going to have a van available for trans-
portation if people in wheelchairs need
thaL..It's hard to try to think of everything
that's needed, which is why we have ac-
cessibility coordinators. Part of why it's
been so difficult to learn about these
things is because there aren't very many
models. And you realize what a chal-
lenge it is to make something accessible.
When you build it into the foundation, it's
easy. Making the festival accessible has
been a really powerful thing for me."

Aliza Ansell and Diane Morgan are good
friends as well as business partners; this
is evident from their easy camaraderie
and obvious respect for each other. It's

with $35 each. You don't have to have a
lot of money. You just have to try it.
And it's only 5,000 phone calls away". V

This year's festival was held on August 3rd
and is reviewed on page 8 of this issue.

Public TV & Radio
Which Public?
Vermont ETV, unlike some public

broadcasting stations around the coimtry,
should be praised for nmning the con-

September 1991

troversial POV program Tongues Un-
tied, though it ran at 11 PM instead of
the usual time of 10 PM.

In contrast, Vermont Public Radio,
choose not to carry the radio docu-
mentary Urfriendly Fire: Lesbians &
Gays in the Military, which was avail-
able free from Public Radio from the
University of Pennsylvania. The pro-
gram manager, Steve Olson, said “The
issue has already been covered and con-
tinues to be covered by our news de-
partment.” V

By Alison Bechdel

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clear that they love producing the second
Northarnpton/Amherst Lesbian Festival.
Two weeks before the big day they look
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that all the remaining loose ends will be
tied up in time - that the program guide
will get written and that a child care co-
ordinator will be found.

They cannot talk about the festival for
any length of time without reflecting on
its importance to them as women and as
lesbians and on the ways in which it pro-
vides a vehicle for them to create their vi-
sion of the world. Zizi sums it up. "You
realize you have to come up with every
possible scenario. You have to cover
yourself for everything from bee stings to
child care to environmental illness. You
work with that. But in its exciting mo-
ments, you really realize that you're
building a vision of the world that you
want. Sometimes I get so resistant to cer-
tain things that we're doing. I ask, ‘Do
we have to do that? Do we have to do
this?’ And then I realize that in the world
that I would want, if it wasn't the pa-
triarchal world, that would be part of how
women would create events for each oth-
er. That we have an opportunity for one
day to do that for each other...As women,
(we've had) to learn how to take charge
and how to take control. Never having
particularly been in that position before
in my life, it's a new one to get used to.
And probably the most beneficial and
most exciting one to be in. In my dream
I hope and wish this inspires so many
women to start what they want to do, to
go for it. It's as simple as just deciding
you're going to do it It's like that stupid
Nike commercial, ‘Just do it’. Just do it.
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