Co-ZINE August 2017

Where do Watches Come From?

by Lillian Daniel

A Brief History of Co Dubuque

LGBT Rights Eclipse News ...and more!

N. Johnson’s Ultimate DairyFree Ice “Cream” Recipe

Phillip & Vee: Unemployment

Gay Creatives: Maurice Sendak

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Letter from the Editor

Dear Readers: I recently had a conversation with my mother about over-sharing. As I consider returning to school to finish my degree, I have been talking often with potential roommates. Sometimes, my mom heard my phone conversations with these strangers. She heard me tell them everything, from my political and spiritual beliefs to the sadness I felt at the end of a relationship I tried to nurture and failed. The more I think about it, the less I believe in over-sharing. The thing that makes all kinds of relationships flourish is communication, not privacy! If we can effectively communicate how we think and feel to others in a kind and respectful way, then we will naturally reap the rewards. In a time of isolation, it is more important than ever to engage with each other. So go out and strike up a meaningful conversation with someone today, and trust that things will unfold as they should. As always, you can reach me with questions and comments at contact.cozine@gmail.com.

Andrea Becker, editor in chief

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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A History of Co Dubuque 12

Phillip & Vee: Unemployment 18

Hiring & Firing: LGBT Rights 24

Total Solar Eclipse Briefs 28

ULTIMATE Ice “Cream” Recipe 32 Where do Watches Come From?

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Gay Creatives: Maurice Sendak 44 Zodiac 50

Events Calendar

Iowa Legal Aid

CRITICAL SERVICES FOR VULNERABLE IOWANS Iowa Legal Aid is the only statewide provider of free, civil legal assistance to lowincome Iowans. Iowa Legal Aid: 

Helps people with critical legal needs that affect safety, shelter, sustenance and health:  Protects victims of domestic violence;  Protects families from unsafe housing and illegal evictions;  Protects elderly Iowans from consumer fraud, elder abuse and financial exploitation; and  Secures health care, SSI and basic public benefits for low-income Iowans.

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Provides services in all 99 counties through 10 regional offices.

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Does not handle fee generating cases or criminal cases CLIENT DEMOGRAPHICS:  72% are women;  30% have a disability  24% are age 60 or older;  Over 16,100 children lived in the households served

2016 Closures by Case Type Family 29%

Housing 30%

Juv Empl Health 3% 3% 6%

Misc.

8% Income Maint.

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Consumer 12%

UNMET NEED FOR LEGAL ASSISTANCE: 

Over 499,000 Iowans (16.7%) have incomes below 125% of the federal poverty guidelines and are income eligible for Iowa Legal Aid’s services.

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Iowa Legal Aid closed approximately 16,350 cases in 2016, serving nearly 38,000 Iowans; this is almost 39% less than the number of cases closed in 2010. The decrease is the result of reduced staff (13 fewer attorneys and 6 fewer support staff), not reduced need.

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10,000 families are turned away or underserved annually due to lack of staff resources.

“Iowa Legal Aid is a very accomplished, productive, and organized program providing high quality effective and efficient legal services to its clients.”

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EVENTS

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Ames

Pflag Ames, Youth and Shelter Services Building Every Second Tuesday of the month at 7:00 PM 420 Kellogg Ave, Ames IA https://oneiowa.org/events/ pflagames@yahoo.com

Cedar Rapids

Every Saturday Night Drag Show, Belle’s Basix Satudays at 11PM 3916 1st Ave NE, Cedar Rapids, IA https://www.facebook.com/bellesbasix/ 319-363-3194

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Pflag Transformations, Grant Wood AEA July 13th and July 27, 6PM – 8PM 4401 6th Street SW, Cedar Rapids, IA http://www.pflagcr.com/events/ http://www.pflagcr.com/events/

Pflag, Grant Wood AEA July 13th, 7PM – 9PM 4401 6th Street SW, Cedar Rapids, IA http://www.pflagcr.com/events/”http:// www.pflagcr.com/events/

Des Moines LGBTQIA Sexual Assault Support Group 1st and 3rd Wednesdays, 2nd and 4th Mondays of the month at 7 PM 3030 Merle Hay Rd, Des Moines, IA https://oneiowa.org/events/ LGBTQ Grief Group, Hamilton’s 3rd Monday of every month at 6PM 3601 Westown Parkway 515-697-3666 https://oneiowa.org/events/ Des Moines Vet Center LGBTQ Support Group, Des Moines Vet Center 2nd Monday of every month 1821 22nd Streey #115 515-284-4929 https://oneiowa.org/events/ First Friday Breakfast Club, Hoyt Sherman Place 1st Friday of every month at 7 AM 1501 Woodland Ave, Des Moines, IA http://www.ffbciowa.org/

PFLAG, Unitarian Church Every 3rd Tuesday at 7 PM 1800 Bell Ave, Des Moines, IA huber_susan@msn.com https://oneiowa.org/events/ POCQAT, Monsoon Community Resource Center 1st Sundays, 12PM to 2PM 4952 Franklin Ave, Des Moines, IA pocqatrox@gmail.com sethbackham@muawi.org Transformations Iowa, Mickle Center Every Wednesday at 7 PM 1620 Pleasant Street, Des Moines, IA sophia.transformations@gmail.com 515-745-6766 https://oneiowa.org/events/ Bowling for One Iowa Friday, August 25th, 7 to 9 PM Adel Famiy Fun Center 1526 Green St. Adel, IA

Charles City Transcend Support Group Meeting, Charles City Library July 15th 5 PM to 7PM 106 Milwaukee Mall, Charles City, IA http://transcendnorthiowa.com/ 319-359-7774

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Iowa City Elation Drag Show, Studio 13 Every Saturday, doors open at 7PM 13 South Linn Iowa City, IA http://www.sthirteen.com/ Karaoke and $1 drinks, Studio 13 Every Saturday, doors open at 7PM 13 South Linn Iowa City, IA http://www.sthirteen.com/ GLBTQ Movie Open to Public for Free, Iowa City Senior Center Every Monday, at 4PM 28 South Linn Iowa City, IA https://oneiowa.org/events/

Mason City Lipstick N Lashes Scholarship Fundraiser Saturday, August 12th, at 7 PM 302 2nd St SE, Mason City, IA https://www.facebook.com/ events/63239852029620

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One Iowa NORTH Monthly Meetings, First Presbyterian Church 2nd Monday of every month at 7 PM 100 1st South Pierce Ave

The Quad Cities Euchre, Mary’s on 2nd Every Sun at 5PM 832 W 2nd Street, Davenport, IA 563-884-8014 Spectrum’s Monthly Support Group Metropolitan Community Church Every first Saturday at 7 PM 2930 W Locust Street, Davenport IA 563-324-8281 https://www.facebook.com/ groups/507336286037072/

Waterloo Cedar Valley Pride Fest Saturday, August 26th Downtown Waterloo, Iowa http://www.cedarvalleypride.com/

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LOCAL

COMMUNITY

Co Dubuque’s Luis Morteo reflects on the history of the organization.

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he truth is that I wanted nothing to do with the community. My partner and I moved back to my home town in Dubuque, Iowa. We had just finished traveling across the country with an international entertainment group that produces live shows. My family needed some help at home, so I nannied, home-schooled and helped care for my niece when I got here.

I planned to stay for one year, to do my time and go to the west coast. Things didn’t unfold the way I planned – I’m now well into my second year in Dubuque. Many things in life don’t happen according to plan, and sometimes for great reason. My partner then told me how important it was for him to be part of a community.

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Together with a great group of friends, we created one. We felt like visionaries and excelled together. Soon, many others wanted to get involved: we collaborated and evolved into Co Dubuque, an LGBTQ+ and Ally nonprofit organization.

We continue to provide resources, host events, activities and educational workshops for our local Driftless community. We grew so fast; we were established as the hub group for the Tri-State area very shortly after we helped facilitate Dubuque’s own Vigil for the victims of the Orlando shooting.

Our community began to come together for the first time in many years. As I prepared for writing this article, I began to think of each event we have put on since the beginning of Co Dubuque, one year and five months ago.

So I looked them up instead of remembering...

We did much more than I remembered: Dubuque Pride Picnic - June 11 Queer Pride Month- Entire Month of May All-ages Alcohol Free Bowling! - May 14 Co-mmunity Dubuque Game night - May 11 The Prom We Never Had - April 24 LGBTQ+ All Ages Game Night! - April 13

My name is

I’M A DUBUQUER. Find out more about Luis’s story at www.ImADubuquer.com

Luis.

“Without a sense of caring, there can be no sense of community.”

-Anthony J. D’Angelo Drag Raiser Gala (a fundraiser for Co-ZINE Magazine) - April 1 Chili Feed - March 31 LGBTQ+ All Ages Game Night! - March 9 LGBTQ+ All Ages Game Night - Feb 9 80’s B-Day Celebration Dance Party - Jan 28 Real Boy Documentary showing at Mindframe Theater - Jan 17 LGBTQ+ All Ages Game Night - Jan 12 New Year’s Eve Extravaganza - Dec 31 Christmas Tree Auction at Roshek - Dec 10 LGBTQ+ All Ages Game Night - Dec 8 Co-zy Movie Night - Nov 16 Ode to LGBTQ+ Veterans Display - Nov 13 LGBTQ+ All Ages Game Night - Nov 10 New Orleans Halloween Trip - Oct 26-Nov 2 Halloween Spook - Oct 22 Co-zy Movie Night - Oct 19 LGBTQ+ All Ages Game Night - Oct 13 RuPaul’s All Star Drag Race - Oct 13 Launch of Co-ZINE Magazine - Oct 10 RuPaul’s All Star Drag Race - Oct 6 RuPaul’s All Star Drag Race - Sept 29 Quad Cities Pride Booth - Sept 23 & 24 RuPaul’s All Star Drag Race - Sept 22 4th Annual Pride Picnic - Sept 18

RuPaul’s All Star Drag Race - Sept 15 Out in the Park: SIX FLAGS - Sept 10 LGBTQ+ All Ages Game Night - Sept 8 RuPaul’s All Star Drag Race - Sept 8 Co Dubuque Camping on the River - Aug 13 & 14 LGBTQ+ All Ages Game Night - Aug 11 Poke-Co All-Ages Picnic - Aug 1 Co Dubuque & Fringe Salon “Beauty” Workshop - July 22 Poke-Co Pub Crawl - July 16 Poke-Co All-Ages Park & Monument Crawl - July 16 LGBTQ+ Game Night - July 14 MFC & Co’s Pride Picnic - June 30th Dubuque Stands with Orlando VIGIL - June 19 “COME OUT” PRIDE - June 18 Ode to LGBTQ+ Display - June 18

We held 45 total Co Dubuque events and activities in under 16 months!

We have been quite busy this last year and have received wonderful feedback. I have seen the community come together, making new friends in places they couldn’t have before.

I have been humbled to hear brave individuals inform me of using the resources we’ve compiled on our website, literally saving their lives. I have been amazed at how much difference we have been able to make and

“Don’t underestimate the power of your vision to change the world.

Whether that world is your office, your community, an industry or a global movement, you need to have core belief that what you contribute can fundamentally change the paradigm or way of thinking about problems.”

-Leroy Hood

“We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook.

We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations, but to our fellow men within the human community.”

-Haile Selassie

I would like to remind the community that we are here for you... and we will be here a long time, no matter who is President of Co Dubuque.

Bottom). The building that houses Tavern on the Main used to be known as a safe place for the LGBTQ+ community, and Co Dubuque is overjoyed to be a part of it.

Our board of directors and community equally comprise Co Dubuque. This organization doesn’t belong to me, nor Cindy, our vice president and co-founder. Co Dubuque belongs to the Tri-State community. I see now that Co Dubuque was the reason my plans didn’t unfold as I intended. I was meant to help create something good with a wonderful community.

Now that Co-ZINE has branched off from Co Dubuque, we are able to expand even further, continuously joining forces with other members of the community.

We are even establishing an all-inclusive, all-lifestyle bar & restaurant, Tavern on the Main (and its lower level dance club, ROCK

As a team, we hope to continue to provide fun, community building, and remain a resource hub for anyone in need of assistance, LGBTQ+ and ally alike. We are community-focused and support one another. That’s how we thrive.

PHILLIP & VEE

Phillip & Vee

Unemployment

by Jeremy Stough

“So. What are we going to do?” The two of them were seated at the kitchen table, a few scattered papers between them.

“Short-term? Unemployment ought to work. I don’t know for sure how much we’d get or for how long, but it’s a start. We’ve also got a bit in savings, and I guess if things get super tight we could always cash-out my retirement plan.” He leaned back.

“Long term... I need to find a new job.”

Phillip nodded. He reached across the table, gently grabbing Vee’s hands. “We’re going to be okay.”

“I know.” The words sounded hollow.

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Vee was a worrier. It wasn’t so much pessimism as it was simply a realistic approach to prepare for the worst. Or a realistic way of obsessing over the worst of possible outcomes, depending on whose opinion was being expressed. Either way it was never quite as bad as when his mind was unoccupied.

Phillip had left for work a few hours earlier and Thomas, the house cat, was still exploring his new surroundings, leaving Vee alone. He was sitting on the couch in the living room, hunched over his laptop, the television playing on a random channel for background noise.

Filing for unemployment had been easy, or as easy as a federal process could be.

It was the job hunt that was arduous. He either needed a night shift position to match Phillip, or a job within walking distance.

Unfortunately, their new home was a long way from anything within the city. Any position that required a college degree was out. Other than factory work, any post that needed multiple years of experience was also gone. After those parameters the positions that were left were scant.

Vee applied for the few jobs that he could, and after he was done the house seemed to take on a deeper silence.

There weren’t any more job postings that he qualified for, at least not until any new positions were added the next day. He

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half-heartedly turned towards the television, but gave up before he’d even started to watch. Vee had found early in his adult life that he simply didn’t have a taste for late night programming.

He sighed and leaned back against the couch. He’d never realized that doing nothing was so difficult. He wondered what he’d done late at night back in high school. Before the internet, it had been reading. He thought of the shelves full of books they had stashed in one of the upstairs bedrooms.

Instead, he got up and went to the kitchen.

Just because he was out of work didn’t mean that there was no work to do. After an hour, he had the kitchen spotless. It hadn’t been hard; a few dishes, light mopping, and wiping down the appliances.

Though he was proud of his work, the boredom and worry quickly crept back.

He debated going room by room, until the house was spotless, but that course seemed a touch compulsive. He checked the time on his phone. There were still several hours before Phillip returned.

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Cooking was an option, but he’d still have to wait to get started.

Vee started up the stairs towards the books.

It had been ages since he’d sat down with the express purpose of reading.

Vee opened the door and fumbled for a moment with the light switch. When he finally got it and the overhead flickered on, he smiled. Two large bookcases, fully loaded. Vee ran a hand along the shelf, reading titles. Some of them were like old friends, volumes he’d read and reread.

Others, mere acquaintances. Still others, a startlingly large amount, were complete strangers.

Vee had to take a moment to laugh at himself. It was absurd, anthropomorphizing books, making them seem human. On the other hand, they were. Or at least extensions of them.

He looked over the collection again.

Each was the voice, created through diligence and perseverance, of another human being, reaching out beyond years, decades, or even centuries. He

paused, examining a particularly worn spine. It was a modern reprint of a classic.

Without a second thought, Vee pulled it from the shelf and went back downstairs.

Vee immediately laid down on the couch and started reading. The archaic language, and simple ability of the writer made even the smallest scenes swell with suspense.

It was a good, engrossing read. One of the supporting characters, an eccentric professor from an obscure, foreign university, was casting light on the plot as a whole. Vee’s concentration suddenly slipped from the page. Instead, it had gone to wondering about the professor.

Crazy as he was, presumably the man taught classes. For the life of him, Vee couldn’t imagine sitting through a lecture

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from him, regardless of topic. Following that line of thought, Vee started thinking about school. Immediately out of high school, he’d opted to join the workforce as opposed to furthering his education.

Perhaps it was time to reconsider it. Vee set the book aside, and went back to his computer.

There were plenty of colleges in town.

Large, private campuses that a cursory search showed were far outside his price range, and smaller community colleges that failed to have any courses that piqued his interest. The only other options were online degrees, which opened a myriad of possibilities.

Vee delved into the meat of it; costs, student reviews, and employment statistics.

He enjoyed the research, and with something to occupy his mind, the situation didn’t seem quite so dire. Vee leaned back and stretched,letting out a deep yawn. He wasn’t sure of how much time had passed.

He checked his phone and smiled. It was time to start cooking.

As Phillip pulled into the driveway, he was curious as to how Vee had spent the night.

Ever since they’d known each other, Vee had an almost impossible time sitting still.

He’d spend his night worrying; having a full night with nothing to do would have

driven Vee mad. He kicked off his shoes in the entryway, and set his bag down beside them. He paused for a moment, and took a deep breath. Something smelled good.

Making an educated guess, Phillip began walking from the mudroom, through the kitchen. It smelled like pasta with the subtle scent of beef and spices. In the kitchen sink he could see a small pot and a frying pan. He remembered that there had been a jar of pasta sauce in the fridge. Evidently, Vee had found something to do: cooking.

It made Phillip smile.

“Oh! You’re home!”

The voice made Phillip suddenly jerk from the pleasant image in his head. Vee was standing in the doorway to the dining room, apron tied about his waist, ovenmitt engulfing one hand. Phillip smiled more broadly.

“Yep! Just made it in!”

Vee gave him a tight hug. “Welcome home! I just finished dinner. Hungry?”

Phillip nodded. As they walked into the dining room, Vee untied the apron and tossed it over the back of his chair. He set the oven-mitt on one of the unused portions of the table. Two plates had been prepared, facing each other. Servings of the

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pasta had been spooned onto both plates, artfully covered in sauce with chunks of ground beef arranged within it. In the middle of the table was a basket of bread and a dish of butter.

“You did all this just for dinner?”

Vee smiled and shrugged. “I got bored.”

During the meal, Phillip questioned Vee about his day. It was pretty obvious that having nothing to do wasn’t working for him. Vee had done better than he’d imagined, but it wasn’t something that could be sustained.

“And,” He was beginning to speak, using a napkin to dab some sauce from the corner of his mouth, “I kind of thought of something that I want your opinion on.”

“What’s that?” Phillip asked.

Vee stood quickly, almost nervously. He gathered up some loose papers that had been laid off to the side. After tapping them against the table to straighten them, Vee slid them across to Phillip.

The header on almost all of the pages was that of an online university. “Well?” Vee asked. “What do you think?”

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HIRING & FIRING:

JUSTICE

LGBTSECTION RIGHTS

LGBT RIGHTS QUESTIONED

ACLU - July 27th 2017

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n the latest and most significant anti-LGBT action yet from the Trump administration, the Justice Department filed a brief with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit arguing that federal civil rights laws do not protect individuals from discrimination based on their sexual orientation or gender identity.

The case in question concerns a former skydiving instructor who filed a lawsuit against his employer in 2010, alleging that the company terminated him because of his sexual orientation.

This appalling brief from the Jeff Sessions-led Justice Department comes as the Second Circuit is preparing to hear arguments about whether Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment on the basis of sex, also prohibits discrimination against lesbians, gay men, and bisexual people — a position supported by, among many

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others, the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC).

As if the Trump administration’s legal arguments in this case weren’t galling enough on their own, the fact that they are even weighing in at all in this case is noteworthy for how outrageous it is.

The United States is not a party to the case, thus the administration cannot argue that its hand was forced. No, this is nothing more than a shameful effort on the part of a very anti-LGBT attorney general to advance discriminatory legal arguments.

The question of whether Title VII prohibits gender identity-based discrimination — a position well-supported in case

law — isn’t even before the court in this case. Rather, this case addresses the question of whether the federal law that prohibits employment discrimination based on sex also bars discrimination based on a person’s sexual orientation.

It is disgraceful that the Trump administration is working affirmatively to expose LGBT people to discrimination. Fortunately, the question of whether the Civil Rights Act of 1964 protects LGBT people is ultimately a question for the courts to resolve, not Attorney General Sessions.

So while the Justice Department abdicates their responsibility to fight for and uphold our civil rights, we will continue to push forward.

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ECLIPSE

ASTRONOMY SECTION

Americans Prepare for the Solar Event of the Decade WHAT: TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE WHERE: FROM OREGON TO SOUTH CAROLINA WHEN: AUGUST 21ST, 2017 MAJOR CITIES ALONG THE LINE OF TOTALITY: REDMOND, OR; CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO; ST. LOUIS, MO; NASHVILLE, TN; KNOXVILLE, TN; CHARLESTON, SC

Astronomers Without Borders (AWB) will be providing over 100,000 solar viewing glasses all across the US for the upcoming solar eclipse on August 21st. They will primarily be given to under-served communities, such as minority-based schools, youth communities, and children’s hospitals. There is an application on the AWB website.

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The August 21st eclipse is anticipated to be a huge learning opportunity to learn more about the Earth’s energy systems. NASA scientists have created several simulations of the events in order to plan for the most effective experiments to perform during the eclipse. Hopefully this will lead to newfound discoveries about the Earth’s energy capabilities.

In preparation for the upcoming solar eclipse on August 21st of this year, experts from organizations such as the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and the National Science Foundation (NSF)

gave details to the press about what they hope to learn. The eclipse will serve as a chance to gather more information about the sun’s effect on Earth’s atmosphere and its magnetic field.

This will also be a rare opportunity to examine the solar corona, the sun’s atmosphere.

Alaskan Airlines is doing a special charter flight to chase the “Great American Eclipse” as it passes over the US. The flight will take off in the early hours of the morning in the Pacific Northwest, and follow the path of the eclipse. It is invitation-only for select astronomy enthusiasts, but they have a contest where one lucky fan will win a free seat on the charter. To enter the contest, visit Alaskan Airlines social media platforms.

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Nicholas Johnson’s

Delicious,

Dairy-Free Chocolate Ice “Cream”

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U lt i m at e Da i ry F re e C h o c o l at e I c e “C re a m ” What you need:

4 ounces unsweetened chocolate 2 cans coconut milk ( the higher fat content the better your ice cream will be) 2 large eggs 1 cup sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract 1/4 tsp salt Additional things you’ll need if you have an “old fashioned” ice cream machine:*

~3-5 pounds of ice several cups of rock salt ~2 quarts of water

* if you do not have an ice cream machine, you can use a small coffee can with a lid as the

inner canister placed inside a larger coffee can as the outer canister, and roll by hand to mix.

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Before we start let’s get one thing straight: this recipe is not for the faint of heart when it comes to dietary fat. To make dairy free ice “cream” with a good creamy texture, we need to substitute all the butter fat from heavy cream.

If you use 2 cups of coconut milk from a box or carton it’s going to come out icy, and maybe still taste good, but it won’t fool anyone. Get canned coconut milk with the highest fat content you can find (the kind I used has 14 grams of fat per serving). This makes a very rich chocolate ice “cream” (with just a hint of coconut flavor) that most people wouldn’t even guess is dairy free.

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As for how to put everything together:

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tart by emptying the cans of coconut milk into a small sauce pan, and begin heating it on the stove top over medium heat.

You will most likely have to whisk the coconut milk to incorporate any fat that has settled to the bottom.

Next: melting the chocolate. If you’re fancy you can use a double boiler, but microwaving carefully has always worked for me. Break the chocolate into small pieces and microwave for short durations (10-15 seconds each), stirring in between until the chocolate is just melted. If you keep going for too long, the chocolate can dry out and seize up.

Once the chocolate is melted, drizzle it into the sauce pan with the hot coconut milk.

If the chocolate is breaking up and not incorporating into the milk, simply turn up the heat a bit and whisk it a bunch until it’s dissolving smoothly.

Go slow, and whisk continually. If there’s chocolate left in your measuring cup, scrape it out with a rubber spatula or a spoon.

Once all the chocolate has been added to the coconut milk, keep whisking until everything is smooth and uniform. The mixture should thicken slightly.

In a separate bowl whisk together the sugar, eggs, vanilla, and salt. Use the same whisk. It’s all going together anyway.

Scoop out 1 1/2-2 cups of the hot coconut/chocolate mixture and slowly add it to the egg mixture while whisking continually. This helps temper the eggs, and keep them from cooking into scrambled eggs when you put the two halves of the ice cream mixture together.

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nce all the hot is mixed in and everything is smooth and uniform, add it back into the hot mixture on the stove top.

Slowly pour the tempered egg mixture back into the sauce pan while, say it with me, whisking continually until everything is well combined.

It you like, you can think of all the whisking as an arm workout to help you justify the calories you’ll consume once everything is done. The mixture will thicken a bit more as you’re whisking it over the heat.

Remove the mixture from heat, transferring it into a different bowl or con-

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tainer if you wish, and place in the refrigerator to cool completely.

Now if it’s winter, and you’re not in the mood for a frozen dessert (which would make me question why you chose this recipe), you forgot you don’t have an ice cream maker, or if you’re just tired of me telling you what to do, you can stop here and have a sumptuous dairy free chocolate pudding once it cools. But, if you’re in it for the long haul, the next step is freezing.

I can’t stress enough how important it is to let the mixture cool completely before trying to freeze it. It goes much quicker and smoother the colder the mixture is when you put it into the churn.

If you don’t have an ice cream maker, this is the time to put your small canister inside your large canister and make it work!

As for ice cream makers, there are a few different kinds, and if you have one you probably know how to use it. If that describes you, good! Do that thing and you’ll have delicious ice “cream”.

But for novices: I’ll walk you through the process using the machine I have; which is a semiold fashioned version you have to use ice and rock salt with.

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Start by scraping your mixture into the canister, inserting the paddle, and putting on the lid. (Or if you’re smarter than me, you can put the mixture into the canister straight off the stove top and put that in the fridge to cool.

Just leave the paddle out until you’re ready to churn.) put the canister into the machine and fasten the motor unit over the top.

This is where the ice and rock salt come in. Start the machine moving and add a layer of ice, top this with a layer of rock salt, then add enough water to keep things from freezing up and seizing the machine, but not enough to visibly float the layers.

Repeat these steps until the space between the canister and the outer wall of the machine is filled slightly higher than the level of mixture in the canister, or up to the fill line if you like to overdo things like I do.

The churning process will take various amounts of time depending on ambient temperature and how cold the mixture was at the beginning, but somewhere between 15-30 minutes should do it.

Also, you’ll probably be able to hear the motor start to bog down when it’s getting good and frozen.

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Once the mixture has frozen to the consistency of a very thick milk shake (the kind you’d have a very hard time sucking up through a straw), it’s ready to be removed from the machine and really frozen.

if you’re a true chocoholic, go ahead and mix in some chocolate chunks.

If you want to add extras, fold then into the partially frozen mixture with a spoon or scraper quickly before putting the container into the freezer.

Go ahead and try some at this stage.

It’s been a lot of waiting, but I think you’ll agree that it’s worth it.

Now it’s time for the hard part: waiting. For it to really freeze up into a nice “Ben and Jerry’s” texture, it’ll take several hours in the freezer.

Overnight works very well.

Transfer it into a container you can put into your freezer, and then do so.

Or… At this point you can mix in some extras, but with ice “cream” this chocolaty, don’t try anything too subtle. Chopped nuts work well, and

Once it’s frozen, or you run out of patience, scoop some into a bowl and enjoy! You’re done!

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WHERE DO WATCHES COME FROM?

FAITH

RELIGION + SPIRITUALITY

“When you’re given a box of candy, don’t gulp it all down . . .”

- Proverbs 25:16 The Message

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ifty years before Darwin’s Origin of Species, William Paley wrote Evidences of the Existence and Attributes of the Deity, offering a fresh metaphor: Imagine if we came upon a watch, having never seen a timekeeping device before. How would we explain the existence of that watch?

As we discovered what the watch could do, saw how it could tell time and then saw all the mechanics behind it, we would naturally assume somebody had designed it.

I doubt we would assume the watch had a mommy watch and daddy watch who loved each other very much, and then went on to produce a baby watch! No, it would be more natural to marvel at the watch and assume it had an inventor.

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made it, but resist the idea that someone made the human eye? We don’t assume that a watch just popped up randomly out of nature. So, why take the watch as evidence of somebody’s creativity but not the human eye?

Later, Darwin would rock the world with the theory of evolution, but I don’t think he contradicted Paley. It still all fits together. Let’s appreciate the scientific theory but let’s not make an idol of it. Evolution can be part of the explanation but not the complete explanation.

Nothing in nature, including evolution, has ever made me question my faith. To me, evolution is like that watch. I can’t imagine how it got made but I trust that someone made it.

Lillian Daniel’s new book Tired of Apologizing for a Church I Don’t Belong To: Spirituality without Stereotypes, Religion without Ranting is now available for purchase, but you can hear it all for free at 1st Congregational Church of Dubuque, Iowa on Sunday mornings. Pastor Lillian is a member of Co-Dubuque’s board.

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CREATION

LIFE STORIES

Channeling Queer Creatives: Maurice Sendak

by Neal Kincaid Patten

He is among the most celebrated and challenged authors of the past half-century. He was granted some of the highest honors an artist can receive including the Hans Christian Andersen Award (sometimes referred to as the “Nobel Prize of Children’s Literature”), and the Caldecott Medal (the most prestigious American children’s picture book award), and was bestowed with a National Medal of Arts (the greatest American honor awarded for achievement in the arts).

However, one of his works is also among the top 25 most frequently banned books according to the American Library Association, and his most famous work was rejected multiple times before finding a publisher.

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Maurice Sendak was a literary giant in the world of children’s picture books, and of course his most well-known and beloved work deals with giants: Where the Wild Things Are.

years. While being young and gay in NYC is almost a cliché, Sendak believed coming out in his 20s or 30s would have stalled his career as a children’s book author and illustrator.

He was cantankerous and unapologetically spoke his mind, but one thing he didn’t reveal until just three years before his death: he was gay.

Sendak also never told his parents about his sexuality, as he felt a need to protect them. “All I wanted was to be straight so my parents could be happy. They never, never, never knew,” he said. To his credit, Sendak also hid a heart attack from his mother because she had cancer.

In 2008, at the age of 80, Sendak revealed in an interview to the New York Times that he was a gay man and his partner of fifty years, Eugene Glynn, had passed away the year before. Sendak and Glynn (who was a psychoanalyst) lived together in New York City during Sendak’s early

Too common with gay men, Sendak grew up toiling with feelings of inadequacy. “I was miserable as a kid. I couldn’t make friends, I couldn’t play stoop-ball terrific,

“I’m not Hans Christian Andersen,” he once said. “No one’s going to make a statue in the park with a lot of scrambling kids climbing up me. I won’t have it!”

I couldn’t skate great. I stayed home and drew pictures. You know what they all thought of me: sissy Maurice Sendak.

“When I told my parents that I wanted to be a book illustrator, they were relieved.

They had no idea that I could do anything.

I did so badly in school. I had a very brilliant sister who skipped grades. I hated her. I had a brother who was dutiful and serious, so I hated him, too.

“But I could draw, which seemed to be my salvation. In fact, when I could earn a living from that, my father was tearfully content.”

Sendak spent his lifetime looking up to his literary inspirations, but never feeling he had earned a place amongst them. Among those idols were Keats, Blake, Melville, and Dickinson whom he championed for their “ability to be private, the ability to be alone, the ability to follow some spiritual course not written down by anybody.”

“These are wonderful gods who have gotten me through the narrow straits of life. I believe in them with all my heart. Art has always been my salvation.”

“I’m not one of those people,” he said, “and I can’t pretend to be. Someday I will

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do something yet that will create for someone in the future that passion that Blake and Keats did in me.” While Where the Wild Things Are has gone onto become his greatest success, it was intended as part of a ‘trilogy’ of books based on stages of psychological development.

Sendak was a man who drew inspiration from places of fear, and pain. Growing up, the Lindbergh baby kidnapping had a profound effect on him. Sendak, who was sickly as a child, vividly remembered Anne Lindbergh on the radio stating the baby had a cold and pleading with the abductors to not let the cold worsen.

Sendak became convinced his own fate rested on that of the baby’s.

At only the age of four, Sendak’s grandmother would make him sit outside of the house in an all-white suit, telling him the angel of death wouldn’t come for him because he was already an angel.

“I knew I was mortal from a very early age… and when the baby was found dead, I think something really fundamental died in me.” This experience led to the underlying premise in the third book of this ‘trilogy’, Outside Over There, meant to represent the pre-adolescent stage of development.

In Outside Over There, a girl must find her baby sister who was kidnapped by

goblins. The book went on to inspire the film “Labyrinth” by Jim Henson.

Where the Wild Things Are represented the preschool stage of development. Initially the boy in the story was to find an island of horses, and the title was to be In The Land Of Wild Horses, but there was only one problem – Sendak couldn’t draw horses. So he swapped-out horses for grotesque caricatures he drew of his aunts and uncles who visited his family’s Brooklyn home on Sundays when he was growing up.

Sendak’s parents were poor Jewish immigrants from Poland, and most of their relatives who’d remained in Europe were killed during the Holocaust. Sendak credited their deaths as another source of the raw dark underside in many of his works.

Sendak described his aunts and uncles as being “all crazy – with crazy faces and with wild blood-stained eyes and big yellow teeth.”

The first book in Sendak’s ‘trilogy’, In The Night Kitchen, represented the toddler stage of development. It’s his most frequently banned book for no other reason than the main character, a little boy, is nude throughout all the illustrations.

Sendak wrote and drew as a means of recovery from his troubled childhood.

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His trilogy sought to answer the question: “How do children survive?”

One might argue Sendak was obsessed with death. He spoke often of one of his unpublished stories, in which a brother and sister share an exceptionally close relationship. The climax is a scene in a hospital where the brother is recovering from a bad accident and is heavily bandaged. He and his sister hug and shout, “We are inseparable!” before leaping out of the hospital window and falling fourteen stories to their death.

His final publication, My Brother’s Book, was his only book not envisioned for children. Written as a tribute to his brother

who had passed away in 1995; it was intended for adults who had grown up with his works. Sendak approved the final proofs from his hospital bed just four days before he died.

His penultimate book, Bumble-Ardy, is the story of an orphan pig who is about to turn 9-years-old without ever having had a birthday. While his aunt agrees to a quiet dinner for the two of them, Bumble-Ardy instead has a costume party by himself while she’s away and causes a mess and mayhem.

His aunt comes home and says, “Okay smarty, you’ve had your party, but never again,” and Bumble-Ardy responds, “I promise, I swear, I won’t ever turn 10.”

Sendak said those two lines in a way presented a summary of his life’s work.

“Those two lines are essential. ‘I’ll never be 10’ touches me deeply but I won’t pretend that I know exactly what it means,” he said. “When I thought of it, I was so happy I thought of it. It came to me, which is what the creative act is all about.

Things come to you without you necessarily knowing what they mean. It comes at a time when I am getting ripe, getting old — and I want to do work that resonates.”

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their home as Glynn was dying of lung cancer.

“When I did Bumble-Ardy, I was so intensely aware of death,” said Sendak. “Eugene, my friend and partner, was dying here in the house when I did Bumble-Ardy. I did Bumble-Ardy to save myself. I did not want to die with him. I wanted to live as any human being does. But there’s no question that the book was affected by what was going on here in the house... Bumble-Ardy was a combination of the deepest pain and the wondrous feeling of coming into my own.”

Sendak’s words and illustrations will live on, despite constant self-doubts of his importance as a writer and artist.

“I believe there is no part of our lives, our adult as well as child life, when we’re not fantasizing, but we prefer to relegate fantasy to children, as though it were some tomfoolery only fit for the immature minds of the young.

“Children do live in fantasy and reality; they move back and forth very easily in a way we no longer remember how to do.

Certainly we want to protect our children from new and painful experiences that

are beyond their emotional comprehension and that intensify anxiety; and to a point we can prevent premature exposure to such experiences. That is obvious. But what is just as obvious — and what is too often overlooked — is the fact that from their earliest years children live on familiar terms with disrupting emotions, fear and anxiety are an intrinsic part of their everyday lives. They continually cope with frustrations as best they can. And it is through fantasy that children achieve catharsis. It is the best means they have for taming Wild Things.”

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What’s in y Aquarius

Aries

Gemini

Life is happening and it’s amazing. Just go with it; let it happen... it’s important to accept what has presented itself to you. It was meant to happen.

How many times would you like to fall? It’s a simple question, but are you thinking about the reason you fell, or just counting failures?

Some days are just not your days, it’s true. Be open to the possibilities. You can be humble and learn a great deal from others without totally letting go of the self.

Pisces

Taurus

Cancer

New is good... New is good... remind yourself that it is good. Embrace change or you will stagnate and become redundant.

Maybe this time I will win.

Or next time, or the following time. The effort is what’s important - not so much the winning.

Are you being a bit jealous or reclusive? Whatever it is, it’s been noticed. Take a few moments to check what you’re feeling and talk amongst yourselves.

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your stars?

Leo

Libra

Sagittarius

Passion and fire go a long way when you have your stamina. Keep your energy up. Keep exuding it and you will sit pretty upon the stage of your life so soon.

Your day is yet to come. You don’t want to be ostracized; be mindful of what you write.

People do read it. Your actions do have consequences.

Bad weeks and good weeks are all the same. New things happening make your day.

Don’t worry so much day by day - enjoy yourself.

Virgo

Scorpio

Capricorn

The sweetest and most amazing. Kisses for days and days.

You should be and will be showered with love... are you thinking of a certain someone? Are you completely smitten over?

How can you be so jealous and possessive, yet so neglectful?

It’s something you must work on. People rely and depend upon you. Be there for them all.

It’s okay if it doesn’t go your way. You are an amazing person and a great friend, but don’t push out of the friend zone if you know what’s to come.

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