Showcase - Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

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

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

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

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