M AY 2014
Giving Women a Voice
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2014 Pride Logo Contest $200 Cash Prize for the design selected by PCCNCF for use as our official 2014 logo. This logo will appear on our 2014 t-shirts, website, Pride Program, and other promotional literature. The specifications are as follows: 11” by 12” maximum size Six colors maximum (including black) Submit finished color copy along with electronic file (preferably vector graphic) on CD or DVD ♦ Design should at least contain the words “Gainesville, FL” & “Pride” & “2014” ♦ Design should be visual representation of Pride 2014 theme: “Pride is ‘Family’” ♦ ♦ ♦
All designs become the property of Pride Community Center of North Central Florida and must be submitted to Pride Community Center at 3131 NW 13th St, Suite 62 by 7:00pm on May 8th. For questions about the logo contest, please e-mail pccncf@pccncf.org.
Cover: This month’s cover art is provided by Victoria Davis, of Longwood, FL. She says, “Photography has been a way to relive the beautiful places I have experienced. My partner and I love to travel and friends say that my photos have inspired them to make unforgettable journeys of their own.” You can see more of her work at www.etsy.com/ shop/PotteryMudworks and www.etsy.com/shop/Photowrks.
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The Old Lady and the Purple Dragon by Julie Ford
“The INDIGO GIRLS in GVL” The INDIGO GIRLS… with the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra…at the Curtis M. Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on the spring-bright campus of the University of Florida in beautiful Gainesville… on a sunny Sunday afternoon. The Old Lady was in heaven. “Secure yourself to heaven. Hold on tight, the night has come. Fasten up your earthly burdens, You have just begun.”1 The musical talents and distinctive voices of Amy Ray and Emily Saliers shone like diamonds with the Symphony as the golden setting behind them, gleaming gems throwing rainbows of light on love and pain. “Laughing in a crown of jewels, Numbness from a scepter's wound. Toss and Turn, I spin and learn, ‘Catch yourself before you burn.’"1
The announcer said: “Photography is strictly prohibited during the performance.” So, this photo was taken between songs.
The Old Lady last heard the Indigo Girls live more than a decade ago, during a time when she thought that she had love and life figured out. “Pain from pearls-hey little girlHow much have you grown? Pain from pearls-hey little girlFlowers for the ones you've known.”1 The Old Lady wept in both sadness and gratitude for the years and lessons learned since that time. She was much older then; she’s younger than that now. Read my blog! www.OldLadyAndPurpleDragon.com ______________________________ 1 Songwriters: RAY, AMY ELIZABETH / SALIERS, EMILY ANN; lyrics to Secure Yourself, Center Stage, and Kid Fears © Universal Music Publishing Group, EMI Music Publishing. Page 2
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“Orange is the New Black” Nights Season 2 Premiere Night: JUNE 6 at 7:00 pm Pride Community Center of North Central Florida PCCNCF hosts “Orange is the New Black” Nights! Settle into the center’s comfortable couches as you watch Piper Chapman and Alex Vause on our big screen TV. We’ve started at the beginning with season one and will continue into season two when it is released in early 2014. Snacks are provided and a two dollar donation is requested. Visit out our Facebook page for more information.
FUN & GAMES NIGHT at the Pride Community Center What it is: An LGBT social night for players of Chess, Checkers, Monopoly, and other popular board games When is it: We'll be having our fourth get-together on Friday, May 2 at 7pm. Come join us. Meet new friends and have fun playing your favorite games. Info & Contact: Paul at 352-339-4589 or pauldj108@gmail.com
Protect yourself from STDs and HIV! Visit the Pride Community Center to get your FREE condoms. Regular, non-latex, and even female condoms are available. PCCNCF, 3131 NW 13th St, Gainesville. Kindred Sisters — May 2014
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“Girls Just Want to Have Fun”
An ‘80s themed dance for all self-identified women (dykes, trans-women, butches, bois, femmes, lesbians, sapphists, studs, queers, gender-queers, stay tuned - the list has only begun!) The dance will be Friday, October 24, the night before the 2014 Pride Festival. WE NEED VOLUNTEERS! If you are interested in working on the planning committee, please contact Helen James-Storey at media@gainesvillepride.org.
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Attn: Volunteers in Gainesville Experienced graphic designer needed to lay-out Kindred Sisters Magazine at the end of each month. Must have working knowledge of Microsoft Publisher. For more info or to volunteer, please email kindredsisters@gmail.com.
Important LGBT Dates May 17: International Day Against Homophobia & Transphobia The International Day Against Homophobia and Transphobia (IDAHOT) aims to coordinate international events to call respect for lesbians and gays world-wide. May 17 was chosen as the day of the event because homosexuality was removed from the International Classification of Diseases of the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 17, 1992.
May 22: Harvey Milk Day Harvey Milk Day is celebrated globally each year on May 22 in memory of Harvey Milk, a gay rights activist assassinated in 1978. In California, Harvey Milk Day is recognized as a legal state holiday. The holiday was established by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2009 following the success of the award-winning feature film “Milk” retracing Milk's life.
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Calories…Bah, Humbug…Part 1 by Woody Blue
of Agriculture and clarified the use of the kilocalorie, abbreviated to Calorie with a capital ‘C’. Atwater, in his enthusiasm to help poor and working class people eat better, pioneered a movement called, “Scientific eating.” Using the kilocalorie as his measuring stick, he sought to find the most efficient and economic ways of eating, combining fats, proteins and I have never been a calorie counter. Perhaps carbohydrates in creative formulas to fit into it’s because it’s a metric measurement and I have tight-fisted food budgets. never been comfortable using that system. Watch out when the government tries to help Perhaps it’s because the information in calorie counter books is so vague, i.e. one carrot, boiled poor people. BIG RED FLAG. In concentrating so is 21 calories. But a few slices in my soup, say, a much on the calorie, the USDA pushed eating fifth of a carrot would be 4.2 calories. However, a more carbohydrates and less fruits and vegetables. This is because Atwater’s focus was raw medium sized carrot contains 26 calories, but if I cut it up and dip a few slices in tahini, I’ve on the macronutrients of carbs, fats and protein and diminished the importance of vitamins and confused the issue. Ugh…too complicated and minerals in fruits and vegetables. unenjoyable dinner eating behavior. calorie - a calorie is the amount of heat necessary to raise the temperature of one gram of water one degree Celcius at standard atmospheric pressure. kilogram calorie – the amount of heat it takes to raise one kilogram of water one degree Celcius.
A “scientific restaurant” was opened by the Perhaps the real reason I’ve never counted calories is because mom viewed it as a ridiculous NY State Health Board, using the latest ‘modern dietary theories’ and listing the practice and wouldn’t even calorie and nutrition discuss dieting no matter what. information beside food items in What she did advocate is eating the menu. Copycat restaurants more liver, to which all of us across America followed this except the dog, objected. example, particularly in working class cafeterias and lunch Neither of the nutrition counters. (Today, McDonald’s is schools I went to recommended helping educate us to eat their counting calories, though the ‘healthy’ foods the same way.) school in Washington State suggested having a calorie Most chronic dieters counter book on hand because experience the ‘yoyo “many people base their food effect’ (weight up, weight down, intake on calorie intake, so you weight up, weight down) when better be prepared.” they eat restrictive diets. Dieters are led to believe that the “eat less/do more” theory is true Calories, as a unit of measurement, were defined around 1800 but never used nutritionally based on the laws of thermodynamics. However, until the early 1900s. Wilbur Atwater, sometimes these laws apply to a closed system and machinery, but not to the human body. If you put called the father of nutrition, introduced the scientific study of foods into the US Department a gallon of gas in your car and can then drive 30 Page 6
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miles, great. If you then put a half gallon of gas in your car and expect to drive 45 miles….WRONG. Likewise if you put a gallon of propane gas in your car, your car won’t be going anywhere.
to lose weight. All we lose is our health.
Restricting one’s calories also comes down to restricting one’s protein. This is another sorry piece of advice. Protein builds muscle and supplies amino acids that are Our bodies aren’t machines and necessary to construct the they need the proper kinds and neurotransmitters our brains amounts of food to accomplish and moods rely upon. Lour tasks. When a person tryptophan is a precursor to restricts their daily food intake serotonin. Low doses of to 1000-1200 calories (900 serotonin are correlated with calories allowed at Auschwitz), depression and low selftheir bodies react by seeking esteem. Glutamine is another out quick fuel (carbohydrates) high performing amino acid, and bingeing on them. This is particularly important to those often how food cravings are born. This is why when someone goes off their doing lots of exercise or who have a diet, they gain the weight back and more. It isn’t compromised immune system. Glutamine rich the fats and proteins that put on weight; it’s the foods are meats, especially organ meats, and eggs. Beans, cabbage and spinach are also good carbohydrates. sources of glutamine. Those on restrictive diets are given a caloric Holding onto the notion that a low calorie diet is intake guideline based on height, Body Mass healthy without looking at the quality of the Index (BMI), metabolism, etc. Food groups are food included in it is erroneous thinking. The categorized according to a chart based on the USDA data of nutrients included in food. Dieters USDA doesn’t base its calorie data on pastured food animals, only factory-farmed ones. The are told to stay away from fats, particularly saturated fats, the logic being that fats contain 9 unfortunate animals raised in feedlots are sick, living in contemptible conditions and fed an calories/gram while carbs contain 4 calories/ unnatural slurry of chemicals and grains. They gram. With a 1200 calorie diet, you can eat more than twice as many carbs as fats. Sounds are fattened with carbohydrates, which their bodies turn into fat to marble beef which is then good when on a starvation diet. served in fine restaurants. You won’t find nutrition labeling on those menus. Carbohydrates supply fuel but not the ingredients needed to digest the fuel. Enzymes Always at the top of our food list, we must put are needed and they are supplied by fats. Fats give us hormones, they drive metabolism, they “quality of foods”. It is nutrient-density we must protect our organs, they keep every one of our tabulate, not calorie count. I’ve run out of space so I’ll continue this theme in Part 2. cell walls flexible. Fats are necessary for the myelin sheath that insulates our nervous system, they are crucial in reducing Woody Blue is a holistic health inflammation, they help absorb the fat-soluble counselor specializing in massage vitamins A ,D, E and K which are vital for our and nutrition. You can contact her eyes, skin, hair, and immune systems. We are at 352-375-0539 for more info. misguided in going onto a low fat diet in order Kindred Sisters — May 2014
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Poetry Corner Angst of Love by Constance Leona Wagner Love is the heart, the wellspring of hope.. The bridge of sighs… The very pain of it, keeps the pump strong… To go on… The hurt causes stumbling, Tripping…. Over words spoken, unspoken, the bullet that left The gun… Smoking…choking… On the trail left!
Special Offer on Shewolf's Directory The response to my Special on the Directory has been so great that I am extending the offer through the end of June to encourage more wimmin to own their own personal copies of Shewolf's Directory of Wimmin's Lands and Lesbian Communities this year. This may well be the last edition I produce, the 6th edition, so I encourage each of you who do not already have your own copy to order one or two. Now if you have always wanted your own copy of Shewolf's Directory, here is your chance while supplies last until the end of June 2014 only, these prices will prevail. It is a 96 page soft back book with, over 100 places where the wimmin have gone to form communities, original articles from 5 lesbian writers about the past 40 years of the Landyke movement, a list of selected resources for lesbians, and a geographic locator for lands operating today. Special Offer: Instead of the usual $16.00 per copy of the 6th and newest rewritten new book edition of Shewolf's Directory of Wimmin's Lands and Lesbian Communities, you can now order, through the end of June, two copies of the Directory delivered to the same address for just $19.00 or order one copy for $10.00 in the USA. Out of the country (USA) orders will be $25.00 each delivered outside the USA because of high postage costs. Enjoy, Shewolf To Order Shewolf's Directory: Send check or money order in USA currency only to: JRB, PO Box 1515, Melrose, FL 32666 to arrive by June 30, 2014. Please do not send cash as the post office does not guarantee its arrival and also please do not send foreign currency as the USA banks require a large fee to cash it. International money orders from your post office may process; please ask before buying. Page 8
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WhatÊs Happening? May 2, 7pm: LGBT Games Night A monthly LGBT social night for players of Chess, Checkers, Monopoly, and other popular board games. Come join us. Meet new friends and have fun playing your favorite games. Info & Contact: Paul at 352-339-4589 or pauldj108@gmail.com. Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St, Gainesville.
psychedelic opening performance by The Relics! Don't miss this unforgettable evening of music, drinks, dancing, silent auction, and prizes! COME TOGETHER FOR THE HIPP! From 8:00pm-midnight in the Hippodrome basement, 25 SE 2nd Pl. Tickets are just $25 and are on sale at the Hippodrome Box Office (352) 3754477.
May 2, 7pm: Equality Florida Gala We're proud to announce that the 2014 Equality Florida Greater Gainesville Gala will be held on May 2nd from 7pm until 9:30pm at the Historic Thomas Center, 302 NE 6th Ave, Gainesville. Drinks, hors d'oeuvres, music and an exciting program! Tickets: $50, $35 with a valid student ID. www.eqfl.org/gainesvillegala
May 10, 9-4pm: Windsor Zucchini Festival Come Celebrate Our 30th Festival! Family‑oriented festival. Arts & crafts show, live music, kids' games, chicken BBQ, variety of contests, zucchini prepared many ways including ice cream. A great day of fun at Windsor Fire Station Grounds. www.afn.org/ ~windsor/page2.html
May 9, 8pm: COME TOGETHER: A Benefit for the Hipp! Twist, Shout & Keep Gainesville Hipp at a benefit featuring the amazing Beatles tribute band, THE IMPOSTORS, with a
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May 10, 11-5pm: HerbFest 2014 Come out and celebrate our plant allies and learn about the uses of native and non-native medicinal herbs. There will be
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WhatÊs Happening? educational workshops taught by local wise folk and herbalists, and also vendors selling herbal remedies and other goodies. Herb Fest is a great way to delve into the local herbalist community and learn some basics about medicinal herbs and medicine-making. Bring your friends, family, and a notebook! It will be a fabulous day! There will be a $5 suggested donation for the CMC and for necessary supplies. CMC, 433 S Main St, Gainesville.
May 18, 4pm: Women’s Sunday Movie See back cover for details.
May 10, 6pm: GRR Black and Blue Intra-League Bout Come watch the ladies of the Gainesville Roller Rebels as they take on their fiercest opponents yet.... themselves. This intraleague bout will feature almost all of our Roller Rebels, from the seasoned skaters to our freshest vets. Don't miss this opportunity to meet our newest skaters and see our whole league at its best! Doors at 5:00pm; bout at 6:00pm. Tickets are $8 in advance and $10 at the door. Tickets can be purchased at BrownPaperTickets.com, Volta Coffee, Sweet Dreams of Gainesville, Wild Iris Books, or through your Favorite Derby Girl! As always, kids 12-and-under get in FREE! Local food truck Soup to Nuts will be there providing amazing food, and for dessert get some delicious cupcakes provided by Sarkara Sweets Cafe. And as always, beer will be available for our 21 and up fans. Held at the Alachua County Fairgrounds.
Jun 6, 7pm: “Orange is the New Black” Night The Pride Community Center of North Central Florida is hosting “Orange is the New Black” Night. Settle into the center’s comfortable couches as you watch Piper Chapman and Alex Vause on our big screen TV. Snacks are proved and a two dollar donation is requested. ORANGE is the NEW BLACK follows Piper Chapman as she trades her designer jeans for an orange prison jumpsuit. Starring Taylor Schilling as Piper, a Smith graduate whose decade-old love affair with drug smuggler Alex (Laura Prepon) leads to her arrest and year-long detention within the walls of a women's penitentiary. Piper leaves behind her fiancé Larry (Jason Biggs) to serve her time "inside" with an eccentric group of outspoken inmates, each with her own story and her own fascinating ways of dealing with prison life. PCCNCF, 3131 NW 13th St, Gainesville. www.gainesvillepride.org
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May 11: Mother’s Day May 17: Newberry Watermelon Festival The 69th Newberry Watermelon Festival will be held at Destiny Community Church’s future location. www.newberrywatermelonfestival.com
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WhatÊs Happening? Interweave A group for lesbian, gay, bisexual, & transgender individuals & their allies. AA Meetings in Gainesville Meets at 6:30pm on the 2nd Sunday of LGBT Alcoholics Anonymous Meetings on each month at the Unitarian Universalist Sundays at 7:30pm at Pride Center, 3131 Fellowship of Gainesville, 4225 NW 34th NW 13th St. St. Potluck, presentation, & discussion.
Ongoing Events
AA Meetings in St. Augustine LGBT AA Meetings held at 7pm on Saturdays at Flagler Hospital in the Alicia room. Confidential HIV & STD Testing FREE 1st & 3rd Thursdays of each month at 57pm at the Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St, Gainesville.
"Just Us" Created for professional women 35+ to meet & mingle. Meets the last Saturday of the month at different restaurants, mostly in Volusia County. Join us for fun & food. "No mess, no men, no fuss, it's "Just Us". Contact Dee, dee1023@yahoo.com
Lesbian Readings & Potluck We have a good time together! Come and eat good food, bring something you Gainesville Area NOW have written and want to share, and/or Gainesville Area National Organization come and listen to others read. Some for Women (NOW) hosts Feminist Friday womyn come just to the potluck, some Happy Hours, regular planning meetings, just to the readings, and some to both. and occasional protests, rallies, programs It's a lovely, connected evening with a and tabling events. Please see their small group of womyn as we share our website, GainesvilleNOW.org, for more stories and food. Time: 6:30 - Potluck; details. Find their flyers at Wild Iris Books 7:30 - Readings. Place: TBA. Contact: & on Campus. Madeline 352-335-3138. Gainesville Area Women’s Network GAWN is the friendliest networking in town. Supportive women gather for lunch, to network & learn from each other & guest speakers. Meetings are the 3rd Wednesday of each month at the Sweetwater Branch Inn. 352-215-1621, www.gawn.org
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WhatÊs Happening? PFLAG Gainesville PFLAG (Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays) meets monthly (3rd Tuesday) at 7pm to realize our goal of moving equality forward. United Church of Gainesville, 1624 NW 5th Ave. 352340-3770, www.pflaggainesville.org PFLAG Ocala Group meets on the 3rd Thursday of each month at 6-8pm at the Ocala Public Library (Room B). FMI 352-857-1739. “Sister Song” - Women's Choir All are welcome; no experience needed. Rehearsals every Wednesday at 7pm at Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St Ste 62. For more info contact Ruth at 352-5384927. Stonewall Democrats of Alachua County LGBT Democrats & supporters meet monthly on the 4th Wednesday of each month at 6pm at the Alachua County Democratic Hdqtrs, 901 NW 8th Ave #A3. Transgender Gainesville Discussion Group Meets on 2nd & 4th Wednesdays at 7pm at the Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St. Trans* Movie Night Join Spectrum and PCCNCF on the 2nd Friday of each month at 7pm at the Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St. spectrumgainesville@yahoo.com Kindred Sisters — May 2014
What the Animals Tell Me Every Wednesday at 8:30pm Flash Silvermoon hosts a live internet radio show for animal lovers. Listen to the live stream or check the archives later: www.internetvoicesradio.com Youth Discussion Group PCCNCF hosts a weekly “Youth Discussion Group” for GLBT youth between the ages of 14 & 18 years old on Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30pm at the Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St, Gainesville. FMI call 352-377-8915
Save the Date! Oct 17: Gainesville Pride Awards Dinner Oct 24: “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” Women’s Dance! Oct 25: Gainesville Pride Parade & Festival
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Home Van Pet Care Project News SEVEN YEARS AND NINE LIVES Home Van Pet Care Project celebrated its Seventh Birthday in April. With a lot of help from our friends and supporters we are able to carry out our primary mission, to feed the pets of homeless and low income people in our community. Because you are generous we can often do more.
kitties … or even the shy one who would want to hide for a long time. If you have ideas, suggestions or possible solutions please call Elizabeth Howard at 352-473-9423 right away. We have two special projects that continue:
We started with the Tent City Tribe of Cats. We took them out of Tent City a couple years ago and they now live in a rural area and they are BIG.
We have other cat news and it is somber. WE HAVE TWO WEEKS TO REMOVE A SMALL CAT COLONY FROM THE PREMISES WHERE THEY HAVE LIVED FOR OVER A YEAR. WE NEED A PLACE OR PLACES TO TAKE THEM. A year or so ago we began to supply food to a homeless woman who was sent to us by Operation Catnip. We will call her MD. A mother cat and kittens had come to MD in her very minimal shelter. We began to help her with food and also helped with the spay/neuter. MD has been entirely faithful for a year in feeding these cats on a daily basis even though it has been arduous for her at times.
One is the dog houses, and so far we have delivered four of those. The dogs love them and we will send some photos with news soon. The other ongoing project is County licenses for dogs that we obtain after they have their rabies shots and are spayed. These are $20 if you would like to contribute.
Home Van Pet Care Project needs canned cat food (“fishy” types), bags of dog food and cat food. Please call for current needs if you can donate food. If you can contribute financially, please send checks made to Home Van Pet Care Project, Inc.,c/o Elizabeth Howard, P.O. Box 14305, Gainesville FL 32604 or PayPal at our blog, www.homevanpetcareproject.blogspot.com. For more info, call Elizabeth Howard at 352-473-9423 or email holisticliz@hotmail.com.
A neighbor nearby the little colony became angry lately and although she had been kind to the cats in the past she now wants them out. We have two weeks to relocate these beautiful year old cats. As you may know, relocation of colonies is difficult. MD needs a home herself. She has nothing, is medically disabled and is waiting for disability. It is hard to know how to ask you to help. Perhaps you have that ideal “barn cat” situation or maybe you could adopt one or two of the more tame Kindred Sisters — May 2014
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In the Spotlight P. L. Travers Pamela Lyndon Travers (1899-1996), born Helen Lyndon Goff, was an Australian-British novelist, actress and journalist. Published in London in 1934, Mary Poppins was Travers' first literary success. Sequels followed (the last in 1988). Though Travers had numerous fleeting relationships with men throughout her life, she lived for more than a decade with Madge Burnand. They shared a London flat from 1927 to 1934, then moved to a thatched cottage in Sussex, where Travers published the first of the Mary Poppins books; while on holiday in Italy, Burnand photographed Travers topless on the beach. Their friendship, in the words of one biographer, was “intense,” but also equally ambiguous. excerpt from www.en.wikipedia.org
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Misogyny MISOGYNY: hatred of women by men MISOGYNIST: a man who hates women Anti-feminist, male chauvinist pig, sexist This is an ancient system, pervasive, infecting every system worldwide, AND YET here came a FEMINIST MOVEMENT to fight the constant put down to keep women in their place, which is UNDER THE BOOT OF THE BULLY. I remember reading Alice Walker about genital mutilation and I couldn’t stomach it. My mind rejected the REALITY of it. I was an American twentieth century woman, and did not have to deal with it anywhere near me. Cruelty to BLACKS in the SOUTH where I lived, was extreme, KKK was/is rampant, if you knew where to look. In Florida, I was admiring a handsome barn with my artist eye, as a wonderful water color subject. My friend explained that it could well be an armory for the local chapter. Whoa. I had to let that settle down before I could listen to the truth. In the south, rich white gentlemen, followed by rich white ladies, followed by rich white children, followed by black men, still enslaved economically by the JIM CROW SYSTEM and the elaborate laws enforcing their place at the bottom. ENFRANCHISEMENT had not broken chains, government was NOT part of their reality. SO WE PAID LITTLE ATTENTION to a little thing like misogny. WE PAID LITTLE ATTENTION to other than SURVIVING. So, a few survivors later, specifically my momma, here I am reading Alice Walker who was roughly my contemporary as a southern woman, and had the guts to look at what was being done to women in Africa, and tell us about it. THERE THE MATTER would rest until my LESBIAN FEMINIST CONSCIOUSNESS was able to accept it on an intellectual level. Never mind a physical reality check. Empathy for my sisters came with age and maturity. And sobriety gave me back FEELINGS. Tuesday - Friday: 12pm - 7pm That means the GOOD ones and the BAD ones. Mostly I am blessed with good stuff, and will try Saturday: 10am - 6pm to look for the bright side of the situation, but this week I have some sad stuff to process, and so Sunday - Monday: Closed here I am, back to my journal to bitch and moan, lick my wounds and then GO FORTH with my truth to speak truth to power. OUR ANCIENT 22 SE 5th Ave, Suite D ENEMY MISOGNY can be said still to reign Gainesville, FL 32601 most of the world, but I join my sisters of radical 352.375.7477 feminism to speak out, sing out, and take power in these not so small actions.
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COMMUNITY RESOURCES Civic Media Center (CMC) 433 S Main St, 352-373-0010 CodePink -- Women for Peace jacque@codepinkalert.org, 352-468-2101, www.codepinkalert.org Crone’s Cradle Conserve Retreat 352-595-3377, www.cronescradleconserve.com Flash Silvermoon - Wise Woman’s Fest www.flashsilvermoon.com, 352-475-2432 Gainesville Area AIDS Project (GAAP) 352-373-4227 or info@gaaponline.org Gainesville Community Alliance (GCA) www.gcaonline.org Gainesville Iguana http://www.afn.org/~iguana/ Gay & Lesbian National Hotline 1-888-843-4564, www.glnh.org Human Rights Council (HRCNCF) 352-372-5192 or hrcncf@gmail.com LGBT Youth Support Group gainesvillepridecenteryouth@gmail.com National Center for Lesbian Rights www.nclrights.org Peaceful Paths Domestic Violence Hotline 352-377-8255, 1-800-393-7233 www.peacefulpaths.org
Pride Community Center of North Central Florida (PCCNCF) 352-377-8915, 3131 NW 13th St, Gainesville www.gainesvillepride.org Pride Student Union 352-392-1665 #326 or pride@sg.ufl.edu Rainbow Families (Gay Parents Group) 352-284-4541, gayparentgroup@bellsouth.net Shake Rag Art & Culture Center 882 North State Road 21, Melrose FL 352-475-5551, www.shakeragarts.org St. Augustine MCC Church 904-824-2802, www.FirstCoastMCC.org Stonewall Democrats of Alachua County 352-373-1730, PO Box 223, Gainesville Survivors of Anti-LGBT Victimization (SAV) 352-264-6760, 1-866-252-5439 Trinity Metropolitan Community Church 352-495-3378, www.mccgainesville.org UF Office of LGBT Affairs 352-392-1217, www.lgbt.multicultural.ufl.edu Unitarian Universalist Fellowship 352-377-1669, 4225 NW 34th St, Gainesville Wild Iris Books 352-375-7477, 22 SE 5th Ave Suite D, Gainesville, www.wildirisbooks.com
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Classifieds FOR SALE: FURNISHED Park Model with large lot for sale in Apache Junction, AZ, a Women's resort. 1 bedroom, 1 bath, living room, dinning area, and kitchen with many cabinets. Double pane windows with 90% sun block screens. Central air/heat, large shed, covered carport with sun screening; electric cart included. Asking price $87,500. For more information call Maria at 480-288-2741 or email to rainbowtravgals2@aol.com. FOR RENT: Cozy house in NE Gainesville bicycle ride to downtown. Enjoy two bedrooms, two bath, office space, shed with electricity. Quite neighborhood, AC/heat, dishwasher, lovely yard surrounding house with native FL shrubs and flowers. Contact gaylebluebird@aol.com Rent: $850 FOR RENT: House to Share in Melrose. 3 bedroom, two bath, furnished house on one acre of fenced-in Azalea-covered yard a short walk to Lake Sante Fe with access to small beach, dock, and fishing deck. House is well kept, has one adult woman and one small, very quiet, Shitzu female dog, and yard is maintained. House is split floor plan with bedroom and bath at each side of house. 3 separate entrances, three patios, and large pole barn for storage of some items if needed. Rent could be $850, possibly all inclusive to right person. Extras might be, utilities, TV, Internet, furniture, cleaning services, lawn care, etc. Would need to negotiate with person first. No additional pets, no smoking, and no heavy scents, please. Call Shewolf (Jean) for details or more information. 904-521-5975 cell (10am to 10pm). House is located 15 minutes from east Gainesville on west side of Melrose; easy commute to Gainesville, Palatka, Waldo or Starke. Page 20
FREE Confidential STD Testing! On the 1st & 3rd Thursdays of each month at 5:00 - 7:00 pm at the Pride Community Center 3131 NW 13th St, Gainesville Kindred Sisters — May 2014
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May 18: “Without Men” Without Men is a comedy about the women of a small and remote Latin American mountain village that’s forever altered the day all of its men are recruited to go fight in the country’s civil war. Left to fend for themselves, the women of the town, led by Rosalba, slowly emerge from their supporting roles as wives and daughters to become unwitting founders of a remarkable new society: an all female utopia. When the men return to try to reclaim their power, a clash of sexes ensues with unsuspected consequences. Pride Center, 3131 NW 13th St, Gainesville. www.gainesvillepride.org