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Rita Mae Brown Reads & Rags
On April 21 Rita Mae Brown spoke to a group of about 200 women and men at KSU's Student Center. She had been asked to speak about lesbianism in the women's movement as part of the Kent Gay Liberation Front's Fourth Annual Workshops. True to form, her style consisted largely of rapid-fire oneliners designed to alternately flatter and poke fun at her audience. She opened with a counterattack on the Anita Bryants of the world by exposing some of the myths of homosexuality. "Nothing is unnatural," she said, “just untried," and "Homosexuals If we were, we'd be rich,' are not criminals. "Lesbians don't hate men. Battered wives do."' She cautioned that by staying in the closet, gay people are judged by the destructive elements in the community. In a more serious tone, Rita Mae denounced as an outright lie that homosexuals are child molesters and cited an FBI statistic showing that 97% of sexual crimes against children are committed by married men with 2 or more children. We kept wondering when she was going to bring up the scheduled topic.
The second part of the discussion was open for questions and comments. Throughout her comments, Rita Mae stressed the need to nationalize the women's movement and find ways to utilize our financial resources. She criticized the duplication of effort now going on in the movement and proposed the establishment of a wire service to keep us posted on what other women are doing. (We know of at least two of them now existing and one on the way!)
Interview with Therese Edell (continued
A: I've been dealing with having to practice since I was five years old. Music is an incredibly personal and risk-taking venture. To do it in front of a person who already knows how (the teacher] is hard. People should be nurtured. In the lessons, I give as much of myself as I can.
Q: Do you have fantasies and plans for the future?
A: I will keep writing. I want my ideas to keep clarifying themselves through my music. I want to be a producer, to produce women's music on recordings. I'd like to have the money in Sea Friends to
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Her most caustic comments were directed at middle class women in the movement, poking fun at those of us who aspire to downward mobility. She said that middle class women are taught to downplay their resources and should strive Instead to open up their resources to less privileged women. One of her con. crete suggestions for achieving this would be for each of us to give the movement 10% of our Income, kind of on the order of tithing. If it works for the Catholic Church, maybe it can work for us. She complained that women have turned the movement into a sorority and should strive to organize around competitive gain, not moral virtue.
The evening ended with a long reading from Rubyfruit Jungle. (So much for lesbianism in the women's movement!) After it was over I found myself as confused as I was enlightened. Rita Mae Brown is very direct, though stagey. She has become an outspoken figure in the media which, as she justifiably claims, makes it a little easier for the rest of us. She makes us laugh, which is important in a movement that can tend to be a little humorless. She is quite upfront about her own upward mobility. (She's currently writing a murder mystery for TV, among other things.) But she seems to have missed some very important points. She says that the women's movement was a national movement before it became a grassroots movement, a comment which doesn't do justice to the small groups of women who have been working hard on a community level for many years. She also glosses over the fact that what she is mocking as "downward mobility" usually reflects the deliberate and valid attempt of women to understand the roots of their oppression and develop values not based on money. It it naive to assume that we can climb the economic ladder and remain accountable to the movement by giving it our 10%.
Rita Mae Brown says that we cannot look for the answers -we must be the answer. Rita Mae Brown is doing it one way. There are many other ways. --Linda Jane
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produce. I did the producing for From Women's Faces. I got to make decisions. My associates in production were Lou Anderson and Teresa, learned an incredible amount. I took a studio engineering course [after recording the albums); I know what the machines can do. Pressing is impor. tant. I'm expecting (to complete] the second album in the first part of May. I have a physical need to write. I haven't had the luxury of time to synthesize that process the intellectual reaction to the emo. tional. I am confident about my future. My personal life is great, my work is going well...
Q: What about your politics?
A: Allison Jagger [a Cincinnati woman] talks about a "radical lesbian feminist," which is who I am. I believe in the individual but I am extremely aware of my responsibility to the collective effort. But I believe I have to be my own person. I am a vegetarian for health and political reasons. I'd like to go to raw foods completely. ..Andrea Baker
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