Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services – Page 3 – Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Sonja Franeta: Writer, Translator, Educator, and Socialist Workers Party Candidate for Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama

Sonja Franeta

Sonja Franeta, born in New York City of immigrant parents, ran for mayor of Birmingham, Alabama, on the Socialist Party ticket in 1983.

Posted on September 8, 2023 Posted in Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with Argentina, Berkeley, Birmingham Alabama, Bronx, civil rights activism, coal miners union, comparative literature, Gulfport Public Library, journeyman machinist, Lesbians WriteOn, mayoral candidate, National Organization for Women, New York City, New York University, Pathfinder Press, Pink Flamingos, ReadOut, Russian language, San Francisco Bay Area, Serbo-Croatian, Slavic ethnicity, Socialist Workers Party, Soviet Union, St. Petersburg Florida, translator, Ukraine, United Mine Workers of America, Wheeled Mobility Center, Yugoslavia

Mary Anne Adams, Champion for Change

Mary Anne Adams

A dedicated woman’s journey, making her way from the segregated south, through the civil rights movement, into today’s complex lesbian feminist environment.

Posted on July 10, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with aging, Angela Denise Davis, Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde Scholarship Fund, Black Lesbians, Black nationalists, Black Student Union, blind, Community Engagement Core, Eddie Sandifer, feminist, First Existentialist Congregation, Frederica Sands, Gay Community News, intersectionality, LGBTQ, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Organization of Black Lesbians on Aging, old lesbians organizing for change, OLOC, racism, Rev Lanier Clance, Rev. Wayne Johnson, Sister Harriet, Southern Rural Women’s Network, the Black House, Tougaloo College, Womonwrites, ZAMI, ZAMI NOBLA

Ellen Spangler and Starcrest

Ellen from Memorial

After finding feminism and feminist spirituality while living in Florida, Ellen Spangler founded a teaching and healing center in rural South Carolina.

Posted on June 29, 2023 Posted in Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with 1990 Census, A Ritual Declaring and Affirming Our Birth, abuse, age and wisdom honoring, Alapine Village, Alaska, Anderson South Carolina, barter, battered women’s shelter, Beverly Little Thunder, Boston, Carol Christ, channeling, chanting, Charlene Spretnak, Clemson University, Clinton Tennessee, Cloudland Georgia, collective, croning, cross country trip, ecofeminism, Ellen Spangler, Elsa Gidlow, energy, Equinoxes, feminist activist, first national womens spirituality conference, Florida State University, gardening, Georgia, grass and sod roof, hands-on healing, healing center, Illinois, inner-child work, intuition, Jacksonville Florida, Jean Adele, Kaimora, Kay Mora, Knox County Education Association, Lakota, Lesbian and Landdyke Documentary, lesbian residential community, lobbying, lobbyist, Maine, Margot Adler, Martha Stozier, Mary Alice Stout, Mary Daly, Mary Stout, meditation, Methodist ministers, Mississippi, Moon circles, Mountain Mamas consignment shop, native American Sundance, Native American women, negotiating contracts, One Bead at a Time, Owl Song, Pagoda, Pagoda cottages, Peace and Justice Center, Phoenix Arizona, psychic, rainbow colors, rape crisis center, Riane Eisler, Rose DeBernardo, Ruth Mountaingrove, sacred rototiller, seven chakras, singing, Sinister Wisdom, Solstices, South Carolina, spiritual leadership, Split Creek Goat Farm, St Augustine Florida, Standing Rock North Dakota, sweat lodges, The Chalice and the Blade, Through the Looking Glass, trance, trance work, two spirited Lakota Elder, underground house, Vermont, Washington D.C., Wiccan circles, women artists, women dancers, Women Earth and Spirit, women’s ceremonies, women’s council of the sweat lodges, women’s spirituality, workshops, Z Budapest

Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Black Feminist Love Evangelist

Alexis has described herself as “a queer Black troublemaker, a Black feminist love evangelist, and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings.”

Posted on March 14, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with ’Young Women’s Writing Group, Advocate's 40 under 40, Akasha Gloria Hull, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, Atlanta Georgia, Audre Lorde, Barnard College at Columbia University, Best American Experimental Writing, Black Dirt, Black feminism, Black feminist activists, Black Feminist Bookmobile, Black Feminist Breathing Collages, Black Feminist Film School, Charis Books and More, Charis Young Writers, China Martens, Cliterati, Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin, Dr. M. Jacqui Alexander, Dr. Zenzele Isoke, Duke University, Emory University, Erin Sharkey Free, Essence magazine, Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, Farrar Straus Giroux, feminist bookstores, Feminist Studies, Firefly Ridge, Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts, Helena Cragg, heternormativity, Honeypot, Hortense Spiller, Humanities for the Public Good gathering in Chapel Hill North Carolina, James Baldwin, June Jordan Reading Room, Juneteenth Freedom Academy, Katina Parker, Laurie Carlos, lesbian, Leslie Parker, LGBTQ Soul Sanctuary, Lucille Clifton, Lucille Clifton ShapeShifter Survival School, M Archive After the End of the World, Mai’a Williams, Mama Mosaic theatre company, Margaret Wade, Mobile Homecoming Living Library, Mobile Homecoming project, Mobile Homecoming Trust Living Library and Archive, Penny Winton, Pushcart Prize, Revolutionary Mothering, Rondo Neighborhood St. Paul Minnesota, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Sangodare Julia Roxanne Wallace, School of Our Lorde, Signe Hardily, Spelman College Atlanta Georgia, Spill Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, SUNY State University of New York New Paltz, Sylvia Williams, Sylvia Wynter, The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde: Biography as Ceremony, Truth Be Told, Undrowned Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, University of Minnesota Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts, UTNE Reader Visionaries Transforming the World, Vox teen newspaper, Youth Communication, Zenzele Isoke

Category: Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services

Sonja Franeta: Writer, Translator, Educator, and Socialist Workers Party Candidate for Mayor of Birmingham, Alabama

Mary Anne Adams, Champion for Change

Ellen Spangler and Starcrest

Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Black Feminist Love Evangelist