CONTENTS

National and State

Miliary Ex-Wives Win Benefits.........3

Shelters Fight Subpoenas...

..3

Local

PCAC Protests Depo........

..2

2nd Gay/Lesbian Conference...........2

Features

Preventing Rape......

Making Love Alone.......

The Versatile Violet...

Peace Research and Feminism.

.....5

WSW Salutes 10 Years

Milestone

Abortion..

.10

Humor....

.12

...1 ...16-19

Letters.....

What's Happening.............................

WHAT SHE WANTS is a monthly news journal produced by women for women.

WHAT SHE WANTS advocates equal and civil rights; the right to earnings based upon need, merit and interest; access to job training, salaries and promotions we choose; the right to organize in unions and coalitions to advance our cause; the right to decent health care and health information; the right to safe, effective birth control and to safe, legal abortions; the right to accept or reject motherhood; the right to choose and express sexual preference without harassment; and access to quality education and freedom from prejudice in learning materials.

WSW COLLECTIVE: Linda Janc, Jean Loria, Mary Walsh

WSW ASSOCIATES: Business—Judy Beckman, Blackberry, Dianne Fishman, Pat O'Malley

Editorial-Debbie Gross, Cheryl Reed, Nora

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SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

What She Wants is produced through the voluntary efforts of the editorial, business, and production staff and exists because of your interest and participation. We encourage you to submit articles (including fiction and poetry), and art work (including photographs). All submissions should be type written, double spaced, 60 characters per line.

Feature articles should be no more than 4 to ́ 7 pages in length; letters and reviews, no more than 3 pages.

All materials, including letters, must be signed and include your address and telephone number if you want to be contacted in the event of editorial revisions.

ADVERTISING:

The open advertising rate is $6.00 per column inch with discounts for larger ads, prepayment and long-term contracts. For further information on rates and deadlines, contact WSW at (216) 321-3054.

SUBSCRIPTIONS:

Subscriptions are $6.00 per year (8 issues). Make checks payable to What She Wants, P.O. Box 18465, Cleveland Heights, Ohio 44118.

DISTRIBUTION OUTLETS:

East: Appletree Books, Coventry Books, CWRU Bookstore, Feminist Lending Library, Food Communities, Food Project, Hemming & Hulbert, Rethreads, Shaker Square Books Central: Arcade Art, Barnes & Noble, Park Centre Pharmacy, Publix Book Mart, WomenSpace

West: Bookstore on W. 25th, Berea Books, Plants Plus, Lakewood Y, Gay Community Center

Chagrin Falls: The Inside Story

Akron: Cooperative Market

Kent: Kent Natural Foods Store

Oberlin: Bookstore

Columbus: Fan the Flames Bookstore

Boston, MA: New Words Bookstore

To become a distribution outlet, contact WSW at (216) 321-3054

Letters

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WSW:

Congratulations on 10 years of determination and great paper making. You've done a wonderful job and provided a much needed service to the community. I, for one, have truly appreciated it--and for all 10 years-as I moved here in 1973. Thanks a lot for all your hard work!!

-Jamie Hecker and the Women's Building Fund

Dear Friends:

Thank you for your continuing support through the many months of iny sex-discrimination case against the University of Minnesota. Thanks also to Fran Anderson and Betsey Miklethun for organizing your support-your contributions now stand at over $1,500.

We now have a ruling from Special Master Leonard Lindquist. His decision is divided in a way that seems peculiar and political. [He] makes three main points:..

1. We proved systemic discrimination against women at every administrative level at the University of Minnesota/Duluth....

2. He writes, "...for her successful challenge of the selection process on administrative levels and generally within the School of Social Development, Dr. Grevatt will be awarded reasonable attorney's fees and costs." (This is the most controversial part of his ruling.)

3. Lindquist then rules, however, that I did not prove my individual claim. As one attorney commented, "He is saying they discriminated against every woman but you!"

This means that I will not be reinstated or receive back pay, damages, etc. (These items plus my attorneys' fees would have cost the university over $100,000.) Aside from my personal outrage at the decision, it also represents a disappointing opinion on some of the important affirmative action issues raised by the case. One is left with the feeling that the Master wanted to give something to each side.

Women on the University campuses, however, are pleased by the victories represented in the decision. With systemic discrimination now proved, every women who files a claim in Duluth can "ride" on this ruling. Further, Lindquist's decision that my costs will be covered even though I did not prove my claim is a powerful blow to the university's wallet. Theoretically they could face a parade of suits in which, even if the individual claim is not proved, they will have to cover costs. The money issue may be the weapon that forces the university to stop its continuing pattern of discrimination....

We don't know yet how many costs

will actually be covered by the court, or whether we will appeal, but I wanted to give you the information that we have. Thanks again for your help. Our actual costs are now over $10,000 (plus attorneys' fees)....

WSW:

In Sisterhood Marge Grevatt

Happy Anniversary! As a former WSW collective member, I can truly appreciate the importance of the occasion.

For 5 years I attended meetings, produced articles and editorials, went on yearly retreats and worked on layout. It all sounds rather practical and task-oriented. Yet at the heart of my experience with the WSW women, I often felt part of and shared in a process that was entirely emotional and binding.

We always felt the conflict between ideal and real women's culture. We wanted to have a full-time, paid staff with reporters who could cover any piece of current women's news. We longed to reach women outside the middle class, especially those in

poverty, and communicate what feminism offers. We were feeling so tiny, so isolated, from the majority of Cleveland women. Yet with sincerity we believed that if they just read WSW, they would become convinced of the necessity of the women's movement. We received women's publications and news reports from all over and felt that, at least, here was our connection to the larger struggle.

Our inspiration was fired with each new subscription. Our desperation grew each time we heard the paper's latest financial report. On the final night of production-eyes strained, stamina spurred by coffee, irritability hovering-we each in our own way wondered if anyone heard us. At the same time we worked together, mentally recording our progress, as we at'tended to every detail of producing WSW. We kept moving beyond our limits.

My current responsibilities do not permit active participation in the WSW collective. It's hard to make peace with that dilemma. Leaving the collective taught me that I'm not in-

dispensible. Yet what I did learn from my experience in being part of WSW was.

Carol Epstein

rings haven't Changed so CE please come home! 2 1333

M'Y

Dear. What She Wants

Please excuse my chicken scratch, ut I am writing hurriedly from a cage in a chicken transport, crammed with 13,000 other birds of feather on Highway 80. We are en route to a processing plant where our eventual fate is to be beheaded, drained of our blood, defeathered and chopped into various parts, packaged, and shipped to local "food processors" because some humans think they deserve a break today.

I was hatched at the Old McDonald Fowl Breeding Range just under two years ago. I got into the habit of reading WSW because one of the breeders would leave a copy behind the coop where she read while attending to our "feeding.” I couldn't help but notice your "Mobilization for Animals" article in the March 1983 issue. At last! I thought. Our plight has been realized. Surely if there is such concern among humans for the 70 million laboratory animals, liberation for the 100 quadrillion of us slated for brutality and sadistic death rites in freezers, boiling oil, scorching ovens, and searing microwaves must be just around the corner. I was exhilarated. Our senseless torture and extermination in these concentration camps is about to come to an end.

There was talk of change, of a future-chickens unite! Let us educate ourselves toward a life as free fowls in a peaceful environment. Spirits were running pretty high around the containment area. I even started to teach myself to fly.

There were rumors that the Colonel had died from chronic chicken poisoning, no doubt called cancer by humans. Could is be true? Then yesterday morning I overheard a master breeder tell our regular feeder that we were to be mobilized the very next day. Oh, the sweet smell of liberation!

But that sweet smell has turned to the stench of fear as the 18-wheeler carries me closer to a fate that I know will be unpleasant for both of us. I watch the signs along the highway proclaiming the coming of my breasts in TV dinners, and my wings barbecued at a neighborhood chicken graveyard.

I doubt that my fate can be escaped. Please understand my last indulgence in writing to you, but I am too chicken not to speak to this issue. If only the public knew, if they were allowed to see, these activities would be stopped. Can you...would you...help us? Please?

In Desperation Tweety Bird

April-May, 1983/What She Wants/Page 1

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