Social and Political Groups – Page 6 – Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Corky Culver and the Women’s Peace Walk, 1983-1984

The Women’s Peace Walk celebrates finally arriving in Key West, Florida. From left to right: Lynda Lou Simmons (facing the camera), Pam Smith, Rainbow Williams, Robin Ferguson (holding the Women’s Peace Walk banner), Sandy Cosgrave (looking up), Kate Gallagher (clapping), Gail Mayes, Dixie Biggs, Weed Roy (wearing “stop the bomb racket” poster), Jean Frances (making peace sign), Sandra Lambert, unidentified woman in a rainbow tam, and Sandy Malone.

Corky Culver joins the Gainesville Women’s Peace Walk, an act of courageous defiance, a 41-day journey down the east coast of Florida, from Gainesville to Key West.

Posted on December 8, 2022 Posted in Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with antinuclear, Barbara Deming, consensus, disarmament, Florida, Gainesville, Girl Scout Camp, Jane Doe, Key West, meditation, peace activism, peace walk, Savannah River Nuclear Plant Blockade, Savannah River Site, the Jane Does, Women’s Peace Walk

Mary Dean Carter: Cofounder of Richmond Lesbian Feminists

Mary Dean Carter

I ain’t no radicallesbianmanhatincastratinballbustinbulldyke. But I love womyn.

Posted on September 3, 2022 Posted in Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social and Political Groups Tagged with Archival Assistant at Library of Virginia, Beth Marschak, Beverly Rainey, Carmela “Alfie” Alfonso, Diversity Richmond, Equal Rights Amendment (ERA), Everywoman’s Coffeehouse, First Friday potlucks, Friends Meeting House, Labrys Books, Lesbian Women of Color (LWOC), Mary Gay Hutcherson, National March on Washington for Gay and Lesbian Rights in 1987, National Organization for Women (NOW), New Year’s Eve dances, Organization for Women’s Liberation (OWL), Richmond Lesbian Feminists (RLF), Richmond Lesbian Feminists Flyer, Richmond Womensbooks, Southern Sisters, Spring Prom, Terri Barry, Terrie Pendleton, The Flyer, Virginia Women’s Political Caucus, Westhampton College

Jade River: Mother’s Brew, Where Feminist Consciousness Grew

Jade River, in Madison, Wisconsin, circa 1983, when Jade and Lynnie Levy co-founded the Re-formed Congregation of the Goddess- International.

Mother’s Brew bar, managed by Jade River, was a lesbian-feminist cultural center for the Louisville, Kentucky region, and a safe space for lesbians.

Posted on June 23, 2022 Posted in Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Social and Political Groups, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with feminism, Goddess consciousness, Goddess-based religion, Louisville Kentucky, Madison Wisconsin, Reformed Congregation of the Goddess, women and religion, women's spirituality, Z Budapest

Saralyn Chesnut of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA)

Saralyn Chesnut is second from left in this photo from the 2013 Creating Change conference. Pat Hussain is at far right.

“ALFA’s lasting legacy is in women’s lives. The field of women’s studies was not just created by the feminist movement, but by the lesbian-feminist movement.”

Posted on May 19, 2022 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with AIDS, Amanda Gable, Amy Darden (Estelle), Atalanta, butch and femme roles, Charis Books and More, Chris Carroll, communal households, Communist Party, dinner co-ops, drag queens, dyke march, EEOC, Eleanor Smith, Elizabeth Knowlton, Emory Office of LGBT Life, Feminary, Feminist Women’s Health Center, Gay and Lesbian Pride, gay liberation, gender, Georgians for the ERA, Hairy Hobbits, Hobbit Habit, Hummingbird Heights, Julia Penelope (Stanley), Lambda Legal, lesbian feminism, Little Five Points (L5P), Lorraine Fontana, mental illness, Moosewood Cookbook, National Gay Task Force, nonmonogamy, Our Bodies, Our Right to Love, Ourselves, patriarchy, pulp novels, racism, rap/Consciousness-raising groups, Reagan, Red Dyke Theatre, Rita Mae Brown, Rubyfruit Jungle, Sappho’s Quarry, Saralyn Chesnut, Sinister Wisdom, Southern Baptist, Stonewall riots, UGA, Vicki Gabriner, white southerner, woman-identified woman, Womansong Theatre, women in print movement, women’s movement, Women’s Policy Group, women’s softball, WRFG

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Corky Culver and the Women’s Peace Walk, 1983-1984

Mary Dean Carter: Cofounder of Richmond Lesbian Feminists

Jade River: Mother’s Brew, Where Feminist Consciousness Grew

Saralyn Chesnut of the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA)