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TI-GRACE ATKINSON
No men! no sex! no mar
riage! Ti - Grace Atkinson has long
passed the age of denouncing mar
riage, motherhood, and is now' writ
ing elegant analyses of the need to
give up sex and love, because both,
in her view are fundamentally means
of enslaving females.
Ti - Grace is questioning the validi
ty of sex and love ,as central pillars
in women’s life. “I have almost no
personal life left,” she says, “many
women are not yet ready to give that
up, but when they see that they’re
not so much giving up Something,
but getting rid of it, they Will.”
Miss Atkinson, daughter of an up
per class, Louisiana family, tall, el
egantly feline, age 31 years is spokes
woman for the militant faction of the
feminists.
She spoke at Capitol Campus Oct.
19, 1970 at 8 p.m. in the school audi
tororium.
She was married at 17, with the
encouragement of both parents, who
hoped domesticity would cool her re
belious spirit, but the marriage de
solved after 5 years and two children.
She presently lives in New York
where she is completing her doctor
ate in political philosophy at Colum
bia University.
Ti - Grace was, as of 2 years ago,
a member of N.0.W., but that old
cause seems to have flared into a
new, desperate and angry struggle
for her in the radical movement for
Women’s Rights.
In her speech and informal dis
cussion she expressed her defiance of
the definition of women. We are just
in the labor rhetoric, but almost al
ways defined and limited by the sex
ual role, rather than open to the un
bounded human possibilities held out
to most men. . Women become sec
retaries, teachers, a nurse, a lawyer,
an occasional doctor or head of any
thing, whether she makes it in a
factory or in one of the elite profes
sions she earns less than men and
no matter how superior she may be,
women by definition are less superior
than men. Comment “Bull Shit”!
When a women has children, she
is chained to their needs for most of
her vigor and youth. She is John’s
wife or Suzies’ mother, and beyond
that she has no other identity.
The other alternative of no identi
ty is the dumb, sexy or shrill female
as advertised on TV and magazine
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Ti - Grace wants women on ah
equal plain; her biggest concern,
however is putting forward a clear
program, (i.e. a skeleton of the so
very many areas to be developed in
the movement. She says, it’s easy
to mobilize women, but once we mo
bilize we don’t want to lead them
over a cliff.”
Ti - Grace is not interested in
people likirig her; “this is political
not personal.”
She doesn’t hate all men, just
most. “A few men are standing up
for us now.” They are the ones not as
cowardly or shallow to be so obvious
ly threatened to retort with a laugh
or babble some disbelief in the libera
tionists seriousness.
Ti-Grace will no longer be seen with
members of the oposite sex, except
as a matter of “class confrontation”
—a T.V. debate, or a public platform.
She says that total separation
works wonders since it desolves am
bivalence and it is ambivalence that
fosters rage.
“It’s impossible to be a feminist
and be married.” Marriage is sup
presive to women; it’s unpaid labor.
Women become a subservient pri
soner. The institution of marriage
said Ti - Grace, is a contradiction to
the ideals of the movement. To sit
down and agree to all of the feminists
beliefs and plans and then go home
to a husband or boy friend is both
humiliating and tragic in their view.
It’s like being in love with the en
emy.
All those in the movement light
their own cigarettes and open their
own doors. “Chivalry is a cheap
price to pay for power.” The small
masculine niceties now appear to lib
er at ional ist as an extension of a stif
ling tradition that over protect
women and keep them in their
“place.”
Ti - Grace, as well as other feminists
will go to all extremes in their plight
for women’s rights and to prove their
seriousness.
Besides having coverage on T.V.
and magazines they have both a
radio station W.8.A.1., New York and
a women’s Lib Magazine sponsored
by the movement.
No extreme is too far for the ra
dicals for feminists even violence
and sadly enough the ultimate death.
PEACE POEM
Anonymous
As things are, and not as we are,
Seeing for seeing the being that is.
To go one foot before the other,
And not behind the barricades
Of mind, and other minds.
To make distinctions, and know
A oneness. To flow as water,
Yet cut your own path, for
Yieldings the way, by which
You rarely need stop. To build
Your scheme of things, yet go
Into others, to change with
Change, not bracing the old,
Moving through the eviclades of
thought,
In boundless patterns never taught.
Mimeo Machine
Precautions
by Leroy Levan
Recent questions concerning the
use of the Gestetner mimeograph
machine have prompted me to set
forth a series of guidelines for the
use of this machine.
The machine is jointly available to
the Office of Student Affairs and to
students of Capitol Campusv Through
the SGA. it is available to either in
dividual students or chartered'stu
dent organizations, subject to the fol
lowing guidelines:
1. Anyone wishing to have mate
rial duplicated should have it de
livered to the Student Affairs Of
fice at least 48 hours prior to the
time needed.
2. The SGA will provide supplies
for any chartered student organ
ization. Individual students who
wish to have material duplicated
are responsible for providing their
own ink, stencils and paper.
3. In order to maintain the highest
quality duplication, a student em
ployee will operate the machine.
4. Any individual or chartered or
ganization wishing to have materi
al duplicated must identify them
selves on each page of the materi
al.
5. Individuals and chartered stu
dent organizations having materi
al duplicated should be aware that
they are responsible for the con
tent of the material they are hav
ing duplicated.
BLACK WOMAN
by Chandler D. Wolf
Soft is the hue of her skin
Tenderly brown the color
Coarse is the sight of her hair
Soft to the touch
Warm the lips that touched mine
Gentle the arms of her embrace
From your womb shall come the sons
of my hope
Upon your breast shall feed the sons
of my sperm
Nourish them with CARE.
THE SALVATION OF MY PEOPLE
LIES IN YOU!
Out of the wells of her sOul shall flow
depths of love
Upon my back rest the burdens of
centuries
I shall rest my weary head upon
those breasts that soothed my
CHILD
IN THE NIGHT YOU SHALL LULL
ME TO SLEEP
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