Itâs a very complex thing that Iâve taken very seriously as a sacred responsibility. Our mission now is to heal our community, our local community, our Ozark community, and our indigenous community; and to bring all the colors into sacred union again.
My passion has always been to be a part of the solution, whether it is activism through preserving our neighborhoods or marching in the streets.
May and June 2024 are multiple anniversaries for the SLFA Herstory Project. Itâs the fifteenth anniversary of our first Herstory Project planning workshop at Womonwrites. Itâs the tenth anniversary of our first special issue of Sinister Wisdom. And itâs the second anniversary of the launching of this website.
We celebrated the publication of our sixth and final Sinister Wisdom volume two years ago. The six special volumes contain a treasure trove of collected stories, interviews, timelines, and photographs from three decades of twentieth-century, lesbian-feminist activism in Southern states. Now, we are focusing on making these edited interviews available online as we continue to add new interviews.
The herstory of lesbian-feminist activism in the South was rapidly being lost as these stories of unsung sheroes were not being reported in any of the memoirs and histories of the womenâs liberation movement in the twentieth century.