Archived Radio Show

August 1, 2022

Original Radio Show  ID:
WSA220801

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Duration 57 minutes

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Featuring

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

2. Sherry Glaser, Author, Playwright, and Star of epic one-woman shows

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1. Commentary by Elaine B. Holtz:  I have a special guest with me this morning, joining me on the phone will be Sherry Glaser is author and star of several epic one-woman and is founder of the peace activist group “Breasts Not Bombs” and has been a champion of wimin's rights for decades.

Today we are going to talk about her career and her latest book she wrote with Kym Trippsmith, Mama’s First Pocket Chicktionary, Taking the Dick out of Dictionary, Sherry is also a Tarot Reader and will be picking a card for August whenWomen are celebrating 102 years since we got the vote. Many are concerned that we are going backwards not forward and I will ask Sherry to pick a Tarot Card that might give us some insight.

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2. Our guest Sherry Glaser shares her early life in New York, exposed to comedy withing the family and the TV shows of Lucille Ball and other wimmin* comics.  She learned acting in college plays. Her first comedy group was called "Hot Flashes." When asked where she got her confidence, she responded that she was not confident as before every show she was in panic before stepping out on the stage, and that took courage. Her play "Oh My Goddess!" came with the realization that the major religions have a God the Father, and she wanted to bring the feminist perspective. The new book Mamas' First Pocket Chictionary - Taking the Dick out of Dictionary started to take shape when she moved into Kym Trippsmith's home due to unforeseen circumstances, which turned into a blessing as their two creative minds sought for a solution to the patriarchy coming through in the English language. Words affirmed male dominance. Sherry and Kym wanted to break the spell through "casting new spells" of the words. Sherry noted that words denoting the feminine often included male syllables, and that the feminine was practically missing in the vocabulary.  Even "Miss" as a courtesy title of a young or single wumun brings up "nothing there" or "failure to connect", which the Chicktionary changes to Myth. First the new spellings seem comical, but they are comic in way that enlightens one to the pervasiveness of Dick in the Dictionary. The is a show you must listen to, as Sherry is very entertaining, and you will probably note more words that could be changed with the wumun spell. Hur and Kym's new book can be purchased at Barnes and Noble or through their website pocketchicktionary.com . Sherry concludes the interview with a tarot card Queen of Rods picked at Elaine's call and read by Sherry.

* Chicktionary spelling in italics

About our Guest: Sherry Glaser is author, playwrite and star of epic one-woman shows: Family Secrets, Taking the High Road, and Oh My Goddess! She is founder of the peace activist group “Breasts not Bombs” and has been a champion of wimin's rites for decades. She is author of her memoir Family Secrets, and a collaboration with her mother The First Practical Handbook for Crazy People as well as being featured in 5 anthologies. She lives on the
Mendocino Coast with her Wolfy dog Xena and reads Tarot for clients in person or on Zoom.

Guest Links:  

Mama's First Pocket Chicktionary: https://pocketchicktionary.com/

To arrange a tarot session with Sherry, email hur at:
Mama (at) pocketchicktionary.com

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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 Events:

August 6, 1965 – The Voting Rights Act outlaws the discriminatory literacy tests that had been used to prevent African Americans from voting. Suffrage is finally fully extended to African American women. 

Herstory Birthdays:

August 1, 1923 (2006) – Beatrice Medicine, Standing Rock Sioux anthropologist, focused on the roles of Lakota women in changes facing their cultures in areas including bilingual education, alcohol and drug use, abuse, socialization of children, and identity needs, author of Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining Native.

August 3, 1905 (1995) – Maggie Kuhn, senior rights activist, founded the Gray Panthers.

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Announcements   

August 2022: This month's Sonoma County Gazette is on the streets. Make sure you read the Radioland section, Women’s Spaces is featured: Focus of Women in Leadership. Download the pdf of the article: 

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Friday August 5th, 5–7 pm,   Artist reception: Sue Kearney: Fluid Art — Flow and Fascination, Cafe Frida Gallery, 300 S A St, Santa Rosa. About Sue: https://suekearney.com/ Sue's show continues through end of September. Meet the Artist, each Wednesday 10:30–noon. Feel free to tell your friends, and to come by again for a sit and a cuppa.

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Monday, August 8, 11am # repeats 11pm, the show will be featuring guest Debbie McKay on the League of Women Voters.  Radio KBBF 89.1 FM, North SF Bay or live streaming at https://kbbf.org/live

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  Wednesday August 10, 11am, repeat of Monday's show, will will be featuring guest Debbie McKay on the League of Women Voters. Radio KPCA 103.3 FM, Petaluma, CA. https://petalumacommunityaccess.org/kpca 

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Saturday, August 13, 2022, Noon to 8 PM, Raise the Roof Festival  - Fundraiser for Peace & Justice Center's new roof, Monte Rio Amphitheater, 9925 Main St., Monte Rio, CA, RSVP at  https://www.pjcsoco.org/raise-the-roof-festival---august-13.html

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Monday August 15, 2022, 7 to 8:30 PM, via Zoom, Monthly meeting of the National Organization for Women (NOW) Sonoma County Chapter.  For details and zoom info see http://nowsonoma.org/Events.html .
To celebrate the 102nd Anniversary of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, NOW will have a special guest presentation by Molly Murphy McGregor, one of the co-founders of the National Women’s History Alliance which happened right here in Sonoma County. The Alliance aka the National Women’s History Project founded In 1980, in Santa Rosa, California by Molly Murphy MacGregor, Mary Ruthsdotter, Maria Cuevas, Paula Hammett, and Bette Morgan to broadcast women’s historical achievements. Prior to this event there was a limited amount of Women’s History. Molly MacGregor will be a guest on Women's Spaces on the 22nd of August,

The 19th amendment, which was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920. legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle—victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.

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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 and our Memorial to Alix Dobkin on 5/24/2021

The Woman in Your Life is You by Alix Dobkin from the album Living with Lavender Jane (2010 Women's Wax Works) - www.alixdobkin.com

Keep a Song in Your Soul, sung by Mamie Smith from the album Crazy Blues – The Best of Mamie Smith (Originally recorded 1921 & Released in 2004 Sony Entertainment).

Standing on the Shoulders, sung by Earth Mama from the album  Love Large (1966 Rouse House, LLCC)

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For music purchasing opportunity, supporting the artists: 

Link:  Spinitron.com Playlist for Women's Spaces Show