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On a personal coming up: cized victim-targeting jokes — on FX’s level, it is individuals in imminent dan- What We Wear is our focus in august “Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell” — ger accessing resources to safely get out and we’re asking: Have you ever had as “comedy having a misogyny prob- of an abusive situation. power clothing? A black suit? A red lem,” the response of his audience was It’s not about blaming the victim for cape? What’s your power story? to threaten to rape and kill her. “putting up with it” or “making poor Tell us about it. choices.” It is about changing the cul- Send up to 150 words to ture we live in where hearing these sto- [email protected] The lack of value of the heart, the lack of ries in the news is a regular occurrence. Deadline: July 10 respect for the heart. What allows people In this issue with a theme of “Women august advertising sections: on the go,” we share stories of women to rape a woman who is screaming, • Education & Lifelong Learning Guide of courage who step out with convic- • Women Going Places Guide “stop, stop, stop”? tion and action. • GoSeeDo Guide You’ll read an interview with Eve —Eve Ensler, author of “In the Body of the Deadline: July 10 Ensler about the relationship between World,” see interview on page 16 violence to Mother Earth, the violence Women mean business is we do to each other in and the violence september’s focus and we’re asking: Experts tell us that the riskiest time to her own body through cancer treat- What woman in business inspires for women in abusive relationships is ment. There’s Sharon Day’s walk along you? Why? Tell us about it. when a woman is breaking the pattern the Mississippi River from Lake Itasca Send up to 150 words to of control and making her own choices. to the Gulf of Mexico to bring attention [email protected] “She was just going to leave” are words to water pollution. Read about Ann Deadline: aug. 10 we have heard too often in Minnesota, Raiho and Natalie Warren’s adven- September advertising sections: followed by the rest of the story of how ture to be the first women to paddle• Elder a Guide the woman who was leaving her abuser canoe from the Twin Cities to Hudson • Grrrls Go Green Guide was murdered. Bay. In addition, MWP readers share • Spirituality Guide According to the Minnesota Coalition their thoughts about being fearless and • GoSeeDo Guide for Battered Women, at least 14 women what holds them back, and Erin Matson Deadline: aug. 10 in Minnesota died from domestic vio- gives suggestions about how to be an lence in 2012 and the count is 14 already activist and still have a life. Watch for our annual Women’s for 2013. Manya Johnson died from a Whatever your personal challenges Directory in the september issue! gunshot. Margorie Holland died from and desires, we hope you find courage,28 years of helping organizations and strangulation. Panhia Yang died from ideas and inspiration in these pages to businesses connect with the women’s stabbing. The list is too long. use your own voice and go places you audience in the Twin Cities. Laurie Olmon is tired. Tired of being dream. Advertising deadline: Aug. 1 an activist against domestic violence for the past 20 years. She writes in her and essay on page 12, “Stop the awareness of domestic violence and start to STOP Co-Publishers THE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE. We are already aware. It needs to stop — now.” She is calling for others to step up and carry on with this effort. Minnesota Women’s Press, July 2013 5 yourthouGhts yousaid Each month we ask our readers to respond to a question. For July we asked: Where would you go if you had no fear? Financial intent Thank you for such a Nightlife solo Grand adventures well-written and insightful If I really didn’t have to worry about I would dive into the depths of the article by Nicole Middendorf. where I could go, I would go out more ocean and explore the beautiful under- [LeaderVoice, MWP, Jan. at night — by myself. No more scram- water world. I would climb to the top 2013] I think her information bling to find a friend in order to go see of a mountain and camp overnight highlights the importance of a band or wanting to go to an author’s and watch the sun rise from way up women becoming more asser- reading or late museum night by high. I would explore the smallest crev- tive about their own finan- myself. Because I know with how our ices of caves, hike into the rain forest, cial well-being. I loved the society is structured now, the minute I and explore the outback and spend questions she offered and the get mugged or assaulted is the minute hours watching the animals. I would idea of creating a bucket list the blame will be laid on me for being parachute out of a plane. I would to actively follow. I’m going out so late in the first place; as if I were find my passion and then tofind make work mine right now! No asking for trouble. For doing something to feed my passion. I excuses! Write it down, and “... the blame will once, I’d like to go out would color my hair pink and purple then make it happen. without worry or fear and spend the summer at the beach. I Julie Gohman, be laid on me for and enjoy being out by would pack up my children and spend South Haven, Minn. myself at night as much a year in Europe. Without fear, I would being out so late in as I do during the day. give my heart and fall fast and hard, GotanoPinion? Nikki Everling, Eagan head over heels in love. the first place; like something in mWP? Monica L. Theis, Robbinsdale as if I were asking Hello, friend or disagree? If I had no fear, I Holy longing We want to hear from you. for trouble.” would knock on my I am almost shy about saying that I Write to editor@ childhood best friend’s AM afraid of visiting there, because I womenspress.com. —Nikki Everling door and ask her how have always been reluctant to visit the Include your name, she is. What stops me? Middle East. Yet, I want to know more address and phone Fear that I wouldn’t know what to about my Judeo-Christian roots. I want number for verification. say. Fear that I haven’t accomplished to experience the richness and splen- Letters are assumed to enough. Fear that she would slam the dor of a land that extracts such devo- be for publication and door in my face. What would need to tion from diverse peoples who offer the may be edited for length and clarity. change? I’m not sure. Maybe if I had ultimate sacrifice for their heritage and a steady job or a new haircut or an their families. We hear so often of the incredible icebreaker. But for now fear strife and the loss, but I would want to stops me from going to my childhood be fearless. 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Gee whiz, the hormone level created by nature “sets in place the possibility for these types of things to occur. So we’ve got to be very careful how we address it on our side. — Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss of Georgia”

I think all of us need to acknowledge that this “isn’t a gender issue. This is a violence issue. saxby chambliss — Republican Sen. Deb Fischer of Nebraska” deb Fischer Sens. Chambliss and Fischer, members of the Senate armed Services Committee, were quoted at a key hearing when the nation’s military brass came to Capitol Hill to testify about the epidemic of sexual assault in the ranks. Lawmakers are looking at several ways to deal with the problem. Source: Washington Post, Feminist.org

lose the lads’ mags campaign Activists and lawyers in the U.K. are threatening to sue to get explicit magazines such as Nuts and Zoo off supermarket shelves under the Equality Act of 2010, saying among other things that requiring staff to han- dle the so-called “lads’ mags” may amount to sexual harassment. Stores are supposed to put the issues on a top shelf; however, this is not always enforced. The U.K. magazines go beyond our Playboy and Maxim; for example, a quote from one of the magazines says: “I think girls are like plasticine, if you warm them up you can do anything you want with them.” Source: Ms. Magazine

afraid in afghanistan A recent Human Rights Watch report noted that the number of Afghan women jailed for fleeing so-called “moral crimes” had soared since 2011. These offenses include running away from home to escape abuse, beatings, underage marriage, stabbings and forced prostitution — even though running away is not a crime. Rape victims, meanwhile, are imprisoned for “forced adultery” because sex outside marriage is a crime in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, a landmark law that bans more than 20 forms of violence against women — enacted by presidential decree in 2009 but never ratified — was shelved by the Afghan -par liament indefinitely after conservative religious lawmakers blocked it over provisions such as enforcing a minimum age for marriage. Source: the Guardian Minnesota Women’s Press, July 2013 7

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river walkers at cahokia Monks Mound in illinois. Walking the water Indigenous women trek the length of the Mississippi to raise awareness of water pollution by Sharon Sander-Palmer A group of Native American women made their way down the roads of the central United States with a very big goal — to walk the length of the Mississippi River from the headwaters in Minnesota to its mouth at the Gulf of Mexico. The walkers and their supporters left Itasca tion. In 2011, Day took part in the Four Directions State Park on March 1 after a traditional Ojibwe Walk, also known as the Mother Earth Water water ceremony in which they collected a copper Walk. It was after that walk that she asked herself pail full of clear, fresh river water with the inten- what she could do next, and that was the begin- tion to carry it by hand 1,754 miles to where the ning of this 2013 journey. river empties into the gulf. On May 3, 64 days Poisoning the river later, at Fort Jackson, La., they poured the con- Day said the Mississippi, like all other rivers tents of the pail into the murky gulf waters, “giv- and waterways around the world, is facing peril ing the Mississippi River a drink of herself,” said due to pollution. “Everyone adds to the pollu- Sharon Day, Mississippi River Water Walk leader. tion,” she said, “and it is not the river poisoning Day is a member of the Ojibwe tribe and the river, we are doing it!” executive director of the Indigenous Peoples According to Day, the Mississippi is the sec- Task Force, an organization whose mission is to ond-most-polluted river in the United States. improve the health and education of indigenous Toxic chemicals from municipalities, agriculture people. She lives in St. Paul just a block from the river and has been involved in water issues in the and industry all accumulate as the water flows to the gulf, taking their toll on the health of the river. past. In 1998, for example, she helped to make The walk was intended to raise awareness Camp Coldwater Spring in the Fort Snelling area of what individuals can do to help change the sharon day a protected sacred site. health of the water in the Mississippi as well as In 2003, Day joined Josephine Mandamin, a other water resources in local communities. grandmother in her lodge, on her walk around Lake Superior to raise awareness of water pollu- Minnesota Women’s Press, July 2013 9 We are ordinary people who together achieved “an extraordinary goal: to pray for this beautiful Sage gift of rivers entrusted to all. Let us continue each Wisdom and every day to make an offering and clean up Debra Ryding Intuitive Reader & Healer —Sharon Day the Mississippi River. [email protected] ” 651-731-1681 “We want the walk to be a prayer,” said Day, adding that they are in ceremony while they carry the water. “Every step we take “We can only be what we will be praying for and thinking of the water,” she said. “The we give ourselves the water has given us life and now we will support the water.” power to be.” Carrying the pail Five members made up the core group. Besides Day, they included Ira Johnson, Beth Brent, Deon Kirby and Barb Baker- Larush, with Day and Johnson on the walk the entire time. lastBundled fall, theup youngsteragainst the was elements, at first they denied walked permission from sunrise by a to troopsunset leader in 10- “becauseto 15-minute [he] shifts, has boy depending parts,” even on conditions. though the They childtook turnsidentifies carrying as a thegirl. pail The in Girlrelay Scouts fashion. of Colorado blamed thisThe initial largest decision group onof walkersignorance was of 17 the on scouts’ Day 1 andpolicy. about The 20 on stateDay 64,scouts their said last. Bobby was welcome to join Girl Scouts. “If a childThe identifies trip brought as amany girl and challenges the child’s not family only inpresents the logistics, her as but aalso girl, in Girl the Scoutsmental, of physical Colorado and welcomes emotional her strains as a Girl that Scout,” a journey theyof this said. length puts on a person. now selling women's specific bikes. Some“It is neverprotested, quiet including out there,” a teenDay girlsaid. wearing “You never a Girl know Scout what sashis around in a YouTube the corner video and calling you need for ato cookie be aware boycott, of the but road.” even Still, www.thehubbikecoop.org moreshe added, people it around is “pretty the peaceful,country embraced too. There the is Colorado something Girl about Scouts’carrying decision the water, and praying vowed and to buy holding up ALL the eaglethe cookies feather this staff as you walk. When you haveselling a spiritual season. purpose, you can do it and become stronger at the end.”“I’ve decided to purchase as It is that purpose that drewmany communities boxes as myand modestindividuals along the way to come out to support them with lodging, food and company. “The support from peoplethem has tobeen the incredible,” local Facility Management Day said. “We are very grateful.” LGBTQ commu nity center,” said ‘Honor the water’ Mara Morken, a The group also stopped at many sacredlesbian places stay-at-home along the route and performed ceremonies that “simplymom acknowledgein Fargo, N.D. them,” Day said. The Effigy Mounds National Monument in Iowa, where they looked out over the valley and the confluence of the Mississippi and Wisconsin rivers, was one of the places Day said she felt most connected to their purpose. “We all need to do something every day to honor the water. We need to go to the water and create a relationship with it,” Day said. “Even just turning on the water faucet and thinking about where it comes from. It won’t matter how much money we have, Science Teaching & Student Services how much gold, how much oil. We can’t drink any of that, but it does matter how much [clean] water we have.” With the walk behind them, Day and other participants con- Take your career to a higher level. tinue to pray for the Mississippi, holding ceremonies every Sunday at 9 a.m. in communities along the river. Anyone can Available as a join at Hidden Falls Park in St. Paul, Day said. Co-ops:Co-ops:On the group’s Facebook page, Day sums up the feat: “We are Major • Minor • Certificate ordinary people who together achieved an extraordinary goal: cce.umn.edu/fm toDoingDoing pray for this beautiful businessbusiness gift of rivers entrusted to all. 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How a determined pair paddled their way to JOHANSON OF JENS AND BARBARA TESY COUR Hudson Bay — and into the record books

by Emily A. King Facing the unknown with bravery and determination is a common theme among adventure stories. But sometimes knowing what’s coming can be just as daunting.

In 2011, canoeists Ann Raiho and Natalie Warren paddled Upstream surprises 2,000 miles from Minneapolis to Hudson Bay along the route Undaunted, the two took off on the Minnesota River on June 2, described in Eric Sevareid’s 1935 book, “Canoeing with the paddling upstream on the swollen waterway. They arrived in Cree.” They were the first two women to accomplish this feat,York Factory on Hudson Bay on Aug. 25. Their 85-day journey and their trip was nominated for Canoe & Kayak magazine’s took them on the Minnesota, Red, Nelson and Hayes rivers, Lake Expedition of the Year in 2012. Winnipeg and other small waterways. Raiho, of Inver Grove Heights, and Warren, of Miami, Fla., Along the way they stopped to engage with the many river- met as teenagers on a 50-day summer canoe trip with YMCA side communities, including Cree communities. Camp Menogyn in 2007. They started that fall at St. Olaf College “We didn’t expect to meet people,” Warren said, but residents in Northfield, where they ended up in the same freshman dorm. were excited about their trip, sometimes even calling ahead to “Whether or not we liked each other, we were destined to be the next town to share the news. “People were amazed by us.” best friends,” Warren joked. Even more surprising was the outpouring of help and support The idea for the trip came in January 2011. Raiho had reread from these strangers. “People will take care of you. They’re more “Canoeing with the Cree” over winter break and told Warren, “I than willing to support you,” Warren said. think we should do this.” College graduation was drawing near, The women were shocked at how carelessly people treated the and Warren’s job search had been futile. The time seemed right, Minnesota River, however, from improper farming practices to so they began to make plans. people tossing trash off bridges, Warren said. Warren said she Other people became excited about their trip. Their canoe, gear hoped that highlighting the river’s beauty and recreational ben- and food were all sponsored. But there was some skepticism, efits on their blog would prompt people to elevate it beyond a Raiho and Warren said. Manitoba’s Lake Winnipeg, a 270-mile- dumping ground. long, shallow lake famous for giant waves, was way too difficult, Personal discoveries many people told them. (Even Sevareid and his partner didn’t paddle the whole thing.) The women learned about relationships on the journey, dis- covering how well their personalities complemented each other. Minnesota Women’s Press, July 2013 11

Warren is outgoing, creative and bold. Raiho is quieter, practical Attorneys at Law and organized. Both believe that kept them in balance and added meaning to their trip. n Estate & Financial Raiho said that had she traveled with another practical person, Planning n she might have missed out on “the extra stuff.” Warren pushed n Probates, her to take time to meet people and interact with communities Guardianships & along the way. They made all decisions together and divided up n work based on their skills. Only a few situations led to disputes. Conservatorships “It was very interesting to have to work with one other per- n Real Estate Law son,” Warren said. “To understand how you can contribute to n the group, what your flaws are and also what your strengths are. Corporate Law And learning to compromise is huge.” 1539 Grand, St. Paul The women also learned about themselves. For Raiho, pad- 651-698-7975 dling across Lake Winnipeg taught her she “wasn’t very invin- cible.” For Warren, the trip built confidence: “I realized my physical 29-5 May 2013 strength as a woman. I just realized how strong I am and how far I can push my body.” Continuing influence Though they’ve taken different paths since their journey, both see its influence on their lives today. • Estate & Financial Planning Raiho is working toward her master’s degree in ecology at • Colorado State University in Fort Collins. Her project involves • Real Estate Law • Corporate Law studying and modeling deer populations. She also continues to work as a guide for Camp Menogyn. Warren has started a nonprofit organization. Wild River Academy provides experiential learning opportunities to high school students, as well as adults and families, through canoe trips on the Minnesota River. “When you do something, it becomes a story you can tell and you always remember that,” Warren said. Imagine yourself living - Secure building - FOB access She hopes teens, especially, come away with a realization of here: - Plenty of parking - both under their own strength, a better understanding of communities along New, secure & conveniently ground & surface parking the river and the ability to have meaningful conversations. Being located on the corner of Lake available in a boat with one other person “forces people to talk about Street & 13th Avenue South in - Community room with full Minneapolis. kitchen things” beyond light chitchat, she said. - Fitness room She also is organizing Paddle for Change, a trip along the 46 brand new, beautiful, and affordable apartments right in the heart - Outdoor patio & green space entire length of the Mississippi River with a focus on climate of where you want to be. - Bike racks change and energy options in the U.S. The team of seven will - Quatrefoil - The Twin Cities launch from Lake Itasca in September. Who can live here? GLBT Library - Close to healthcare and other ‘Proved them wrong’ Spirit on Lake is open to all who income-qualiﬁy. Our vision is a services Both Raiho and Warren recognize the importance of their place where everyone is accepted - 100% NON-Smoking building expedition in the canoeing world. It’s a world mostly populated and GLBT elders have a home - Pets allowed - restrictions apply with older white men, Warren said. where they can feel welcome and secure. Want more info? “It’s been great to be a young female voice within that com- It’s important to get on our munity,” she said. What's affordable? interest list, as we anticipate these In the end, it was a triumph over the naysayers and their own While rents are high at most new apartments to lease FAST. fears. buildings, Spirit on Lake is the ex- Email Kathleen Tully at Premier “When we finished Lake Winnipeg, it was hard to forget that ception. We are priced to help you Housing Management to get on we were the first two women to paddle this route because it was save - income restrictions apply. our interest list: something that people told us we weren’t going to be able to do,” 1BR - $720/mo. 2BR - $870/mo ktully@ Raiho said. “Kinda proved them wrong, and it sort of made the What are the amenities? premierhousingmanagement.com story more complete.” - Centrally located in ﬂourishing Or call Kathleen Tully: FFI: hudsonbaybound.blogspot.com and wildriveracademy.com Midtown neighborhood 651-242-0179 - Convenient to Metro area by The profile appears in every issue of the Minnesota Women’s bus, bike, light rail Press. It reflects our founding principle and guiding philosophy that every woman has a story. Readers are welcome to submit suggestions for profile subjects. Email your ideas to editor@ For more information, call 651-815-0665 www.premierhousingmanagement.com womenspress.com. 12 Minnesota Women’s Press, July 2013 yourstory maryJo o’hara travel opens hearts and minds Several years ago, Hellen, a Maasai woman, welcomed me to her village at Maji Moto in Kenya. I was mesmerized by her story. She was circumcised and married off as a fifth wife at the age of 12. In her culture, girls are “sold,” and in exchange, the father gets a couple of cows. Hellen’s husband died and his wives were left discussing topics that you never thought about destitute. She was able to get an education and but that are critical in their cultures (for example, work at a government school. Her dream was to Hellen’s focus on issues of early marriage and create a safe haven for widows, to rescue girls and female genital mutilation). give them an education. Her school slogan: “Don’t At this point, you may have forgotten about exchange girls for cows.” traveling to typical tourist spots, as you want to Having a personal conversation with some- dig deeper and learn more. You’re thinking about one who is passionate about creating change for how these people have enriched your life and how I listened and women and girls is a moving experience. I listened you can support them. learned and found and learned and found myself in awe of how What we can take away is that women across Hellen was breaking barriers and leading change. the world have similar issues, and together, we myself in awe My work is my passion. I travel to developing can support each other and make a difference. of how Hellen countries in search of small, effective grass-roots I call this life-changing. organizations that are truly making a difference. Mary Jo O’Hara is travel director for was breaking Travel can be an awakening when it gives you GoPhilanthropic and lives in Eden Prairie. barriers and the opportunity to learn about others’ lives and www.GoPhilanthropic.org passions. Here you are, sitting by a fire talking leading change. about people’s lives and telling them about yours, yourstory laurieolmon a time to move on In 1991, I came home to Minnesota battered and broken from my first marriage. I carried with me my son, my life and a ruined dream. Now 20 years later, I am married again, to my time I had seen her face was 20 years ago, when first love, and our son is grown, engaged andwe were at the same domestic abuse shelter going building a home for himself and his love. through the same terror. We went through the same I have had an amazing life, with the help of counseling, the same guidance, the same love and friends and family, with the support of amazing hope. Yet here I stood over her, identifying her, and women and men, with the understanding of those some months later would receive her ashes in the around me. mail because no one claimed her. After almost 20 years of advocating for the I will still do my part, but I am done telling my rights of victims of domestic assault and domes- story. I am done being the advance party. I am done tic violence, I have decided to pass the torch on fighting the awareness of it all. It is time to move after almost 20 to someone else. I have forgiven/passed on/and on and have someone else tell their story, someone years of advocat- rubbed out all done against me. It is also time for else fight the fight. I am too tired, too trodden, too me to close these doors and open new ones that angry to fight anymore. ing for the rights don’t place angst upon my husband. 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Eve Ensler is the playwright of “The Vagina Monologues” and the founder of V-Day. Her work inspired “One Billion Rising,” the largest mass global action to end violence against women and girls, held on Feb. 14, 2013. She is no stranger to violence and sexual abuse, having grown up with that experience in her family, but when she first visited the Democratic Republic of Congo, she found sexual violence used as a weapon of war. It shattered her. Shortly afterward, her diagnosis of uterine cancer and treatment brought her to a new awareness of her body. Her most recent book, “In the Body of the World,” connects her own illness to the devastation of the earth and her life force to the resilience of humanity. Ensler spoke with the Women’s Press when she was in Minnesota in May. by Kathy Magnuson

Minnesota Women’s Press: What does joy. With the City of Joy, it was probably This was at the same time as the BP oil the title, “In the Body of the World” preposterous to think that we were going spill [in the Gulf of Mexico]. I suddenly mean to you? to build this city in the middle of a zone had no ability to distinguish what was Eve Ensler: Due to my father’s violence, of war — in a place where people have no going on inside me from what was going I felt exiled from my body for such a long food, no water, no electricity. And yet that on inside the earth. It felt like an infection time, and to some degree from the world, was the women’s dream, so we built it. from carelessness, from being cut open, from nature, from being connected in my These women are graduating as beautiful, from not heeding what nature tells us. heart and in my body to what was going fierce, passionate, loving, smart women There was no longer separation. The bags on around me. who are transforming their communities became such a metaphor. There it was. My When you come into your body, you and lifting up the people around them. shit was revealed. It was on the outside. It come into the world. You are connected. In one week there can be so much love was impossible to avoid my own messi- You are embodied. And I think the jour- coming at me and there is so much hor- ness, my own humanity. ney of cancer, in this oddly ironic way, rible suffering coming at me and we hold How we treat our bodies, how we are was the thing that brought me home. both of those things. While I was fighting diassociated from our bodies, dissociated for my life [with cancer], I was also fight- from ourselves, determines so much of There are many paradoxes in the ing off this desire to die. That was part of what we do in the world and allow to be book, like a place called City of Joy fighting for my life. done in our name and in our denial. in the midst of so much suffering in Because I feel more connected with my When you were wearing a colostomy the Congo. body now, I want to look much more deeply bag from your cancer surgery and We live in paradox. What we don’t want at what we are doing to the earth. Where a bag of pus as drainage from your we are drilling, what we are drilling, why to do is be in the heart of the paradox — infection, you compared those to the in the heart of suffering and the heart of we are drilling — fracking and cutting off earth. How is that? mountain tops. How we don’t see the earth Minnesota Women’s Press, July 2013 17 as this living organism just like our bod- of disassociation and compassion that years cancer free and I am alive. I have ies. Everything that was happening in has to operate for that to happen. That is no complaints. There is enormous grati- my body with the cancer reminded me a massive story throughout the planet. tude that rules my life. And also I am of the carelessness with which we treat It doesn’t matter where I go, I see this witnessing the horrors on this planet. the earth, treat life, treat bodies, treat our- same phenomenon. I am also witnessing amazing things. selves — the dishonoring. We saw a billion women rise up on the How do we hear more of that story, planet last year to stand up to say no to You told the stories of women being spread that story? violence. There were 5500 events this raped in the public square, of women We have to encourage women, par- year in 1800 places with women doing watching as their sons and husbands ticularly, to tell their stories, to trust the [“Vagina Monologues”] play and were marched away. You wrote of their stories — to write their stories, to telling their own stories. Women are needing to find the invisible underly- sing their stories, to dance their stories, standing up and changing story that connected everything. to write plays about their stories, to do ing laws and fighting FFi: What is that and did you find it? films about their stories. And to trust for their rights and eveensler.org their narrative. To trust the way they see There is a story of disconnectedness transforming things. the world. And to trust what they know. onebillionrising.org that runs through the planet, the lack At City of Joy, we’ve I think we know so much more than we of living in our bodies that allows us to had three graduating are trusting. I think we have knowledge continue living in a dis-compassionate classes. That’s hopeful-making. Does and empathies and intuitions that we way, that allows us to not feel the suffer- that mean things are good in the Congo? discount or we erase or we don’t listen ing of other people. 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We began by practicing and playing this song together and BRIGGS OF TAMI COURTESY then sending the music energetically to our harp community members who were going through challenging times or needed some special healing. The experience became so popular that our teacher, Christina Tourin, asked us to individually play this same song each Sunday afternoon at 5 o’clock (in our respective time zones) for anyone who needs healing. There are now more than 400 harpists from around the world who are IHTP graduates and who play “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” each Sunday at 5 p.m. I envision this ribbon of color and music connecting to each person who needs some extra tender loving care. The harp is one of the most vibratory instruments because of the large number of open strings; its resonance connects with the deepest places in the body that need to be healed. The harp therapy community is setting positive intentions that these vibrations will connect energetically with every person in need. This is a powerful healing practice. I speak to groups around the country about using music as a healing modality, and many times, I conclude by sharing this healing opportunity for individuals by playing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” One time a woman told me: “I am so touched that you — and many The harp therapy community is other harpists around the world — are offering this gift to me. I desper- ately need this and I’ll tell all my friends!” setting positive intentions that these You can tap into these healing vibrations every Sunday at 5 p.m., vibrations will connect energetically wherever you are. I am drawn to participate, to offer this brief moment of peace and calm — a much-needed respite in the world today. with every person in need. I will be playing on Sunday afternoon. Will you (or someone you — tami briggs know) be listening and receiving these special harp vibrations? Tami Briggs is a therapeutic harpist and president of Musical Reflections. She lives in Eden Prairie. www.MusicalReflections.com, www.WomenasHealers.com.

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tami excuse me, can i apologize? mohamed When I traveled as a single woman, going places, independently, I learned words BroWn and phrases that might help me to appear polite: Pardon. Mi scusi. Je suis désolée. Ana asfa. Excuse me. I’m sorry. These were words and phrases that I rarely I’ve been considering the whys and hows of — if ever — heard in passing or in casual con- the language that I choose to use and how versation in many of the places I traveled for I approach situations, the weight and effect things as simple as the barely noticed brush my words can carry. of the elbow on the crowded bus: Excuse me! I spent two days tracking my apologies. I’m sorry! Or for the niceties tacked on to the beginning of an exchange with a vendor: In just those two days, I discovered, I Excuse me. I would like to buy one apricot, please. apologized for a lot of things. For push- Or to interrupt someone’s leisurely stroll ing open a door too quickly and startling down the street: I’m sorry. Do you have the time? a woman pulling the door open from the Nevertheless, I learned and used these other side. For my cellphone dying in the words and phrases anyway. In part, as a very middle of a conversation with a friend. For simple way to attempt to speak and make not returning an email as timely as I thought I’m still a woman connections in a language not my own. In the receiver expected it. For forgetting to who attempts part, as well, as an overly conscious effort pick up milk on the way home. to be gracious, to avoid being mistaken for a badly behaved Much like my younger traveling self, I American abroad. realize, I’m still a woman who attempts to be always trying to But in part, I wonder whether I chose to gracious, always trying to keep things easy, keep things easy, learn these specific phrases because softer, forever trying to smooth things over. But less forceful and more apologetic entries into maybe I was undermining. There are many forever trying to conversation were somehow ingrained into times when “I’m sorry” isn’t self-deprecating smooth things my being as a young woman. I wonder if I or even truly an apology; it’s an unfortu - slid regularly into this way of speaking — nate automatic, which, with work, could be over. but maybe I in any language — as an attempt to excuse avoided. Sometimes it’s a graceful way of was undermining. myself for taking up time. To excuse myself keeping both speakers on equal footing — for taking up space. To apologize for thinking which isn’t a bad thing. that I might have something to say. Perhaps, I think, it might simply be worth Was I undermining myself with apologies? considering saving Excuse me and I’m sorry In more recent days and years, with a dif- for the times and events that actually call for ferent set of obligations and closer to home, them. Letting those words and their potential I don’t find myself thinking quite as literally power hold the impact and weight intended, about “going places.” Going places, now, regardless of where I am or where I’m going. equates to making some sort of advancement Tami Mohamed Brown lives in bloomington in any given area in which I might choose with her family. to apply myself. In quite the same way,

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convince our parents and be able to afford the plane a label on. A friend, a sister, a partner in crime, what- the value of tickets. We put ourselves to work immediately. ever you want to call it, it is one that we have lived After hundreds of emails back and forth, trips to and will continue to share with each other for the having support- the Chicago and Madrid embassies for last-min- rest of our lives. ive families and ute student visas and meetings with public school Rachel DuBois Nethercut and Claudia Lerma Casa friends on the coordinators, we made it happen. Claudia arrived will return to their first homes this summer. In the other side of the in Minneapolis in August and Rachel arrived in fall, Nethercut will be attending Wellesley College Valencia in September. in Massachusetts and Lerma Casa the university of world. Valencia in Spain.

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Girlfriends, diners, retro images ... or fine art? Photographer Kelly Povo struggled with the question: Do I want to be considered a fine artist or have fun? She chose fun.

by Norma Smith Olson From “Gladys on the Go” Kelly Povo “earned” her first camera at age 7 by collecting 500 Bazooka bubble-gum comics. “That was a lot of gum chewing,” she said of the opportunity advertised to win a prize. Little did she know that this first black-and-white camera would lead to a career in photography. “I was the person in the family always taking larger formats or a 2-1/4 Hasselblad for people pictures of everybody,” said Povo, who saved her shots. She still has a darkroom and she’s still hand own money to buy film. coloring. After graduating from Park High School in Self-employed as a photographer for more than Cottage Grove, Povo hit the road and traveled 30 years, Povo does have a digital camera that for six months across the southern United States, she uses for real estate or graduation photos, “but from east to west. She returned to Minneapolis to NOT on my ‘girls’ pictures!” she said. Kelly Povo take an 18-month course in studio photography The “girls” are a series of about 150 photo- at the School of Communication Arts, where she graphs with a retro or vintage feel. She collabo- IFYOUGO: learned the basics of camera work and the dark- rated with author Phyllis Root on several books, What: Kelly Povo room. including “Hot Flash Gal” and “Gladys on the will be participating After earning her degree, she landed her first Go.” The images feature hand-colored photo- in the 40th annual photographic job in the early 1980s at Rod Pierce graphs of Povo’s girlfriends dressed in retro Stockholm art Fair Photography, a Minneapolis studio specializing in clothes, sunglasses and hats, with vintage props advertising photography. and locations. The “girls” are also in a line of When: Saturday, “That’s where I learned how to hand color,” greeting cards. July 20, Povo said. At 20, she was the youngest person “My photographs look to the fun in life for 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. working in the studio and was “elected” to paint women, in spite of situations that we face … Where: Stockholm, the black-and-white prints carefully by hand with hot flashes, divorce, weight gain or loss, or even Wis. transparent oil paints. It’s a process she has con- household chores,” Povo said. “They are meant to FFI: www.stockholm tinued to work with throughout her career. be humorous and to inspire.” artfair.org Flash forward “Gladys on the Go” came out of divorces. Both Povo and Root wanted to do a book that talked Povo still prefers shooting black-and-white about “When you’re at your wit’s end, what can film. She uses a 4x5 Crown Graphic you camera count for on? How are you going to make it? Minnesota Women’s Press, July 2013 27 “For us,” Povo said, “that book was a way to say, ‘Hey, you’re going to make it; you’re going to go places; you just have to believe in yourself; you can do whatever you want to do. … And don’t forget your friends. Your friends are going to help you get there.’ ” “Gladys” — portrayed by friend Mary Johnson, whom Povo met in photography school — is the central figure in these book projects. “‘Gladys’ is such a good sport,” Povo said. “She’s willing to do whatever I ask.” In 2002, Povo returned to school, graduating with dual degrees in women’s studies and art history from St. Catherine University. She now works full-time at St. Kate’s as the alumnae relations chapter manager. Spiritual divide Povo has a more serious side, too. “I’m a Gemini, so I’ve got these two sides of me,” she said. She also has captured images in Europe, Mexico and Costa Rica for a series she calls “Sacred Spaces.” “For those pictures, I’m searching for something spiritual or mystical in nature,” she said. In her “When You Dream” series about children’s dreams — another collaboration with Root — Povo took photos of her daughter, Lucia, from ages 3 to 5. The theme, Povo said, is a mother “telling your child “the Portugal door” that whatever she can dream, she can do. And, that no matter what, a mother’s love will always be with her.” When you’re at your wit’s end, what can you “My entire photographic career has had that divide, doing the fun and girls images and then looking for count“ on? … For us, that book was a way to say, ‘Hey, the more spiritual aspects of nature,” Povo said. “I am a positive, upbeat person. I like to laugh. I believe we you’re going to make it; you’re going to go places; need a little more laughter in this lifetime.” you just have to believe in yourself. — Kelly Povo FFI: http://kellypovo.com ” Could she be your client? Deadline: YES, Aug. 1 if your advertising message is in The Minnesota Women’s Directory A business and resource guide Reach 88,000 metro-area women all year in print and online. Tap into our 28 years of experience of connecting businesses with women. Order form at฀http://tinyurl.com/4s395r฀•฀651-646-3968฀•฀[email protected] 28 Minnesota Women’s Press, July 2013

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Matson grew up in Edina, went to Her suggestions: Washington, D.C., for college, and came back Repeat out loud: taking care of myself and my and got herself elected at 23 years old as the needs is my first priority. youngest president of a state chapter of the “Martyring yourself for any cause, even a erin Matson National Organization for Women (NOW). good one, is gross. You are not in control and Four years ago she moved back to the D.C. you are unable to help advance any cause if “I believe that area to serve as action vice president for you run yourself into the ground.” national NOW. She recently changed jobs every time a and became an editor-at-large for RH Reality Say the magic word when you need to: No. woman tells her Check, a reproductive and sexual health and and don’t feel bad about saying it. justice online publication. “Just because someone asks you to do own story or tells Why has her life been one of volunteer and something cool doesn’t mean you have to say yes. For that matter, just because you said yes her truth, it is a professional activism? “It is fun for me. I love helping push along once doesn’t mean you have to say yes again.” radical act. practical change,” Matson said. “On a deeper Seek out volunteer opportunities that are level, in high school I nearly died of anorexia. defined-time events. Simply being In the process of getting better I swore to myself “For example, if you care about abor- truthful about your that I would do everything I could to try to tion rights and feel like you don’t have time stop other people from having to go through to serve on a board or tend a website, seek what I went through. I made a broader con- life as a woman out opportunities that are defined calendar nection that this is about society telling women is activism.” events, such as volunteering for a regular and girls to take up as little space as possible. phone shift with your local abortion fund This is really personal to me. or [doing] clinic escorting two Saturdays a “I realized fairly early on how easy it is to month.” make change if you are determined and you are willing to be a pain in the ass,” Matson said. For ongoing leadership posts, come up with Where do you see women your three priority questions. connecting and making “We have incredible power. Believing in our power is a source of so much strength as “I actually got out a marker and put a sheet change in your world? of paper on the wall where I would see it Send me your story: activists and as human beings.” Matson continued: “Especially for women whenever my phone rang: magnuson@ 1. Does this raise money? womenspress.com — and for women in Minnesota — there is a culture of downplaying ourselves and that is 2. Does this get new members? simply not true that we don’t have power.” 3. Does this raise the status of women and She believes that activism can take many girls in Minnesota? forms. If I couldn’t answer one of those three ques- “I believe that every time a woman tells her tions affirmatively, I wouldn’t give it more own story or tells her truth, it is a radical act,” than five minutes. Only you can define your she said. “Simply being truthful about your own questions, but they’re a great way to life as a woman is activism.” separate the essential work you signed up for Matson has advice for those who want from someone else’s urgent.” to get involved and not give up their lives, FFI: Read more of Matson’s thoughts on whether it is finding more time for family ormaking change on her blog: yourself, getting a promotion at work or sav- http://erintothemax.com ing the world. Minnesota Women’s Press, July 2013 43 Tell us about YOU. What’s your story? What are your passions, interests, worries and hopes? Where do you live, what do you do, what do you think?

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