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Carolyn Mobley-Bowie: Spiritual Warrior-Singer

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: Author, Cultural Activist, and Grassroots Landyke

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

Diana Rivers: From Atheist to Pagan

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

Mary Dean Carter: Cofounder of Richmond Lesbian Feminists

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

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