The Women's

Growth Cooperative

p.o. box 18087, cleveland heights, ohio 44118 321-8582

Summer Groups and Workshops

Day In the Woods-Sunday, June 17, 2-9 p.m. (in case of rain, June 24)

We will take time to quiet ourselves from the city and open ourselves to the sensory, simple pleasure inherent in light hiking, a fire circle, and open, green spaces.

Assertiveness Training-Saturday, Sunday, June 16-17, 10-5 p.m.

Learn positive ways to stand up for personal rights and express your needs and feelings without violating the rights of others. We will examine our current

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The White House is making its meeting room in Cleveland Helghts available for a small fee. The attractive room, with its feminist atmosphere, holds up to 18 people. Call 321-8582 for Information and to make reservations.

Low Rent Feminist Housing Available: Near West Side (close to Ohio City). Reasonable rent in exchange for help in fixing up an apartment. Call 281-1726 before 3 pm.

What She Wants is looking for a woman to solicit advertising on a commission basis. Please contact us at P.O. Box 18465, Cleveland Heights 44118. Include your phone number and indicate when you can be reached.

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JANET CENTURY

Studio Commercials / Location / Portraits / Celebrations / Documentary 1570 Belmar Road, East Cleveland, Ohio 44118 Telephone 321-9401

behaviors and feelings in this area. Then the focus will be on learning communication which is neither hostile nor submissive. There will be opportunities to practice new behaviors in situations like those at home, at work, at social gatherings.

Personal Growth Group-6 Tuesday evenings beginning June 26, 7:30-9:30 p.m.

An opportunity to share in a supportive environment experiences, problems, and the special dimensions of being a woman. Each woman will be encouraged to identify her strengths and goals and to

use the group to do her personal growing in the areas she chooses. The group will encourage an increasing awareness of self as an individual in interaction with others, provide an opportunity to get feedback and experiment with new behaviors.

Please register at least one week in advance.

To register for a group or workshop, please fill out the form below and mail to The Women's Growth Cooperative, P.O. Box 18087, Cleveland Hts., OH 44118.

Name

Address______ Phone:

Day

I would like to register for:

Enclosed find check for $ of $5.00 required.)

Evening

(Minimum deposit

Phone: 321-8582. If we are not in, please leave a message on our answering machine. We will return your call. INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING ALSO AVAILABLE

even productions

p.o. box 18175, cleveland heights, ohio 44118 (216) 321-1587

Oven Productions presents Therese Edell in concert Saturday, June 9, at 8:30 p.m. The concert will be held at the Unitarian Church, 2728 Lancashire Road in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Free childcare is available by calling 321-1587 by June 4. Tickets are $5.00 (under 12, over 60, $1.00).

Arrangements for the handicapped and work exchange are available by calling Oven Productions. Ticket Outlets:

Coventry Books, 1824 Coventry Road

Food Communities, 11628 Euclid Avenue Rape Crisis Center, 3201 Euclid Avenue WomenSpace, 1258 Euclid Avenue

Tish's Shoe Repair Emporium, 15603 Madison

For a 4th of July that's sure to be a blast, come join Oven at Squire ValleeVue Farm for a potluck picnic from 1 p.m. until dark. Be prepared for a full day of softball, volleyball or just walking

BREAD & ROSES

Films About Women

and the Trade Union Movement

May 31: With Babies and Banners June 7: Salt of the Earth

June 14: Union Maids

I Am Somebody

June 21: Blow for Blow

June 28: Controlling Interest

Sponsored by common Works

The Fight Against Black Monday

All programs will be held at 7:00 p.m.

University Center Auditorium, Cleveland State University

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through the woods. We plan to eat around 4 o'clock. Oven will be selling beverages and will supply the charcoal.

This is a women only event. Directions to Squire ValleeVue Farm:

Take Fairmount east past SOM Center Rd. Squire Vallee Vue Farm will be on your left about one-half mile after you cross SOM Center, with a brown sign saying "Case Western Reserve University". (If you hit Chagrin Boulevard, you've gone too far.)

Turn left at this sign and follow signs along a dirt road to Picnic Ground No. 6. It will be on your left.

Anyone having Casc Western ID cards, please bring them.

Oven is also planning a women-only party on July 21. We are working on this now so be sure to check July's issue of WSW for details.

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develops immediate positive feelings?

I do feel there are also long-term rewards involved in maintaining an open gay-straight relationship. Persistent isolation of either group leads to narrowmindedness and self-destruction. To counteract this, communication between the two groups is necessary. Without the burden of discrimination, it is easier for the straight woman to hreak down existing barriers. From my own experience I have been readily accepted in my friend's gay community. However, I know the majority of my straight women friends have preconceived ideas of lesbians which prevents their accepting them. Under these circumstances, it is not difficult to understand the tendency toward separateness on the gay woman's part. Anyone would want to be around people who know and understand them.

For this reason I am expressing my feelings of joy and thankfulness in having my friend. I hope this may precipitate a change in some straight women's pre-existing ideas of lesbianism, so that when you encounter a lesbian, whether it's someone new or an old friend, relax and stay with her and try to understand what she is all about.

I have requested anonymity in order to honor the confidence of my friendship.

-Anonymous