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Águila Talks about Her Memoir

Águila Talks about Her Memoir

Maria Cristina Moroles, known now by her ceremonial name Águila, is an Indigenous curandera, shaman, and landyke who has lived at Santuario Arco Iris, rugged women’s land in the Ozark Mountains near Ponca, Arkansas, since 1974. The land offers over a hundred acres of sanctuary for women and children, especially women and children of color. In 2000, she founded the Arco Iris Earth Care Project, a nonprofit that preserves 400 acres of neighboring wilderness land.

Posted on August 14, 2024 Posted in Lesbian Land Groups, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Aguila, Águila, Águila The Vision Life Death and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains, Arco Iris, Arco Iris Earth Care Project, Arkansas, curandera, Diana Rivers, Fayetteville Arkansas, indigenous sustainability skills, interns, land stewards, Landyke, Lauri Umansky, Luisa, Maria Cristina Moroles, Ozark Mountains, Patti Cardozo, Ponca, Rancho Arco Iris, Santuario Arco Iris, Sassafras, shaman, Shiner, Sun Hawk, Woofer, World Wide Organization of Organic Farms, WWOOF

Remembering Shay Youngblood

Shay Youngblood

On June 11, 2024, Shay Youngblood died after an extended illness. Loved ones surrounded her as she went to meet her ancestors. Novelist, poet, and playwright, Shay Youngblood got her start at Charis Books & More in Decatur, Georgia, at the Charis Circle Young Women Writers Group. From reading her poetry at Charis to publishing her first book, Big Mama Stories (1989) with Firebrand Press, to producing her plays at Little 5 Points Horizon Theatre, she left us a rich legacy.

Posted on July 8, 2024 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers Tagged with Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Charis Books & More, Charis Circle, Daniel Alexander Jones, Kelley Alexander, Linda Bryant, Shay Youngblood, Young Women Writers Group

Southern Sisters, Inc.: Women in Print, a Feminist Outpost

Southern Sisters, Inc.: Women in Print, a Feminist Outpost

Southern Sisters, 411 Morris St., Durham, NC (1988-1995). Photo courtesy of Melody Ivins.

We didn’t know squat about books. If we’d known what it was going to take, we wouldn’t have done it! You had to be passionate and crazy.

Posted on February 19, 2024 Posted in Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers Tagged with childrens books, Inc. – Women in Print—A Feminist Outpost, Southern Sisters

Barbara Esrig: Writer, Oral Historian, Nurse, and Cook Extraordinaire

Barbara Esrig: Writer, Oral Historian, Nurse, and Cook Extraordinaire

Barbara Esrig. Photo by Elizabeth Daneman and Tammy Bernard.

Barbara Esrig, a founding member of Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project, describes her work as a midwife, and her recovery from a near-fatal car accident.

Posted on September 11, 2023 Posted in Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with abortions, adoption, Alachua General Hospital, Amazon Opera, Amelia Earhart, Amelia’s, Ann Gill, artificial insemination, Arts in Medicine, Barbara Esrig, Carol Aubin, Cassadaga, Cheryl LaMay, childbirth, Clair Englander, Connie Jylanki, Corky Culver, Dotty Faibisy, Eloise Page, Eugene Oregon, Flash Silvermoon, Gail Atkins, Gainesville Florida, Gainesville Women’s Health Center, Gerry Green, Gwen Demeter, home birth, Jewish religion, Joan McTigue, La Leche, Lamaze, lay midwives, lesbian seders, lesbian variety show, Linda Wilson, Lynda Lou Simmons, Marcia Zeimer, Marilyn Mesh, Megan, midwifery, New York City, oral histories, Pam Smith, Practical nurse, Randi Cameon, registered nurse, RN, Ruth Segal, Sallie Ann Harrison, San Francisco, Sandy Cosgrave, Sandy Malone, segregated hospital, Shands Hospital, the Red House, turkey baster, Wild Iris, Womonwrites, writer in residence