2025 – Page 2 – Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Kecia Cunningham: Bodacious African American Trailblazer

Kecia Cunningham: Bodacious African American Trailblazer

In 1999, Kecia Cunningham was the South’s first, openly lesbian African American elected to office, winning a seat on Decatur, Georgia, City Commission.

Posted on February 4, 2025 Posted in Social and Political Groups Tagged with activism, African American woman, Agnes Scott College, Decatur City Commission, Decatur Georgia, each one teach one, feminist, first openly gay African American, Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and LGBTQ Victory Fund, HRC, Human Rights Campaign, Lenny Lasater, lesbian, LGBTQIA+, Mayor Elizabeth Wilson, queer person, southern, The Enlightened Coalition, Victory Fund, Wellesley College, Wellesley’s Organization of Lesbians and Friends, WOLF

Mendy Knott: The Writer’s Life on the Mountain

Mendy Knott: The Writer’s Life on the Mountain

Mendy Knott, North Carolina poet, reflecting her experiences as a former police officer, military veteran, and Southern preacher’s kid. She is an award-winning screenplay writer, too.

Posted on January 20, 2025 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers Tagged with A Little Lazarus, academic poets, Across the ARK-LA-TEX: A Cross Family Cookbook, alcoholic, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg Tennessee, Asheville North Carolina, Asheville Womens Chorus, Austin Texas, Burnsville North Carolina, butch lesbian, Climbing Mt Pisgah, cultural mecca, DeKalb County at Emory University, Down and Dirty, downtown church Jubilee, fantasy novel, Fayetteville Arkansas, Goddess Festival, HOWL, In My Dreams, Jackson Mississippi, Leigh Knott, Leigh Wilkerson, lesbian feminist cultural center, lesbians, Malaprops Bookstore, married, Matinee, mecca for lesbians, Men Only Screenplay, Mendy Knott, military veteran, Minden Louisiana, mountains, Peacework, Peggy Seeger, performance poets, poet, poetry chapbooks, Poets Under the Maples, Police Academy, police officer, poppyseed cake, post apocalyptic, Presbyterian ministers family, Raising Voices: A Café of Our Own Anthology, raped in the military, Rhodes in Memphis, S M sexuality, screenplay writer, screwed over by a lesbian press, sexuality, slam poets, sober, Southern preachers kid, Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly, street poets, tattoo, The Pentaculum, University of Memphis, US Air Force, violence against women, Voice Like a Hammer: Women Respond to 9 11, Womansong, womens open mic, womens voices, Womonwrites, write a novel, writer