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11 OCTOBER 1990 !-~-··-··-· "New voices, now songs, new personalities keep surfacing in this music world, Keep an eye on Hunter! I . - Holly Near "She'll lift your spirits and warm your heart and still make you think." I - Terry Garthwaite i ! "Hunter Davis will astound you. Her voice can be champagne one moment and hot buttered rum the next - an all-purpose instrument equipped to conjure, comfort and seduce. I think she's destined for greatness." -Armistead Maupin Her lyrics snap, crackle and pop. What fun!" - Rita Mae Brown "Davis can go from bluesy helter to country crooner, to instrospective folkster . .. Davis is definitely someone worth following . .. She touches on personal matters with a good combination of humor and passion." - Larry Kelp (Oakland Tribune) HUNTER DAVIS IN CONCERT DON'T MISS THIS CONCERT optimism and a passion for life. variety of musical style and emotion and SATURDAY, OCT. 27th, 8:00 P.M. Initiating her musical career at age 5, features a duet with powerful vocalist Cris CITY ARTS CENTER Hunter first began to play the blues on a Williamson. 3000 General Pershing Blvd. plastic toy banjo. Unable to play anybody As part of the vanguard of southern else's music, Hunter started writing her musicians who are breaking down tra­ Hunter Davis is coming to Oklahoma own and there was no stopping her. She ditional barriers, Hunter brings to her City. A well-known singer/songwriter, learned to play the ukulele and picked up performances and songwriting the sim­ she has performed with such folk as Holly the guitar while in high school, practicing plicity and directness that comprises much Near, Cris Williamson, Ferron, Harry on a borrowed classical Yamaha in an of her North Carolina heritage. Influenced Chapin, George Winston, Burton Cum­ empty gymnasium. Hunter continued play­ by artists such as James, Kate and Living­ mings, Mike Marshall, Daro! Anger, Terry ing, singing and writing through college ston Taylor, her music reflects the richness Garthwaite, Bonnie Hayes, Linda Tillery, where her first album was produced as a and diversity of the region. Teresa Trull, Barbara Higbie and Kate memorial to a close friend. After college, Constantly creating new material, Clinton. she traveled to Vail, Colorado, spending a: Hunter blends folk, rhythm and blues, and Hunter Davis doesn't just perform a set year playing in clubs. Hunter then returned a touch of jazz with expressive lyrics reflect­ of songs, she also shares the stories behind home to North Carolina where she re­ ing the joy and irony of the world around them. Hunter is a refreshingly versatile corded her second album and embarked her. Alive, honest and persuasive, she sings singer, songwriter and guitarist whose upon a full-time musical career. about the essential things of life: love, enthusiasm, warmth and mischievous wit Shortly after moving to the San Francisco friends, relationships. will captivate you - whether she is belting Bay area Hunter released her third album, Hunter is definitely a musician on the out a blues tune or softly crooning a love "Harmony." Rich with musical diversity move, touching audiences across the ballad. Audiences are delighted by and Hunter's strong versatile voice, "Har­ nation with her creativity and warmth, and Hunter's booming voice and her winning mony" features vocal additions from infectious, boundless enthusiasm weaving smile- two main ingredients cited in the Ferron, Terry Garthwaite, Holly Near, instant rapport with every listener. Hunter rave reviews consistently generated by her Linda Tillery and Teresa Trull. Davis turns the blues into cause for performances. From East Coast to West Currently making her home in San celebration! Coast, Hunter's powerful music, engaging Francisco, Hunter has recently added a For more information about concert audience rapport and direct easy manner fourth album "Torn," to her credits. and tickets, call Rhonda at 942-4748, have earned her a reputation as a dynamic "Torn,'' produced by Teresa Trull, brings Purchase tickets through Herland (2312 performer whose songs reflect humor, country, folk, and rock together for a N.W. 39th, OKC, 405-521-9696). • VOLUME 7 NUMBER IO • HERLAND SISTER RESOURCES • 23 12 N. W. 39th, OKC, OK 73112 • (405) 521 -9696 TREATMENT OF AMERICAN SERVICEWOMEN WOMEN'S ACTION IN THE MIDEAST INTOLERABLE AT INTERNATIONAL by Margaret Cox CONFERENCE In the Daily Oklahoman recently, there longer denied shore or town leave, or ON AIDS was a photograph of an American female access to restaurants, to appease the vicious GI currently stationed in the Mideast; this whim of bigoted locals. Why do we allow On June 19, the Women's Caucus of soldier had a scarf loosely draped around our women in the military to be debased? ACT-UP demonstrated outside the Sixth her head and neck, and the caption pro­ Why can't the leaders of our military and International Conference on AIDS to claimed "A member of the U.S. military our country see the seamlessness of equal­ focus attention on the exclusion of women protects her hair from the wind and blowing ity and justice? Why must there be a from AIDS treatment, research and health sands in Saudi Arabia. Saudi officials have separate and subsequent struggle for decent care. asked women members of the military to cover treatment and respect by each succeeding The demands of the demonstrators their heads while working so as not to offend oppressed class? Why aren't the mothers included: local traditions." So of course she was not and fathers of our servicewomen in the 1) National health care for all, espe­ protecting her hair from the wind and sand Mideast writing furious letters to the Presi­ cially women of color and economically (and seriously impairing her vision), she dent, Congress, their local newspapers? disenfranchised women; access to treat­ was bowing to restrictions imposed upon Where the outcry, the outrage? · ments, drug trials, etc. for all women who her. Our women soldiers in Saudi Arabia Probably, the outcry and outrage are need them. are not allowed to go into town alone; hiding in the same dark hole of indifference 2) Opportunistic infections particular when they do go, always accompanied by and despair as the outrage over domestic to women be added to the Center for male soliers, they must stand mute with violence and other violence against women; Disease Control's list of AIDS defining their heads bowed while the men transact with the outrage over the abandonment of illnesses and clinical trials that specifically business. They may not jog or wear shorts, women and children to poverty by their examine the effects of AIDS drugs on and at only one air base are they allowed to husbands and fathers; with the outcry women. use the gym, even then during limited against andrew dice clay and 2 iive crew, 3) That women have options and access hours and entering by the back door. and the more run of the mill but equally to trials and treatments. Reproductive Now, these women are suffering hard­ devastating daily sexism of "nice guys." It potential, sexual activity and pregnancy ship in the service of our country. They are is held back by the example of leaders who must not interfere with women's right to working in heat that daily hovers around do not actively work to correct the gender life-prolonging treatment. 120°; they have left their families, some­ imbalance on the Supreme Court; it is 4) That the medical establishment stop times small children, thousands of miles restrained by those who say the govern­ referring to "prostitution" as a mode of behind; and they are risking death, perhaps ment (male) has more right to make deci­ transmission of HIV. an unimaginably horrible death by poison sions about women's bodies than women 5) A seroprevalence study of HIV in gas. And despite this, our government is themselves. lesbians and bisexual women and research asking them to conform to customs which It is all seamless; all of a whole. The on woman-to-woman transmission of are based on female subserviency and shabby treatment by our own country of HIV. inferiority; customs based on believed our servicewomen in the Mideast is only 6) Recognition of chronic fatigue im­ female 'uncleanliness' and inconsequence. one further manifestation of a disease mune difficiency syndrome (CFIDS) and ThankGod, the Goddess, and Harry S. rampant in our society; but it is one which that funding be made available for research Truman, our black servicemen are no should not be tolerated. • of the causes and treatments for CFIDS. 7) Women be given services specific to their needs: drug treatment programs, access to health care, research on the interaction between AIDS drugs and street drugs that is recipient-controlled. • STARRING DONNAD SATURDAY, OCT 13, 1990 PUBLISHED BY: Herl;md Sister HERLAND 5:30 P.M. Resources, Inc. 2312 NW 39th, COVER: 1 PENNY Oklahoma City, OK 73112 NEWSLETTER COMMITTEE: Bring your pennies for the weigh-in, Margaret Cox, Deborah Fox, Pat hear great music, win great prizes. Most Reaves pennies wins 2 free retreats! Lots of other great prizes. BE THERE! Also . .. CIRCULATION: 750 GENERAL INFO: (405) 521-9696 (leave "JaU ~Sate! message) SUBSCRIPTIONS to the Her/and Voice 11,p, to 7 5% f'JUt are free upon request. 2 HSR OCTOBER 1990 NLC - GULF REGION ~x~------------ The National Lesbian Conference - The Black Gay and Lesbian Leadership Forum will hold the 1991 National Gay and Gulf Region organizers are planning a Lesbian Conference in Los Angeles, CA February 13 through 18, 1991. The Black Gay regional gathering in Eureka Springs, AR and Lesbian Leadership Forum is dedicated to empowering the Black gay and lesbian for November 2 - 4, 1990.
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