Culture and the Arts – Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Jan Gibson, Cofounder of Lesbian Band, Moral Hazard

Jan Gibson cofounded the lesbian band Moral Hazard. She was also a poet, a songwriter, an artist, a feminist, and a proud mother.

Posted on September 21, 2025 Posted in Culture and the Arts Tagged with 7 Stages, ALFA, ALFA House, An Evening with the Queen of Sheba, Atlanta, Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance, Awkward Unicorn, Bisexual Girls, Bomb Shelter, Callenwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, Cherry Omega, Eat Sweet Treats, Equal Rights Amendment, ERA, Flight 101, Gaga, Georgian Terrace Hotel, Jaen Black, JB Sapp, Jimmy Starr, KC Wildmoon, Lavender Jane Loves Money She Works for IBM, lesbian, lesbian feminist, Little Five Points Atlanta, meditation, Moral Hazard, Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen, Other Harmonies, Song of Atlanta, Southern lesbian, Step over This Line, Take a Walk on the Dark Side, We Don’t Make No Plans No More, Who the Hell Do You Think You Are, Yellow Rose

B. Leaf Cronewrite and Drea Firewalker: Weaving Lesbian Community

2018

B Leaf Cronewrite and Drea Firewalker, both artists in their own right, share a passion for connecting with and supporting lesbians. They’ve travelled far and wide to accomplish this.

Posted on September 8, 2025 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social and Political Groups, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with A Lineage of Deception, activist, Andrea Nedelsky, B. Leaf Cronewrite, Beverly Little Thunder, Cobb County Georgia, Crones Council, Djembe Drum group, Drea Firewalker, Drum Camp, feminist, Gay Olympics, Hernando Mississippi, Indianapolis Indiana, Isadora Leidenfrost, Joliet Illinois, Kansas City Missouri, Kansas City Women’s Support group, KCWSG, Landyke, lesbian, Marietta Georgia, Mary Ann Hopper, Max Dashu, MCC, Metropolitan Community Church, MichFest, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival, Midwest Womyn’s Festival, Missing the Magnolias, National Women’s Music Festival, Ontario Womyn’s Drum Camp, Pete’s Pub, Pocono Mountains, Red Tent, Shawnee Kansas, Sonia Johnson, southern, Southerner, Spiral Dance, Spirit of Woman Gathering, Tarkio College, Tiffany, Where Risky Women Travel, Womangathering, Wommongathering, Womontown, Womonwrites

Mandy Carter at the Center of a Lesbian-Feminist Activist Hotbed

Mandy Carter Photo by Bill Bamberger. Used with permission.

Mandy Carter, Southern Black lesbian activist and worker for the War Resisters League, marched for peace, helped start SONG, and coproduced Rhythm Fest, a “workers festival.”

Posted on June 9, 2025 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with activist, AFSC, American Friends Service Committee High School Work Camp, Black pride, Durham North Carolina, HBCU, Highlander Center, Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Institute for the Study of Non-Violence, Ladyslipper, lesbian feminist, National Lesbian and Gay Task Force, NLGTF, Pocono Mountains Pennsylvania, pride celebrations, Quakers, Real Women Productions, Rhythm Fest, SONG, southern, Southerners on New Ground, TALF, Triangle Area Lesbian Feminists, Triangle Black Pride, War Resisters League, WRL

Kathleen “Corky” Culver: Activist, Organizer, Filmmaker, Landyke, Poet

Corky Culver has been a leader and a documenter since the early days of modern lesbian feminism, cofounding a women’s land group, organizing cultural and political events (especially peace activism), publishing poetry, and singing with others at every possible opportunity.

Posted on April 14, 2025 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Abby Bogomolny, Blue Lunden, C.A. Culver, Cathy Drompp, chem-free, consciousness-raising, consensus decision-making, Corky Culver, CR group, croning, Culla Culver, Denise Matthews, documentary filmmaking, Donna Dyke, Dore Rotundo, FAN, FAN Feminist Action Network, feminist, Feminist Action Network, Ferron, Finding the Well, Flash Silvermoon, Gainesville Florida, Gractia Culver, Harvard Film Archive, Joan Larkin, Julia Dragonfly, Kathleen Anne Walsh, Kathleen Culver, Katura Carey, Kentucky, LEAP, lesbian, lesbian archives, lesbian CR group, lesbian feminism, Lesbian Home Movie Project, lesbian websites, Lesbians Empowered for Action and Politics, Lorelei Esser, Marie Steinwachs, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festivals, Minnie Bruce Pratt, North Forty, Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, Red House, rural lesbians, Ruth Dreamdigger, Savannah River Peace Camp, Sharon Thompson, slfahp, southern, Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project, SPARC Sexual and Physical Abuse Resource Center, The Natural Law of Water, Theresa Carr, Thoreau, women’s land, Women’s Peace Walk, Women’s Renaissance Festival

Category: Culture and the Arts

Jan Gibson, Cofounder of Lesbian Band, Moral Hazard

B. Leaf Cronewrite and Drea Firewalker: Weaving Lesbian Community

Mandy Carter at the Center of a Lesbian-Feminist Activist Hotbed

Kathleen “Corky” Culver: Activist, Organizer, Filmmaker, Landyke, Poet