Culture and the Arts - Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Flash Silvermoon: Spiritual Renaissance Feminist

Flash Silvermoon rocking with Flash Silvermoon and the Blues Sisters in the 1990s at the University Club, Gainesville, Florida's main gay bar.

Psychic, astrologer, healer, feminist activist; gifted musician and singer, spiritually connected to animals, blazing through life with her red hair bold as her character.

Posted on January 16, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with animal communicator, Ayoka, Bahira Sugarman, Barbara Vogel, battered women’s shelters, Bonnie and Clyde’s Lesbian Bar, Corky Culver, Deborah Kotler, Denise Burnsed, EARS Inc animal sanctuary, Flash Silvermoon, Florida Feminist Festival, Georg Suzuki, Greenwich Village, Janis Joplin, Janis Joplin and Me: Forty Years of Music and Magic, Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary, Kay Gardner, Lifetime Companions: Love Never Dies, Medusa Muzic, Melrose Florida, Moonhaven Mystery School of Earth Magic for Women, Nancy Littman, Omialadora Ajamu, Pandora Lightmoon, Phases of the Silver Moon, Rainbow Goddess, Red House, Sadie Darnell, SPARC (Sexual and Physical Abuse Resource Center), Take Back the Night, Tara Allen, The Blues Sisters, The Planetary Handbook, vibrational healer, Visions of a New Deck, Wise Woman’s Festival, Wise Woman’s Tarot, Woman Spirit Rising, Z Budapest, Zsuzsanna Budapest

Carolyn Mobley-Bowie: Spiritual Warrior-Singer

Reverend Elder Carolyn Mobley-Bowie

“Black people are my people, gay folk are my people, and church people are my people.”

Posted on October 24, 2022 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with AALGA, Adrain Bowie, African American Lesbian and Gay Alliance, Atlanta Feminist Women’s Chorus, Atlanta Georgia, Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance ALFA, feminism, home missionary, Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism, Houston Texas, Interdenominational Theological Center, ITC, Metropolitan Community Church MCC, racism, Richmond Virginia, Sanford Florida, Second Baptist MCC Houston, Shiloh Baptist Church Orlando, SISTERS, Southern Baptist, Southern Baptist Convention, womanism

Diana Rivers: From Atheist to Pagan

Diana Rivers’s sculpture called Goddess Rising is the centerpiece of her home altar. Courtesy of Diana Rivers

Diana Rivers goes from atheist to pagan while serving cakes for the Queen of Heaven.

Posted on October 1, 2022 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Bea Howard, City of Strangers, Clouds of War, Dancer for The Goddess, Diana Rivers, Fayetteville Arkansas, Goddess Festival, Goddess Productions, Journey to Zelindar, Matriarts, OLHA, Ozark Land Holding Association, Path Hennon, Sassafras, Snake Memories and Other Stories, speculative fiction, the Hadra, The Red Line of Yarmald, The Smuggler The Spy and the Spider, Vick Kelley, WomanVision

Diana Rivers: Author, Cultural Activist, and Grassroots Landyke

Diana Rivers in the home she built at OLHA

Divorced and alone in 1972, Diana Rivers paddled her way from New York to Arkansas with an unbridled fever that turned the local landscape upside down.

Posted on October 1, 2022 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers Tagged with Aguila, antiwar activism, Arco Iris, Arkansas, Blue Creek Tribe, Buffalo River, commune, Congress of Racial Equality CORE, Debra Gish, Diana Rivers, Earth school, Fayetteville Arkansas, feminism, land community, Landyke, Lesberadoes, lesbian, lesbian land community, Madison County, Nancy Vaughn, Newton County, non-violent civil disobedience, Ozark Land Holding Association OLHA, Ozark Women’s Land Trust OWLT, Rose Norman, Sassafras, separatism, Sun Hawk, Wild Magnolia

Category: Culture and the Arts

Flash Silvermoon: Spiritual Renaissance Feminist

Carolyn Mobley-Bowie: Spiritual Warrior-Singer

Diana Rivers: From Atheist to Pagan

Diana Rivers: Author, Cultural Activist, and Grassroots Landyke