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1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz, Host of Women's Spaces

2. Guest: Sandy Rapp, Author, Songwriter, Singer, Veteran Feminist 

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1. Commentary by our host Elaine B. Holtz:  Today is the birthday of my Grandson Ryan Irwin Jensen, who is about to become a father for the second time. Happy Birthday Ryan! I love you dearly and wish you always the best life has to offer. It was Ryan who inspired The Women’s Spaces Pledge and it is amazing to think he is going to be a father for the second time.

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2. Our guest Sandy Rapp shares her path to activism for feminist and lesbian rights.  Listening to Sandy and her songs, one learns of the history, as she memorializes feminist, lesbian and gay activists and their names in her songs.  Veteran Feminist Bella Abzug (D-NY) accompanies her on her best known song Remember Rose: Song for Choice.  The recent laws restricting women's right to choose to refuse or have an abortion, passed by some states like Texas, demonstrate the need for women, especially young women, to take to the streets and to lobby their elected officials for protections of women's rights.  Sandy describes the times of the Stonewall Revolution in June 1969, when she had not yet come out as lesbian for fear of losing straight music gigs. Sandy then became active in lobbying the passage of lesbian and gay rights on Long Island, NY, and even gave police sensitivity training, as reflected in her song, Everyone Was At Stonewall. Sandy is not only a singer/songwriter but also the author of God's Country: A Case Against Theocracy (The Haworth Press; 1991). Be sure and listen to this enlightening conversation between our host Elaine and Sandy Rapp.

About our Guest:  Sandy Rapp is a songwriter, activist, and author of God's Country: A Case Against Theocracy (The Haworth Press; 1991). Her best-known songs are Remember Rose: Song for Choice, about the first back-street abortion fatality of the 1977 Medicaid-Abortion cutoff (all editions feature a guest vocal by the late Bella Abzug) and Everyone Was At Stonewall, a gay history, written for police sensitivity training, which won Stonewall Society's Pride Song of 2004. Rapp was instrumental in the passage of a number of gay civil rights laws on Long Island, NY. Her CDs include We the People, Flag & The Rainbow, Still Marching' and Salute to the Veteran Feminists,
In 2006 Rapp received two OutMusic Award nominations and served as a Grand Marshal of the Long Island Pride Parade. Rapp's premier of Rise Up Ye Women at the NYU Law School was toasted in The New Yorker - 11/13/06; and in 2010 Rapp won Stonewall Society's Pride in the Arts Lifetime Achievement in Music Award.

Guest Links:

 Sandy Rapp's website:  www.sandyrapp.com

God's Country: A Case Against Theocracy by Sandy Rapp (The Haworth Press; 1991) - available on Amazon.

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Herstory

Our history is our strength. Check out important dates to remember in herstory at the National Women's History Alliance

Herstory Birthdays:

October 18, 1889 (1968) – Fannie Hurst, author, wrote seventeen novels and nine volumes of short stories over 50 years, left approximately one million dollars each to Brandeis and Washington Universities for professorships in creative literature.

October c.18, 1890 (1986) – Pauline Newman, labor leader who emigrated from Lithuania (1901), aided uprising of the 20,000 in New York, hailed by Coalition of Labor Union Women as a foremother of the liberation movement.

October 18, 1917 (1983) – Mamie Clark, psychologist, established the Northside Center for Child Development (1946) with husband, Dr. Kenneth Clark, for the mental hygiene of the whole child.

October 18, 1951 – Terry McMillan, author of thirteen novels including her first, Mama (1987), and most popular, Waiting to Exhale (1992).

October 18, 1956 – Martina Navratilova, tennis champion, 9-time Wimbledon singles winner.

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Announcements

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Music Selections

The Opening and Closing Theme song The Woman in Your Life is You is done with permission of the Composer and Singer Alix Dobkin ((August 16, 1940 – May 19, 2021) Alix Dobkin death was just announced - Thank you for all you did for Lesbians to be recognized and Women to be honored. May you rest in peace. See our Interview with Alix Dobkin on 12/1/2014 at   and our Memorial to Alix Dobkin on 11/24/2021 .

Where Were the Flowers, by Sandy Rapp, from the album Risin' Song (Released 2015 @ Sandy Rapp )

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