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Two women moved in, anda third followed shortly thereafter. by Carla Maftechuk House of subversion was physically safe and emotionally safe because you didn’t have to R o , one of the occupants, haddeal with sexism.You didn‘t have never squattedbefore. “I think the to deal with men’s actions, reacidea of the women-only space was tions. It was just a really beautiwhat drew me there to a large fully supportive environment ben cause hese extent. “I had never given a lot of struggling for the same thing.” thought to squstting before. As “I feel that squatting an is commu- important part ofcreating womensoon as I heard about the nity I was really eager to partici- oniy space, because by squatting pate init. I was ina space where I YOU remove yourself and are free needed the validation and support from the hierarchical rent strucof other women.” male-dominated tures in society. Throughout the duration ofIt’s men that own and control evthe squats, as the number of oc- erything. And as women, I think to cupied houses increasedfrom two get completely away from that, to to six, there remained only one build our own space, to create our women-only house. There were own community, I thinkit’simporyou’ve always more men thanwomen in tant to squat to make sure space so that you’re the other houses. created a free Access to the house was re- not part of that. I’m not just in stricted for men to one daya week. opposition to the patriarchy but Men were allowed into the house capitalist society.” BECK BISHOP PHOTO Cat on Wednesdays ”if allthe women “In July,I moved out. Soon “The women’s squat was an easy for them to make US invisliving in the squat agreed that after that the to Bushwomen’s squat real1ybeautifu:llyat Frances street particular man coming in at that was barricaded. That wasn’t for awhile there. can work again, alcohol and drug-free space, and ible.” It “In the beginning, there awas particular time.You had the right agreed upon by the women that definitely-it’s needed, it’s essen- one of the women wasn’t respecting that. felt likeit was really real attempt at community. We We tial.” to say ‘No, I don’t want to deal with were living it. Afterwards, after in good energy happening. men today.” August, the Bushwomen’s squat “The squatting movement is essential to be supportive by tak- had really alco- The problem was,thewaythe Relations with the other male didn’t really existas women-only dominatedbymenbecause women i n g a stance ofno drugs and squatters were strained. “Most of space. It had no facilities, it was tend to have more responsibilities hol because people had problems meetingswent,whoeverspoke loudest and quickest and with the them paid lip service [to the dark, the stairs were rippeddown. than men in society. Women have with these substances and wanted spoke the longest. women-only squat], but when it It just became like a shell of the children and that makes it to to be stronger women, more em- most authority, next came down to it, I’d say only a home that it had been.” impossible to squat.Women have powered as individuals. We felt So i t became tense. It was defiover “I see the latter part of the concernsofsafety,whichmendon’t that getting a n addiction was nitely male-dominated.” couple were reallysupportive. We “Themeningeneral, were part of that process. That’s why we sarne extent.“ from August on- have to the did have a lot of problems with the squats, the time the men challenging our right to our wards as a very male-dominated, “It is very scary, being in a took that stance.” “In women’s intimidated by, or afraid of, the own space andfeelingthreatened.” machomovement thattookcontrol squat, knowing that male cops can squat we sharedeverything we women’s squat. They didn’t quite “Sexism was a serious prob- ofourhead-spaceat thetime. Alot come into vour house ,at anv time had: I thinkthat’s why it was know how to deal with it. For the lem, right to the end. had a few of those people were what we call and bust you. That’s really terri- unique, in that we were a really most part, the men just We avoided it, meetings of women-only, women the barricaders’. Women did sup- fying. Ifyoulive togetheras women, cohesivegroup,andwesharedfood theyavoidedtheissue,they from all the squats, to deal with port the barricades, but i t was a you can support each ot,her emo- and money. That’s the only way I’d avoided the space, they avoided us the sexism that we’d all encoun- really macho kind of ego-tripping tionally on that. ” want it. “hat’s the way I want to to a large extent.” tered in this ‘ideal anarchist com- movement, I think, at the end.” “I pulled out of the mixed“Issuesofgenderandofsexual live. It didn’t work that way in the “I think it was really signifi- orientation just weren’t seen as other squats. worked more as a gender meetings, because of the munity’; we brought i t back to the We men andit was slightly dealt with cant that theonlyhouse thatdidn’t central to the struggle. They should family unit than any other squat powerdynamicsandjustthe really last until the end was the understand that the means the did.” and thenlife went on.” to machoism, and I began to take on “The people who tendedto women-only space. I don’t think end,the way you go aboutthe “It was the most beautiful and of that myself.” some make use of the spacewere lesbi- enough people in our community process is all important. No mat- important experience of my life, “More women are below the of ter where you’re going, if you don’t living there. Butat the timeI felt poverty1inethanmen.Theoptions It’s ans, because they didn’t want or are lookingat that. just kind need to participate in the men’s glossed over.” work together all the way through, like the larger issue-like all the that they have are contingent on “My dreamright now is to then what thefuck are you work- menweresaying-ofsquattingwas in the things or dealwithmen who they sleep with. People can open a women-only squat. I think ing for? And they should under- waymoreimportantthan samewaythatheterosexual u s say ‘that’s not true, don’t see half I I’ll do that this spring. I’m really stand that, I mean that’s part of challenging the issues gender.” as many women on the streets as I women did. of In the Bushwomen’s squat, it excited about it because it worked their politics as anarchists.” “I really think that we were do men’ but what are women givunder the influence of the general ing up to have a roof over their squatting community on Frances head? “A lot of women sell their Street,and we didn’t validate our position as women. And the men bodies to be able to just sleep. And certainly didn’t. Now, i t would be I don’t mean for money, I mean different.1wouldmakeitanissue.” saying to someone ‘can i stay the “I think we need to create our night at your house,’ and them own environment, to start from saying ’yeah, as long as you fuck scratch and just to take over a me.’ And them agreeing, because house and say ’We have the right when those are your options to this space. You men control ev- sometimesit’sbetterthansleeping erything, but this is our space and in the snow.” you stophere.Withinthese walls, “I think that housing is defiissue, there we have freedom.’* nitely a gender and is always a need for safe space for women. Especiallywhen you’re JJ, who started the women- homeless.” “I find i t interesting that the only squat, had squatted several women-only squat was the only timesbefore,inmixed-gender one that didn’t last to the very end, houses only. “A lot of u s saw [squatting] as the only one that didn’t make it. By an opportunity to have homes and not putting in the extra effort into also make a statement about the supporting the women’s squat, I housing issue.I opened upa house think that helped to perpetuate of my own and created the type the end.” of house I want.ed. I decided from the “As far as any lasting effect, I beginningit wouldbe women only. think it was lost to the macho imIn this situation, we got to make pact. That’s what people a r e going the rules. was very empowering. toremember when they remember It It was the first time I’ve ever had the squats-they’re going to remy own home.” member final thethe stand, bar“The existence of the women- ricades, militantpolice with shotonly house polarized the situation. guns. That’s not whatsquatting‘s Because men didn‘t respect that in all about.Squatting‘s about having the beginning, we set up this rule a home.” that they couldn’t come to our “I’d never squat with mixed space. We forced them to respect gender again. Never.” our space, and that made it very ” March 8,1991 THE UBYSSEY/:~ 1 is coming to UBC March 13, 14, 15 IOAM - 4PM PLAZA SOUTH, LOWER SUB CONCOURSE see Tuesdays Ubyssey for details SHOE SALE The English Comp. 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We’re campus then they should not be level that thosestudents would Army Surplus Clothing not fit into a group counselling talkingaboutfewer suicides, fewer cutting back in services where Winter Underwear women can get support. situation,” Durante said. breakdownsandfewerwomen Onestudentwhoisinthelong“rew said she welcomes input of dropping out school.” Camping Equipment In December the director of term counselling at the Ofice fearsfi-omfacultyandstaffonthesecond thereductioninappointmentswill half of the mandate which calls for the office toldtheOfice’sfour 175 W. Hastings 177 E. Broadway more advocacy and ”planned orcounsellors that they would have mean shell to slashtheir appointments half. have t o waitlonger t o see her ganizational change”on campus. by 685-9925872-7537 counsellor. “I’ll probably have to Rut Horsman said that when d The reductions are currently being wait a monthbetweensessions thecounsellorsaskedTrewto phased infor May. clarflfy “plannedorganizational The Ofice’s director, Marsha instead of two weeks,” she said. change”,“wegotwordslike: The outlook is bleaker new for Trew, who started work in August, for to take said she wants the ofice on students calling up short-term operationalize,databaseand performance efficiency.” a more activist role to create a andlong-term counselling. This “Administrations (inUS unipast Wednesday seven new stumore welcoming environment for versities)areusing“organizational as recom- dents were on that waiting list. womenoncampus, development” as a management “There’s no way to tell how mendedin a 1989 UBC review We are looking for graduates in: long they’ll have to wait,” said tool for efficient operation of the committee. Business AdministratiodEconomics male hierarchical, patriachal, not “In the future focus of the ”rew, adding they mightget in [the model for institutiondl efficiency,” Engineering/Computer Sciences s t a m will be balanced between before the endof the term. Horsman said. There is, however, nowait for filling an educative function and Arts/Agriculture/Forestry “It appearsas an alien concept students whoneedimmediate help, counselling,” she said. crisis counselling. Nancy Horsman in women’s office and has been a Capilano College’s two-yearpost-graduate Though they agree that advocounselling but, large part of my concern for the cacy work is important, counsel- handles the crisis diploma program can prepare you for a career in because of the demand, can only new “directives” and “administralorsNancyHorsman,Caren the Asia Pacific. The program includes: eight s p a r eh a l f - a n - h o u rs e s s i o n s . tive mandates” the Office,” she for Durante, and Penny Lusztig say months on-campus intensive language training, “That’s not nearly enough time said. for that one-to-one counselling is a and the economic, political, cultural, social and priority and should not have Equallyconcernedarethe been students, and it’s exhausting for women from the Women’s Centre. me,” she said. business dynamics of the Asia Pacific; and compromised. “We don’t know what [Trew] Trewsaysothertypes of “This is the onlyplace on twelve months working in Asia with a Canadian counselling will augment the one- means with advocacy. We feel that campuswhere women students in company ornational organization involved pushing for such things as antihave, as women, to get help and to-one but says she doesn’t know Asia Pacific business. Post-degree work sexism workshopsfor professors is support,” said Horsman,who has what theywill be yet. experience is an asset. important, but we don’t know if worked in the office for 18 years. She said she’s waiting for data this is what Marsha Trew means from women’s offices in universiThe counsellors deal with issues Information meetingswill be held at Capilano that range from marriage and with advocacy,” Pondsaid. “We ties across Canada and the United College on Wednesday, March13 and haven’t seen anything happcn.” States. custody battlesto sexual abuseto group counPond suggested that Of‘fice the ”rew hinted that Wednesday, April 24, in room MlOl at 7 p.m. poor workingconditions in the selling, which would help a greater could have lobbied for more reclassroom. sources from the administration to The program begins September, 1991. “Ifinditinappropriate thatin number of women, might be an help implement the broader manalternative. Preference is given to applications receivedby a time when student fees go up, Durante agrees that group date. that student services such oneas April 30,1991. “Advocacy could mean advocounselling should happen at the cating office but not at the expense ofone- for another position that For details and to register for an information would be hiring a woman of colour to-one. session, please contactthe Asia Pacific “There are many issues that who would be specifically helping Management Co-operative Program, Capilano women of colour on campus.” come into thisoffice on a personal (604) College, atthe address below, or phone Trew said the meaning the of terms would be clearer once the 984-4981 or FAX (604) 984-4992. planningproccssnearsconlpletion. She hopes the Officewill implement the dual mandate by next 2055 Purcell Way North Vancouver B.C. V7J 3H5 fall. Buy Direct Lowest Prices Guaranteed o .......................$ Careers in the Asia Pacific 4/ITHE .UBYSSEY. . . . 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Judith Plant lives a comin by Kathryn Weiler Although Boucher dislikes t h y Women have traditionallyal- munity in Lillooet, British Copeople lied with each other in order to lumbia which she describes as ecofeminist label, she feels we survive, according to Judith Plant, bioregionalist, as a community must begin to question the way ecofeminist and author the book of t h a t depends onlocal resources, live and recover our ability to share Healing theWounds. self-sufficiency and local govern- and care. “Part of that recovery I ment. She feels more emphasis see as coming out of ecofeminism,” “Historicallywomenhave must be put “on human society she said. been oppressed and women have co-operated and shared amongst and its relationship to nature” and thehome and local environ- T h e i r o n yof themselves because this is what e n v i r o n m e n t a l i s m.... the oppresseddo behind the back mental issues. Anironyofthe environmentnl According to Plant, by enof authority,” Plant said. gaging in holistic living whether movement rests in the fact that The question of power with in the urban or context, one the stage is dominated by men. rural o is regard t women and nature one addresses environmental issues Women represent an extremely t h a th a sb e e nr e d e f i n e db y ecofeminism. fiaditional patriar- on apersonal yet significantlevel. active force behind environmental chal structures dominance must of Women’s role in the reorga- change and yet few women envibe replaced with a more balanced nization of community is indis- ronmentalists receive the publicity of someone like David Suzuki. pensable.“Traditionally,femiapproach. Plant said the reason this for as “Women mustlearn to as- nism was seen something t h a t sume more responsibility. Women divided. Women on one side as reality is, “men are trained to lea to must learn take leadership and the good guys and men on the upandhavetheanswer...Whatwe as guys,” Plant need is a lot less of one person other side the bad responsibility and men must learn a with the answer and said. This notion of feminism, standing up it’s and practice empathy. But not when lot more of us all talking t.ogether. a question of one dominating the she said, did notmake sense Balogue,” she said. other, it’s a question of finding applied ona community level. Women’s role is to take lead“But feminism is essential on balance,” said Plant. a community level or we will ership because we know what it’s create the kindsof social struc- like to have as our fundamental How are feminism and premise caring and well-being. ecology linked? tures that have destroyed the The ecological movement and environment-unconsciously,” W e must take leadership in such a way that it draws men tosaid Plant. feminism must go hand;in-hand Priscilla Boucher, a PhD stu- wards us and not awayfrom us so because accordingto Plant women that we can all learn,” Plant said. h,ave often been relegated to the dent at UBC in urban and reThe fact remains that femigional planning,hasdifferent role of nurturers but, “we have nism andecology are inseparable. reached a time in our evolution ideas aboutecofeminism. to In order start dealing with envi“Therearedifferentapwhen we must insist that what we as women have stood and been for proaches to ecofeminism just as ronmentalissues we must deal there are different approaches to with ourselves; men and women identified with all along berecogmust modify their roles and tonized and taken up by society-at- feminism,” Boucher said. Boucher outlined the impor-gether become better equipped to large.” deal with the planet. Certainfemale qualitiesmust tance of notromanticizing In thewords of Judith Plant, be recognized for their importance women. Women’s role as the enoughin addressing environmental is- nurturer has been historically ”Liberal feminism is not it won’t save life. Women might sues. According to Plant, women’s defined and devalued but this as gain more power and prestige on attributes must be used for the deniesmen’scapability it’s nurturers. We need somekind of the patriarchal ladder but not humanizing and creative elements balance; we need men to share.” going to saveUS.” they provide. Bmtoirm p o r t a n t l y , u e Boucheracknowledges the ecofeminism redefines the conventional auestionof Dower. need to bridge the gap between men and women. But she feels that women must be heard and ..Name.Biana i .. i ............. 32.:95 to 38.95 .............:. . . . . . . . . . . .......... ........................................... Printed Rayon& Skirt Coordinates i 26.195 to 32.95. . . ....................................... ........ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 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It also means fewer jobsfor female readership has both activist and stream media, a primarily femi- has changed, and that the charge women. research-oriented components, imlonger holds true. As well as being less visible as journalists.” nist alternative media has been of invisibility no Pollak believes that this in- cluding people in government and growing across Canada since the According to a 1990 study of Ca- authors, the study found that nadian newspapers conducted by women are far less visible than visibility is also a way of main- trade unions, as well asgrass-roots early 1970s. men In Vancouver, this media net- the national feminist organization as subjects of newspaper ar- taining women i n a powerless po- feminists. WhileAitkinandanother sition. She calls her workat Kinesis work includes the newspaperKi- Mediawatch, a proactivegroup ticles. Womenin these newspapers nesis,publishedten timesperyear, working toward more equal rep- were only discussed 18.2 per cent a ”reality hit,” and says one aim collectivememberGenevieve resentationofwomeninthemedia, of the time, while the other 81.8 the newspaper is “to rectify the Jackson say they have never enand a weekly radio program on both women w Coop radio, calledWomen Do Thisremain per cent of quotes or references imbalance of [women’s]invisibility countered opposition in their o ~ k in the mainstream, and to enas a women-focused radio show, underrepresented and misrepreEveryday. werebyoraboutmen.When of A According to a member of the sented in mainstream Canadian women were present as subjects, courage political thinking andac- Pollak cannot say the same E newspapers. Kinesis’ editorialboard,Nancy thewereoften discussedwith sexist tion among women to empower nesis. The Mediawatch study. which laneuage. In 1990, thesecretary ofstate them to c:hange their lives.” Pollak. i t “has become almost cliIn addition to the misrepre- cut what federal funding Kinesis sentation ofwomen,Pollakbelieves used to receive, basedon Secretary which explicitly that feminism is misrepresented ofstate guidelines inthemainstream.ToPollak, state that they will not fund acfeminism is not simplya question tivities relating to sexual orientaof seeking equality for women and tion and abortion. According to a men, but. question of looking for Pollak, this is because they nre something better for everybody. seen as toocontroversial.In Feminism,saidPollak,“isnot Pollak’s words, “I think it’s safe to women wanting a bigger piece of say that our funding was cutbethe pie, hut changing the recipe of cause of our continued willingness thepiealtogetherinorderto to publish material on abortion achieve a better balance between and on lesbianism.” collectiveneedsandpersonal In light such responses, i s of it; freedom:;.” not surprising that Pollak, Aitken PollakseesKinesis as pro- and Jackson all foresee the need viding a n opportunity for women for a women’s medianetwork to get involved in the media,who continuing indefinitely in the fumay have had previous experi- ture. Accordingto Aitkin, no analternativewomen’smediaisimportant ence,somethingMediawatch’s statistic:simply would be difficult as an educational tool, tolet people know that there are viewpoints in the mainstream. Mernberofthe WomenDoThis other than thoseof women in the Everyday collectiveat Co-opRadio, mainstream. Pollak talked about the recent Dierdre Aitkin, also sees this a n as important role of the program sherevival of Ms. magazine, and its works on. Aitkin said the show attempt to reflect thediversity among women, by including inprovides“anopportunityfor as ternational content, well as that women togetinvolvedinthe women community ... opportunity for by and about lesbians and an success of women to gain skills in order to ofcolour. Pollak sees the the new Ms. as evidence of the help shape themediathemselves.” As well, Aitkin sees Women ongoing need for a women’s and it Do This Everyday as providing a feminist media network, saying community service,addressing is- “reflects the hungerof women for sues of interest to women, such as self-expression and information.” Both Kinesis and Women Do pay equity and women in the arts, as well ~uofferingcoverageoflocal ThisEverydaywelcomenew events not covered in the main- members. Kinesis can be reached at 255-5499. stream. While Kinesis both and by Laurie Newell Dykes, diversity & discord munity.” great.” “It comes up every year, that “It really is ;-In extension of Homosexualityis still finding the guys there say: ‘We have to our society that womyn listen, aplaceatUBC.Twogroups,Dykes get more womyn involved, at least care, and can be vulnerable, but Unlimited and Gays and Lesbians have awomyn president’but fewer men can, and it ultimately let’s UBC, currently exist for womyn I’m not sure where that’scom- causes a rift. It’s a long process for all and men on campus; however, a ing from.” a man to come to termswith what “Maybe because they’re feel- i t means to be a womyn.” gender split exists within the hoingthepressure from womyn. mosexual community. Sylvia, a member of both Two womyn, one from each But there’s not really a connecDykesUnlimitedand GLUBC, group, expressed their beliefs on tion between what womyn want does not find the differences problematic. “I understand their arguthe subject. and them listening.” Karen MacDonell was one of ““hey make an attempt by at ments for being separatist, but the foundersof DU: “Its primary least talking about it, trying to personally Idon’t find that a the purpose is for womyn to get to- figure out what womyn want. healthy choice for me. For me, gether and talk. supportive.” That never really works; I just that would be a n over-reaction.” It’s “I don’t see GLUBC as speak- don’t see womyn caring that much “Dykes Unlimited is a suping for womyn, but I feel that the about GLUBC. I get all I need portnetwork while GLUBCis more involved in the community Womyn’s Centre does that because from Dykes Unlimited.” it is a womyn’s space and inherent “And then there’s the Gay and it’s more a social club.It does is were a lot of address the concernslesbians.” in that respecting the lifestylesGames. I know there of of lesbians. GLUBC could be like womyn involved but ifyou at look “There is definitely a split bethat butit’s not; it’s like thatfor whowere visible, right in the tweenhomosexual womyn and men.” hierarchy of t h e people who were men. I think GLUBC is quite male“Men like to hear the sound doing the majorwork for it, well dominated; it’s hard to say where of look their own voices. If it’s 50-50, it’s i t was men. And even a t t h e i t start:;. “The womyn aren’t going, but name of it-’Gay Games’. It’s always stilla battle to have them shut up. Men, be i t gay men or supposed t o include women but it if they would get involved more straight, need feel like they aredoesn’t do the trick.” to then maybe that would help the “It would take a lot of energy problem. You can’t say there’sno beingheard tomaintain their selfa to give Dykes Unlimited higher womyn involved and notbe inesteem.” “It always comes down tomen profile. We were prettyvisible in volved. There’s people there that and womyn in this world having the first year and everyone was are definitely doing something,” it.” Sylvia said. different balances ofpower. There really excited about is a fundamental lack of under“I think that any event that “I think some of the more ensome sort of gay lightenledmen aregaymen. That’s standingbymenofwomyn.That’s goes on that has there in gay and straight com- andlor lesbian aspect to a a it i s been my experience.” by Carla Maftechuk March 8,1991 . , , . . THE - Crime distorted by gendermeutral language by Carla Maftechuk Homicide be should toagender-neutral termdid bring recognized as a feminist issue, in some victims, but there has been visiting professor Christine Boyle some concern that we have lost our toldmore than 200 people who sense of the distinctive harm of attended a Walter S. Owen lecture rape.” presented by the UBC faculty of The movementto gender law a week ago. neutrality encourages the courts “Part of the realityof the tounderstandthecrimein a subordination (ofwomen)is death,” gender-neutral way, which means said Boyle, who teacheslaw at that they may not be concerned Dalhousie University. “The present with the construction sexuality of l a w of homicide is largely in our culture today, according to structured as if homicide were Boyle.. gender neutral, although there are Using that approach, one traces of a different perspective.” New Brunswick court said that Boyle believes that a breasts weren’t sexual and that victims of homocides should be man touching a woman’s breasts clearlyidentified and that legal the system should take their identity into account. “The ay hings re w t a labelled may have a difference in terms of public perception them. of If we have specific crimes in terms so ofviolence against lesbians, that trials are reported as that in the media, then people may see part of theirexperiencereflectedin descriptions of reality. “The practical significance legallywouldbeinterms of sentencing. Hate motivation could operate to increase the sentence,” said Boyle, who supports a call for a Royal Commission on violence against women. . Boyle saidtherehasbeen a general movement within the legal system to eradicate gender, as evidenced by the replacement of the word “rape” with the term “sexual assau1t”in the 1980s. early “ a tof the reform was to Pr so that make it gender neutral men could be victims and women could be charged,” she said. T o a certain extentdoes it reflect some reality Decause men can be sexuallvassaulted. Achanee wasnotsexualassault.The W h a t t h i s offense deals but not women,” Boyle noted. Supreme Court of Canada over- withispost-partumdepression. IntheUnitedStates, ruled that decision, When a woman who has given birth gender is beginning to become a Boyleexpressedaconcern is still recovering from the effects factor in consideration of a crime. over this way of thinking. “Sex is of that, if she kills her new baby, “In1983the New York legal deeply gendered, it may be the thenshemay definition of bias-related violence be chargedwith most gendered thing we have. It infanticideratherthanmurder. included sexand sex-orientation.” has a lot to do with what it means It’s a much lessercharge.” “Whetherthere is any to be a woman and what it means A male kills who a significant political attention paid to be a man.” newborn would be charged with to these questions and whether “There are small signals, murder. any change occurs will be a matter both positive and negative, that However, a woman is not of whetherthere is any public gender-neutrality doesn’t exist”in currently considered to be part pressure for change.” of thelawtoday. For example, section an”identifiab1egroup”whichmight ”Homicide is a feminist 233 of the Criminal Code states be targeted in the of homicide. issue.Suchcrimeisusedto act that only a femalepersoncan Defining factors in a ugroup” are maintain the hierarchy insociety commit infanticide. “colour,race,religion,ethnicorigin, in general.” ” in 1986”the first woman to as- current workingconditions.“Ihave sume this job in the paper’s his- been given equalopportunity to tory. cover the Gulf‘War.” She says the women in The “There was lotsanxiety and of anticipation as to whether I would Province’smanagementhave be able to do this job or not,” she brought the papera long way. Kim Prissick, 30, media relasays. “I did a fine job.” Easton says that sexism also tionsco-ordinator at ICBC was occurs when she’s reporting out in warned during her media training that she may discrimination in face the field. the “There are some men out there field. “They were very blunt in tellwhere they see a woman reporter I am a and a man reporter, and there’s ing me about the fact that h o s t a t a k i ntg ,e y ge h will blond, and a woman, andwill have instinctually go to the man.” to work harder to prove myself.” “There are people, and a lot of When she worked as assignwomen who willnot ment editor at the city desk, she the time, other wasoftenmistakenforasecretary. accept you because of your looks,” She says men asked to beput Prissick is told in herongoing methrough to a man or “someone in dia training. charge.” ’Very few women have high “At a management level, we profile positions in television.” Behave fewer womeninmanagement cause thesewomen are attractive, as women move they haveto struggle to gain credin newspapers, and up into management, I think we ibility, especially from the female are seeing a lot more threatened audience, Prissick adds. “I When she was supposedto be men,” she says. definitely think that women in management have interviewed by a Japanese television crew working a story about on to be twice as good.” was At The Province, the positions Canadian culture, she rejected by the Japanese producer. of cityeditor,newseditor,and “The producer looked me up acting editor-in-chief are held by and women. “They have had to put up down, from my shoes to the top withalotofabuse,snidecomments, of my head, and his face went jokes and whisper campaigns deathly white,” she says. He then from many threatenedmen.“ said: “too pretty, no TV.” Although she had the author“[TheProvince]hasbeen dubbed the Ovary Tower because ity to speak on behalf of ICBC, she they have women in positions of was told the crew would not unpower,” she says. ‘Would it have derstand. When a male represenbeen otherwise called the Testicu- tative of the corporation amved the entire crew‘s response: “Ah, lar Tower? No.” But Easton is satisfied with yes.” 8/THE UBYSSEY . . ., March 8,1991 , , . I . , Power, violence & upper body restriction part of the fashi'on designed b y The followingis what happens happened to me over the past when six womyn converge on the year, and I haven't been able to men to torture wornyn. realize it. And it's not only in And tampons! Why is it that Gallery Lounge to t a l k classroom situations. It's per- they persuade us that the only way in you. ...Anyways, we were dis- sonal things that happen to of being feminine is by shoving a a a cussing why the term "girls" is You get in situation with guy. piece of cardboard up. It's not the "no." he I of. offensive to people, and to womyn and you say a n d h e h a s t most natural thing ever thought who know anything about soci- power over you, and you want to I'm all for a bleed-in, now that ety. One womyn put h e r h a n d say no, but you just don't. Be- there'sGSTonal1feminine hygiene up and said that it w a s not men who c a u x it's not the way it should products. I'd really en'oy wearing put with this term and be -you feel so*~notyou.~~you all whiteand bleeding ?or a week on had come up call womyn"girls"--womyn do it yourself out of it, and you're the steps Of parliament. let love else, and you yourthemselves. The profwanted me someone 'Ornethi% I want to be someone because else, to explain why it is offensive since self about is thisinterview I did at it. so I no one seemed to know, had that's the way he wants Inmy experimental research Christmas. This guy was saying to tell them that it belittles womyn clas, there was a study done, how do I experience sexism? He into being something.. . examples. Well, I can't and we looked who was par- kept wanting at Being childlike. I know ticipating in fie study, and they give a specific There's a real resistance to what hewanted to hear*He m n t e d wereall males--allhomogeneom changing these things. ClaSS males. And I said tohearthat I'dbeenfollowedhome, Men get power in many ways, middle and one of them is to control lan- -how can you do that? I+s not or thatI'd been raped. That is one example, and it is a serious, horrepresenta~veo~ourpopu~a~on~, guage. And 1 asked the prof this, and rible thing, but there i S SO much instead of the female professor more toit thanthat.Unfortunately, my question, one of our media has warped it, and our the male s t u d e n t s - - w h o w a s media is part Of the problem, beabut sixfoot four and OVel bo cause they cater to the advertisers. old saying: "I'm not a feminist, hundred pounds--amwered my And that is the reason we have tv! question, AllI felt like was why h e to haveenough stuffthat people b u t ..." willwatchtheadvertisements. I used to saythat. can see how frigging hell are you answering I 1HROUGHOUT THZ *At%* people say that. I think it takes a my question? I wasn'ttalking to Sexism is so central-it is a comment that someone will make, it's a you! Shut up! certain amount of ... not talk about profs. feelingthatI get. It's a sentencein Strength? class that I have to read! And when Strength ... but corning to real- talk about bras. asbeing Restriction, €ashion, adver.. I complain,, Iamseen izations. "bitchy",whiney-just,whyareyou tising! That'swhythewomyn's What if you find them [bras] complaining so much, why are you centre is so important! rocking the boat? Why can't you be Space... control of language, uncomfortable? "contentwithequality?"AndIdon't Who the hell does find them no men looking in, no male voyhave equality. I am demanding it, comfortable? eurs, freedom, power.. and I am not going to shut up. But ! have to have special deMen a r ea l w a y ss a y i n g , "Don't be stuDid. don't be idi- signs that bruise my shoulders ... if equalityhappensin my lifetime, It's another way of making I'd be really shocked. otic." They doA't &gue with you. I don't want to be considered your body presentable to a certain they just put you down. APPLlCATlONS the same, I want to be different. But A lot of times in class, I have audience. NOW I want to be respectecl-1 don't want You should see what those equalitv. I want resnect. something to say, but I can't put it AVAILABLE underwlre mas (10. I ve got scars into words. I start to doubt myself, Hespel:t! Thebiggestthing which I cannot do for the position of that I ' m angry about is that I have I'd go insane. tofight. I thinkthat When I talk to it is a b s o l u t e l y profs, I can't say my despicable. gut feelings, I have to I The fact that I say what I've read, have t o take a Wenand what I can sup Li-Do class, and it port through literadoesn't matter if 1 (2 FULL-TIME/ PART-TIME) ture. have it or not, if a You have to reman attacks me.and I don't fight back, it fertosomeoneelse's Resumes required with application would be my fault, authority.You're i I and not his fault for never the authority attacking me. Well, on your ownlife. Applications 3eadline for Resumes why the fuck didhe classrooms are Available P Applications: attack Men me? a hostileenvironshouldn't have the SUB 238 FRIDAY, March 15, 4:OO p.m. ment.Simplythe 1 right to do that. way they are set up I I hate the fact inthisinstitutionon i that I 1:lidn't know all o f these thin s strictly enforced hiearlier on in m y l i . erarchical lines. I hate the factthat Thereisthe prof, I know ;3bout them. who has all of the Ihatethefactthat power in that room, 1 ~ssoctotlon ... they are I and then the power Ihatethefactthat ranges down from I have to feel lucky there to the men in ' about not being atthe class, and then tacked, when it should bea given. to the white womyn at New World Harbour Side I believethat andtopeople of Saturday, nothing willhappen colour and so on. untilmen--and I And it's very, very think they have will in hard to speak out to be forced, simply TICKETS: (sales end March 13, 1991) those situations. 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I got this so great no", that there will be no can'tjustpluckoutanincidentaLIt bra because !wantedt o looklikechangeuntilthat is addressed. and is central to my being, and it part is 'e l Only Until the institutions that breed Forensic Building of' systennic oppression of everything I do. It is everywhere reason. 1 reallyregretit now. Thekind with I go. And how can you logically scars are there, and I keep look- and violence... ing a t them, and they hurt me. STEVEN lIART prove that the air you breathe is do.. 1 2 3 March 13, 1991 Svedfeld Lounge, Kenny sexist,heterosexist,andracist?You They really ..I like my sports bra. can't prove thatto someone. I still have the bruises. This is That's That'stotallytrue! ~ ~ ~~~ There's also a real resistance for womyn to do it, too. They don't want to be labelled as "radical feminist." They're afraid - it's like that r ~ 1I I 1 JOBLINK COORDINATORS , I I I (. A DINNER ;R D DANCE March 16 March 8,1991 THE USYSSEY/~ i1 s e /I! // 1 .!I / /, i . of time I heard an imitation the accent,I turned browner. I couldn’t even t u r n . . red. I began to clothe myselfin imaginary white My appetite was insatiabl skin. I straightened my h ~ i rhungered for the styles. I turned against myparent’s , food, hungry for white nourishment. was consumed byhatred for everythin I a Indian. I remember my mother’s tears when I told her I wished for a white mother. I told her this she combed the knotsout ofmy thick, rough, black hair. as Her hands trembled only slightly. I When a white man liked mewas thrilled. When men my colour liked I hid from them, was scared ofthe dark. It angered me when my white sisters, I my friends, tried to match me up with my kind. My kindsmelled,were I unattractive, my kind were manure. was “white” then.I wouldn’t let anyone steal that from me. I t wasn’t until I graduated when one of my friends in a cold embrace whispered, “I never even notice a t you are different, you are white just like the th I I’1 I cried. because I couldn’t see mvselfin the mirror anvmore. was invisible. No J {j I J one could hear me, because I coulin’t speak. hadn’t spoken foryears. There was I silence. Silence is starvation. Silence is suicide.resurrected myself that day. I I My brown self. I still bear the scars, butsurvived because my mother cradled my silence, nurtured me when I wasn’t looking. Today I can see. I have a vision and I havi. a voice. I am surviving. Racism operates as a strategy of divide and conquer. The systematic misare treatment ofpeople ofcolour relies the regeneration oflies. “They dirty.” on , “I must be dirty.” The hatred, the racism is internalized. Racism pitted me i against myself. Resisting and unlearning are the keys. I have entered the process; divide a n d conquer have become define a n d empower. \\ 1 ELITE GRAPHICS LTD. 4369 WEST TENTH AVENUE PHONE: 222-8587 FAX: 222-8597 Wake up Oscar! by M. Maenling Business Stationery Binding Computer Graphics FAX Flyers B Menu h Printing e r PXotocopying Reports B Theses Resumes Rubber Stamps Wedding Stationery Word Processing PHOTOCOPY 5 CENTSlPAGE FAX 50 CENTSlPAGE PLUS LONG DISTANCE 20% OFF BUSINESS STATIONERY 20% OFF WEDDING STATIONERY 10% OFF RUBBER STAMPS (READY IN 24 HOURS) Once again, The Academy is royally thumbingitsnose at women in the film industry. With the announcement of the Oscar nominations, Awakenings was nominated for best picture but director Penny Marshall was conspicuously absent from t h e nomination list for best director. She would have been the first ever, North American woman to be nominated for best director. Even moreconspicuous is the fact that traditionally, best picture nominations carrya best director nominationalong withthem. (How could one of the best pictures be made without the expertise of one of the best directors?) Enough of of medical subject matter,as well as the emotional problems faced as by the patients they come out of 1 their suspended states. Penny Marshall's gutsy, unflinching film deals with difficult a sometimes subject matter in agonizinglyrealisticmanner. Bring Kleenex. The Panther His wearyglance,bythe passing of the bars, Has ~ T O F V Jinto a dazed and ~ vacant stare; It seems to him there are n thousand bars Andout beyond these bars-no world. T h e pad of his strong feet, that ceaseless sound Of supple tread behind the iron bands, Is like a dance of strength circling round, circle, stunned, n While in the great will stands. But there are times the pupils of his eyes Dilate, the stronglimbs stand alert, apart, Tensewiththefloodofvisions that arise Only to sink and die within his hezrt. Raincr Maria Rilke i* From Awakenings) Defy Authority! Some of Canada?kbest accounting Illjnds are i the insurance indwe. n t Canada's Insurance Professionals The Graduates o The Insurance Institute o Canada. f f l2/THE UBYSSEY Join The Ubyssey SUB 241K March 8,1991 " WIMMIN'S ISSUE " " " " ~ ~. Film animator's Dlu&in personalities by Celia Griffith From an interview withSylvie Fefer. ............ .......... ............. ............ ............. .............. ........... ............ ............. ............. .............. ............. ................ .......... ... ........... ............. ...... ............. ............. ............. ............ ............ ............. ........... ............ .............. ............ ........ ........... ............. ............ ................... ................. . . . . . . . . .... . ... . . . ................ ............ ............. ............. ............. ............. ............. ............. ....... ..... Rememberwhencartoons played before every movie? Today we find them mainly collections in such as TheThirdAnimation Celebration, which opens F'riday at the Ridge Theatre. Among 19 baffling, amusing, and often breathtaking new offera ingsfromninecountries,is quirky piece by Vancouver's own Sylvie Fefer. 1::pI . . .............. ........ . ........... . ........... . .... . . . . . . :: j ........... ..::::X:. ..:...: .. . . . . . Two Posfiions,High School Orientation-Frosh Co- ............... ............. ............. ................. ordinator and Fund-Sponsorship Raiser, are ~ al- ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ......... ............. ~ ............. ready defined. Two positions are undefined and ~~:~ ............. ............ ............. the AMS is open for YOUR suggestions. This for .............. is . .. . ... . . .. . . . . .. .. . . . .. aprojectthat will help the AMSand students. :.. . ............ ... ... .. . ~~~~~~ ............ ............. ............. :'.::::s:s; .... .... ... ... ............ . . . ..... . .. ; , Q: How did you come to do the film Personality Software? A: The National Film Board asked idea. They me and I submitted the seemed to like so they commisit, sionedmetodoastr,ryboard.That's like a comic strip version of the film-what it will be like. Still from Personality Software Then they didn't want to do the film after all. I asked for the played before that feature across a slot that's custom-cut into your film rights back and help with Canada. And mine was for played with head-what the reDercussions oi some of my cost, and they were some horrible-oh, I shouldn't say very generous to dothat. So I ap- horrible-with a film called Stroker plied to the Canada Council and Ace, with Burt Reynolds. got rejected about a million and AShort Story was finished in in the one times [laughs] until finally I '85, and it'sbeenshown had animated most the film on places that I just mentioned. But of myown and I submitt.ed a line it's about being short. I t played a lot on the Knowledge Network, and test. For a line test all or most of I think maybe there'sa short perthe animation is done in and son over there that black liked it. white, so one can get areally clear idea of what the film is going to be Q: What distinguishes Personallike. They gave me the money to ity Software particularly? complete the film, so I finished I animatingit, I inked it, and thenA: Well, first, it's my most ambididn't have enough money to pay tious film, because it's full colour. that are in the film. for painters to paint the film. I My other ones were done on paper; applied for a new BC Film grant this one was doneon cel. Cel is and got the money to pay for really a clearacetate, so what painters. That's basicallythe his- happens is that the characters are you tory of the makingof Personality painted on it, and thencan see Software. the background behind the characters.Sinceyou don't haveto redraw it for each frame of film, Q: Whydid the NFB approach you? you can have a full colour background. My other films had very minimally coloured drawings. A: I've made other two films, Brushstrokes and A Short Story. Second, Personality Software So the NFB knew my work a n d is filled with characters talking. of You know-it's as if they were real they knew me. people, but they're cartoon charQ: Wherepeople can see acters and they'reinteracting with Brushstrokes or Short Story? one another. In my other films, Brushstrokes had no talking at A I made Brushstrokes i n 1982 all, and A Short Story had just a so it's getting a bit old now, but it's narration, andmaybe a couple of' at Canadian Filmmakers Distrilines that are lip-synched. Also, bution West on Howe Street-you it's a muchmore complex story can rent them. Brushstrokes was than my other twofilms, and it's It's shownon the CBC, Knowledge got way more characters. more polished. Network,paytv.Brushstrokes Personal Softwaretakesalook won theShortFilmShowcase, something that doesn't exist any at what life would be like if you more. People who won got paired could go to astore and yourself buy i a up with feature, so their film was a newpersonality and installt i n ....... .......... .......... ........... ............ ......... .......... ........ ......... ........... ... . . . ............. . . . . ....... ......... ............ ........... ........... ............. ........... .. . ............ ........... ........... ............ ............ ......... ............... ......... ......... ........... .......... .......... ............... . . ........ . . . .......... . ..:;-----..... . ........ . ......... ........ ... ......... Send in your application and a Curriculum Vitae any these four of positions. for~ ~ ~ . ~ ~ ~ :>; ;! . :?: . . . . . . .. . . More information.from the AMs Vice President Sh,swn TagSeth SUB Room 248, Applications in Smart Shoppers Know... ou can dress for less... FOR... 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Someone speaking or acting who pushes grabs or thc you to get by Laura Mayne Asserting our right to bemmm Although learning self defense can be useful and empowering, assertiveness skills may be more realistically applicable to real life. do. and as such we have no means to right thing to Everysituationisdifferent assert what we want. Assertiveness is training can teach us things that and there no perfect way to prowe don't learn anywhere else: that tect yourself from sexual assault. Thefollowingare tipsthatmay you feel confident and live safety. Self Protection Tips: These Self defense as an issue often comes i up withthe topic b of how women f L r 0 m assume attack strangers. by s e x u a l Stranger rape receives the most help wrong for Dressive war. We are told that it is We are told this is a war for the sDective its' of " sinceKuwaitwasruledbyasheikand to reject the social his family. When Saudi Arabian programming which womenrecentlyprotestedfortheright dehumanizes us to thc Apparently the allies' fight for liberty and freedom does notinclude Saudi womenwho, among other things, cannot board airplanes or check i t no hotels without written permission from male relatives. w e hear about the brutality, torture, and murder of Kuwaitisby the Iraqi army, but little . - -- - - ' . I I normal. Thisisespeciallytrue' for men who have to deal with a genderrole thattells them iftheq are not tough then theyre real 'I not men. Part of the way our society dehumanizes us is through the use of verbal put downs. Within a group, verbal uut downs desensitize those 1 7 1 mad. He does not follow Geneva directed at people outside the group it nate the. the conventionforP.0.W.sandaimsscud creates subhumans who deserve any position missiles at civilian targets. These mistreatment thevmiehtreceive. Lb- nfYtp,7rhpr" ~ I L ~~~ ~~ ~~~~~~~. " " ~~~ freedom,liberty,oraperceivedthreat of attack are also thrown in for good measure. We needto see that nationdism is nothing more than a ploy to manipulate peoples' emotions the for benefit and interest of the elite who are our leaders. ~ r t a i n l y the to average person it doesn't matter who little boys, Bush and Hussein, facing OKToobad for Hussein, but Bush has more little toys so he's goingto win. Theaboveattitudesmustchange. We have to get rid of hierarchies and the incessant need to dominate,rank, and compete. For example, at our schools and universities we could eas- ' atruedemmraq. Heavenknown weran'tdonnv worse than the politicians. After a few months of voting and taking care of 7 business we would be left wondering whywe ever had leaders in the first place. How was i t that anyone ever took them seriously, how did ever mapaue tn uot pn they much press time,andhow didtheyever cor those senseless slaughters called war? I 1 ~~ 1 too far, and we feel compelled to by other members of our faculty. our own faculty. We havc express OUR opinion, rather than We are not homophobic, racist or NEVER felt un: acceptingthe opinion 6 t h which sexist,andthemajority of engi- meninengineering,nor~hamed We are part of the ever-inwe have been labelled. neers are not either. to be associatedthem. with creasing number of female engiFirst, we are proud to be And we resent being classi- media The is constantly porengineers traying engineers, female fied. ...not as a group of chau- 1 engineers neers. Daily, we are forced tolistenjustsimplyengineers. We are sick F e m i n i s mh a sd i f f e r e n t vinistic,straight,whitemaleswith to different people. To women playing a negligibl to uptight and uninformed com- and tired of people (who presume meanings merits of Some "feminists" that to know our inner thoughts) tell- some it means equal payfor equal dent activities. In fact, women in engineerclaim torepresent our cause. They ing others that we are frightened work, and for othersit meansaffir- ing are twice a s likely (and twice as encour1 sograndlytakeitupon themselves of our own faculty. We consider mative action programs, changing aged) to get involved with EUS activities. tostandup for ourrights that have ourselves members of one of the uwomen" to "womyn", and equatBasically, we want the UBC comr . ing sex with sexism. Some femi- know that every timeanyonemakesanunfair, supposedly been violated, in the onlygroupsonthisapathetic beliefthat we feel toorepressedby campus with the initiative to ex- nists have an unrealistic percep- biased generalization about the engineers and what they mayor may not represent, she labelsas well. -7 us tion of what men are like. our male counterparts do it our- press an opinion on any subject. to Some have told us that we A n i We are not saying that we selves. Well, the time has come where these comments havegone agree witheveryopinionexpressed should feel unsafe andashamed of issue, she should consultus. by J.Randall, Christa Greentree, and Evie Wehrhahn 4 ~ 14/THE UBYSSEY March 8,1991 " The g o l deal is. your least expensive mealis Free when two or more o the oc f above items are ordered. Not valid with any other coupons. Dining in only, please. Valid only when this ad is presented priorto placement of order. 3431 WEST BROADWAY 738-5298 LET TRAVEL CUTS HELP YOU MAKE ENDS MEET Vancower n Toronto Once you've looked around and checked prices, come and check out TRAVEL CUTS. We can offer you the best possible price to anywhere in Canada, and around the world. The next time financesare in the way of travel, come see us at TRAVEL cuts and we'llhelp make ends meet. C9lRAvELcUls C A GoingYourWay! shoe sale March 13, 14, 15 IOAM - 4PM A N N U A L G E N E R A L M E E T I N G AGENDA 1. lntro of New Executive 2. Financial Statements 3. Report from Council 4. Auditor's Report + 5. OtherBusiness 5 P . THE UBYSSEY/:G + . March 8,1991 WHAT IS FEMINISM? j 16/THE UBYSSEY March 8,1991 If I keep one eye green and venomous, as quick as snakespit, and the other eye diaphanous, lake-like pooled with pupil, I can keep the same balance as the tray on my fingertips. Bar Maid minds wonder min,ds explore time occupies space people come and go as time came and went feelings invade mind corresponds thoughts exchange bodies mingle curves acquaint sweat abundant feeling faint is it lust? feelings are familiar body wants craving mind roaming hands warm sensations compliments by touch perpetual thoughts of hungering ambition pleasure for two time forgotten replaced molding images of des it must belove. My hands can be supple and fluid for the pouring ofwines, the small gestures to indicate the lusher meats. They shall light the candles and whet the appetites. My rings and knuckles are dainty hors d'oeuvres. My dress is religiously plain. I hold my body rigid and as beckoning as a board. But the brooch at my neck must rivet the eye and confound the senses In this barI float like a bright balloon, ,4 prick sensitive Globe of air I squeak of the touchof hands, f Quivering in tight-skinned excitement, I float a a surprise, s Circling tabletops, I?ounds of amazed eyes, Lips of wine glasses. I waft on pillows of smoke Tapping bodies lightly And moving on. In league with shiny surfaces, I carry finely pointed tips In my pockets. 1 u I am unpoppable. 3t Inside the balloon Someone hides Her sharp elbows, Fingernails, Incisors. Spreadeagled, I-ier handsand feet 1-latten against the inflated sides, I-ier mouth opens In a f u l l And frozen to orbit our living room. - " I I always waited to see which looked likely to explode intd . .... Y ' -I_ __ ~, . -..-. But you had memorized the exact location on the screen, letting me believe your index finger was prescient. Now it's hard to believe in the light years between us, Mr. Spock. When we played alone on the lawn all day, how I loved to be Kirk or McCoy, trusting or hating you, but still by your side, phaser in hand and firing into the fogs of the frog pond. But when we played with your friends, I was just a Klingon. Or worse, a womanin a mini-skirt who didnothing but scream. bhich I hro%gfk, tsy8u krapped likea b n e s e delicacy. We watched them unfold from the leaf, their fluted edges rippling t o a full length. You .would say a prayer, sprinkle holy pine needles, then raiseyour brown sinewy arms, taut under the weight held high above you r hlead. Your blue eyes watchingthe sky, pretending God was at the end of each smooth stroke. But when the blade was sliced the body, the only divine flash was of our own making. It was notfor God we performed, but for each other. God was the way in. But itwas only you, brother, I loved for the killing. Ilow those roles have wrapped aroundus, as if, then, we could choose to boldly go so far away from each other. You, to your planet of logic, and I still hooking my dreams onto fallins stars. Poems by Shannon Stewart and Barb Dawson Racist ruling handed down Gitksan to and Wet’suwet’en Continuing the institutionalized oppression of the First Nations’ Peoplewhich is integral to the history Canada, the of B.C. court has upheld by Today, March 8,1991, the British Columbia court Chief under the racist arguments put forward the province and the federal governments. Justice McEachearn handed down his decision about the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en People’s aboriginal land title action in British Columbia. The Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en People have issued statements regarding this judgement. In support positions, we, the womyn working of their on theWomyn’s Issue, are running them here. have also included Judge McEachearn’s ruling. We Office of the Hereditary Chiefs of theGitksan and Wet’suwet’en People: “Chief Justice McEachearn has delivered a brutal decision to the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en People and to all aboriginal people. The Royal Proclamation does not apply to British Columbia he said. This decision issued by Justice McEachearn is wrong. It is wrong in principle and it iswrong in law. It isa decision that is undeniably political. “All arguments that the province argued have been adopted. Justice McEachearn does not want the court burdened with injunctions and court cases concerning aboriginal title. Justice McEachearn accepts the Calder and Catherine Milling cases both of which were repudiated by the Sparrow decision. The Sparrow decision, Justice McEachearn said, has no effect as it is on non-tidal water. “The court says that aboriginal title is a non-existent concept. This decision is very much like the white paper meant to destroy 1969 aboriginal people through assimilation. “The decision doubts that the Gitksan andWet’suwet’en were organized societies at the time of contact. The crown recognized ownership aroundvillages but not traditional territories.” From Don Ryan, speaker for the Gitksan and Wet’wuwet’en been edited due lack of space. The full text to please note: this text has is available at The Ubyssey office. “The decision of the Supreme Court of British Columbia on Delgam Uukw et.al. vs. the Queen, the longest running aboriginal title and rights case in the country, was handed down this morning. As it reads, Mr. Justice Allan McEachearn has handed down a political decision that clearly demonstrates that the intereststhe of courts in British Columbia are not those ofjustice, but legalistic ofthe to continued sanctioned manipulation of facts and history justify the marginalisation of aboriginal people to thepoint that their existing rights as protected by the Canadian constitution do not apply ~n British Columbia. legal thinking, this judge is attempting “In a turn ofretrogressive to push back justice for native people in Canada least 20 years. This at has been doneby either ignoring or rejecting claims made in the legal last few years by native people all over the country. This judge goes as far as saying on page300 of the document [the judgement] that native people, especiallyGitksanand Wet’suwet’en, are economically marginalized because they live onreserves and that the hope of only This change can come if they leave and assimilate into the mainstream. is the 1969 White Paper, a policy long rejectedby successive federal regimes. ”Even at the introduction ofthe document, this judge states‘...I have been brutal.” (p.3) Indeed this is an understatement. The volume of evidence that this judge rejects in respect continued ownership and jurisdiction Gitksan and to the of the Wet’suwet’en temtories, the details whole of cultural organization,of the language,of their whole cultures, is amazing. Was not this judge actually there through theof the trial? It seems not. After three yearsof hearing testimony, the judge even rejects the idea that the Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en cultures were and are complex and sophisticated (p.237) instead asserting that thousands years of social development happened since Europeans’ of contact. “...This judge goes on... to extrapolate that the colony was able to extinguish all aboriginal rights, including those to land, some sort of by fiat,that required neither the knowledge or the consent the native of people living in what now BritishColumbia ... is this judge concludes more it that to or less that prior to contact, native people in British Columbia led a life that was nasty, brutish and short and took European contact make them culturally self-aware and to give them any sense temtoriality. In short, to contact, this judge thinks native of prior people were little more than fairly bright animals. “This judgement is full of similar arguments that either debase and belittle aboriginal people and their cultures and certainly render them subject to European cultural domination in total ... “The tone judge is attempting set is that native this to people in B.C. have no rights, no real culture that in any could way be equated with what was imported from Europe and certainly say in what happens to their ... Given that it could have beena great dayfor justice in no land this country, we come away with nothing. McEachearn’s judgement isa travesty, basedon the economic imperatives of a province driven by exploitation of people and resources. He has rectified nothing. Perhaps heexpects the native rights struggle B.C. and Canada to in magically his fueled the causes racism. Judgements this kind foster enmity. Aboriginal of of only endbecause of this decision. Instead, in myopia, he has people will protect their rights and force this agenda. The actuality, or threat will of violent force by the state cannot keep people down. It has not worked in South Africa and it not work last summer Oka. Justice will be served in the end and province may expect considerable did at this unrest, protest and direct political action if the government attemptsto use this small, silly judgement to inform policy. An appeal can be expected.” AN EXCERPT FROM THE JUDGMENT IN THIS CASE “The foregoing answers the legal issues arising for decision in this case. It remains only to state my conclusions i n more precise form and to add as some comments. Nothing I have said applies in any to any lands set aside Indian reserves. way “(1) The action against Canada dismissed. is “(2) The plaintiffs’ claims for ownership of and jurisdiction over the territory, and aboriginal rights in the territory dismissed. for are “(3)The plaintiffs, on behalfofthe Gitksan and Wet’suwet’en people described the Statement in of Claim ...are entitled ato Declaration that, a to use Crown land in the territory for aboriginal subject to the general the province, they have continuing legal right unoccupied or vacant of law sustenance purposesas described in Part 15 of these Reasons for Judgment. “(4) The plaintiffs’ claims for damages are dismissed. “(5)The Counterclaimof the Province is dismissed. “(6) In view of all the circumstances this case, including the importance the issues, the variable resources of of of the parties, the financial arrangements which have been made for the conduct of this case (from which I have been largely insulated), and divided success each party the has achieved, there will not be any orderfor costs.” 1 8 / T ~ ” E ) y s s e y. . - . . . . . . . . . , . . . . . . . _....... ....._ March 8,1991 I W Mynifesto A list of demands made by the feministsof The Ubyssey Womyn’s issue. Freeze all hiring of male employees on campus; hire only womyn, preferably womyn of colour, lesbians and differently ablcd womyn. All pmfessors required to take a series of anti-racist, antisexist, anti-homophobic workshops. Recognition ofNative languages and foreign languages to fill all the language requirementfor undergraduate degrees. Free daycare for children of student parents. Subsidize womyn’s self defense WenLiDo classes 100 per cent. All male heads of faculties be assignedjanitorial &ties their in dcpnrtmcnts. Implement myndatory coursework on power structures i n this society (and not in Engiish 100). More reprcscntation from feminist authors incourses. AnyUBCemployeepmventobeconnectedtosexual harassment get fired and gets their therapy paid for. Pay sessional lecturers as full professors as most womyn arc lecturers. University funds channelled into research on AIDS, organic agriculture, birth control and STD’s like chlamydia. Rape relief stickers be legally stuck in bathrooms. Free abortion services and pregnancy counselling at Student Health. Free tampons, condoms, latex gloves and dental dams washin rooms. Replace all stop signs with ’stop rape.” Replace Hampton Place with free student housing for single female parents. Convert student housing into co-op housing. . UBC Reports publish their issue of the year as lesbian, fist a gay, and bisexual issue. AZT provided for people with AIDS-frce, of course. Convert President David Strangway’s house into something uscful. (...a retreat for Chippendale’s dancers ... ...a methane production plant which operates on animal exhaust..) Start a womyn’s research andresource centre. Abolish the term “ladies”; we know gentlemen haven’t existed in a long time. FrcddyWoodTheatrepmducemoreplaysbywomenplaywrights, with more women actors. directors. desianers andtechnicians. THEUBYSSEY March 8,1991 The Ubyssey is published Tuesdays and Fridays by the Alma Mater Society ofthe University of British Columbia. Editorial opinions are those of the staff and not necessarily those of the university administration, or of the sponsor. The Ubyssey is published with the proud support of the Alumni Association. The editorial oftice is Rm. 241k of the Student Union Building. Editorial Department, phone 228-2301; advertising, 228-3977: FAX# 228-6093 Once upon a newspaper there dwelled 3 little enginening students: Evie Wehrhahm, Christa Greentrcr, and Julie Randall, who died, decomposed and wen? oonsumed by the blue gcop that spewed h m Celia GriffiLh’s mouth. “Aaaack” read the flag that poppal mirthlessly h m the gun of Carla MaRechuk who was inconspiciouslybathing her earlobes in liquid nitroglycerine, which spilledvccifemuslyontothegroundandquicklycreatedaholeoutof which materialized Ellen Pond. Iris Griffith and Iris Bitterlick were the eyes ofdestiny, scanning the horizon for Barbara Dawson the twinket of the c a s t . Franka Codua-Von Specht with her spechtaclea s t a d back in defiance, e x p i n g her armpits in protest R c k o in funda, the blue priestess ofthe Goddess, Lisa Tench, cast a divine enchantment on Ela3ine Griffith, who sprouted unsightly Everyone else facial hair, grew hazy, and vanished into the future. had to settle for a spell of insomnia. Meanwhile, Linda Shout, the Grand Exalted Black Brassiere, srreamedinastonishmentatEffiePowlickingthecolouredsprinkles off of a chocolate skinhead, exposing a giant vulva, which framed Johanna Wickie’s head. A suggestive yet i nt conclusion was jumpedtobyLauraMryme,whoemptiedhernoshilsinthegeneral direction of Nadene SuITeringfrom the anti-sleep spell, Katherine Weiler, in a delirium verging on total exhaustion, thmw a blunt object shattering the bottleofpurpleIrishwhiskeysittingbesideCoreenaMcBurnie, who metamorphosed ( b-ansmogrificd) into a f m t Greek v&, but she W spontaneously co~nbusted. didn’t know hoe to conjugate it, and she This brings to the tragic plight M q a n Maeling who haanled us of 36 million mooshy peas to the dismay ofRebecca Bishop who prayed to the Goddess for 36 million mooshy peas. But Helen WilloughbyPrice got them instead andused them to build a lifesize statue of ShamnLindomainhonourofElizabethandHollywholosttheirlast names in the chaos. Manisha Singh felldown on her knees in mverance, or was it fatigue? Like a bridge over h u b l e d waters, LaurieNewel1 the Palliative, the symbol of Truth, Justice,Freedom, and Democracy emitted a a d to glowing light which c Sam Green uUer the immortal words: ‘Idunno,youllhavetothinkofsomethingforme.’ Paula Danishka .. Rm e. . . March 8,1991 THE UBYSEY/l9 . N longer silenced: O by Nadene Rehnby Women gather together, speak out, and make demands in the fight against sexual assault I . C - seeking medical attention,she Forcing institutionsto listen: She said she has not experi- Policy m i c e also said the number doubled since last In a world where almost every risks being treated by a male phyenced sexual assault from within ofincidents has of “The Universityhas said that the Native community, but said year, particularly in the area woman can tell you about an expe- sician, a difficultprocess for a been sexually we donot want sexual harassment formal complaints. rience of sexual assault, is easy to woman who has just it there isa problem. But on campus, rapes have on according to feel defeated. Facedwith a society assaulted by a man. The RCMP campus,” “The residentialschools have a that stilllooks upon rape as a also can not guarantee that com- Margaretta Hoek of the newly cre- had a lot to do with it,” she said. occurred everywhere from Main Library to Buchanan Tower, the Policy “The cycle hasn’tbeenbroken. woman’s fault, or as something to plaint will be dealt withbya woman atedSexualHarassment Office. “The office educates and People who were abused become residences, the trails to Wreck make jokes about, a world where officer. And if a woman does get that explains what the Beach and leaving the Pit Pub, consequences abusers.” the authorities to givejustice to fail and still we hear very little from women, not wanting to talk about far, there isno guarantee her re- are.” It the university. Created in the spring of 1989, Getting our experiences becomes a way of port will lead to charges.is even the information less likely a charge will lead to a the office has since heard approxi- women need: protecting ourselves. Women together: mately 160 incidents of sexual haBut despite this, women are conviction. The following letter recently Bernie to rassment, Hoeksaid, someofwhich demanding to be heard and making According appearedin the McGill University “It’s important other that . it difficult for the “system” to turn Smandych,anofficerwiththeUBC included sexual assault. detachment of the RCMP, none of women come to the aid women of But one woman, whose sexual student newspaper: women away. whohavebeensexually asWomen are talking with each the 35 reported cases of sexual assault forced her to drop her Vlolence must be publlclzed assault received by her detachment classes,said UBC slammed the saulted,”Lakemansaid.“Because other,gatheringtogether,and To the Daily: it’sourfuture we’re talking making a hell of a fuss,” according from 1987 to 1990 led to a convic- door in herface. On September 27,1990 a Berkeley, t tion. about.” She said the residence life coto Lee Lakeman ofVancouver Rape Ca,33 women and menwere held One womanwho did report to ordinator ather “Women must take action to residence was “re- hostage by an armed man. The blonde Relief. police said she wishes she hadn’t. ally apathetic. She couldn’t have increase their security and to women were singled out and forcibly “Iregret reportingit because ofthe cared less.” make it clear that they belive in Exposing the rapists: S sodomized with C ~ I by men under themselves and have right to a a “I couldn’tbelieve the way they One action women are taking garbage I’ve had to go through,” the force of the armed man. One man better future themselves, and for wlci killed, numerous were injured and is getting the names rapists out. she said. “I spent a lot of time treated me.” of for all women.” eventually the armed man was fatally While police are one avenue that there, telling them what happened Meanwhile,themanwho and writing out statements. They raped her still lives in residence shot by the local police. This incident “A very highpercentage of women can take to both protect was reported by “Off Our Backs” in talked to him andconcluded there and is attending bewomen called (the crisis line) UBC. other women and to deter other cause theywantedtoprotectother Lak:eman said these attitudes January 1991. rapists, innovative meansexpos- was not enough evidence. of As members of the McGill WomYou just about have to be art?going to start costing the uniwomen,” said Lakeman. ing rapists are emerging. en’s Union, we are outraged that this of The UBC student raped by Both VRR a n d WAVAW raped in front a police officer in versity. “Universities are alarmed event was not acknowledged by this court. Never mind because women are going to cost her employer said:“I belive he’s (Women Against Violence Against order to get into ~~spaper.InlightofthePolytechnique them profits-because women are women. done this to an awful lotof Women) are recording the names getting a conviction,” she said. Massacre. it is crucial that incidents of She said, for herself, she is speaking out.” It wasn’t an isolated incident.” of men who rape. violence against women are dways on it, “Thereare,uprisingsofwomen addressed and made public. We do n o t She said that, she chose not while Another tactic, taken recently still glad she acted even if the on campuses across the country to press charges, if she learns on a US campus, is postering. In system did nothing for her. believethattheMontr&lMassanewas Smandych said the RCMPare aboutsexual assault,” she said. that a woman has, “I’ll be right thiscase,awomanobtainedaphoto an isolated atrocity againstwomen and, doing what they can. “I have to Women are not willing to back there.” therefore,demandthat h i s issue be of t h s m a n who raped her and used is publicly conffonted. By ignoring vioto Women have had find ways it in a poster that identified as admit, the system not easy,” she down anymore..” him said. “Sometimes it does come to lence against women, you are promotto circumvent a system that iga rapist. ing i t we nores women or fails to bring jusDirect confrontations are also his word against hers. But can Breaking thecolour barrier: Would you please cover this story tice, and are working together. Instances of sexual assault increasing. Women are grouping proveordisprovethosestatenow? Thank You. again&womenofcolourcarryeven Women are talking tn each other together confront rapists at their ments,” she said. to McCiII Women’s Union Smandychalsosaid that a more societal baggage. about experiences, teaching each home, at work, or in a social conc d note: our phone number is 398woman who reports a sexual as“Native women are at i n other successful methods of selftext, and to let them and others 6784. News tips are always welcome. defense and assertiveness, and are know they havebeen identified as sault at the UBC detachment can creased risk of sexist violence by speak to a woman officer if she white men as a racist/sexist ata known rapist. “It is a patronizing insult to coming to the aidof other women chooses. tack,”states ‘ h e Truth As We Women are also speaking to women to say thatwe don’t need through work in rape crisis cen“She can also have someone Know It.,aVRR publication. “They theinformation to protect 011r- tresandin demandingrecognition eachother. At UBC, notices on in the courts and by the governwashroom walls and other places wth her the whole time,”she s a d . are less likely to report to a court selves,” said Lakeman. “Orshecancall WAVAW or that hasa long history of working ment. And women areaiding frequently have lists names. of Neitherstudenthealth,the Vancouver Rape Relief to accom- against Native people. When Na- universityemergencyward, or women by naming and confrontpany her.” tive women are attacked native student residences keep statisticsing rapists. by Identifying ourselves: While women are taking ac~And these are the demands: tion against rapists, manywomen 1 still feel society is ill-prepared to Women are demanding that deal with them as human beings. the we “I knew I didn’t want to go .. men in our lives accept that ~ ~ in e misogynist worl&”perv a throughthecross-examination,” petuated by theirlies, theirsilence, said a UBC student who was raped theirjokes, their pornography. And by her employer. “And I didn’t want by the patriarchy that tries to simy family to know.” She believes she will be called a flirt, a slut, or a lence women’s voices. Women are not speaking of liar. That’s the reason I haven’t nameless,facelessrapists. Men prosecuted-and for that reason who rape are our brothers, our alone.” fathers, our neighbours or partShe said her opinion of society ners. Eighty-five per cent of men was upheld when she told a cowho rape insist that what they di worker. “‘It wasn’t rape,’ she told to was not rape. And men continue me. She saidI wanted it. I thought believe that we wanted it or t h a t maybe she wasright.” we asked for it. it She said was difficult to tell Women are making demands her currentboyfriend because she of our society that it confront its felt he would think worse of her. sexist and misogynist attitudes, “He calls me his sweet and innoand find ways break them to down. cent. If you’ve been raped, there’s Women demand that ourpono way you’ll be allowed to have lice forces and courts stop putting that image.” barriers between women and jus“Sexual assault says nothing tice,particularlyfor women of about a woman,” Lakeman said. “It colour. That they stop dismissing says everything about men, and our casesor taking thepower out the way we talk about it doesn’t of our hands. reveal that.It’s as if they’re saying Women are demanding that if you’re smart enough you can ourinstitutions,includingThe somehow get out of those situaUniversity of British Cohmbia, tions. And it’s just not true.” take bold steps to eliminate cases as Women are also seen broof sexual harassment and assault ken, damaged, psychologically or that we are experiencing in our sexuallyimpaired-andthisisalso not true. Women have amazing classrooms, our professors’ offices, the university buildings and in ou ways of recovering, resisting and residences. getting through.” Women demand that our govon the number of cases of sexual UBChospitalwillalsoattempt men, they may want to protect him assault theysee. Breaking down the barriers: ernmentscomplywithrequestsfor from the racist “injustice” system After a woman is sexually as- to get a woman physician on sexual VRR statistics show an in- funding so that we can take action likely to punish him, not for saulted, daunting walls erected assault cases, according to Susan that is by crease in the number cases re- on our own. We want funding put of at for society and institutions stand be- Wanamaker, head nurse emer- the assault, but being Native.” ported to them. In their year, behind the front work, the real line first A Native woman now attend- 1974, VRR recorded 112 cases of sources of research,proposals, tween her and justice. Only 1.08 gency. “If not,” she said, “women option by per cent of rapes, based on one in also have the ofbeing trans- ing UBC said she was raped a sexual assault. In 1990, VRR re- community responses, law reform ferred to Shaughnessy where a white manbefcre cominghere, and of ten reporting, lead to conviction. ceived 1059 crisis calls reporting and aid to survivors sexual aschose not to report it after receiv- 1199 attacks, of which 736 were sault: transition houses, rape cria woman woman doctor is available.” In the case where does choose to tell someone, she “we will give as much support as ing little support when she went lived in 1990. sis and women’s centres, on camfor medical attention. pus and off. fearsbeing lookeddown on. In we can possibly give,” she said. UBC’s SexualHarassment ~ ~ ” PO/THE UBYSSEY . . ..... . . . . . March 8,1991 ... . . .. . . I .. ’ . . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . _...,. . . . . ~ .. .. .. .. . . . . . . . , , .. , . \ . _. . . . . 1 . .