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numbered and identified. Also include a short biography and an SASE for the materials to be returned.
Send submissions to: Essex Hemphill, Anthology 1993, 401 Wilshire Blvd, Suite 700, Santa Monica, CA 90401-1455. The deadline is June 1, 1993.
Writer's conference at women's music fest. Angela Davis, Patricia Ireland, June Jordan, and Lee Lynch will be featured guests at a feminist writers conference, to be held in conjunction with the National Women's Music Festival, June 4-6 at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana.
Writer's conference sessions, offered at no additional fee, will include a variety of lectures, experiential workshops, readings, and networking. Conference organizers are still looking for a few good writing workshop presenters, so if you'd like to add your name to the list of luminaries, contact Midge Stocker, NWMF Writers Conference, 2250 W. Farragut, Chicago, IL 60625-1802.
Workshop presenters are sought. Send SASE for Workshop Proposal Application. Proposal deadline: March 1.
NWMF mainstage performers will include Suede, June Jordan, and Teresa Trull on Friday; Jamie Anderson, The Washington Sisters, and Sawagi Taiko on Saturday; and Alix Dobkin, Suzanne Westenhoefer, and Linda Tillery & Band on Sunday. *
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Stop cutting babies' foreskins. The National Organization to Halt the Abuse and Routine Mutilation of Males (NOHARMM) has already received letters from men who suffer physical, psychological, emotional or sexual complications resulting from being circumcised. The U.S. and England began routine
circumcision in the late 1800's in an erroneous attempt to prevent masturbation. England discontinued the practice in the late 1940's. The U.S. is the only industrialized nation that circumcises the majority of its newborn males for nonreligious reasons. "The American medical community has failed to prove conclusively and unequivocally that this carries any significant advantage over the intact state for the majority of males. We've all been had," remarked founder Tim Hammond.
NOHARMM, a direct action group modeled after GLAAD and ACT UP, has launched a Harm Documentation Project that allows men to complete a form documenting how circumcision has affected them and return it to the group. Hammond encourages men to contact NOHARMM at P.O. Box 460795, San Francisco, CA 94146. *
Film fest seeks guest curators. MIX: The Seventh New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film and Video Festival announces a call for guest curators for the September 1993 Festival. This year guest curators will be integrally involved not only with programming, but also with how the festival is publicized and where it will be seen. The festival committee has a personal and vital investment in continuing to bring to the Festival new audiences, particularly lesbians and gays of color, Southern hemispheric and immigrant communities and other groups who have been traditionally excluded from the media circuit. For applications and guidelines information please send an SASE to: NYLGLEFF c/o Festival Committee, 503 Broadway, Suite 503, New York, NY 10012 212-925-5883. Deadline March 12. Deadline is June 15.
February 19, 1993
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Golden lesbians to celebrate in P-Town. The Seventh Annual Golden Threads Celebration will take place on June 25-27 at the Provincetown Inn in Provincetown, Mass. Lesbian women from all over the U.S., Canada, and elsewhere will celebrate what they are and their age, whatever it is.
Entertainment will be provided by Julie Woods. A banquet will be followed by dancing with our own DJ, mixing in the prerock oldies. Sing-a-longs and rap sessions will be offered, also feminist videos. Attendance is limited to 250 women.
Golden Threads is a worldwide social network of lesbian women over 50, and women who are interested in older women-no lesbian is excluded. Members receive a publication, Golden Threads, four times a year. Contact Christine Burton, Golden Threads, P.O. Box 3177, Burlington, VT 05401-0031.
The Leather Journal, the leather community's news magazine, announced the names of individuals and organizations in the Midwest Region that were nominated by readers for the Pantheon Of Leather
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Awards 1993, to be held at the Parliament House in Orlando, Florida, March 5-7.
The Midwest Region consists of the states of Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, and South Dakota.
Among the nominees were Jan Hall of Columbus, Ohio, for Woman of the Year and George Roscoe of Cleveland, Ohio for the Midwest Regional Award.
Call the Leather Journal at 213-656-5073.
Taxes on TV. VideoTax, Inc. owned by life-partners Doreen Dates and Claire Youmans of Seattle, Washington, recently released VideoTax 1992, a tax guide video designed to save consumers money on taxes and preparation fees.
Dates, a certified public accountant, narrates the video, actually preparing a 1040EZ, and 1040A with Earned Income Credit, and a 1040 with Schedules A through E, covering itemized deductions, Schedule C-EZ and Schedule C for Businesses, Business Use of Auto, Home Office, Child Care, Investment and Rental Income, Residence Sale, Bad Debts, and much more.
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Study with Rhia alignment, technic
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productions
Sunday, March 28, 1993 Workshop & Concert: $50
Location to be announced
Advance reservations only
Sorry, limit 20
presents
Rhiannon
accompanied by Nina Gerber SATURDAY, MARCH 27, 1993
8:00 p.m.
Ford Auditorium
in the Allen Memorial Library, 11000 Euclid Ave.
Opening for Rhiannon will be
ADENKUM Linda Thomas Jones & Marcia Houston Composers and Musicians
Tickets: $13 in advance, $15 day of show
(sliding scale available at door only)
Available at Gifts of Athena, 2199 Lee Road, Bookstore on West 25th
Interpreted for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing 932-7472 VITTY (Voice only answering machine)
To make reservations or for more information, call 321-7799