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After a turbulent couple of years for the A350 XWB programme, Airbus finally finds itself in a relatively calm state. With the definition well advanced and on course for the year-end design freeze, the market has given Airbus's all-new twinjet a big "thumbs up" and, for the time being at least, the A350 is keeping to schedule.
The firm orderbook now stands at more than 370 aircraft from 23 customers and the tricky task of renegotiating contracts for the defunct, Mk1 A350 have been completed with only two firmly contracted customers not migrating to the new model.
But it has not all been good news. Airbus recently had to concede that the aircraft has missed its empty weight target by 2.2t, requiring take-off weights to be increased by 3t, which has resulted in a 1% fuel-burn increase. Another issue is the final decision on the structure of the cabin floor crossbeams, with Airbus still evaluating whether to switch from aluminium lithium to carbonfibre.
Workshare And Production Plan
The production strategy for the XWB is also in a state of flux, as plans to divest certain plants to enable Airbus to place half of the aerostructures work outside the company are on hold. However, this has not prevented the airframer from finalising the workshare and production plan for the twinjet.
One dark cloud that will not go away is the question mark over a second engine supplier. While it is Airbus's preferred choice to offer a selection of engines, Rolls-Royce now has the monopoly with its Trent XWB family as discussions continue with General Electric, and possibly Pratt & Whitney, about participation in the programme.
But engineering-wise, the programme is "on track", says A350 chief engineer Gordon McConnell. "We've reached the point where we're launching the detailed design of the first long-lead-time items, and to do that we need to make sure we've frozen all the top-level aircraft and component requirements."
McConnell says that Airbus is running a "full requirements-based engineering process" on the A350 programme, "so we start at the top level and cascade these requirements right down into the components and the specifications for the suppliers. It's the first time we've been so rigorous in our application of requirements-based engineering."
The next major milestone comes at year-end, with the detailed definition freeze for the baseline A350-900. "This will mean we've frozen the configuration of the aircraft," McConnell says. "We're beginning the specific design or detail design of the parts, but it will start with a vengeance once we've frozen the configuration at the end of this year."
The first material for the aircraft will be cut in 2009 (Airbus points out that it may not be metal), and final assembly is due to start at the beginning of 2011, with first flight following in early 2012. Entry into service of the A350-900 is due in mid-2013 after an 18-month flight-test programme.
There are now more than 4,000 engineers within Airbus working on the A350, which McConnell says is a lot more than on previous aircraft for this stage of the programme. "We've front-loaded the programme deliberately because we want to have a very mature aircraft when we go to flight test so we don't have many changes," he says.
This should reduce the number of changes required after certification to enable a faster ramp-up during the flight-test programme when production of customer aircraft will be underway. "We've also selected our suppliers earlier than on previous programmes."
The earlier supplier selection is part of Airbus's strategy to follow the industry trend to involve companies in the design process sooner. "Once we've selected the suppliers, we immediately put in place a joint development phase and there are currently 21 JDPs running with system suppliers," says Francois Caudron, vice-president A350 customer and business development.
"These [JDPs] are typically around two to three months where Airbus and the suppliers work together to make sure there is a good common understanding of what is expected this allows us to align the tools and methodology," he says.
The suppliers are either working at the A350 programme headquarters in Toulouse or at the design offices, says McConnell. Just over half of the JDP plateaux (11) are being undertaken in Toulouse, five are in Hamburg, three in Bristol and two in Madrid.
The weight issue has come to light following the completion of the first detailed structural sizing for the A350. The first full set of calculated load data with input of windtunnel tests "allowed us to build our finite element models with our structural concept and then apply the loads to the models, and resulted in our global finite element model for the structure", says McConnell. The finite element model enables Airbus to understand the stress distribution in the fuselage shells.
Additional information has come from structural test specimens that Airbus has been building over the past year or so to validate the methods developed for the fuselage.
"This has allowed us to have the first really good sizing of the structure. Around 50% of the weight is now coming from the good sizing. It is the first time we've really had a bottom-up estimate of the weights of airframe components built from proper structural stress analysis," McConnell says.
Small Impact On Fuel Burn
Analysis of the global finite element model, along with input from systems suppliers that has provided a more accurate weight for the system equipment and installation, has established that the A350-900's manufacturer's weight empty is 2.2t greater than the 113.5t target and McConnell expects "similar deltas" for the -800 and -1000.
"We've increased the MTOW by 3t across the family to maintain the payload/range capability," says McConnell. The previously quoted MTOWs for the -800, -900 and -1000 were 245t, 265t and 295t, respectively.
As part of the weight changes Airbus is offering a 5t increase in the maximum zero fuel weight of the -1000 to boost structural payload capability by a similar amount.
McConnell says the weight growth will not affect take-off performance or create the need for additional engine thrust except "at some specific airfields where discussions have been held with R-R about where we'll need a percent or two more". However, the increase will have "a small impact on fuel burn of about a 1%", says McConnell, but emphasises that customers have been "quite understanding" and that there is "no issue" with performance guarantees. One element of the structural sizing that brought a surprise was the airframe's electrical structural network, says McConnell, for which "we had to add some weight which we didn't expect".
This network is Airbus's solution to the need to provide electrical continuity in the carbonfibre fuselage. "We get that for free on the metal fuselage," says McConnell.
The A350's electrical structural network uses all the existing metal parts in the fuselage (for example seat rails, aluminium nose structure and lower frames) supplemented by aluminium strips that are being added to the carbonfibre fuselage frames to provide a return electrical path. "We've also got some raceways in the upper fuselage to provide return current path and electro-magnetic shielding for the cable harnessing," says McConnell.
Weight And Complexity
Airbus still has to finalise the structural design of the floor crossbeams, which are specified as aluminium lithium but could be switched to carbonfibre. However, the metal beams form part of the electrical structural network, and solutions to provide electrical continuity with carbonfibre beams have "weight and complexity challenges". McConnell says this means that the switch would not generate a significant weight saving, but would eliminate the need for corrosion inspections of the crossbeams. "It will be a bit of a marginal decision, but we need to finalise this before the end of summer."
Aerodynamic changes have also contributed to the weight growth, with improvements to reduce drag "costing some increase in loads and therefore weight", says McConnell.
A large amount of the A350's aerodynamic evaluation has been performed using computational fluid dynamics, but the airframer has also completed 4,000h of windtunnel testing - three-quarters of which have been low-speed trials - since starting in September 2007.
Final check-out windtunnel tests are still more than a year away, says McConnell: "When we finalise the configuration at the end of this year we'll then build final windtunnel models for the frozen configuration and test these for a final check."
The A350 wing profile was frozen "some time ago" and engineers are now fine-tuning the aerodynamics: the span and area are unchanged since last year, at 64.7m (212.3ft) and 442m2 (4,758ft2), respectively, while sweep at the leading edge is 35°.
"We're down to the last few millimetres of change of aerofoil shape," says McConnell. "We've frozen the 'moveables planform' and the number of spoilers, which we've increased from six to seven and changed the chord slightly. The aero-lines will be frozen by the end of the summer."
The wing root joint geometry was the first part of the wing to be frozen - at the end of April - to allow the design of the aluminium alloy forgings at the root to be finalised. "These are big and heavy items, and they require a long lead-time to make the forging tooling for them," says McConnell.
The shape of the winglet has also been defined. This has "some rake and some 'blending', as well as some special things from Airbus patents" but the lines are not yet frozen.
The leading-edge devices are "more or less frozen" with six sealed slats and a single drop nose device inboard, while a streamwise motion for the outboard trailing-edge flap has been adopted to reduce drag.
"Usually the motion of the outboard flap is normal to the rear spar of the wing, which means that when it extends the flap fairing goes into wind and creates some drag," says McConnell.
Performance Benefits
This was the configuration originally adopted for the A350, but through "a fairly simple change" the outboard flap now extends streamwise, parallel to the fuselage datum, eliminating the drag penalty. "It will be a big benefit for take-off performance," says McConnell.
The A350's flaps are a very simple "drop-hinge" design with a single slot between the trailing edge of the spoiler and the leading edge of the flap, McConnell says. As the flap extends, the spoilers deflect downwards to control the gap and optimise the high lift performance of flap.
And for the first time on an Airbus, the flap system will have the capability for differential inner and outer flap settings as well as a variable camber function.
"We have a gearbox with a motor mounted between the outer and inner flap that enables us to differentially control the angle of the two flaps once they have been retracted," says McConnell. "We can change the centre of lift position for loads management for example, at heavy weights the inner flap can be set slightly down to move the centre of lift inboard and control the loads."
Flight-Control System
During the cruise, the system can give variable camber effect: "We can move both flaps together a small amount - either up or down - which allows us to tune the peak lift over drag to improve the performance." McConnell says that the flap functions will be controlled automatically by the flight-control system computers, which will sense data from the flight management system.
Tail surface sizes have been revised, with the tailplane being reduced in area from 92m2 to 85m2 and the fin growing from 49m2 to 51m2. "We've added a couple of square metres to the fin to maintain the minimum control speeds for take-off in the engine failure case," says McConnell.
Meanwhile, fine-tuning continues on the aerodynamic shape of the fuselage - the nose, the tail and the belly fairing. The latest screen-caps from the computer-aided design model show that the aircraft will look considerably different to the concept that Airbus uses for its official images, although an Emirates-released impression is a little closer to reality.
The A350-800 has gained two LD-3 container positions in the rear hold by rearranging the configuration and changing the cargo door latchings. "We had some lost space in the original design," says McConnell.
Following a cost/weight/reliability/performance trade-off study, Airbus has switched from the original hydraulic thrust-reverser actuation specification to electrical actuation, the method already in use on the A380. "It took us a while to get the balance between the cost and the performance right," says McConnell.
Another A380-derived system architecture is the hydraulic design, with Airbus opting for the 345 bar (5,000lb/in2) - rather than 207 bar of the older-generation Airbuses.
For the first time on a civil aircraft, Airbus has adopted digital signalling for the flight controls, switching from analogue to the 1553 mil standard digital bus that equips the A400M airlifter. "This allows us to save a lot of wires - normally we might have 32 wires going out to aileron actuator servo control, now we have six so we save a good bit of weight," says McConnell. Each servo control will have a common flight-control remote module to take the digital signals and convert them into commands, he adds.
Results from the "LINFaN" (low interior noise fan nozzle) tests conducted earlier this year on one of the Trent 500s powering Airbus's A340-600 development aircraft are being analysed, ahead of a decision to adopt the technology. "We're looking at the trade-offs of efficiency of the engine [ie fuel burn] and weight, to see if there is a benefit to reduce noise inside the cabin," says McConnell.
The configuration of the flightdeck with its Thales-supplied six-screen layout is being refined on a "Class 1" wooden mock-up in Toulouse. "This is being used for the ergonomics of the panel layout, seating position and so on," says McConnell.
The A350 product offering has been broadened with the introduction of a reduced weight version to allow airlines to benefit from lower charges when using the twinjet on medium-haul operations.
"From the start we'll offer the A350 with different take-off weights, and a 30t reduction is available that is suited to medium-haul operations for airlines that don't need the extra long range," says Caudron. The lower weight will be achieved through paperwork changes and cockpit placards and will not affect the aircraft's structure. "An engine derate of up to 40% is also available," says Caudron.
D-Shaped Galley
The 10-abreast high-density economy seating layout study for the A350 is now a firm offering, with one potential A350 customer interested in the layout, says Caudron. The minimum seat pitch for the A350 in nine-abreast layout is 29in (74cm), but this increases to 31in pitch for 10-abreast seating to avoid the need to reinforce the cabin floor for the higher density configuration. Another interior "novelty" is the adoption of a "D-shape" galley that Caudron says provides more comfort and space for the cabin crew and enables the trolley count to be increased from 17 to 21 units, compared with the earlier, more conventional "C-shape" configuration.
Ambitious Programme
The new design also reduces turnaround time as it enables separate flow for full and empty trolleys during catering, and frees up space in the main cabin for an additional triple seat row. "We're going to have an operational validation using a mock-up with airlines as part of the customer focus group process," says Caudron.
Airbus knows that even though the pressure has lessened a little recently following Boeing's production woes with the 787, it still cannot afford a repeat of the A380's industrial catastrophe. While it is confident that the necessary steps have been taken to avoid this, many challenges lie ahead as it embarks on what is arguably Airbus's most ambitious programme ever.
Work On Schedule Despite Divestment Hitches
Although Airbus's production plans have hit some stormy weather with the failure of divestment plans for the plants in France and Germany, it says that the allocation of A350 work packages has proceeded on schedule and it aims to get most of the remainder concluded by the end of the year.
"We are on time with our supplier selection, both in terms of systems and structure," says Francois Caudron, vice-president A350 customer and business development. Ninety percent of the system vendors have been selected with "a good mixture between new suppliers bringing new technologies and reuse of A380 experience", he adds.
The business model for the A350 calls for the total aircraft value (excluding engines) to be split into thirds. This breaks down as 33% outsourced airframe work, 33% outsourced equipment, and the rest in-house equipment/structural build or assembly work. As part of this outsource policy, half of the all aerostructure work will be outside Airbus, once the abortive plant-divestment plan proceeds. Significantly, all contracts for the outsourced aerostructures work are dollar rather than euro-based, despite much of it staying in Europe. The same is true for most supplier contracts, including those with European suppliers.
"We have allocated half of the 50% of the 'buy' part of the structure," says Caudron.
The six major fuselage aerostructure risk-sharing packages have been allocated, with the major outstanding allocations including the horizontal and vertical tailplanes, belly fairing, rear fuselage, tailcone, pylon components, wing moveables and wire harnesses. "The target is to get the majority of them to be allocated by the detailed design freeze at the end of the year," says Caudron.
Much of the fuselage work has in fact been allocated to existing Airbus plants in France and Germany that will eventually be divested, which are dubbed French and German "newcos" for the time being. The allocation is as follows:
"The two 'newcos' will be created in France and Germany and owned by EADS," says Caudron. "The next step will be to open the capital of the shareholding to the public to meet the divestment target of Power8."
GKN will build the fixed trailing edge (and composite wing spars) at the former Airbus UK factory in Bristol that it is finalising the acquisition of. The selection process for the partner to build the fixed leading-edge assembly is at the final stage.Meanwhile, Stamford, Connecticut-based Hexcel has been contracted to supply the carbonfibre pre-preg raw material. The award runs to 2025, and is expected to generate revenues of $4-5 billion.
Final assembly of the A350 will be undertaken in a new building to be constructed in Toulouse. Subassembly build allocation will follow similar national lines to existing Airbuses, with the German division building the aft fuselage (and German "newco" the forward fuselage), France the nose and centre fuselage/wing box, and the UK the wingbox (with equipping being undertaken in Bremen). Airbus's Spanish and German divisions are well established as composite "centres of competence", so they are allocated the carbonfibre wing covers (Illescas/Stade) upper/lower rear fuselage panels (Stade) and assembly of the carbonfibre tailplane (Getafe), fin (Stade) and full barrel carbonfibre tailcone (Getafe).
The sections will arrive by Beluga in Toulouse, where they will be united to create a complete aircraft using a new, streamlined final assembly concept. Airbus intends to build 18 aircraft in 2013, which will be the first year of full production and then ramp up through 83 units after two years and stabilise at 143 units annually from 2017.
"The fast ramp-up is achieved by the revised assembly process, which will reduce the time from fuselage join-up to delivery from four months on the A330/A340 to 2.5 months on the A350," says Caudron. "We'll do that by starting cabin furnishing very early in the process, in parallel with final assembly."
A330/A340s are built sequentially with structural assembly of the fuselage and wing and power-on being completed before interior installation and completion.
The process for the A350 will achieve power-on ahead of wing join-up, at which time cabin integration will begin in parallel with the remainder of the assembly process. This will enable all the major cabin monuments to be pre-positioned in the aircraft sections before they are joined, says Caudron.
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Dolphins, like Humans, Recognize Names
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Bottlenose dolphins can call each other by name when they whistle, making them the only animals besides humans known to recognize such identity information, scientists reported on Monday.
Scientists have long known that dolphins' whistling calls include repeated information thought to be their names, but a new study indicates dolphins recognize these names even when voice cues are removed from the sound.
For example, a dolphin might be expected to recognize its name if called by its mother, but the new study found most dolphins recognized names — their signature whistles — even when emitted without inflection or other vocal cues.
More than that, two dolphins may refer to a third by the third animal's name, said Laela Sayigh, one of three authors of a paper published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
"They are known to produce these individually distinctive signature whistles, like names," Sayigh said in a telephone interview. She said the researchers wanted to know what information in the whistles helped dolphins identify each other's names.
The scientists already knew that dolphins responded to whistles, but wondered if something in the actual voice of the whistling dolphin was making the identity clear, or if the name itself was enough for recognition.
To find out, they studied bottlenose dolphins in Sarasota Bay, Florida. Instead of playing recordings of actual dolphins making signature whistles, the researchers synthesized signature whistles with the caller's voice features removed and played them to dolphins through an underwater speaker.
In nine out of 14 cases, the dolphin would turn more often toward the speaker if it heard a whistle that sounded like a close relative's.
"It's a very interesting finding that encourages further research, because they are using whistles as referential signals — that's what words are," said Sayigh, of the University of North Carolina Wilmington. "Dolphins appear to be using these arbitrary signals to identify another dolphin."
She stopped short of saying dolphins might have a human-like language.
"I tend to shy away from using the word 'language' myself, because it's such a loaded term," Sayigh said. "I still really feel strongly that there is no evidence for something like our language. (Dolphins) have got the cognitive skills at least to have referential signals."


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This week has been one of those weeks.
It started with a bit of a breakdown in the mother of my child so's I heard some rough insults last weekend, (some of them fair but harshly expressed and relating to years ago, and some of it the total fabrication of a wine addled mind), and had to stand between the mum and my child in a proper fist fight (as much as that can exist between a middle age woman and 10 year old girl). The days have involved citalopram, cat related stress, much cleaning and coercion. I had to enforce a little separation between the combatants and discuss the Marquis of Queensbury rules in some depth. Things have been better though it meant a week of disorganisation and little routine for my girl.
My eldest girl, my step-daughter, has kept at a distance from it because she's angry at her mum; and because she's been through all this before and it reminds her, and messes with her head, because she wants to have some sympathy for her mum (despite everything), but mostly because she hates to see her little sister going through it, and a little because she thinks I should step in and take my girl away from it. It's been hard for her because her mother and I didn't marry therefore she's the one who can make things happen with the doctors, and I can't, so she's dreading one day having to call the ambulance and sit with her mum at the hospital when she's got a 2 year old to look after. However, in recent weeks we've discussed the situation at some length, so she has been involved.
After the cleaning I had to have a long talk to their mother whilst she lay in bed shaking from the DTs, and occasionally retching up stomach acids that she would spit into a bowl. She was scared, knew it had all got out of hand, and agreed to take her antidepressants. I know she was fearful because she didn't get angry with me at all. Normally, getting her to a point where she accepts something needs to be done, involves a screaming match, two hours of it all being my fault, before exhaustion and desperation settles in, and we can talk (if I've refused to leave when she's told me to). Yes, we had a bad life, I wasn't the most attentive man, and in the end I just blasé-ed through what was left of our relationship, working and doing my thing. She punished me by fellating a neighbour, taking the kids, and leaving me with no furniture and all her credit card debts. So there's plenty that usually gets said.
On Friday I took the two girls and my grandson on an adventure to celebrate getting through a hard week. We had a good day and when we returned I took the youngest home to a decently clean house and a mum that was up, cooking, and relatively sober. Apparently they played Monopoly and everything was fine. I went round to read a bit of 'Magyk' and all was well.
Then, to thank the eldest girl for helping me with the day, I went to meet her at the pub she works in, and bought her a couple of drinks after she'd finished her shift. I made a promise that we wouldn't talk about her mum, and I made a point of asking her how her life was going these days.
An hour and a half later she'd basically told me that her life was terrible. Her boyfriend disrespects her, they have no life together. He's a child emotionally, and she's often scared because there's been domestic violence between them already. He spends all their money on gadgets for him and expensive toys and clothes for my grandson, but moans that my girl doesn't keep the house spotless or contribute enough to the bills. I'll spare you the full litany of horrors because I got a one-sided version that was blood boiling and, therefore, I'm not going to pretend to have a well-balanced view. We talked. She did the telling, I just looked sadder and sadder, shaking my head a lot as the rum and coke hit my empty stomach, and, after it had all come out, I walked her home, gave her a hug, and said Hello to her man, before getting on my bike and cycling home. I was thinking, (to stave off the cold wind), that she'd feel better after getting it all off her chest, that they'd have a heart to heart, a bit of a shag, and that I had, once again, demonstrated that I am the Perfect Dad.
I got a text from her this morning telling me they'd 'split up' and he'd be living with his Mum and Dad for a while, but she didn't want to discuss it, and that I mustn't tell her mum. I picked her up later and we all loitered outside watching the fireworks, but she didn't want to talk in front of her sister and child, and lots of strangers, so I still don't know the entire circumstances. I watched my grandson and thought to myself, how's this going to work for you, my boy? She made me stop so's she could get ice-cream on the way home. She said it was a choice between that and a bottle of wine. I didn't know what to say, really.
It seems that everything is starting to unravel, again. It's difficult to explain but the whole thing is going into a repetitive pattern. The two girls and their mother. The eldest girl: her life falling apart, doesn't want her Mum to know because it would show failure and because her Mum won't be sympathetic, she'll use it to 'act out' and turn it into her own pain. The younger girl is already caught in the same trap, knowing that her feelings aren't her own; they too get sucked into the vortex. She won't discuss what she wants for her birthday because she knows it upsets her mum too much because of the guilt. Their Mum? She repeats the pattern of her own life with her mother; having been left to care for her whilst she drank herself to death, racked with guilt about not being able to do enough, and self-loathing because... What little girl can understand their mother wanting to leave them alone? Unless they're a terrible daughter.
And of course there's Me: The Ex, The Step-Dad, and The Dad. Needless to say I'm less certain of my own patterns and role in it all! I want to make it okay, to soothe and rescue. I want my children to be happy. I even want my ex to be happy. If needs be, it seems, I do what I can to be a good man. This seems to have surprised them all so I'm guessing I don't give that impression. Strange.
I worry that my input, my attention, my love will be required, and that this is it for my life now. Everything from now on will require my watchfulness and care; and that I won't be up to it. To put this into some kind of metaphor, tomorrow I will have to talk to my eldest and offer her a roof over her head, despite the fact that having a mother with a two year old will require hot water, a thing I haven't got. But she must have an exit strategy, to give her hope, even if it's chilly and it'll ruin my swinging lifestyle. The womanising will have to stop.
Life is just about to get a little bit more complicated than it already is.
It's at times like these that I Thank God for Disney; always the greatest inspiration. I found myself thinking of 'Lilo and Stitch', and the Hawaiian concept of family - 'Ohana': 'No one gets left behind'.
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Closeted violence: abuse between queer women of color stays under the radar.
Ziegler was 22 when she met her girlfriend, and later abuser. They were both new to San Francisco and had met each other through friends. Her girlfriend, an Asian-American woman, was 24 at the time. After a few months of dating, Ziegler began noticing how aggressively her girlfriend behaved when she was drinking.
"Most of the time, we would go out, drink way too much and get into an argument. Every single time we went out, there would be an argument," recalls Ziegler. Once the two women got home, it would turn violent. "She would beat hard on me--push me around, hit me." The next day, her girlfriend had no recollection of what she'd done.
Ziegler ended the relationship a year later but never told her family, who also don't know that she's a lesbian.
A brutal pattern of domestic violence and secrecy exists among queer women of color, but community organizers and researchers say that the combination of homophobia and racism keeps the problem under the radar. Because they are a marginalized group, queer women of color may also find that their friends don't believe another woman of color could inflict such abuse.
"I always say we will never know how big a problem it is," says Val Kalei Kanuha, an associate professor in the School of Social Work at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa. "It has solely to do with invisibility. Until it is safe for us to come out, we will never know how big a problem it is."
Kanuha has been doing anti-violence work for 30 years and has conducted multiple studies on queer women of color around identity and violence. She points out that most studies on queer women of color are conducted in urban areas, leaving the possibility of extensive undocumented violence.
How a survivor identifies also plays a role in the lack of documentation of domestic violence in queer communities. Many women, Kanuha says, would never identify as lesbian--making it all that much harder to understand how extensive the problem is. Ironically, some of these women would have no problem going to the police--but they would not report the violence as domestic. This conclusion is based on Kanuha's study of queer Asian Pacific Islander women, in which half of the respondents said they would call police or a shelter. The other half said homophobia and racism would prevent them from accessing the services they need. "They wouldn't feel afraid. They just kind of feel, 'You know what, I'm in trouble, and who do I call?--I call the police.' It doesn't even occur to them that the police would treat them in a homophobic manner," adds Kanuha.
For some queer women of color who live in communities that have a long history of bad relations with law enforcement, calling the police is an issue.
Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, a queer activist, didn't want to call the cops on the queer guy she was dating at the time. He was assaulting her, but he was Latino and on probation for assaulting a police officer. The two were living in Canada, where she didn't have permanent residency.
"I think 9 times out of 10, as women of color, and people of color, if the perpetrator is somebody who is of color--even if they are a woman--you don't want to call the cops on your queer or trans partner," says Piepzna-Samarasinha.
Her neighbors eventually called the cops on them one night. And although her boyfriend was kicking her in the head while she was curled up in their closet, she wasn't really grateful that her neighbors had made that call.
The police, Piepzna-Samarasinha says, "didn't really focus on the domestic abuse aspect of it. They looked up his record and were like, 'Oh, you're on probation for assaulting a police officer.' I was like, 'Oh my gosh! He's going to get killed!' Then they asked me about my immigration status."
Another barrier Piepzna-Samarasinha had to confront in her battle with domestic violence was that her perpetrator was a progressive activist, who still speaks regularly against violence against women on a community radio station. She not only lost the relationship and several friendships in the activist community, but also found that her progressive friends didn't believe her lover was capable of domestic violence.
"What I got was anything from 'It's a personal issue,' to 'It's really complicated, we heard you were talking shit,' to--this is a direct quote--'You're a strong woman of color, you can take it.' I had women coming up to me asking me if I had tried healing him with love."
Hediana Utarti, who coordinates services for queer women at the Asian Women's Shelter in San Francisco, faced a similar domestic violence situation, and she was a domestic violence counselor in Hawai'i at the time.
"The disbelief was very strong. This is another person of color working on social justice," says Utarti. "On top of that, there's also homophobia. How am I going to tell? I only talk to my close friends who are also queer, and some of them have also not seen healthy relationships."
Utarti points out that not many queer women are out of the closet in Hawai'i. "We don't know how many lesbians are out there, and so we think our partner is everything. She's the replacement of our sisters and brothers, our parents, our aunties and uncles. The whole community we're hiding from ... she becomes the center of your life. It's a crazy obsession almost. Because of homophobia, our partner becomes everything. And if something is wrong, we're not going to tell anyone."
Utarti was also a green card holder at the time, and her girlfriend was a U.S. citizen. She definitely did not want to risk being deported and having her sexuality discovered by her family back home. According to Utarti, what saved her was that her partner left her. Utarti now acknowledges that queer women of color need to have specific social services. Immigrants, says Utarti, whose own family is Muslim, often insist more on traditional values when they move to the United States.
"Once they're here, because there are so few of us, all of a sudden we need to be more Muslim--and therefore as a result, more homophobic. On top of that, we [women of color] always have to show the world that we are doing good. That we're paying bills. That we don't do criminal stuff. In general, we have to dress up double in comparison to white women--just to be and to be treated well. So when you're a queer woman of color, it's a double whammy. We have to cover up even more."
This "dressing up" can cause domestic violence to remain invisible. Utarti knows first-hand that many women she knows call the shelter, but they specifically call other women at the shelter in hopes that Utarti will not find out.
Some activists also point out that domestic violence remains invisible when communities don't acknowledge verbal and emotional abuse.
Candice Boyce, a founding member and current board chair of African Ancestral Lesbians United for Social Change based in New York City, has confronted and helped with a lot of domestic violence situations throughout her 30-year tenure. Boyce was also battered by one of her partners. At the time, she was attending large anti-violence conferences while at home her female lover was screaming at her.
"There's not someone saying, 'I don't know if you know this, but you're in a domestic violence relationship whether she hits you or not'," Boyce says. "That's the kind of stuff we need to talk about. Some of us see it only as physical fighting or pushing or battering. But emotional domestic violence is one of the worst to me."
Boyce points out that queer women of color are inclined to excuse their lover's behavior. "You can't make excuses for people--they need help, and you need to get out of there!" she says. "Enough with lesbians living these happy lives and everything is wonderful! That's crap! And it's hurting us. We really need to bring this out. It's happening more than we know."
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