LETTERS

Dear What She Wants:

Some time ago, in the July, 1975, issue of What She Wants under your editorial section entitled "Help Wanted" saying "We get very little feedback from our readers. Do you have projects, events, or a group your belong to that needs publicizing? Let us know. Do you have a special interest within the women's movement?"

We are readers of your publication for the past couple of years and do find it extremely interesting as well as informative as to what's going on in women's activities in the Cleveland area. We are both NOW members and of course, do support the objectives of the women's movement.

However, the project that has taken most of our time, money and interest for the past couple of years is the overpopulation problem of our domestic pets-cats and dogs. We find that many people are in agreement with our goals, as outlined in the attached information sheet and flyer the main one being the implementation of a public low cost spayneuter clinic where pet owners may have their pets altered at low cost. We do find that many of the male population have some hangup regarding the altering of their male dog, and perhaps equate the alteration of the dog to themselves personally. They do not seem as reluctant, however, when it comes to spaying the female cat or dog. So, actually, the erratic thinking of the male toward the female is apparent even when it comes to cats and dogs.

Therefore, we think it might be of some interest for your newspaper to publish some information regarding spaying-neutering and make all persons more aware of the increasing numbers of cats and dogs that must be deliberately and intentionally destroyed under our present system of encouraging pet overpopulation. Contact us for more information. Thank you.

Dear Valerie:

Sincerely,

Rosemarie Folkman Violet J. Tarcai

During a recent trip to Cleveland I was delighted to find that What She Wants is still in publication. After the demise of The Cleveland Feminist, I received a note stipulating that should I wish, my subscription would be continued in What She Wants. Since I never received a response to my "OK" I assumed What She Wants" ran into trouble in publication also. I am please to find this is not true.

The Women Artists Workshop is anxious to reach other women artists (of any expression). We are interested in communicating with and through our work to all our sisters and particularly in stimulating mutual support and encouragement with our sister artists. Shared skill workshops, mutual expressive sessions and the publication of a women artists newletter...with a Quarterly in the offing are all a part of the Women Artists Workshop, A vital point is the economics: or "How to Depatriarchialize your Creativity"...survival is a basic function for all living things: women artists are no exception. To even question work for pay, etc. is a patriarchial conditioning. It is obvious and a precept on which we work, as individuals and in our coming together.

We openly invite any and all women artists to share in our Workshop. For further information, contact me at: The Women Artist Workshop, 7027 Windsor-Geneva Road, Windsor, Ohio 44099 Telephone: (216) 272-5241

In Sisterhood,

Darlene R. Miller

page 4/What She Wants/June, 1977

Women Rally in

Defense of Prostitutes

Over fifty organizations, Northern Ohio Wages for Housework among them, have endorsed a statement demanding that the harassment of street prostitutes be stopped. The action is a response to a recent campaign of harassment of street prostitutes by the San Francisco Police and District Attorney. Using the cover of "morality" and insinuating a connection between "violent crime" and prostitution, they are in fact depriving thousands of women of their only access to money. At the same time, the government is leaving un touched the big hotels and other establishments which make a fortune by pimping off prostitutes. The statement of support, prepared by Wages for Housework San Francisco and the Los Angeles Wages for Housework Comittee, explains how the attack on prostitutes is an attack on all women. It demands an end to the harassment of prostitutes and the abolition of all laws against prostitution.

Governments internationally are harassing prostitute women because prostitution exposes our sexuality as work that should be paid. In order to survive, we are forced to sell our bodies in the street, in marriage, in typing pools, in factories. All women are fighting for money for all the work we do so that we will have the power to refuse prostitution in any of its forms.

The statement is being circulated throughout North America and Europe, as well as in California, because focusing on the San Francisco situation lends power to women everywhere who are facing similar attacks and harassment. The statement, available in English and Spanish, goes out with declarations of support from the English Collective of Prostitutes; Wages Due Lesbians, London and Toronto; and Black Women for Wages for Housework, New York. It has received wide. spread coverage by the media, and was presented to the San Francisco Board of supervisors on National Hookers Rights Day, February 14.

"Sex is supposed to be personal, always a free choice, different from work. But it's not a free choice when we are dependent on men for money. We women are expected to be sexual service stations and because of that, sex becomes a bargaining point between ourselves and men. When any of us sleep with a man, at least to some degree we are forced to consider what we are going to get in return for 'giving' — money, the rent, or better treatment in other ways. Whether we enjoy it or not, we are making a calculation. Those of us who are prostitutes not only calculate, but put a price on our services and make men meet it. The line between unpaid sex and paid sex is a question of what we get in return."

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