventure. Because you gotta keep up with mom and grandma.” Marble advises people to “find out what other people are about” and says that if travelers “get to know the people in the country they are visiting, they are so much better off when they return home.”
Pat Marble with one of her chickens
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Local singer Ann Reed performs at The Dunsmore Room on behalf of Global Rights for Women. All proceeds will go to Dancer: Heather Annis the organization, which works with partners to build a world for women’s equality and freedom from violence through Eclectic Edge Ensemble presents a collage of theatrical legal reform and systems change. $15. 7:30pm. Crooners jazz music and dance favorites in celebration of its 15th Lounge and Supper Club, 6161 Hwy. 65 NE, Mpls. Details: anniversary. Artists include Zoe Sealy, Karla Grotting, and croonersloungemn.com, globalrightsforwomen.org Cynthia Gutierrez-Garner. $25 at door, $20 in advance. Thur.- Sat., 7:30pm; Sun., 2pm. The Lab Theater, 700 N. 1st St., Mpls. Details: 612-333-7977, thelabtheater.org/rhythmandflow THROUGH 8/26, Activist Printmakers in Duluth
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• The University of Minnesota in Duluth offers public viewings of the night sky at its Marshall W. Alworth Planetarium. Details: d.umn.edu/planet • The University's Twin Cities campus also has viewing options at the Minnesota Institute for Astrophysics: astro. umn.edu/outreach/pubnight • Check out the new University of Minnesota Bell Museum Exploradome: bellmuseum.umn.edu/education/ exploradome, which opens with a special weekend July 13-15. The museum examines everything from microorganisms to the outer realms of the universe. Details: umn.edu
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The Security of Dogs reported by Sarah Whiting PHOTO SARAH WHITING SARAH PHOTO atti Anderson and her cairn terrier, Ballad, were among the original volunteers in 2015 for the Animal PAmbassadors program at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport. “The first day we were here, one of the first people that came through was a woman who had just buried her younger brother out west,” says Anderson. “I saw her coming and she looked stressed. I started to ask her, ‘Would you like to pet a dog?,’ but I didn’t even get that out. This elegantly dressed businesswoman fell on the floor on her knees, and she started sobbing.” Anderson says the woman stopped crying after about five Griffin, Kenley, and Sheila Swanson meet Ballad and Patti Anderson at the MSP airport. minutes. She stayed for half an hour talking about her brother. “It was really powerful.” come in,” says Webster. “We also have a policy that people Janna Webster, executive director of the Airport Foundation approach the dogs — the dogs don’t approach the people.” MSP, had been working with the Animal Humane Society. Different than service animals, these therapy dogs stay “When I read that [the Los Angeles airport] had started a pet within the confines of the airport and do not travel with therapy program, I said, ‘we have to have that here.’” passengers. The airport is considering adding other services. The airport works with volunteers who bring in their “We are getting requests for people who want dogs to meet own dogs. Both human and furry volunteers are trained and them at the gates,” says Webster. “If there are people in crisis certified as teams, and also go through an orientation process getting on flights, now they know we have this program. We at the airport. “The dogs are trained on how to interact with get calls like, ‘my son is autistic and this is his first time flying, people, and they go through socialization trainings,” Webster and he’s calm around dogs.’” says. “The things they have not experienced are walking on Kathi Atha, another volunteer, comes with her English terrazzo floors, moving walkways, the tram, going through Cream Golden Retriever. The dog, Zoe, was originally a security. So that’s a big part of the onboarding process, seeing retirement project for Alta and her husband. “We do this if they can do it. Some of them can’t.” regularly,” says Alta. “Zoe came almost 100 times last year. Not all passengers are equally happy about seeing therapy She greeted over 20,000 people. There are a lot of things dogs dogs. “We decided early on that since different cultures have can do that are special — hospice, nursing homes, schools — different reactions to dogs, we are not stationing animals on but this is more fun.” the G concourse, where most of our international arrivals Details: https://bit.ly/2sYc0Xe
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Minnesota: he original Minnesotans were people from the Ojibwe and Dakota tribes. Eventual immigrants included those who moved west to find Tland for farming, Irish who fled famine, and Finns who sought to escape Russian control. Recently, immigrants moved here after escaping A Place devastating hurricanes, earthquakes, droughts, and drug wars. Rochester is home to Mayo Clinic doctors from around the world. Medtronic, 3M, and other local headquarters — including the college system — employ many immigrants. of Early refugees arrived because they worked on behalf of the U.S. military and their homeland was bombed during the Vietnam War. Since 1979, Minnesota has welcomed 100,000 people with refugee status from 100 different countries. Refugees are allowed to relocate to the U.S., after a Refuge? government vetting process, to offer safety from persecution and civil war. Often those who arrive as refugees become U.S. citizens after five years.
According to a 2016 report by A recent MinnPost article indicated that create inclusive and equitable Minnesota Compass, 80 percent of the nonprofit leaders in these communities communities? How do immigrants and state’s immigrant community live in the hear three primary reasons for the move refugees find a sense of belonging in a Twin Cities metro area, but a growing to Greater Minnesota: access to jobs, space and place that is not their home number of Somali, Mexican, and Korean affordable housing, and the desire to of origin? How do Minnesotans become immigrants are moving to towns like live in a place similar to small town and aware of each other’s diverse cultures? Marshall, Worthington, Owatonna, rural communities left behind. Faribault, Willmar, and St. Cloud. How do Minnesotans authentically — Mikki Morrissette
Arbitrary Borders submitted by Nekessa Julia Opoti
come from a long line of people justice influenced by my ownwho are invested in creating a more impacted by arbitrary borders. exploration of identity, belonging, and just world. At the center of our work I Both my maternal and paternal the desire of human beings to exist. is a desire to make Minnesota a safe grandparents grew up in colonial Kenya The immigration system has offered and loving home for ourselves and our along the borders of what was then both hope and despair to immigrant neighbors. known as the East African protectorate. communities. Understanding the racial I am most at home in spaces that The British, and other European and class underpinnings of the founding recognize my full humanity as a Black, colonizers, constantly drew lines of this country explains the varied queer, immigrant woman. demarcating their loot. The impact? A experiences of refugees and immigrants separating of families and communities based on nationality, race, religion, A Lesson in Past and Present that had lived alongside each other, and gender, sexuality, and class. Beyond social media outrage and a lasting legacy of cultural and economic Amidst the toxicity, there is a lawn signs what does it mean to truly devastation. fiercely loving community of refugees, stand with refugees and immigrants? I come into the work of immigration immigrants, allies, and organizers
12 Minnesota Women’s Press womenspress.com July 2018 In more recent years, the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 began to build the deportation machine that we see today. This policy mirrors the mass incarceration that disproportionately impacts people of color. It allowed the government to deport people at faster
PHOTO BY SARAH WHITING SARAH BY PHOTO rates while at the same time holding people in detention for long periods of time. In 2009, a mandate was instituted that requires the Department of Homeland Security to have at least 34,000 beds every day to incarcerate human beings. It is crucial that we tell and understand a complex and nuanced lens of the impact of immigration policy. Immigrant justice spaces are often anti-Black; and many of us are working to disrupt that. As we sound the siren on the resulting oppression from detentions and deportations, we must also uplift narratives that are often erased. In reading press coverage and social media outrage, it is easy to assume that detainees and deportees are only non- Black Latino, Spanish-speaking immigrants. Underneath the headlines there is a different, more complicated story that includes Black and Asian immigrants. Real Stories Immigrant communities in Minnesota often host fundraisers for family and friends in detention. Immigration bail bonds, if granted, can be up to $10,000. A Somali woman asked for resources to help find her young Nekessa Julia Opoti in the space where she records her podcasts adult child, who she suspected was being held in detention. He was arrested in Minneapolis on a driving violation and transferred to ICE, where his family frantically located him more than a week after his arrest. This is not unusual. It begins with the recognition that most of us In the past 12 months, Black immigrants in Minnesota have exist on stolen land — Dakota and Ojibwe land; campaigned to reinstate the immigration status of thousands an economy built by enslaved Black people; and a of Liberian, Sudanese, South Sudanese, Somali, and Haitian federal immigration legacy rooted in exclusion and immigrants. In less than a year, these immigrants, who exceptionalism. have lived in the U.S. for decades, will be forced to leave to countries not ready to repatriate them en masse. All this can sound like rhetoric, as it often does. What does When you live in community, stories from the headlines are it look like to truly reckon with America’s past and present your collective lived experience. violence at a time when a national consciousness is screaming Black Lives Matter and Not One More Deportation? American immigration policy privileges race and class. Nekessa Julia Opoti is a writer and an immigrant rights advocate. She is One of the first immigration laws was the Chinese Exclusion also a radio host and producer. Her work explores race, sexuality, class, migration, education, identity, and belonging. She is a co-founder of Act of 1882, which specifically curtailed the migration of the Black Immigrant Collective. Chinese peoples. The first immigration detention facilities were built to target Black immigrants and were built at the same time as America was expanding its prison system and waging the war on drugs.
Minnesota Women’s Press womenspress.com July 2018 13 PlACES & SPACES Act Now: Immigration Welcome Steps edited by Mikki Morrissette hat can be done to create more welcoming spaces and places for newcomers to Minnesota? We asked women of different backgrounds Wand perspectives to offer their thoughts. Positive Government who learned how to become leaders Rachele King is the state refugee who embrace their own cultures while coordinator for the Resettlement also working to make inclusivity happen Programs Office of the Minnesota at multiple levels in organizations. COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY Department of Human Services. She Veronica Quillien, who is attending is helping to develop a task force the University of Minnesota for of representatives from 10 states to a doctorate in curriculum and address policies about refugees and instruction, was in that first class of unaccompanied children. The goal is to leaders. She is a member of the Bàsàa bridge the gap between state employees people of Cameroon, and also identifies who work with refugee populations and as an artist by her Bàsàa name, Sandjock legislators who make policy. Likinè (see her story on page 16). King says her priority is to create a Rachele King system that allows all Minnesotans to Radical Support live with respect and dignity. To do that, organizations, and local resettlement Nekessa Julia Opoti (see her story on she wants to help counter the narrative affiliates. King says collaborativeprevious page) works as an advocate that defines people by their refugee public and private networks are key, for immigrants. Although injustice status. One of the biggest challenges, involving experts who specialize in consumes her work, she is still hopeful, King says, is “making sure people different areas, such as school systems, seeing people coming together have accurate information. We have health programs, employment and nationwide for issues such as clean seen how misinformation can change training, as well as the community at water access. the narrative in communities and large, employers, and volunteers who Her recommended action steps: conversations about this topic.” work within these systems to provide • Fight racism in all its forms. connection to our communities. • Support immigrant-led organizations What she wants more The best thing Minnesotans can do with your time and money. Minnesotans to understand is to help refugees resettle, King says, • Watch for opportunities to that individuals who resettle is to “learn more about refugees. volunteer. Most grassroots through the U.S. Refugee Conversations are happening all organizations are running on empty Admissions Program “have over Minnesota, and one of the best and need support with grant- things people can do is to engage in been granted the opportunity writing, event planning, accounting, those conversations with accurate to rebuild their lives with and other organizational skills. information, as well as to reach out to • Be radical. Think outside of systems. freedom and hope in the United provide connection and support.” Ask elected officials how they will States,” King says. “Today’s Details: bit.ly/MNRefugees materially support immigrants. young refugees are tomorrow’s It is not enough to declare a city workforce, civic leaders, business Cultural Transformation a sanctuary if the justice system owners, and citizens.” Many state organizations and groups criminalizes people of color. are working on building new grooves Her office partners with about 40 of cultural awareness. For example, the community organizations around the Change Network Minnesota leadership state, including school districts, large program launched in 2017 with 17 non-profits, small community-based participants of different backgrounds
14 Minnesota Women’s Press womenspress.com July 2018 ince 2013, Green Card Voices has produced video and print Where storytelling about some of the 40 million immigrants and Srefugees in the United States. The mission is to humanize what Do otherwise can be a misunderstood and mischaracterized community. I Executive director Tea Rozman Clark was a volunteer in refugee Belong? camps after war broke out in her home country of Yugoslavia. She received a scholarship to study in the United States, and eventually earned a master's degree from New York University. She launched Green Card Green Card Voices in the Twin Cities, and has since branched into other areas of the state and country. Here are a few (adapted and Voices updated) stories her non-profit organization has collected.
Regina Santiago, Roseville teacher
I was born in the Phillipines, then wanted to be open with my students attended an American school system in about it. They helped quiz me on those Indonesia. My counselor in high school civics questions. I feel like they were was from Minnesota and recommended just as excited about the process as I that the Midwest was a good place for was. On the day of my naturalization
COURTESY GREEN CARD VOICES CARD GREEN COURTESY college. I got that big guide to colleges. I ceremony, I couldn't be at school. The remember paging through every college next day I came back and they had and trying to imagine myself having a written me congratulation notes with life there. I was mostly excited. American flags and bald eagles. On the I'm still far away from my family, inside, every child had written what which has been difficult. Growing up, they think the best part of being a U.S. we had this tradition of sitting in a citizen is. circle around the Christmas tree. Now, As a teacher, especially for students at every Christmas morning, we hook up such a young age, you're not just there Skype and they set a place for me on the to teach them academics. You're also a laptop looking at the presents. role model. It was important to me that For four years I've been a teacher. I model openness about my story, so During the time I was getting my that they would always feel empowered naturalization process figured out, I to share their story as well.
Minnesota Women’s Press womenspress.com July 2018 15 PlACES & SPACES Veronica Quillien, Entrepreneur & Artist
My father was one of three bright learned to count through this practice. Cameroonian scholars who received I had a simple goal: to get money to buy funding through the U.S. Agency sweets. I had a particular chocolate bar for International Development to that I liked. At that age, less than ten
COURTESY GREEN CARD VOICES CARD GREEN COURTESY pursue their educations at American years old, it was the only thing that I universities. My father attended the wanted to buy. University of Wisconsin in Madison, where I was born. My family returned to Belonging, War, Education Cameroon after my parents completed On October 10, 1994, we moved to their education. Côte d’Ivoire. I remember that day During summer vacation in clearly because it was the most intense Cameroon at my grandparents’ pain I had ever felt as a child. Leaving home, there were at minimum 20 was very painful, because I was leaving grandchildren running around. You everything that I loved, everything that can imagine the commotion. We did I knew, and the people who cared about fun things together and entertained me. I was lost, completely lost. For that ourselves. The girls learned how to first academic year I kept promising braid by practicing on each other’s hair. myself that by the end of the school year I was my great-grandmother’s I was going to speak and behave like an shadow. I called her Mbombo. One of Ivorian. I spent time strategizing how to Because we moved frequently the things we loved to do together was belong, like everybody else. when I was growing up, I figured to work the land. She said, “You can By the end of that school year in ’95, out strategies to deal with leaving cultivate whatever you want.” I spoke and behaved like an Ivorian. I'm a fan of peanuts so everything people behind. At the time, The three cornerstones of remaking my I cultivated was peanuts. She taught cultural identity were how I danced, we had email, but it wasn’t as me how to make peanut butter from prominent as it is now, so before how I wore my hair, and how I spoke. scratch. She taught me how to separate When war broke out in Côte d’Ivoire, leaving it was important to have my boiled peanuts into different- my mother told us that we were going everyone’s postal addresses. We sized containers and sell them. The on a vacation in Belgium to visit my wrote handwritten letters. I still one thing Mbombo wanted to instill uncle. We went there and never, never love handwritten letters. in me was independence through came back. interdependence. College in my family meant returning After I came back from selling my to the U.S., because we were American Vrooom!boiled peanuts, I had pocket money. I citizens, born here. Receiving financial
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16 Minnesota Women’s Press womenspress.com July 2018 aid would reduce the family financial burden. I jumped on a Turn your unwanted plane and landed in Chicago. I spent the summer in Racine, vehicle into a bright a suburb of Milwaukee, because my brother was doing an future for motivated internship there. Then I landed in Superior, Wisconsin. young adults in That was a big shock. I had never seen so many white people the Twin Cities. per square mile. I lived in cosmopolitan places. Even a small town like Armentières had a mix of everybody. In Superior, it was just white. Plain white. I couldn’t eat the food. I couldn’t find clothes that fit. Then I had to learn English. I had to go to class, do all these things that were expected of me, yet I’d never been prepared for life in rural America. I had to make the best out of it.
Mission to Move Change someone’s life and get the fair market In 2001, at the University of Wisconsin – Superior, there value tax deduction that you deserve. were five African students on campus. I really didn’t care about making friends at that time, because I was on a mission: Avoid the hassle and uncertainity of selling your car to strangers. Newgate will use your finish school and get out. So my friends were literally my Newgate School brother and his friends. I graduated in three years. vehicle as hands on training for their students who get more than a tuition free education, has a 5 Star rating! Eventually, as a K–12 educator, I incorporated the they get the experience and work ethic that it Metamorphosis Project in Duluth. We began by creating a takes to build a career and support their family. space to build black girls’ assets and nurture their positive outlook on life. By the end, we built robots with elementary 612.378.0177 students. I retired the nonprofit after I began my doctoral program at the University of Minnesota. [email protected] From there, one thing led to another. I gathered my money and incorporated Language Attitude, a mobile hub of multilingual and multicultural indigenous artists, elders, and scientists, working to promote and protect culture and language. We honor traditional ways of life through our traveling exhibit, creating a unique collection of artwork that allows communities to experience the remaking of culture. As a Change Network Minnesota fellow, I am working on two projects. One is on language. I published a graphic novel and a card game based on the traditional Bàsàa knowledge system. The second project is on the land. I am developing a framework to promote sustainable agriculture with farmers in southern Cameroon to manage their natural resources. Language Attitude is interested in changes that benefit communities. Reciprocity and relationality are part of our work. Through our research, we ensure that science listens to, acknowledges, and benefits indigenous communities. Solutions-based Tools What has really shifted for me is understanding how to talk about painful events with a positive light. For me, art has been the tool that I’ve used to do that. What my parents taught me is my guiding principle: I cannot sit and complain about things. I must come up with solutions. If I cannot find the answer, then I need to stop complaining.
Minnesota Women’s Press womenspress.com July 2018 17 PlACES & SPACES Zaynab Abdi, Student
I grew up in Aden, Yemen, with a big I went to school, and I saw many more family. There were eleven in the same opportunities that kids in America had. house. I grew up with my grandma I told myself that I had to take advantage and with my father’s family. I loved of all these opportunities in this place to them so much. get better in my future. I had a beautiful life there. We had a In my country there is no future simple life. We didn’t have much money, even if you finish college. Most of the
COURTESY GREEN CARD VOICES CARD GREEN COURTESY but we shared the good things together. college students end up being cleaners We had parties at night. The neighbors at restaurants or having no jobs at all. came to our house because we were I had a chance to work here and make their only neighbor that had TV at the some money. time. The neighbors brought their food I want to go to law school so I can be to share with us. I played games with my a human rights lawyer. I want to help friends. I loved my life there. I wish I my people back home to get justice and could go back. better future. I have spoken at many My grandma died in 2010. There was places advocating for refugees and girls revolution in Yemen in 2011, so I moved education. I spoke at the United Nations to Egypt. There was revolution there too. twice. I work with Green Card Voices I moved to the United States in 2014. as an immigrant and refugee youth During the war between the I came to the United States because ambassador and I am also an advocate for girls education with the Malala Fund. people and the government, my mom had been here for 16 years. She had a chance to come to the United I am a junior honor student at St. we lost our houses and States by lottery. She couldn’t take us Catherine University. I am studying our people. My relatives because she had to be single to come. Political Science, International and my friends died in the When I came to Minnesota, it was Relations, and Philosophy. I want indiscriminate bombing. such a different life than what I’d seen. It to finish my education so I can help I was very scared. was cold, it was winter. Sometimes I was other people who couldn’t finish their sad. I wanted to go back to my country education because of war, conflict, or because I didn’t like people here. They because of culture barriers. didn’t like me, or they didn’t like to talk I dream of a world where there is not to anyone. I was smiling at them, trying war or violence. A world where there is to open conversation, but they would peace and love and my dream will be cut the conversation short. true one day.
Resources The Advocates for Human Rights’ report “Moving from Exclusion In June, Green Card Voices released its fifth book, “Green Card to Belonging: Immigrants Rights in Minnesota Today” is the result Entrepreneur Voices: Inspiring How-To Stories From Minnesota of more than 200 interviews and 25 community conversations Immigrants.” The non-profit organization offers touring photo held throughout Minnesota. Participants noted that while exhibits, is looking for new locations to film stories, accepts tax- Minnesota is welcoming, the welcome does not extend very deductible donations, and continues to seek immigrant stories far. “Newcomers face discrimination and exclusion from social to tell. For more videos and links to books, including teaching networks and by extension, exclusion from the economic guides, and full video stories from these women and others, visit opportunities and political power such networks bring.” GreenCardVoices.org. Details: theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/belonging
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Immigration Facts
Did You Know? • Minnesota is home to 208,571 immigrant women and 52,176 immigrant children. Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2015 American Community Survey, 1-Year • The top countries of origin for Minnesota immigrants are Mexico (13.9 percent), India (7.2 percent), Somalia (5.7 percent), Laos (5.5 percent), and Ethiopia (4.6 percent). Source: American Immigrant Council • Undocumented immigrants in Minnesota paid an estimated $83.2 million in state and local taxes in 2014. Source: Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy • $250,000 has been set aside by Hennepin County toward a legal defense fund for immigrants, making it one of the first Midwestern jurisdictions to start chipping in for immigration court costs. Source: Star Tribune, 3/25/18 Policy Around Arrests and Detentions • Pew Research reports that Minnesota saw a 67 percent increase in ICE arrests in 2017. That includes more than 4,000 arrests in St. Paul. Details: https://pewrsr.ch/2EbOL0m • U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions has ordered immigration judges not to grant asylum to victims of domestic and gang violence. Source: Los Angeles Times, 6/11/18 • While cities like Minneapolis and St. Paul have declared themselves sanctuaries, counties and sheriff’s departments like Hennepin County do turn over undocumented immigrants to federal immigration authorities. Source: Star Tribune, 7/9/17 • Immigrant pregnant women will no longer be released automatically on bond. Source: The Washington Post, 3/29/18 • Companies and local governments have proposed building immigration detention centers in the Midwest, responding to a request from Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials. The proposals, most by for-profit corrections contractors, were submitted to ICE after it put out a request in October for detention sites that included St. Paul. The proposals, all preliminary, include one to build a 640-bed detention center in Pine Island, Minnesota, near Rochester. Details: https://bit.ly/2l1lLAB
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Why Green Spaces Are White WHITING SARAH PHOTO submitted by Jessica Ostrov
“In a racist society, it is not enough to be non-racist. We must be anti-racist.” — Angela Davis Jessica Ostrov is an educator and advocate for equity in green spaces. She is a certified Racial Justice Facilitator through the Minneapolis YWCA .
rowing up in Duluth, patches of population is currently non-white and/ wild spaces. However, men that Teddy wilderness were around every or Hispanic, only 3 percent of park Roosevelt appointed to high offices in Gcorner. As a white woman, visitors” are people of color. the park system, such as Madison Grant I had unlimited access to safe, green This is not due to the simple-minded and Gifford Pinchot, were also leaders spaces. I grew up exploring nature in idea that white people are the only of the eugenics movement that sought my neighborhood, going camping, and ones who enjoy being in nature. Just as controlled reproduction to “improve” attending summer camps. I never had housing practices resulted in segregated the genetic quality of humans. White to wonder whether I would be with cities, our parks also have been impacted supremacy permeated their work in people who looked like me, if the social by discriminatory history. creating America’s green spaces. expectations, songs, food, or languages A 2017 Washington Post article, Chinese laborers were exploited spoken would reflect my culture. “Making national parks more expensive to build the parks, and subsequently Automatic belonging is a privilege. will only make them whiter,” described banned from using them. Native This is one reason I teach a course at a book revealing that early 20th century Americans were displaced from the Hamline University called “Equity and park administrators discouraged visits land they had inhabited for generations. Inclusion in Environmental Education.” by African Americans, describing them Even the beloved John Muir, founder It is designed for educators, but also as “conspicuous” and “objected to by of the Sierra Club, used racist language for those interested in unraveling the other visitors.” to attract people to these spaces. He complicated history and contemporary Equally as simple-minded is to described the “lazy Sambos” of the barriers that perpetuate the divide believe that the statistics are due entirely Southwest, and assured potential between people of color and the benefits to the cost of outdoor recreation. People visitors that the “savage Natives” were of the outdoors. of color, at all income levels, are not either dead or moved out of the way and getting outside at the same rate as white wouldn’t impair one’s visit to the parks. The Data park users. This elitist mentality was occurring on Most wilderness visitors and park a city level as well. Central Park in New users are white. A 2013 Minnesota The Backstory York City is one example. Previously Department of Natural Resources report Many of us learned about the giants known as Seneca Village, this area indicated that, “State Park visitation of environmentalism — white men who consisted mostly of poor immigrants — like participation in nature-based came up with “America’s Best Idea,” our and African Americans. The village was recreation generally — is concentrated National Parks. Their purpose was to cleared and destroyed so that upper in the non-Hispanic white population. halt the out-of-control consumption class residents could use the space to While some 17 percent of the Minnesota of our natural resources and preserve stroll and rejuvenate.
20 Minnesota Women’s Press womenspress.com July 2018 Along with city parks, wilderness A “Mapping Prejudice” project, resorts and camps were created as a involving scholars and students respite for elite white citizens to escape at Augsburg College and the the city that was being changed by University of Minnesota, found TAKE ACTION immigration. more than 5,000 property deeds Jessica Ostrov suggests how we In the Jim Crow era, lynching and can become agents of change to alter other unthinkable crimes were the in Minneapolis alone that had racially restrictive language. the narrative, and to help outdoor reality for African Americans. Going spaces become more inclusive. into the woods or driving down the In short, non-whites were not wrong street could result in beatings allowed to live near parklands. • Awareness is the first step. Learn or death. The “Negro Motorist Green all you can. Teach others what you Book” was an annual guidebook from A summary of the research, published are learning about the barriers that 1936 to 1966, created by Victor Hugo online by “Open Rivers,” reported this: underrepresented communities Green, to let African Americans know “Neighborhoods fronting parklands face when getting outdoors. where it was safe to travel. exhibit the highest concentration of • Do what you can to dismantle These historical truths do not covenants we have found thus far. While the systems that have been created negate the accomplishments of the Minneapolis parks were never explicitly for the benefit of the dominant conservationist movement, which put segregated, the sheer number of racial group at the expense of others. protections in place for our wild spaces. covenants surrounding them indicates • Be a trusted individual. If you But as with so much of our history, that access was anything but equal.” are already comfortable in nature, we tend to hear only one story. Every Most people who prioritize outdoor invite someone who isn’t, and start culture began with a relationship with recreation as a contributor to their new threads of word-of-mouth. nature that permeated their everyday family’s health and happiness grew up • Encourage parks to share the life. People lived off and with the land influenced greatly by nature in their stories of the non-dominant group, until the interventions of colonization, childhood. People of color, on the other even if it’s painful. Fort Snelling slavery, displacement, and segregation. hand, continue to be disconnected from State Park, for example, exhibits Recognition of history is our only green spaces because of the long history the history of the Indigenous, hope to truly heal and move forward. of barriers and displacement. African and white experiences. • Ask retailers, camps, and Green Spaces Today wilderness groups to seek talent of Compounding the effects of a Resources color. Encourage them to mentor racialized history are the current factors • Jessica Ostrov is giving a talk about this topic someone who shows interest. informing the experience of many at Midwest Mountaineering in Minneapolis on • Use your own influence in July 10, 6:30-8pm. She manages the Facebook people of color. Awareness is often Group: Equity and Inclusion in Green Spaces. outdoor fields to encourage reported as the first barrier, along with • Article: “Playground of the People? change. Swimming, skating, obstacles such as transportation, time, Mapping Racial Covenants in Twentieth- biking, golf, running, tennis, and money. century Minneapolis,” by Kirsten Delegard hockey, conservation, skiing, and Feeling unsafe is reported, because of and Kevin Ehrman-Solberg. tinyurl.com/ nature writing are overwhelmingly unfamiliarity with wilderness, but also y84ycyy8 white fields. the racial profiling that occurs in parks • Book: “Black Faces, White Spaces: • Support organizations doing this Reimagining the Relationship of African and campgrounds. Being the only one Americans to the Great Outdoors” work, such as Outdoor Afro of MN that looks like you, as a participant, • Book: “The Adventure Gap: Changing the and Major Taylor Bicycle Club. but also in the staffing and marketing Face of the Outdoors” of green spaces and outdoor retailers, • Study: “Regional Park Use Among Select creates a void in feeling welcome. Communities of Color: A Qualitative Systemic issues in city planning Investigation,” Metropolitan Council, 2014 contribute. (metrocouncil.org/Parks/Publications- Resources-NEW.aspx)
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24 Minnesota Women’s Press womenspress.com July 2018 BookShelf
Where the Wild Things Are
hree new books by Minnesotans convey a sense of place. Two friends took ten years together to seek the state’s sometimes elusive wildflowers. Linda LeGarde TGlover, winner of the 2018 Minnesota Book Award, captures the ways that place is more than physical space. She reflects on what connects us, as well as the historical attempt to inflict brokenness. Journalist Maya Rao reports on the innate brokenness of a changed oil field landscape.
Excerpts from “Searching for Minnesota's Native Wildflowers”
by author Phyllis Root & photographer Kelly Povo POVO KELLY PPHOTO
Once, prairie grasses and flowers bloomed for hundreds of miles in the western part of what we now call Minnesota. Once, tiny orchids grew among the roots of giant old pines, and fleeting blossoms sheltered in the shade of great maple and oak forests. These flowers that grew here for hundreds of years, though harder to find now, are still there. Together we spent ten years searching for native wildflowers, exploring Minnesota’s woods, prairies, hillsides, lakes, and bogs for wildflowers, taking pictures and notes, gathering clues, mapping the way for fellow flower hunters.
Big Woods Flowers that grow in the Big Woods bloom early and quickly. They have only a few fleeting weeks to soak up sunshine before the leaf canopy of the trees gobbles up the sun and shades the ground. Although some people use the term 'ephemeral' for any early-blooming forest wildflower, true ephemerals vanish completely, leaves and all. At least nine flowers in Minnesota are considered true ephemerals: snow trillium, bloodroot, cutleaf toothwort, Dutchman's breeches, eastern false rue-anemone, dwarf trout lily, white trout lily, yellow trout lily, and The stalks of Prairie Smoke are very hairy. Virginia spring beauty. Bees that pollinate these flowers do so by buzz pollination — vibrating their bodies to shake the It has taken us years to see all of the ephemerals. We've waded a river to pollen out of the flower. see dwarf trout lilies, which grow in only a few places in the whole world, all of them here in Minnesota. We've clung to snow-covered hillsides where snow trillium bloom. We've hiked down dry riverbeds to stumble We head north along Lake Superior, upon tiny pink blossoms of dainty Virginia spring beauty. intent on finding the elusive butterworth, a tiny arctic relict that Phyllis Root is a writer, Kelly Povo is a photographer, and they love searching for, learning about, and finding Minnesota's native flowers. grows in the cracks of rocks along the North Shore and is one of Minnesota's four kinds of insect-eating plants.
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Excerpts from “Onigamiising: Seasons of an Ojibwe Year” by Linda LeGarde Glover
nigamiising is the Ojibwe name for Duluth. In Ojibwe language, vowels and consonants don't sound exactly the same as they do in English, but a COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY O fairly close pronunciation might be “AH nih gum AY sing.” I was born in Onigamiising, “the place of the small portage,” as were my parents, my brothers and sisters, my children, grandchildren, and many of my relatives by blood and endearment. My grandparents came here to Onigamiising from two different reservations, Fond du Lac and Bois Forte, more than a century ago. Today most of our large extended family lives here; the rest still call it home. What is it about this place, this Onigamiising? Why do we live here? Duluth is beautiful: stunningly, breath-takingly, sometimes even achingly; but a lifelong love requires more than a physical attraction. Linda LeGarde Glover is professor of American Indian studies at the University of Minnesota — Duluth, and a member of the Bois Forte Band of Ojibwe.
indigenous people who are long gone lifestyle based on seasonal sustenance: Our love of this place is more but whose spirits remain. spring maple sugaring camps, summer than the steepness of the hills Surely we sense this; surely we know fishing, cultivation and gathering, fall with their startling assertions that the essence of those spirits is a wild rice harvest camps, winter hunting, of rock, more than the big lake presence more real than the tangible and trapping camps. in our lives every day in this beautiful During the warmer seasons, families that changes color and surface place. prepared and saved for the cold winter under the skies of the seasons, To be a mindemoye nokomis in months, and everyone in the family more even than that spectacular Duluth is to remember that one day it had a job and role in the process. Every variety of the four seasons, that will be the same for us: where we walk, person was created with a job to do, number four so meaningful others will follow after we are no longer everyone was born with the ability in the pattern and rhythm of here. What we live today we will leave to contribute to the group and the timeless Ojibwe tradition. to those who will continue our Ojibwe obligation to do so. ways here in Onigamiising, the place of In extended Ojibwe families, the small portage. education began very early in life, A sense of place intertwines time, accomplished by way of the oral space, and purpose as well as reason for e e e e e tradition as well as experiential being. learning: children learned from their This place of the small portage was How did a sense of loss of land and elders the satisfaction of helping family home to Ojibwe people who lived and relocation to reservation lands affect and community walked here before Onigamiising was family life? Before reservations, Ojibwe Here in Onigamiising, and in the Duluth. Even longer ago than that, extended families lived on a land base entire Arrowhead region, this lifestyle before the Great Ojibwe Migration that was large enough to support a changed greatly after the 1854 Treaty, from the East, it was home to other
26 Minnesota Women’s Press womenspress.com July 2018 which established the reservations of Bois Forte, Grand Portage, and Fond du Lac. The effect on the traditional lifestyle was immediate and severe. The government attempted to alleviate this with food supplies that held off starvation, but created physical difficulties such as malnutrition and digestive problems for a people not used to flour, sugar, and dairy products. Physically confined and growing less healthy every day, families and communities struggled to survive. To thrive, or even to maintain, was nearly impossible. The Treaty era ended in 1871 and was followed by the Indian boarding school era, which lasted from 1879 to 1934. During that time Indian children were removed from their families and sent away for formal schooling that was based If it’s important to you on a federal policy of assimilation. I believe that this policy it’s important to us. had devastating and far-reaching effects on American Indian families that continue today. For several generations of American Indian families, the loss and absence of children became the norm. Extended family relationships were injured and broken, some permanently. The time-honored ways of teaching and learning were interrupted, for some families never to be continued. The privilege and blessing of raising children were cruelly denied, which hurt tribes and communities far beyond the family unit. The heart's blood of a nation is its families, and the future of a nation is its children. In the years since the Indian boarding school era, and the policies and programs of the Termination era that followed, we have endeavored to retain some of what we lost and to maintain what we have. We remember what our grandparents and all who came before us endured, and we try to live the good lives they would want us to, honoring what is important, Bimaddiziiwin, which is the living of a good life.
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Digging Into the Culture of the Bakken Oil Fields by Maya Rao
s a woman in the North Dakota producer struck me as one of the most oil field, it was a struggle to important stories of the 21st century. Afind housing. One landlord Oftentimes I even forgot about dismissed my inquiries about living in gender, until men like the landlord a house with several other men, even reminded me of how much it structured PHOTO COURTESY though I would have had my own room. people’s lives in the oil field. Particularly “We’ve got to be careful now,” he said. in housing, gender segregation was “We don’t want to discriminate, but we de rigueur, and many people believed can’t put anyone in a compromising in the old idea that men civilized the situation.” frontier and women followed. Amid the largest oil rush in modern It was too expensive to live alone. I U.S. history, the Bakken was also one of finally found a Craigslist ad promoting America’s most patriarchal societies: an a house of about six women and rented unabashedly male space where women a basement room there for $600 a Maya Rao is the author of “Great American were guests. month. The landlord, a native of Ohio, Outpost: Dreamers, Mavericks and the Making of But I’d set out from Minneapolis in told us that guests were prohibited. an Oil Frontier.” She is a D.C. correspondent for steel-toe boots because I was a longtime Somebody’s oil worker boyfriend might the Minneapolis Star Tribune. journalist working on a book of creative trash the place; indeed, the last round of nonfiction about the oil rush — and how roughneck tenants already had. North Dakota had become a microcosm So there we made our home, near “At one time, men in the of breakneck capitalism — and wasn’t the Walmart in Williston and a small Bakken were famous for intimidated about being a woman in truck stop, falling asleep to the sound of propositioning women in what was here, quite literally, a man’s diesel pickups snarling down the main front of their own husbands.” world. The story of how North Dakota thoroughfare a few dozen feet away. became the state’s second-largest oil
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only had one housemate at a time spoke to some people over the phone Fargo, where they arranged for her to on the bottom floor, and those came about working as an Applebee’s waitress work at a pasta plant for $12 an hour. I and went. One afternoon I saw a or a housekeeper. Barbara saved up enough in a month young woman sitting at the picnic table Barbara negotiated with her boyfriend to fix the car, fill up the tank, and get in our backyard. She lived on the top to find her an old vehicle, manipulating the proper insurance and registration. floor, where I hadn’t met anyone so far him with assurances that he could later She drove across Interstate 94 to the because they entered the house through meet her out there for work. She sold southeast oil town of Dickinson and a separate door. She told me she had her jewelry at the pawn shop and her slept in the Walmart parking lot with a dropped out of college in Michigan food stamps on the street for a discount heated blanket. A man there offered to and come out with her boyfriend. But let her sleep in his hotel room, but then unlike many of the 21 year-old women began hassling her for sexual favors. who came to the oil field, she hadn’t When she refused, he told her he had taken a job as a cashier or waitress. She money — a line common among newly wanted to pay off her $20,000 in student flush oil workers. loans, and had taken up a job checking “They can be the ugliest thing out oil tank levels for a company owned by here, but [men say] me man, you ExxonMobil. woman, me have man money and you’re As the pumper and I chatted, a new just supposed to bow down!” a female stranger walked by with a load of boxes. friend once complained. This had I was startled when she told us she was calmed down by the time I was doing moving into the room next to mine; I most of my reporting there, but at one hadn’t realized the last roommate left. time, men in the Bakken were famous Barbara, as she later introduced for propositioning women in front of herself, had the most inspiring story their own husbands. of anyone I met in Williston. Back in Barbara reached in her pocket for the New England, her boyfriend bought a fifteen cents she had left. “I got money, conversion van for them to live in while too. And I have self-respect and pride he dealt crack. and dignity.” “He’d done ten years in federal,” She started making $1,500 a week she said, as we got acquainted at the working at a company that cleaned picnic table. When she tried to escape, trailers on drilling rigs. Being a cleaning he threatened to cut her neck with a in cash. Barbara departed at sunrise, woman in the Bakken didn’t have the butcher knife. He moved them into singing to Katy Perry and running the low-class stigma it had in other places. an apartment infested with bedbugs string of tolls from Ohio to Illinois. The oil field was a filthy place, and and gang members. Barbara's sunny By the time she reached Fargo, still everyone made enough money to pay demeanor briefly receded as she sighed, six hours east of the oilfield, her car other people a grand sum to clean up covering the top of her coffee cup with broke down. A man at a truck stop there their messes. her hand, nails painted hot pink. warned here against going to the Bakken, Barbara escaped several times to saying the men were dangerous. But she Excerpts for all three books in this the abused women’s shelter, where she had just escaped a boyfriend who was a BookShelf reprinted by permission of the logged onto the computer to look for violent criminal — could oil-field men University of Minnesota Press. All rights a job. She read about the explosion of be any worse? reserved by authors. high-paying jobs in North Dakota and She went to a woman’s shelter in
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COURTESY PHOTO COURTESY Outward Bound for Girls: 1965 submitted by Maxine Davis
n 1965, in northern Minnesota, 24 get dirty and wet. But we could also Bound,” which consists of photographs, teenage girls had an experience that clean up and dry out. We paddled white video, and interviews with many Ichanged their lives. For 30 days, water. We climbed rocks and ropes and members of that 1965 group of girls, who they lived in the wilderness. plunged into cold water. In training, we are now women in their 60s and 70s. I At the time, girls were considered to gained the physical strength and mental wanted to take the rare opportunity to be “soft, pampered creatures,” as one tenacity to travel safely in brigades show how a group of girls, who early on observer put it. through the wilderness for 16 days. learned to value grit, took those lessons One of those 24 girls in the Minnesota We came to Outward Bound with into their lives as women. class of 1965 was me. Were we soft different backgrounds, abilities, and So many girls and women continue creatures? Or, as girls, had we just not weaknesses. When we left, many of us to feel judged for everything, from their been allowed the chance to find out took something with us that we didn't looks to their grades. Trees, water, and what we were? realize we'd found – what I call “grit.” rocks don't care what you look like. Many of us by then had watched Miss They don't judge. When a girl fords a America walk her runway with tiara All Over the Wall brook, climbs a rock-face, or sits quietly and tears. We wouldn't see the likes of More than 50 years have passed since listening to the wind, she can be herself. Venus Williams or Hillary Clinton for then. Today I think American girls need How girls and women change when years. We each had different reasons grit more than ever. What is “grit?” I they spend time in nature is difficult for signing on, but none of us knew how define it as perseverance, cooperation, to explain. My intent with “Women those weeks would change our lives. We risk-taking, dreaming big. Outward Bound” is to show it. boarded a bus in Duluth that took us to How do we develop those qualities the edge of a wilderness backcountry in girls? Whether a girl wears shorts, a that covered 2.2 million acres of lakes, hijab, or a sari, when today’s girls take RESOURCES rivers, granite outcroppings, bogs, leadership roles as women, our world womenoutwardbound.com — The film has rivers, and waterfalls. won several awards in festivals. In March will be better for it. 2018, it was broadcast on 270 PBS stations. Under the leadership of director Jean As a filmmaker, I directed the Replinger, we quickly learned that we’d There will be a July 22 screening at North documentary “Women Outward Face, Lake & Hennepin, Minneapolis.
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“Outward Bound has taught me that accomplishment is the best when you use your strengths to help someone else rather than to get to the top first.”
he Outward Bound program What Replinger learned from that married, having been a teacher, and launched in Great Britain in first group was “how much I loved having been a canoe trip leader into the T1941. Its mission was to give sharing these experiences. How much I Boundary Waters Canoe Area,” says Cox. young men the ability to survive an loved seeing young women finding their “As a young adult, I had been a seeker of intense experience facing natural own strengths, and overcoming fears opportunities beyond the ordinary. This challenges, by building a sense of self- and supposed limitations. How much was before Title IX, but I was motivated confidence and an awareness of human I loved seeing them find and own the and chose to play basketball, volleyball, interdependence. The first U.S. school power of cooperation — strengths they softball, and field hockey.” opened in Colorado in 1962. could use in tough times throughout Cox says it required patience to help Jean Replinger, director of the first their lives.” move students through new experiences. group for girls, was awarded a “Women Instructor Lynn Cox was one of the “It also was a joy to see the girls learn Who Dared” award in June. She was four instructors. “Although I was only to respect and appreciate the natural picked for the job after suggesting to seven years older than most of those rhythm and inner peace of being in the someone who led a program for men students, I was a college graduate and wind and weather, experiencing those that “there should be such sunrises and sunsets.” an opportunity for girls, Since then, Cox has and I would like to direct it.” provided opportunities for When that first group of her children and grand-
24 young women arrived, PHOTO COURTESY children to build character “there was a full range, in wilderness challenges, from eager anticipation to as well as experience the anxiety and nervousness,” peace of canoe trails. “Not Replinger recalls. “They every young person can came with such differing go to an Outward Bound expectations, for a wide course,” Cox says, “so I range of reasons.” ask the question, 'How do Some of them signed we keep the flame alive? up because of their own How do we connect our interest. Others were sent wisdom gained from by caregivers. such an experience to a Outward Bound class of 1965. Maxine Davis is near the center, wearing sunglasses. younger generation?’”
Women, Outward Bound excerpted poem by Devvie Cersine In the exhilaration of natural wonders, absorbed in our own survival goals, we come through the fog, We find vistas of peace and oneness with each other, comfort, and acceptance. From experiences that explode in exhaustion, conflict, fear, and frustrations; Truths and certainties are planted within, some hidden, some emerging. We will carry these truths about others, about us, and the world. They will guide us, hold us up in impossible trials, in grief and losses, and Encourage us to endure our lives; they are now imbedded, intertwined in the real: us.
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This Is My [ Space ] by Shannon Drury
ot long after I met my husband, a former member of a local rock band, I asked him to teach me to play the drums. I wanted to learn since I was a kid, Nbut when asked what instrument I wanted for fourth grade band, I whispered “clarinet.” That’s what girls in 1981 said when the question was posed.
That rock music was a male-only space was a in the middle. given. The only women allowed were singers like Then I thought: but it would be a lot of fun. Debbie Harry, who appeared on the cover of my Then I thought: nope, way too scary. I can’t. beloved Best of Blondie record with her boyfriend’s Then I thought: uh oh, if this triggers all of my hand on her ass. Girls had to be submissive and fears, I probably need to do it. feminine; girls couldn’t rock! They couldn’t play I registered with a bass, an instrument I picked up instruments or write songs, whole songs, not just to form a garage rock combo with Miriam on drums the love-obsessed lyrics to boy-written melodies. and my husband on guitar. I entered the retreat with Along came “We Got the Beat,” a song written as acute a case of impostor syndrome as I’ve ever by a woman, performed by women, with lyrics felt in my life. To their great credit, attacking this celebrating music, not romance! The Go-Go’s had disorder was as important to She Rockers as proper the beat, and I wanted it too. tuning. Saying “I’m sorry” was banned—we said “I Why didn’t I toss the clarinet away and demand rock” when mistakes occurred. to rock? I still knew I didn’t belong: popular music Still nothing prepared me like the pep talk given was, and still is, a male-dominated space. Want by Lisa Van Ahn, a motivational coach brought in by proof? No other all-woman group that writes its the She Rock team. “This is my space,” she taught us own songs and plays its own instruments has had to say. “I belong here.” Those seven words captivated a million-selling album since Beauty and the Beat my imagination. How often to women believe the 30 years ago. opposite? Whether in music, politics, business, or I was already in my late 20s when Matt taught me even on a city street after dark? what drum skills he could. Though I enjoyed it, I I won’t be a member of the band that matches the didn’t keep it up. I was busy with a new baby: my Go-Go’s 1982 achievement, but music can produce space was on a couch with a nursing pillow. magic in other, subtler ways. Like when I stepped When she grew older, my daughter gravitated to onstage at a downtown bar at the conclusion of the the drum kit, even without my prodding. I sent her retreat. There I was, with a bass guitar, not a baby, to lessons and summer rock camps for girls, wishing strapped to my body. I was terrified. I thought I’d that the latter existed when I was young. throw up. To my surprise, I realized that one camp sponsor, Then I thought: this is my space. She Rock She Rock, actually held a three-day Then I thought: I belong here. Women's Rock & Roll Retreat where women- And I rocked. identified people learned instrument basics, formed bands and wrote songs. Faced with the opportunity Shannon Drury is a self-described radical housewife. She I craved, I thought: this is it! I have to sign up! lives in Minneapolis. Then I thought: No way! I’m gray-haired and soft
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