Showcase - Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

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

Beth Marschak: Lesbian Activist for Civil Rights and Human Rights

Mary Dean Carter, Beth Marschak, and Terrie Pendleton, left to right, members of Richmond Lesbian Feminists.

My feminism began in college. I started a women’s lib group, organized the first Earth Day in Richmond, and got in jail for antiwar and civil rights actions.