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itp ae Seea MESSAGES Womonspace by Rosa CRAFT FAIR Okay okay I do admit to certain fantastes That you have tied me to your bed NOVEMBER 16 With your Jockey black panties Women, if you are interested You look so very dominant in participating as a vendor, And one hand is on your hip please call 425-051 1 While the other hand ts holding A gleaming, screaming whip. Table charge is $5. In ecstasy I hear you moan Bonnie Doon HALL So leave a message at the sound of the tone. (Bececep!) 9240 - 93 Street The phone rang four times then the T 1a-m 4p m answering machine picked up. OW... OW...OW... (pause) It suke wouldn't hurt to leave a message you know! “Hmmm, cute message,” | thought as JULIE GO. LLOYD I] hung up. I hate answering machines! BARRISTER & SOLICITOR ‘There wasn’t much point leaving a message anyway as I only had a couple of free hours before my partner came home. ‘Two weeks ago, I tried calling my 512, 10117 JasPpeR AVENUE friend up again. As usual, she wasn’t EDMONTON, ALBERTTAS J 1W8 home, but her answering machine picked TELEPHONE (408) 42428332 Fax (408) 42472526 Womonspace News is a publication of Womonspace Social and Recreational Society of Edmonton. We are a nonprofit organization. The newsletter is produced by, for, and about lesbians in Edmonton and the surrounding areas. Our purpose is to inform and entertain our members and any other interested lesbians. The opinions expressed in any issue of Womonspace News do not necessarily reflect the opinion of the Directors or the Newsletter Committee. The events, organizations and establishments publicized are not necessarily supported by Womonspace. Womionspace News is produced on a volunteer basis by the Newsletter Committee. We welcome submissions. Material submitted becomes the property of Womonspace. We reserve the right to edit for length and content, and to refuse publication. Articles or letters to the editor may be sent to: Womonspace, #30-9930-106 Street, Edmonton, AB TSK 1C7. Womonspace members may submit classified advertising——up to 3 lines free—-at any time. Womonspace News seeks advertising that is lesbian-positive to help defer publications costs. Wotnonspace does not necessarily endorse products or services offered. We reserve the right to refuse ads. For rate information, and to place an ad, please leave a message on the Lesbian Life Line: 425-0511. The editor is Lindy Pratch. 2 WOMONSPACE NEWS up again. I was expecting the OW! OW! Just then the phone rang. “Hi Rosa! OW! message but my friend had a new It’s me, Sammy.” one. “Hey, am I ever glad you called,” I Sorry folks. I’m all tted up at this time said as I put the dust pan down. “I’ve but ify ou leave a message we can preserve been trying to get a hold ofy ou for at our bonds off riendship. least three weeks. How about coffee?” I hung up. Where on earth does she “Great! Let’s meet at our usual find the time to change the outgoing spot.” message on her answering machine so We met an hour later at a coffee often? I know that I should change shop and my friend hit me with the big mine, but winter /s just around the news. She has been dabbling in S&M! corner so it seems like such a waste I never would have guessed in a changing my “I’m out shoveling snow...” million years! Why am I always the last message at this time of year. one to know? Apparently she did try to A week ago, my partner was working phone me on at least and I had some free time so I tried three occasions, but I calling my friend again. I was expecting wasn’t home and she the “all tied up” message but again my didn’t bother leaving friend had a new message. a message on my Don’t be a slave to answering machine answering machine. phobia. Dominate my answering machine. I hate it when people Make it repeat everything you say to me. do that! “Hmmm, another cute message,” I thought, but by the time I thought of QUOTE: something really strong and dominant- like, the answering machine beeped and In the intimate dark there’s never an cut me off. Geez, I hate answering ear, machines! Though the tulips stand on tiptoe to hear. I hung up the phone and tried So give; ripe fruit must shrivel or fall. phoning a few other friends but to no As you are mine, Sweetheart, give all! avail. No one seemed to be around. I guess now there was no way of avoiding Amy Lowell what I had hoped to avoid by coffeeing “Hora Stellatrix” the afternoon away. I would finally have A Dome of Many Coloured Glass. to tackle the housework. 3912 WOMONSPACE NEWS 3 ONE NIGHT Now your blouse is off falling in soft folds by Jackie around your hips she presses you back By the hand counts each rib she takes you with her tongue on the couch traces you tremble the shape of your breasts as she slips your silk blouse you moan slowly as your nipples rise to greet her. off your shoulder slowly You lift your hips ‘her lips she undoes your pants taste you pulls them down in a tangle slowly they heap against your ankles the blouse slides down suddenly leaves you exposed you are free for her eyes to caress the air slides coolly exploring over your naked body with gentle fingertips you shiver like moth wings under her nakedness brush against your skin. her skin like satin against yours She kisses your neck she begins her journey finds your ear to the wet river sucking its lobe that flows from you. her hand buried in your hair pulls back your head kisses She plunges in so thirsty for you your throat arches a silver fish that leaps glistening her tongue in the hot sunlight finds your rhythm your lips part your blood races your muscles quiver for her she enters deep you pant and your body hums. sweat beads on you 4 WOMONSPACE NEWS you spread your legs and again the doorway breached by desire and again grip her head in your thighs and again suddenly demanding. you keep feeling it. You feel your body With a sigh opening it lets you go you want her you sink you want her inside against her she goes. you sink like you want kissingly her fingers exploring deeply warmly how much can you take she lies beside you how much do you want? all night just to watch you breathe. Oh yes! push it push the limits Q UOTE: further ... | see the function of true Erotica ete (writing which is pro-, not antisexual) as one not only permissible but rbd ere worthy of encouragement and social et ae approval, as its laudable and ateB c legitimate function is to increase aut ripple sexual appetite just as culinary prose ee et a encourages other appetites. ; Kate Millett on a beach it surges Sexual Politics, 1969 bursting gripping her hand hard you give birth to your own pleasure WOMON ON THE EDGE together (cards, photos) 403-662-4788 for info. WOMONSPACE NEWS = MY LOVER IS A Lesléa Newman (author of A Letter To Harvey Milk, Heather Has Two Mommies, WOMAN and other books) has put together an by Laurie eclectic anthology that explores virtually My Lover is a Woman, edited by every aspect of lesbian experience: incest, Lesléa Newman, Ballantine, 1996. jealousy, abuse, children, marriage, My Lover ts a Woman is a celebration breakups, monogamy, infidelity, of lesbian desire featuring the work of butch/femme roles, racial issues... more than 90 contemporary poets, When the white woman including Dorothy Allison, Becky fell in love Birtha, Judy Grahn, Marilyn Hacker, with a Black woman Adrienne Rich and Audre Lourde. Some some of her friends said of these works are romantic, some isn’t your life intensely erotic, some humorous. Some hard enough? speak of anger, of transformation, of Pamela Gray, Differences. passion. All are about women loving The diverse nature of women’s women. sexuality is sung in many voices, from One of the more poignant works— Amy Edginton’s The Butch Speaks: dealing with grief over the death of a I know what I most anticipate, partner—is Adele Gorelick’s Vistt Me. and, no, I don’t mean the lasagne. The opening lines—I love it when you I mean the fuse that joins our lips, come. Don’t stop.—deliberately evoke nipples, tongues and grotns. playful erotic images—but it’s not part In my mind I’m playing with matches. of a sexual dialogue. It’s a warm to Laura Castellanos del Valle’s Missing invitation to the spirit of her recently You: deceased lover; a request for her to keep I am slightly deranged from missing you... dropping in: ... Vlot finding your scent in the living Alt noon the wind blowing open the door. room, | return to the closet I knew it was you for your salmon chamois shirt. to enjoy the snow. I wear it and take us out for dinner. To see we were okay... to the powerfully erotic passages ...to keep me company excerpted from Marilyn Hacker’s Love to fill the void. and Death and the Changing of the Seasons: I love it when you come. Don’t stop. 6 WOMONSPACE NEWS First, | want to make you come in my hand PEARLS while I watch you and kiss you, and if you byC .W ood cry I'll drink your tears while, with my whole | read a poem once hand, | About a woman hold your drenched loveliness contracting. Who likened her to the raw, daring challenge served up in Romances Lynn Goldfarb’s Poem With An Attitude: Toa string You think I'm such Of beads. a nice girl Each love an orb because | still write Bound beside the last. sonnets sestinas even luv She would add to the string poems As she wished, ... You don’t know Until someday, it would be time how hard my hips would throw To twine the ends. your ass against the wall But | say There are poems about having loved and That when the pearls lost; the hormonal insanity of that first Of my desire crush; the deliciousness of forbidden love. Are arrayed just so Some of the selections in My Lover ts a On that silken Woman will make you laugh; some will Cord make you cry. Some will make you long for your ex and others will simply tap into a | will take the tender—or savage—place inside you. Last pearl And bind it to the others, QUOTE: Not as a bead, Erotica is about sexuality, but But as a dazzling pornography is about power and sex-as- Pendant weapon—in the same way we have come to understand that rape is about Because it is brighter violence, and not really about sex at all. And more beautiful than the rest. Here, lover — Gloria Steinem Give me your hands “Erotica and Pornography, A Clear and And help me Present Difference” Tie the string. Ms. November, 1978 WOMONSPACE NEWS a WHAT’S HAPPENING? PFLAG: Parents, Families, and Friends of Lesbians and Gays support group, c/o GLCCE, or Groups and Weekly Events: Lynne 462-5958. Outreach Line 944-1394 v.b. 3524 (FLAG) 24 hour recorded message except 7 - GLCCE (Gay and Lesbian Community Centre of 9:30 pm Monday to Friday when calls are Edmonton) is now located in suite 103, 10612- forwarded to a PFLAG volunteer for confidential 124 Street. Open Monday to Friday from 7-10 pw, and anonymous support for gays and lesbians for peer support counselling, library resource and their parents, families, and friends. centre, meeting space for groups, and evening drop-in. 488-3234. Out & Out (0’) OUTreach social & political student group at Outdoor and recreation group for gays, lesbians, the University of Alberta campus: 988-4166. bisexuals and their friends. Jogging, roller blading, dog walking, cycling, camping, touch Adamant Eve feminist radio program football, and other activities. Call 988-3132. broadcast on CJSR, FM 88.5, at the University of Night Spots: Alberta. Thursdays from 5:30-6 pm. Gaywire lesbian, gay & bisexual radio show The Roost : on FM 88.5. Thursdays from 6-7 po. Private club at 10345-104 Street; 426-3150. Queeries current affairs show on CJSR, FM Buddy's 88.5, Wednesdays from 5:00-5:30 pm. Pub upstairs above Boystown, 10116-124 St. Sonic Sisters women’s music radio program Shakespear's Darts & Rumpus Room on FM 88.5. Saturdays from 7-8 pm. Lesbian & gay dart league on Thursdays. Lambda Christian Community Dances for ladies only on the first Saturday of Welcomes members of the lesbigay community; the month. Every Friday night is for women worship 7 pm Sundays, 11148-84 Ave (Garneau only. The first Friday of the month will feature United Church). Phone 988-3913. country music. Also, drop in for free two-step lessons every Wednesday in November; 7:30 po. Metropolitan Community Church Do you play Euchre? Then come on down for Weekly worship, McDougall United Church, the tournament on November 17, which starts 10086 MacDonald Drive, (riverside entrance) at 1 pw. 2™ floor, 10306-112 St. 429-7234. Sundays at 7:15 pm. Social time follows the ~ service. Rev. Charles Bidwell; 429-2321. SOLO Social club for women gets together Gay & Lesbian Infoline: every week for a wide variety of social events. 988-4018 Linda at 447-4776. Lesbian Life Line: 425~0511 Gay & Lesbian Youth Group: O7 Hotline: Phone 486-9661, voice box 10. 988-3132 8 WOMONSPACE NEWS COMING EVENTS: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Womonspace Dance A relaxed and friendly event for women only. THURSDAY, OCTOBER 31 Catering by Jazzberrys. Music by Annie. Bonnie Halloween Party at Shakespear’s Doon Hall, 9240-93 St, 8 pm-1 am. 10306-112 Street; phone 429-7234. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2 Edmonton Vocal Minority Concert A Dance for Ladies Only Regards to Broadway, ca riotous journey through Shakespear’s Darts & Rumpus Room, 2™ floor- Broadway, guaranteed to keep you laughing. 10306-112 Street. Details: 429-7234. Convocation Hall, U of A, 8 pm. Tickets $10 advance, $12 at the door. 988-4620 for more information. SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 Womonspace News Meeting WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20—-SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Boystown, 10116-124 Street, at noon. Deadline Loud ’n Queer Cabaret for December submissions on the topic “Veggie Unstraight... uncensored... unrestrained. Five Lezzies.” New volunteers are welcome. evenings of untamed, unconventional and irreverent theatre, music, dance, poetry and SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3 performance art. Catalyst Theatre for tickets and Friends 4 Phair Brunch further information; 431-1750. Councillor Michael Phair’s report on the past year on council. 10:30 am- 1 pm. Knights of SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 24 Columbus Hall, 10140 119 Street. Tickets $15 at Womonspace Volunteer Social The Front Page, Orlando Books, & Boystown. For By invitation only. If you have volunteered for more info, call Maureen at 454-8031. Womonspace in the past year, but haven’t received an invitation, please leave a message on WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13 the Lesbian Life Line: 425-0511. OUTreach Coffee House Boystown Cafe, 7:30 pm. There will be literature SUNDAY, DECEMBER 1 and poetry readings. Womonspace News Meeting The Bagel Tree Deli, 10345-82 Ave, at noon. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16 Deadline for submissions for the January issue on Womonspace Craft Fair the topic “Gaydar.” New volunteers and women Find great stuff for yourself, or buy gifts for wishing to meet the newsletter committee are everyone on your seasonal shopping list. Crafts always welcome; come and say hello. by women. 11 am-4 pm at Bonnie Doon Hall, 9240- 93 St. Free admission. 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