Lesbian Land Groups - Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

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

Finding Women’s Lands and Lesbian Communities

Clockwise, starting at the bottom, are: Shewolf on a tractor, Corky Culver carrying hay, Nett Hart digging with a shovel, and Cedar Heartwood with a chainsaw and headphones to minimize the noise. Collage by Cedar Heartwood.

Shewolf said that it was a miracle that her directory happened at all. It was important to document this movement, to show how widespread it was….

Posted on July 13, 2022 Posted in Lesbian Land Groups Tagged with Adobeland, Aradia, COVID-19 pandemic, Joyce Cheney, Lesbian Land, Lesbian Natural Resources, Maize: A Lesbian Country Magazine, North Forty, Shewolf, Shewolf’s Directory of Wimmin’s Lands and Lesbian Communities, SPIRAL, Turtleland, Women’s Peace Camp in Seneca Falls, Womonworld

Lesbian Land Audio Interviews Online

Since 1991, Lesbian Natural Resources (LNR) has supported North American women’s land communities in many ways. Lesbiannaturalresources.org

Check out these interviews with women who started or participated in lesbian-feminist land groups, safe places to develop new lesbian culture in the South.

Posted on June 17, 2022 Posted in Lesbian Land Groups Tagged with Aguila, Alapine Village, Barbara Lieu, Blanche Jackson, Bonnie Netherton, Connie Tarpley, Corky Culver, Diana Rivers, Ellen Spangler, Emily Greene, Fayann Schmidt, Full Circle Farm, Gail Atkins, Gwen Demeter, Jean Adele, Jean Boudreaux, Kate Ellison, Lesbian Natural Resources, Lynn Hicks, Maat Dompim, Maria Christina Moroles, Morgana MacVicar, Myriam Fougère, Naj McFadden, Nett Hart, North Forty, OLHA, Pagoda, Peacemaker Land Trust, Rainbow Williams, Sally Willowbee, Santuario Arco Iris, Sassafras, Shewolf, Silver Circle Sanctuary, SPIRAL, Sue Parker Williams. Sugarloaf Women’s Village, Sun Hawk, The Web, Traveling Dykes, Womonworld

Blanche Jackson: Market Wimmin and Maat Dompim Womyn of Color Land Project

Blanche Jackson at Womonwrites: the Southeastern Lesbian Writers Conference in autumn 2011. Her T-shirt says, “Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society.” Photo by Lorraine Fontana, used with permission.

From a rooftop garden in New York City to Maat Dompim Womyn of Color Land Project in Virginia and beyond, Blanche has offered support and empowerment to women of color throughout the country.

Posted on April 6, 2022 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Lesbian-Owned Enterprises Tagged with Amoja Three Rivers, class, Cultural Etiquette: A Guide for the Well-Intended, Heathcote, legal issues, Maat Dompim, Market Wimmin, medical issues, Michigan WMF, race, women of color

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Category: Lesbian Land Groups

Diana Rivers: Author, Cultural Activist, and Grassroots Landyke

Finding Women’s Lands and Lesbian Communities

Lesbian Land Audio Interviews Online

Blanche Jackson: Market Wimmin and Maat Dompim Womyn of Color Land Project