| 12-05 TABLE of CONTENTS:
A Death from AIDS and Childbearing
DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
QUOTE by
Zora Neale Hurston.
Elizabeth Glaser
On Saturday, December 3,
1994 Elizabeth Glaser died from AIDS contracted when she was transfused
with contaminated blood after complications in giving birth "and
had unknowingly passed (AIDS) to my daughter Ariel through my breast milk,
and my son, Jake, in utero."
In her address to the
1992 Democratic Convention she said: "When
you cry for help and no one listens, you start to lose your hope. I began
to lose faith in America. I felt my country was letting me down, and it
was. This is not the America I was raised to be proud of. I was raised
to believe that others' problems were my problems as well. But when I tell
most people about HIV in hopes that they will help and care, I see the
look in their eyes. It's not my problem, they're thinking. Well, it's everyone's
problem."
In 1988, Elizabeth Glaser co-founded the Pediatric
AIDS Foundation and helped raise millions for care and treatment of young
AIDS victims. In eight months she raised $2.2 million to finance 40 research
grants. Her husband shows no signs of HIV/AIDS although he obviously had
unprotected sex with his wife after she contracted HIV... again pointing
out (something that the male-controlled media seldom does) that women are
THREE TIMES as likely to contract AIDS than a man in vaginal intercourse
- and AIDS is fast becoming the largest killer of women. In EVERY state
of the union - in EVERY country in this world - women are becoming the
primary victims of HIV/AIDS.
Please, please - use a condom. Although a condom wouldn't
have saved Elizabeth Glaser, it would have saved the lives of thousands
of women in the United States. And maybe yours: yesterday, today, or tomorrow.
Say "NO" if he refuses to use a condom... unless you're willing
to die for HIS MACHO image... and his so-called sensitivity.
[You can read the complete 1992
Democratic Convention speech by
Elizabeth Glaser in the WiiN Library.]
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12-05 DATES, ANNIVERSARIES, and
EVENTS
B. 12-05-1822, Elizabeth Cabot Cary Agassiz,
educator instrumental in founding the
Harvard University Annex for women students, renamed in 1894 as Radcliffe
College in honor of Ann Radcliffe, founder of the first Harvard Scholarship
(1643). She served as its president until 1899.
ECCA had received no formal schooling in the tradition
of the times, WAS only educated in a "light" manner at home.
She married Swiss naturalist Louis Agassiz, recorded his notes and lectures,
and organized his expeditions to Brazil and South America. She wrote several
natural history books and began to teach in her home to supplement the
family income.
B. 12-05-1830, Christina Rossetti, one of the
most important of English women poets
both in range and quality. A great deal of her poetry appears trite today
simply because her words have become so much a part of our language. For
example, in the much suppressed Goblin Market she wrote: "One
may lead a horse to water, / Twenty cannot make him drink."
B. 12-05-1867, Amina Beatrice Goodwin, English
pianist and composer studied under Clara
Schumann and founded the Pianoforte College for Women in London, considered
the leading pianist of her day.
B. 12-05(15)-1898, Grace Moore, American-born
international operatic singer and Broadway and film actor. Continued
to study in spite of an injured voice, finally won a Metropolitan Opera
contract. Singing on Broadway to finance additional studies to repair her
voice, she introduced such songs as "All Alone" and "What'll
I Do," and finally won her Metropolitan Opera contract in 1927. She
also appeared in a number of movies.
Event 12-05-1906, The Woman's Hospital in
New York City opens.
Event 12-05-1922, Lucile Atcherson Curtis
is named to the Latin Affairs Department in the U.S. Foreign Service, the
first woman to be employed by the service.
B. 12-05-1922, Ann Shaw Carter, first woman
to hold a helicopter rating. ASC had served
with the Women's Army Service Pilots (WASPS), which ferried fighters and
bombers during World War II.
B. 12-05-1934, Joan Didion, novelist
and journalist.
Event 12-05-1972, the Mormon Church
officially excommunicates Sonia Johnson, founder of "Mormons for the
ERA," for her efforts on behalf of the Equality Rights Amendment.
She was fifth generation Mormon.
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QUOTES DU JOUR
HURSTON, ZORA NEALE:
"Mama
exhorted her children at every opportunity to 'jump at de sun.' We might
not land on the sun, but at least we would get off the ground."
-- Zora Neale Hurston: Dust Tracks On A Road.
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