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More Opportunities
Judy Ress of the American Friends Service Committee staff in Chile will be available during December for speaking engagements in northern Ohio. She is particularly interested in reaching women's groups where she can present her slide show on the lives of four Chilean women who have been victims of the repression under the new government. Contact John Looney at AFSC, 475 West Market Street, Akron, 1-253-7151..
We are interested in forming a network of faculty who teach feminist courses relating to health care issues, and in fostering development of such courses at the undergraduate level. We are assessing the possibility of sponsoring a summer workshop. Any interested please contact Barbara Barker, Ph.D., or Patricia Farnes, M.D., Rhode Island Hospital, 593 Eddy Street, Providence, RI 02902, (401) 277-5003, or Judy Markowitz. Women's Studies, Towson State University, Baltimore, MD 21204, (301) 730-8953.
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Perspectives on Working Women in History is a course designed to help discuss and explore the role of working women in building the economy of the United States. The course will begin January 5 and be held on Tuesday evenings from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. until March 9 at CSU. For further information, see article on page 3 of this issue..
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.
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 Female, 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.
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.
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 Woman Students Coalition, will provide students with the necessary information, training, and leadership skills to combat sax discrimination on campus and at state and national levels. In addition, the Project will develop an information and support network of students and ethers concerned about sex equity in postsecondary education and will publish a resource manual. For more information, contact Kathy Baron, NSEF, 2000 P St., NW, Sale 305, Washington, DC 20036.
The Bs and proposals focusing
Formation calls for research asdf cancern to Aicam working women. Candidates must be i a ciliators vikurking on the doctoral or post-doctoral level. Proposals must have been approved by academic authorities in an accredited graduate-insitution or by persons able to demonstrate that the proposed research will be conducted under standards of scholarship-recognized at the dectoral level. The deadline for completed applications for research fellowships is January 1, 1982. Requests for application materials ist be accompanied by a brief description of the research project and be honored until December 15, 1981. For further information contact Mary Rubin, Research Assistant, 2012 Massachusetts Ave., NW. Washington, D.C. 20036.
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, Radcliffe College, 10 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138.
Several women in the Cleveland area are currently discussing collective living from a feminist perspective. The purpose is to understand the political and personal aspects, identify our individual priorities in living situations, and determine whether we want to live together collectively. If you are a woman who is a feminist and would like to be a part of these discussions, call 229-9943 or 229-5354.
An 8-week Women's Awareness Course hs been funded by City CETA to expose women to apprenticeable trades. If you are CETA eligible (unemployed or underemployed) and interested, call Amy Schuman at Women in Skilled Employment, 696-6967.
Ongoing
Cleveland Women's Choir. Anyone interested in singing feminist music, drop in at 3178 Meadowbrook on Thursday evenings, 7:30, or call Penny at 932-3326..
Dignity, an organization for Catholic and other Christian gay women and men, welcomes new members. Meeting are at Hallinan Center, CWRU, the second and fourth Thursday of each month, beginnning with a women's meeting at 7:00 p.m. and Mass and a program at 8:00 p.m. For more information, call Patti at 321-9456.
Education for Freedom of Choice in Ohio (EFCO) can provide professionals from all areas to speak to your group or organization' on the subject of abortion. EFCO also provides research assistance to students and professionals on reproductive issues. To arrange a speaker, contact EFCO, 439 The Arcade, Cleveland, Ohio 44114, or phone (216) 621-8224.
The Feminist Writers Guild meets the first Monday of each month at 7:30 p.m. at the Cleveland Heights Public Library, 2345 Lee Road, or you may contact Pat at 791-0311 (eves) or Jan at 475-0075 (eves).
Parents of the Gay Educational Awareness Resources (GEAR) Foundation have formed a chapter of Paronds of Bays. POG members are meeting to explore their feelmys about gay family members, supporting GEAR Foun daft activities, of the GEAR Speakers Bureau to address clubs and p rations. For more information, tact the GEAR Four P.O. x 6177, Cloveland, Ohio 4410), or cal 621-6546.
Interested in helping serve the Cleveland Gay Community? The Gay Hotline needs vakeivers to help staff the operation. Training for new volunteers consists of four classes, an interview, and on-the-job training with a senior volunteer. If you can help in this important and worthwhile work, please call the Gay Hotline, 621-3380, and leave your name and phone number. One of the Hotline Coordinators will get in touch with you. The Grassroots Female Leadership Coalition invites all women to meet the second Tuesday and the fourth Saturday of each month from 9:00 to 11:00 a.m. at McDonald's Restaurant (downstairs lunchroom), 3050 Carnegie Avenue, Cleveland: We are concerned with reaching grassroots women in the community as well as encouraging those interested to take on leadership roles in order to tackle domestic, economic, and political problems which all women, particularly minority women, face. For further Information, call Geraldine Roberts on the Job Bank Action Line, 361-0373.