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The WomenSpace Helpline needs committed volunteers to provide information on what resources are available in areas such as divorce. discrimination, abuse, employment and health: support to help women take that "next step''; and follow-up with additional support, resources and gathering feedback on community resources. Training sessions are September 12 from 10a.m. to 3 p.m. (downtown). September 16 from 7 to 10 p.m. (Cleveland Heights). September 19 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (downtown), September 23 from 7 to 10 p.m. (Cleveland Heights), and September 26 from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. (downtown). Attendance at all sesslons is mandatory. Call Susan Haas at 696-3100 for more information and to register.

WomenSpace and the Cleveland Heights-University Heights Department of Community Services will offer a series of eight workshops for women thinking of returning to work. October workshops are:

October 15-"Introduction: Women in Employment," Women Space, Cleveland Women Working.

October 22-"Career and Family," Prill Goldthwait, RENEW. October 29-"How to Choose," Carol Humphrey, Oyke College. All workshops are 9:30 to 11:00 a.m., at the First Baptist Church, 3630 Fairmount Blvd., Cleveland Heights. Daycare available. Fees are $37 for the entire series and $6 for an individual session. For more information call Sarah Spengler, 696-6967, or Adele Eisner, at Cleveland Heights-University Heights Community Services, 371-7406.

Women Together, Inc., operator of a shelter for battered women that houses approximately 200 women and 400 children per year, has a new volunteer program called "Sponsorship". Volunteer sponsors are assigned women who call the hotline and shelter residents upon their departure. Volunteers accompany clients to groups for abused women and help provide emotional support. If you are interested in training for the sponsorship program, call Fay Grinage, 431-6267.

The Women's Rights Project of the Center for Law and Social Policy, with the assistance of the Women's Legal Defense Fund, will conduct a twoday training session September 14-24 in Kansas City, Kansas, for lawyers in Title IX law and litigation. Extensive written materials will be provided without charge, as will child care; a registration fee of $25.00 covers the cost of lunch and coffee breaks each day. Subsequent sessions will be held in Dallas, Los Angeles, Seattle, and Boston. For further information, write at once to Susan L: Wise, Administrative Assistant, Women's Rights Project, 1751 N Street N.W., Washington, O.C. 20036, or call (202) 872-0670.

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Sign Language for the Beginner. A chance to start understanding what those flapping arms really mean. The class will meet Sundays between 7 and 9 p.m. and continue through Thanksgiving. Please call the Gay Hotline at 621-3380 to register, as there will be limited enrollment. We can try to set up rides or car pools if needed. Cost is $20 for the 9-week class and approximately $10 for the book. Ask for starting date and location (possibly East and West) when you register.

Kentucky Collection of Lesbian Herstory is a committee of the Spiral Wimmin's Land Cooperative. The focus of the Archives is to gather materials and to continue networking. In order to do this, the Archives needs both money and donations of materials. For more information, send a selfaddressed stamped envelope (an extra stamp or two) to: KCLH, c/o landras moontree, P.O. Box 264, Monticello, Kentucky 42633.

The Spiral Wimmin's Land Cooperative is a group of Lesbians cofounding/creating a rural Lesbian community in southeastern Kentucky. We are committed to understanding co-operative process and consensus decision making, cooperating to build and maintain ourselves and our community. For more information, send a self-addressed stamped envelope (an extra stamp or two) and a small donation (if you can) for printing costs. Subscription to the Spiral newsletter is $2.00 (more if you can, less if you can't). The newsletter is free to Lesbians in prison and Lesbians in mental institutions. Write: Spiral WLC, P.O. Box 337, Monticello, Kentucky 42633, or call (606) 348-5215.

The Women Students Leadership Training Project, funded for its first year by grants from WEAA and the Carnegie Corporation, is sponsored by the National Student Educational Fund (NSEF). The two-year project, which will work closely with the National Women Students Coalition, will provide students with the necessary information, training, and leadership skills to combat sex discrimination on campus and at state and national levels. In addition, the Project will develop an information and support network of students and others concerned about sex equity in postsecondary education and will publish a resource manual. For more information, contact Kathy Baron, NSEF, 2000 P St., NW, Suite 305, Washington, DC 20036.

Beginning in October 1981 and continuing for a year, Mary Clare Powell and Anne Cheatham will travel around the U.S. looking for women who are creating the new. Anne will collect material for a book called The Future is Femala, seeking to interview women who are conceiving or creating genuinely new structures for business, education, health care, law, the arts, banking, resource use, etc.-any facet of the culture. She hopes to find these women, talk with them, write about them, and create a network of them for their support.

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Mary Clare will look for feminist artists who are not widely known, and she too will seek to create a network of them. She will also carry a portable display of feminist art from the Washington, D.C. area which she will display wherever she can-people's houses, women's centers, art, centers.

Both women are collecting names and addresses of women to contact. If you have names, please contact them at 8002 Iliff Drive, Dunn Loring, VA 22027, or (703) 560-3088, or Anne at work (202) 225-3153, before September 1. If you would like a copy of the directory they develop, write to the above address.

Female career workers wanted (age thirties through fifties) to participate in research on women working full-time outside, the home. Write for questionnaire. Responses confidential. Mary Lynn Crow, Ph.D., UTA Box 19359, The University of Texas at Arlington, Arlington, Texas 76019.

The National Institute of Aging has awarded a grant to Radcliffe College to transcribe and analyze interviews with elderly black women leaders. Researchers will process the interviews and study the coping strategies black women have developed for survival. The interviews, conducted as part of the Radcliffe College Black Women Oral History Project, will become part of the data collection at the Murray Research Center. For information, write to the Schlesinger Library, Radclitte College, 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138.

For articles on the lesbian-feminist experience, write to the LesbianFeminist Studies Clearinghouse (LFSC), whose purpose it is to explore and study all segments of the lesbian-feminist community, especially third world lesbians. The LFSC is especially interested in hearing from women who work and write off campus, or beyond academe entirely. A major activity of the LFSC calls for the sharing of information and publications. New articles are currently being solicited. For a brochure describing available materials, and to Submit new work, write to the LesbianFeminist Studies Clearinghouse, Women's Studies Program, 1012 Cathedral of Learning, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260.

Volume III of the Guide to Research in Women's Studies in Language and Literature, sponsored by the Modern Language Association's Divison of Women's Studies, consists of annotated bibliographies of women writers in several languages. The annotations are short and must be completed by March 1982. For more information about the Hispanic sections write to Diane Marting, 341 Somerset Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901. For information about other languages or the overall project, write to Luciana Csaki, 409 West 62 Street, Kansas City, MO 64113.

Interested in journalism or helping to serve the gay community? High Gear is in need of reporters, writers, and layout workers. Classes will be held for those interested in working on the newspaper.

You are invited to respond to the question, "What will it take to prevent nuclear war?" for a book in preparation which will consist of brief contributions from a wide variety of persons. The deadline for responses is October 1, 1981. Responses should not exceed 300 words, or the equivalent of one page. Contributions may be prose, poetry, photograph, line drawing or other form of expression. Contributors should include a one-sentence biographical note. All responses will be acknowledged; responses accompanied by return postage will be returned. There will be a special section of responses from children. Facts, feelings, ideas and outcries are solicited, as are the voices of those who are discouraged about prospects for the survival of the human race. Send your response to Pat Farren, 2161 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02140.

Women Against Pornography (New York) is organizing two public forums and needs a poster with artwork and a text block that will both convey information and make a political statement. First prize is $200 plus autographed copies of "Against Our Will: Men, Women and Rape" by Susan Brownmiller, "Pornography: Men Possessing Women" by Andrea Dworkin, and "The Hite Report on Male Sexuality" by Shere Hite. Second prize is $50, third prize is $25. Each winner will also receive a free ticket to each of the events. Free tickets will also be awarded to the first 25 entries. Deadline for the contest is October 15. Results will be announced on October 22.

Artists who are interested in competing should call the Women Against Pornography office at (212) 594-2801 on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursday, from 10:30 a.m. to 6 p.m., to discuss the specifications in greater detail.

Services and Resources

Womanpower is a free semi-annual newsletter focussing on issues of concern to professional social workers and the women they serve. Available on request from Womanpower, The National Association of Social Workers, 1425 H St. NW, Suite 600, Washington, D.C. 20005.

If you are a woman with a problem and don't know where to turn, WomenSpace's Help Line, 696-3100, may be able, to put you in touch with helpful community resources. The Help Line's haurs are 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. to 10 p.m., Monday through Friday. Women who call for assistance are provided with information and referrals by a staff of trained women specialists who can assess the caller's needs and refer her to vocational/career resources, social service agencies, physicians, therapists, attorneys and self-help groups. The staff regularly researches and updates a resource bank to insure that current information is available.

The Women Against Pornography slide show and presentation is now available in Cleveland to any interested women's group. For information contact Diana or Judie at 523-1875 or 631-0024:

Women USA was founded in 1979 as a national communications network for women. In addition to operating a hotline, it monitors legislative and executive actions in Washington affecting women, publishes a newsletter and organizes lobbies and other mass activities for women. It is currently conducting a nationwide campaign to collect signatures on a People's Petition for Reproductive Freedom, co-sponsored by women's and civil rights groups. The toll-free hotline number, 800-221-4945, operates 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, in every state except Alaska and Hawaii. New York State has its own number, 212-344-2531. For more information, call or write Mim Kelber, Women USA, 76 Beaver Street, New York N.Y. 10005.

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The Cleveland Women's Handbook is a collection of thoughts by women on women and their lives, and a comprehensive listing of services and agencies which serve women. It includes consumer information and questions to help us choose, use and influence those services and agencies. The Handbook is sponsored by Cleveland Women's Counsel, the Rape Crisis Center. Women Together and WomenSpace. Individual copies are $5 each plus $1 postage and handling. Orders of 5 or more are $4 each, plus postage and handling. The Handbook is available to lowincome women through social service agencies. Call CWC, 321-8587, for information. Also, call CWC if you are interested in distributing the Handbook through your social service agency. Copies can be ordered from Cleveland Women's Counsel, P.O. Box 18472. Cleveland Hts.. Ohio 44118.

The State of Ohio Women's Information Center now has a toll-free number so persons outside the Columbus area can call free of charge for information on women's issues and legislation. Call 800-282:3040 weekdays from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The National Women's Political Caucus has released a handy directory of women officials in the Federal government, major political parties, state legislatures and major cities. According to Iris Mitgang, Chair of the bipartisan women's organization, the number of women in political office in the U.S. has tripled since 1974, with women now representing 12 percent of all elected officials. The directory can be obtained free by writing to Jeannine Dowling, Corporate Public Affairs, Philip Morris, Inc., 100 Park Avenue, New York, NY 10017.

The National Directory of Women's Employment Programs: Who They Are; What They Do Includes descriptions of 140 service organizations including their objectives, job services, programs, complete listings. $7.50. Purchase from Women's Work Force of Wider Opportunities for Women, 1649 K St., NW, Washington, D.C. 20006.

The Women's International Resource Exchange (WIRE) reproduces published and unpublished accounts and analyses by and about women in the Third World, for feminist groups, church-based women's groups, union-aftiliated women, women's studies departments, and human rights, Third World support and anti-imperialist solidarity groups. For a bibliography, write WIRE Service, 2700 Broadway, Room 7, New York, NY 10025.

Women's Career Network Association has lectures, workshops information and monthly meetings to share goals, experiences, information. $75 annual membership includes the "Cleveland Business Woman'' newsletter. WCNA, 106 E. Bridge St., Berea, Ohio 44017; 243-3740.

Women's Network in Akron is an informational clearinghouse for women's interests, referral service, emphasis on career development and personal growth. Annual membership, $15 and up. Contact Ann M. Gargano, Women's Network, 39 E..Market St., Suite 502, Akron, Ohio 44308, or telephone 1-376-7852.

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Women who are blind can now have access to feminist literature through a new service provided by the Womyn's Braille Press, located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. WBP has announced the launching of a service which offers feminist books, periodicals and other information on women's issues, both in Braille and on tape. WBP also produces a quarterly newsletter for women, which is also offered in Braille, in print and on tape. For further information, contact the Womyn's Braille Press, Inc., at P.O. Box 8475, Minneapolis, MN 55408.

Hazard Alert, published by the Council on Hazardous Materials, has published its first issue. If you are interested in receiving this newsletter, contact Marge Grevatt, 1223 West Sixth Street, Cleveland 44113.

Experience women's art and literature through the Judy Chicago Word and Image Network (JC/WIN), a mail-order catalogue that lists posters, slides, poetry, books, postcards, casettes, discussion kits, pamphlets and reading lists. Available in the fall of 1981. Reserve a copy by sending a check or money order for $2.50 to JC/WIN, 1728 Bissonnet, Houston, Texas 77005.

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Experienced AB Dick 360 Offset press operator, part-time, Lakewood area, hours flexible. Ask for Jean Quirk at 228-0700.

The Women's Writer's Center: An independent feminist institute offering a year-long program of writing workshops and women's literature. Faculty for 1981-82 include: Olga Broumas, Michelle Cliff, Rachel deVries, Judy Grahn, Susan Griffin, Rhoda Lerman, Barbara Smith, Rita Speicher, Mona Vold. Information: WWC, Box AY Williams, Cazenovia, New York 13035.

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