THE PAPER HAS

"Papa don't lay that shit on me You just don't turn me on. Papa don't lay that shit on me

The fun and games are gone.

It wasn't my game, it wasn't my fun All that trashin is over and done..."

...Or in other words, fuck the men, we're having a party! Not since the pajama parties of puberty have females enjoyed such sorority as at the What She Wants Birthday Party held on May 19th. Over 100 sisters gathered at the Unitarian Society to help the staff of WSW celebrate one year of survival. Yes, Virginia, there is a women's paper in Cleveland!

Women of all seasons clustered around the punchkettle for a cup of cheer and a slab of birthday cake. But unlike other parties, there was much more to do than just drink and pass out. For the body, there was dance with Linda Thomas, a women's rock band and recorded women artists. For the mind, there were books and films. For the soul, there was poetry provided by Big Mama. For the heart, there were new friends to make. For the booby prize, there was a pair of falsies.

photo by Jackie Wessel

New Women's Band, "3 Women", entertain at the party

A PARTY

"Papa don't lay those sounds on me

I ain't your groovy chick.

Papa don't lay those sounds on me You know they only make me sick.

Rollin Stones, Blood Sweat & Tears, We've taken that shit for too many years...”

...And that's how we wimmins ended our party-dancin to the music by and for wimmins. Jus partyin till midnight, wishin we could boogie forever.

P.S.

"Keep on truckin mama

Truckin all the live long day.

Keep on truckin mama

Truckin all your cares away.

All you menfolk singin the blues

Don't you think us women have paid our dues?

Keep on truckin mama Truckin your blues away...

lyrics by the Chicago Women's Liberation Band Sincerely,

The Staff of What She Wants We'd like to extend a special thanks to Marguerite Beck Rex for the full page coverage she did of our Birthday Party in the Sun Press.

LETTER TO YOU

To You Our Supporters:

We here at WSW have always been curious about you, our audience, and it occurred to us that you might wonder what we have been up to.

We have been together for over a year now and could not have done it without you.

Our staff has grown considerably since the beginning and we have changed both in numbers and in consciousness. We're bigger now, 12 pages grew out of eight, and we've gotten better, too, compare our early issues with our latest. We have become incorporated for the sake of legal protection and we have organized ourselves so that production runs more smoothly. We can now put

Welcome to our 13th issue.

What She Wants, has open meetings, and any woman  ́ ́interested in feminist newspaper work is welcome to attend. The response to our paper has been exciting and we really need to have more women working on it. All of us in the WSW collective have other jobs or go to school, and we put the paper out on our own time. Not only do we need writers and people to help layout the paper, we need people to sell the paper. We usually meet on Saturday afternoons. Call us at 321-1677 or write P.O. Box 18072 Cleve. Hts. 44118.

STAFF: Valerie Robinson, Ann Weld-Harrington, Mary Waxman, Jackie Wessel, Melanie Youngs, Laurel Brummet, Nancy Handley, Sandy Handley, Kathy Greenberg, Barb Reusch, Jane Darrah, Helen Williams, Paula King, Peggy Van Buskirk, Lorraine Bertosa, Meredith Holmes, Amy Hosa, Beth Amoriya, Laura Smiddie, Sally Jo Caldwell, 'Pat Wilks, Marian Dorn, Ilene Callahan, Sheri Pawski, Gail Hopkins, Karal Stern, Edie Brashares

This publication is on file at the International Women's: History Archive, 2325 Oak St., Berkeley, CA 95708,

page 8/What She Wants/July 1974

know how you feel about what we are doing. We have printed your thoughts in printing your articles and your poetry. We feel the most comfortable when we are in touch with you. Thank you for being with us.

together 12 pages in the time it took to put together eight. Some of us have become specialized in certain areas such as art, lay-out, distribution and production coordination. Through all these changes we still work as a whole. All decisions we make concerning WSW we make together and we make them with you and the future of WSW in mind. We have tried to develop each issue so that there is something for every woman who reads it: something for women who work either in or outside their homes, something for students, of all was the spirit of sisterhood between your group something for gay women, something for straight women, something for everyone. We don't always reach this goal but we try.

We enjoy reading your letters, they let us

Dear Sisters at What She Wants,

Thank you again for letting CWC do a door prize at your birthday. We did make a little money but best

and ours. Alsothe,party was great. Happy Birthday!

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In Sisterhood,

Betsy Tabac

WHO SAID WHAT!

Oh hard is the fortune of all womankind We're always controlled, we're always confined Controlled by our parents until we are wives Then slaves to our husbands the rest of our lives. Traditional folk song

In childhood a woman must be subject to her father; in youth, to her husband; when her husband is dead, to her sons. A woman must never be free of subjugation.

The Hindu Code of Manu V

There are few jobs that actually require a penis or vagina. All other jobs should be open to everybody.

Florynce Kennedy

To men a man is but a mind. Who cares what pace he carries or what he wears. But woman's body is the woman.

Ambrose Bierce

Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? Germaine Greer

Powerlessness is a dirty word.

Florynce Kennedy

There are more women in this country than there are men. Men aren't doing it. Women themselves fail women. Women don't support women. They keep talking about "getting the power." They have the power.

Helen Gahagan Douglas

We've got to stop sucking and begin to bite. Florynce Kennedy