Feminism and Lesbian Art by CherryJ

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Q1: Shoud all the work be feminism or lesbian related?

A1: It could be every single thing relate to feminism and lesbians.

Anyone has one's own bias. We cannot ignore it, when we interrupt one's work. You may assume writer's gender, when you read a novel. But it may not be true. You may not find out their gender from their first name, or her ethnic background from her last name.

In our meeting, we assume every person has a bias. It is very crucial to communicate with other people. It isn't always bad, but sometimes your bias and audience' (who appreciates/interrupts/thinks they understand) are too "normal" to object or even realise it by oneself. You may be able to see that the "normal" way is one of the many. Through joining our meeting, you can get in a different world, because the art could be a spectrum of mirror images of our society.

Probably, we will filter out all the art we can see in our meeting with lesbian-feminism biased perspectives. But you don't worry whether your work is feministic or not. I expect you'll enjoy to create something love to show us.

Q2: Hey, how was the first meeting???

A2: Oh, it was awful. Nobody contacted to us at all, and one of the newspapers called me that they can't put the infomation on their pages, because my name "Janis Cherry" is unofficial, although I told an "official" last name and address in Japan. Still the fact, most of the city halls and public libraries and college libraries (that I personally wrote to them by postmail for asking them to help spread the information of our meetings) did not react --- e-mail, call or postmail to me, either. There were a lot of cases, even I enclosed an postcard with my letter for one address for replying to me, they didn't do anything.
So, I don't know how many people who knew us before November 17, and where all my letters were stopped on the way to our sisters. One thing I learned is the people around here don't work for me, if I wouldn't push them more and ask them for whom they're working.

Q3: Where can I get printed information?

A3: If you live far from Hikone, I'll send you a printed and more detailed information for you. Just send me a postmail with an envelope with your address and a stamp.

Also, you can get a flyer (that has my phone number) at Dawn Center in Osaka, the library of Wings Kyoto, Shiga Women's Center in Ohmihachiman, the library on the ground floor at HIKONE-CITY CULTURE PLAZA, or the Education department branch of the Shiga University Library in Otsu.

Q4: What happened to the second meeting on November 30?

A4: Well, this time, again, we couldn't get anyone coming in... However, I haven't given up yet and we still have the second chance to have the meeting on the same topic "body" on December 15. And this will be the last time for me having this kind of meeting in Japan, because I'm going back to the States in January 2002.

Q5: Then how about the last one?

A5: Yap, we finally got a lesbian who came from another prefecture! Since there's only three of us (me, my partner, and her), we moved over my place where was warmer than the meeting room of Hikone-San-Paresu. We had a looong chat and that was great. A sad thing of having only that number of people was it came out be too intimate for us all, so I can't write out very details of our conversation. Sorry.

Janis Cherry [cherryj_l@yahoo.com]
Don't forget to put your name on your e-mail to me!

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