July 2023 – Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Martine Giguère: from Québec, Canada, to the Pagoda in Florida

Martine Giguère: from Québec, Canada, to the Pagoda in Florida

Martine Giguère looking cool in 1985, at the New England Women’s Musical Retreat. Photo by Beth Karbe

Martine’s Pagoda memories: the ocean, carpentry, and collaboration with lesbians there, which “got me on my feet and gave a direction to my life.”

Posted on July 17, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups Tagged with Beth Karbe, Canada, ethnology, festival worker, Lesbian Land, MichFest, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Montreal, NEWMR, peace activist, Quebec, St Augustine, the New England Women’s Musical Retreat, the Pagoda, Watermelon Pond

Mary Anne Adams, Champion for Change

Mary Anne Adams, Champion for Change

Mary Anne Adams

A dedicated woman’s journey, making her way from the segregated south, through the civil rights movement, into today’s complex lesbian feminist environment.

Posted on July 10, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with aging, Angela Denise Davis, Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde Scholarship Fund, Black Lesbians, Black nationalists, Black Student Union, blind, Community Engagement Core, Eddie Sandifer, feminist, First Existentialist Congregation, Frederica Sands, Gay Community News, intersectionality, LGBTQ, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Organization of Black Lesbians on Aging, old lesbians organizing for change, OLOC, racism, Rev Lanier Clance, Rev. Wayne Johnson, Sister Harriet, Southern Rural Women’s Network, the Black House, Tougaloo College, Womonwrites, ZAMI, ZAMI NOBLA