Spirituality and Religion - Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Falcon River: An Amazing Appalachian

Falcon River being nuzzled by her horse, Flame, in 2005

There’s nothing about me that’s masculine. Every aspect of me, at the cellular level, is female. I was born female; I live female. Butch women like me embody the full spectrum of womanhood.

Posted on May 15, 2023 Posted in Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Social and Political Groups, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Amazon song, Appalachia, Falcon River, Goddess-based religion, Lesbian Feminist Union, Maxine Feldman, Mother’s Brew, Olivia Records, RCG, Re-Formed Congregation of the Goddess, Ruth Barrett, the Guardian Path, West Virginia, Wicca, women’s spirituality, 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

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

Category: Spirituality and Religion

Falcon River: An Amazing Appalachian

Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Black Feminist Love Evangelist

Flash Silvermoon: Spiritual Renaissance Feminist

Carolyn Mobley-Bowie: Spiritual Warrior-Singer