February 23, 2005

Letter to Jezebel

Dearest JEZEBEL,

We are having our JAM again this year, our annual celebration of women,
our nod to the past and current struggles of women everywhere, we only
hope that we can make a difference, you were turned into a demon and a
whore by’ men who didn’t believe that women and men were equals, this
has happened so many times in the past, thank-you for being strong and
passing your story down to us, it is sometimes hard to sec but there is a bit
of you in all of us, a suppressed part that we struggle to get back and bring
to the light, we share so much, you were a warrior in your own time, and
we in ours, thank-you sister for leaving us your strong and powerful legacy,
it is ours as well.

LARA SAPERGIA

“Feminism
encourages
women to leave
». heir husbands, kill
their children,
practice witch-

_ raft, destroy capi-
talism and

become lesbians.”
Pat Robertson

- US Palitician
(1992}

UNBC Atrue

~— Maveh 5, 2005

_ Women’s Supplement Page 4

A Place for Me and You

By EtszaBeETH SHARP
CONTRIBUTOR

At the beginning of my third ycar
attending UNBC, I made what has
been one of the best choices of my
university career: I opened the door to
the Women’s Centre and walked
inside. I had considered going into the

Centre many times before, but lack of

confidence and initiative had kept me
from actually doing it. There is some-
thing intimidating about walking into
designated spaces to which you don’t
belong. However, I soon found out
that I did belong. Iam a woman, and
this was a place made for me.

I have little knowledge of women’s
studies and outside of lending an car
or offering a comforting word to a
fricnd, I had no qualifications I felt
were of worth to a women’s centre. I
soon found out that you do not need

Ieee cat pmece teats Sets

Do you have an issue that

expericnce, you do not need to be ina
related ficld of study, nor do you have

to be a volunteer to be welcamed in. If

you are a woman, this is a place made
for you.

“T no longer wander
the halls feeling unen-
gaged and unat-
tached. I have found
a space that was made
just for me.”

Siuice entering this haven I have met
many wonderful people. I no longer
wander the halls fecling unengaged
and unattached. I have found a space
that was made just for me. The centre

pete ey a Maa

is a place I go to procrastinate between
classes, chat with friends and strangers
(and the range of topics discussed in a
safe and comfortable cnvironment is
limitless), have a cup of coffec, or even
anap. Although I have become a vol-
unteer at the Women’s Centre, I feel
that it has given me so much more
than I have been able to give back to
it. Besides new friends, I have gained
recognition of issues (feminist and
noun-feminist) I had otherwise been
oblivious to, and confidence that is
reflected in all the arcas of my life.

I have also learned that somctimes
simply listening to others has a healing
cfiect on my own soul. So, if you are
in distress, need to vent, or just need to
get in from out of the cold, there are
always hearts to listen and I encourage
all women to walk inside.

We are women, Ict’s roar together.

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