Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project – Collecting, archiving, and celebrating oral and written stories of unsung, Southern, lesbian-feminist activists during the second half of the twentieth century.

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March 2025

SLFAHP has some university and graduate interns to work with that started in January 2025. The editing and web teams have interviewed and found brilliant candidates who are helping us with tagging items in the interviews, and organizing our archival processes.
This is all thanks to the Invisible Histories Project.

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March 2025

Rose Norman, SLFAHP's own general editor, has a fabulous article about her new book, The Pagoda: A Lesbian Community by the Sea, in the Washington Post aka WaPo, published on May 11.

See our SLFAHP FEATURE STORY about the Pagoda here on our website.

Read the PDF of the WaPo article here on our SLFAHP website at this link: The Washington Post article on Rose Norman's book, The Pagoda. This article was published on May 11, 2024, by Lena Wilson.

Spotlight

Kecia Cunningham: Bodacious African American Trailblazer

It’s Black History Month, and we’re celebrating a Southern history maker, Kecia Cunningham, the South's first openly lesbian African American elected to public office.

In 1999, Kecia Cunningham won a seat on the five-member Decatur, Georgia, City Commission. At that time, she was one of two African American lesbians in elected office in the entire USA. She served on that commission for sixteen years. In 2013, she was elected mayor pro tem of Decatur.

During those years, she was partnered with Lenny Lasater. The two of them made a point of being out and proud.

Read about Kecia Cunningham, bodacious trailblazer, in this month’s featured interview at the link below

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Who Inspired You to Feminist Activism?

Send us the name of your most significant shero.
Add a brief reason why she inspires you. Maybe she was responsible for you attending a women's rights march, or running for office, etc. You only need to send us a sentence or two. If you think of more, send them later.

Both your shero and you can remain anonymous since we will PUBLISH these here on our SLFAHP website.

Send submissions today to:
slfainspired@gmail.com

We received this one from Rose Norman, who got her inspiration from Nancy Finley.

"At the time, Nancy Finley was the chair of the Sociology Department at my university. Nancy said, 'Let’s see who might be interested in starting a women’s studies program.' "

"She made feminism seductive, and she opened my eyes to structural causes of oppression. She walks the talk in all aspects of her life."

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