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front, because “gays and lesbians don’t breed
unintentionally.”
When the spokesperson murmured the
usual liberal line about being gay-friendly, Jack
pinned her to the wall, asking her if some of
her best friends are gay. Flustered, she said,
well, yes, she did know some. So Jack demand
ed that she name a friend who is a lesbian.
After some painful pauses, she finally stam
mered out a name, but then quickly spat out
several names of straight friends when Jack
asked for those.
One of Jack’s current concerns is the
reinvigorated OCA.
“I think the proposed initiative is frighten
ing, because it’s targeting our youth, and these
kids need a lot of support,” she says.
Perhaps the issue hits close to home because
this boisterous booster is also a mom. As is
obvious from her still-thick accent, Jack hales
from Massachusetts, though she came to Port
land with her daughter 20 years ago. So what
happened to her former name along the way?
"I fell in love four and a half years ago with
a woman who didn’t want to be involved with
Linda Shirley,” she explains. “Linda was a total
jack-off,” she admits, allowing that she had
quite a bad rep.
So she decided to change her name so her
honey wouldn’t have to be involved with
Linda Shirley.
“It was a declaration of love,” she says,
going all mushy.
Her family now includes her partner,
Brigitte Sarabi, a duck, four chickens, two cats,
a dog and one daughter apiece.
Jack started out at KBOO in the early 1980s
with the Woman Soul program.
“One of the things I’m most proud about,”
she says, “is that my daughter Coyote has seen
this is a good thing to get involved with. I’ve
dragged her here since she was 10.”
Like mother, like daughter...
—OG
t is 9:58 p.m. on a Sunday night, and Jack’s
daughter, Coyote Days, clad in a black
sweatshirt and sporting punk pigtails, is flip
ping through a short stack of records.
Tammy Heuer sits nearby, her long brown
strands framing a contented, deadpan expres
sion. She adjusts her headpones and mike, and
watches as the clock ticks steadily toward 10.
These DJs are preparing to launch into the
latest edition of Woman Soul, a KBOO radio
show dedicated to all types of women’s music.
The two-hour show is run as a collective; Days
and Heuer broadcast on the second and fourth
Sundays of every month, and a small group of
other women share the remaining time slots.
Though some of the Woman Sou/ DJs dedi
cate their shows to folksy musicians, rock ’n’
roll rules the airwaves when Days and Heuer
work the turntables. They commit to playing
local women rockers, many of whom are queer,
but they aren’t ashamed to spin a few ’80s jams
when the mood is right. In fact, a “typical” set
could include artists ranging from the Need to
Patsy Cline, Le Tigre to Phranc, and the
Butchies to Cindy Lauper.
“People are stoked to hear music like this,”
Days says. “We want the show to be accessible,
but we want to be able to play the things that
aren’t played anywhere else.”
In addition to playing recorded women’s
music, the DJs have recently added live perfor
mances to their show. An impressive lineup of
acts is in the works—Days and Heuer have
asked Sarah Dougher, Lois, and the All Girl
Summer Fun Band to play, among others.
Supporting any great movement is solid
infrastructure. Days and Heuer have turned
their KBOO time slot into a durable building
block for women musicians everywhere—as
Heuer says, the novelty of women in rock will
disappear “when it’s not such a threat for a
woman to have a voice.”
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