With
the summer weather upon us lets check out some new salads. This is
pride month with the anniversary of Stonewall on the 27th.
Traditionally just before the Pride marches were the Dyke Marches.
This year looks like both will be canceled. However we can not afford
to forget about them. We must find new ways for these events to go
forward. This salad is named in honor of The Lesbian Avengers. Read
about this important group.
A
cool summer salad featuring turkey, tomato, cucumber, avocado, along
with using a mix of non-fat yogurt along with reduced fat mayonnaise.
Not quite a Cobb salad but sure to be a full meal. This should help
you become more comfortable with your post sequestered body.
Ingredients:
½ inch slice of turkey
breast
1 avocado
4 slices of thick sliced
bacon
4 roma tomatoes
4 small English cucumbers
½ cup diced cheese
small red onion chopped
5oz tub plain non fat
Greek style yogurt
same of mayonnaise
½
Tsp garlic powder
½ lb elbow macaroni
Directions:
Fix pasta according to
box.
While that cooks:
Microwave the bacon
between paper towels for about 1 to 2 minutes on high. (Between
crisp and limp)
Dice the turkey breast
Cut up the tomatoes
peel and cut up the
cucumbers
dice the red onion
If needed cut up the
cheese into cubes.
With a sharp knife cut
into the avocado till you reach the seed.
Turn the piece until you
have cut it all the way around down to the seed. Twist off half.
Chop down into the seed
with the knife just until it is stuck and twist the seed out.
With a large spoon, score
the meat out of the skin.
The “meat” will pop
out. Cut this into dices. Cover with plastic wrap or it will start to
turn brown. Also helps if you squirt it with a bit of lemon juice.
Cut up the green pepper
into small cubes.
In a small bowl spoon in
the yogurt, fill the empty tub with mayonnaise, stir in the garlic
powder. Set aside.
When pasta is done and
drained well. Set aside in a sealed container for the refrigerator.
In another container, stir
in the turkey, tomatoes, cucumbers, red onion and avocado. Last add
the cheese cubes. Stir in the dressing until well mixed, cover and
let sit in refrigerator for the flavors to blend.
When ready to serve, only
spoon out what you need for the meal from each container and mix just
before serving.
Any salad can suffer from
having the dressing disappear into the pasta!
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Honored to serve this to
my Master Indy.
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The
Lesbian Avengers
1992
In
direct response to many hateful actions from local governments and
dismissal by the federal government, a group of lesbian-identified
women in New York City formed a direct action group called the
Lesbian Avengers.
Six
long-time activists: (Ana Simo, Sarah Schulman, Maxine Wolfe,
Anne-christine d’Adesky, Marie Honan and Anne Maguire) created the
Avengers to focus on raising visibility for queer women and to fight
homophobic initiatives.
Their
first action took place on September 9, 1992 when a Queens NYC-based
right-wing group was attempting to keep elementary school students
from learning a more diverse multi-cultural curriculum. Specifically
a queer-inclusive referred to as “Childen of the Rainbow.”
The
Avengers staged a demonstration, enlisting a marching band to take to
the streets of Queens, handing out balloons to the students,
encouraging them to “ask about lesbian lives.” The Avengers wore
T-shirts reading “I was a lesbian child,” and a month later,
held a similar protest outside of the Board and Education in
Brooklyn. In February, they prepared a songbook of lesbian love songs
and performed in front of the home of Rainbow Curriculum
opponent Mary Cummins.
This
first action exemplified the Avenger approach. They established a
strong visual presence with balloons and marching band, offered
flyers clearly explaining to passersby their support for the
curriculum and denouncing its opponents, and, as in all subsequent
actions, made great efforts to reach print and broadcast media.
They
also demonstrated without permits, refusing to ask for permission to
express themselves. Organizer Kelly Cogswell later elaborated on this
principle during the 1994 International Dyke March, "We ask for
a permit; they can say no."
This
simple, but taboo-busting gesture launched an extraordinary movement
that spoke to lesbians everywhere.
The
Lesbian Avengers generally avoided traditional picket lines, sit-ins,
and petitions, aiming instead for actions that created stronger,
original images more likely to attract both media coverage and new
members.
The
Lesbian Avenger Handbook encouraged particular attention to the
visual elements of the demonstration. "It should let people know
clearly and quickly who we are and why we are there. NY Avengers have
used a wide range of visuals such as fire eating, a twelve-foot
shrine, a huge bomb, a ten-foot plaster statue, flaming torches, etc.
The more fabulous, witty, and original, the better."
Aware
of the power of the press, the Lesbian Avengers sometimes didn't
court it, but attacked it. They invaded the offices of Self magazine
when that publication planned a trip to Colorado despite a lesbian
and gay boycott of the state for hate legislation, and in the
resulting media coverage were misnamed "The Lesbian Agenda."
Use
of fire and fire-eating became something of a symbol for the Lesbian
Avengers, and spread from the New York group to many others. The New
York Times, in one of its few articles on the Avengers, explained:
[It]
grew out of tragedy. Last year, a lesbian and a gay man, Hattie Mae
Cohens and Brian Mock, burned to death in Salem, Ore., after a
Molotov cocktail was tossed into the apartment they shared. A month
later, on Halloween, at a memorial to the victims in New York City,
the Avengers (then newly organized) gave their response to the
deaths. They ate fire, chanting, as they still do: "The fire
will not consume us. We take it and make it our own.
At
the Washington Dyke March held during the anniversary celebrations of
the Lesbian and Gay March on Washington in 1993, the Lesbian Avengers
ate fire in front of the White House surrounded by a crowd of an
estimated 20,000 lesbians.
According
to co-founder Sarah Schulman, "It was at the 1993 March on
Washington that the Avengers and ACT-UP Women's Network created the
first Dyke March -- with 20,000 women, marching together with no
permit. These participants brought the marches home to their cities
and countries and created a new tradition."
The
1993 March on Washington,
held at the end of April, was followed in June by what was to become
an Avenger tradition, the Dyke
March held a day or
two before LGBT Pride.
The
second New York City Dyke March, coinciding with the anniversary of
the Stonewall Riots, Gay Games IV, and international human rights
conferences, was actually an International Dyke March, attracting as
many as 20,000 marchers from all over the world. The Dyke March
tradition continues in many cities, including Mexico City.
In
its heyday, the Lesbian Avengers had as many as fifty-five
independent chapters, locally controlled and operated.
Before
the Lesbian
Avengers were formed in
1992,
homosexuality was still illegal in Kentucky.
Oregon was
creating an anti-gay referendum called Measure 9. This was the same
year that, 29-year-old black lesbian Hattie Mae Cohens and her gay
male roommate, Brian Mock, were brutally murdered in Salem, OR.
Meanwhile,
a clause prohibiting homophobic bullying in schools was turned
over in Fairfax County, Virginia because the school board was
concerned about promoting homosexuality.
Florida
maintained there would be no protections for LGBTs, and hate crimes
were at an all-time high in Los Angeles.
These
early radical actions from out and proud lesbian feminists had a
direct impact on how LGBTQ women have since come together to build
and fight for the visibility and safety of their community.
Although
the Lesbian Avengers eventually disbanded, many of the leaders have
continued with the legacy as activists, writers, filmmakers and
teachers. A documentary (“Lesbian Avengers Eat Fire, Too”), a
memoir (Kelly Cogswell‘s “Eating Fire: My Life as a Lesbian
Avenger“) and extensive site chronicling the Avengers’ herstory
help to preserve the memory the group’s influential work.
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to get involved. "We're wasting our lives being careful. Imagine
what your life could be. Aren't you ready to make it happen?"
