Showcase – Page 14 – Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Terrie L. Pendleton: Cofounder of Lesbian Women of Color (LWOC)

Terrie Pendleton at the 2018 readings from Sinister Wisdom 109, Hot Spots. Courtesy of Beth Marschak.

Terrie Pendleton cofounded Lesbian Women of Color in Richmond, VA, in 1991 to provide “a sense of belonging, a safe place,” an alternative to isolation.

Posted on April 9, 2022 Posted in Social and Political Groups Tagged with Beth Marschack, busing, Dr. Judith Bradford, Equality Virginia, feminism, Gatekeepers, LWOC, military, Richmond Lesbian Feminists, Richmond Organization for Sexual Minority Youths, Richmond VA, school integration, sexual orientation, social work, Terrie Pendleton, University of Virginia, Urvashi Vaid

Red Dyke Theatre with Mickey Alberts and Frances Pici

The Android Sisters, left to right: Murry Stevens, Frances Pici, and Mickey Alberts. Courtesy of Frances Pici.

Frances Pici, Mickey Alberts and three others started Red Dyke Theatre in Atlanta in 1974 with a New Year’s Eve show at their home, Tacky Towers.

Posted on April 8, 2022 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Social and Political Groups Tagged with ALFA, ALFA Omegas, Amy Darden, Amy Estelle, Atlanta GA, Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance, Bonnie Netherton, Buffalo Women's Studies College, C.C. (aka Carol Gallant), C.K, Charlotte Bunch, coming out, communal households, DAR II, Debra Gray, Dino Martin, Donna Price, Dyke, Dykes for the Second American Revolution, Fanny Fernow, feminist process, Frances Pici, Gail Reeder, Garbo’s, Harriett Green, Jaen Black, Jeanne Aland, lesbian feminist theatre, Lily Tomlin, Maoism, Marxism, Mickey Alberts, Moral Hazard, Murry (Mary) Stevens, music, Nancy Oswald, performance, Rebecca Ranson, Red Dyke Theatre, SAME – Southeastern Arts Media and Education, Sarah Holmes, Stars and Dykes Forever Theater, Sue Berry, Sweet Gum Head, Tacky Towers, The Great Southeastern Lesbian Conference, The Tower, theatre, University of Buffalo Women’s Studies College, Wilson Huff, Winona Holloway, women's radio shows, women’s movement

Blanche Jackson: Market Wimmin and Maat Dompim Womyn of Color Land Project

Blanche Jackson at Womonwrites: the Southeastern Lesbian Writers Conference in autumn 2011. Her T-shirt says, “Ladies Sewing Circle and Terrorist Society.” Photo by Lorraine Fontana, used with permission.

From a rooftop garden in New York City to Maat Dompim Womyn of Color Land Project in Virginia and beyond, Blanche has offered support and empowerment to women of color throughout the country.

Posted on April 6, 2022 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Lesbian-Owned Enterprises Tagged with Amoja Three Rivers, class, Cultural Etiquette: A Guide for the Well-Intended, Heathcote, legal issues, Maat Dompim, Market Wimmin, medical issues, Michigan WMF, race, women of color

Southerners on New Ground (SONG): Then and Now

SONG cofounders, left to right, Mandy Carter, Suzanne Pharr, Joan Garner, Pat Hussain, Mab Segrest, and Pam McMichael. Few pictures of the whole group together exist, and this picture, taken in 2013 by Edie Daly, is no exception. Mab Segrest has been added (with her permission).

Southerners on New Ground (SONG) is an organization formed in 1992 to establish coalitions for social change. Interviews with all six founders are online.

Posted on March 17, 2022 Posted in Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with activism, Administrations of Lunacy: Racism and the Haunting of American Psychiatry, Alliance Against Women’s Oppression, antiracism, Bayard Rustin Commemoration Project, coalitions, Creating Change, Diary of a Race Traitor, Fund for Southern Communities, Highlander Research & Education Center, Homophobia: A Weapon of Sexism, intersectionality, Joan Garner, Kentucky’s Fairness Campaign, LGBTQ, Mab Segrest, Mandy Carter, National Black Justice Coalition (NBJC), National Gay and Lesbian Task Force (NGLTF), North Carolinians Against Racist and Religious Violence (NCARRV), Pam McMichael, Pat Hussain, Poor People’s Campaign, Showing up for Racial Justice (SURJ), social justice, spotlight, Suzanne Pharr, Transformation: Toward a People's Democracy, War Resisters League