Roberta Arnold writes about her mother, June Arnold, novelist and founder of Daughters, Inc. publishing company. Julia Penelope once said that June filled out a form stating her religion as âWomen,â and this was true. She was fierce in her devotion to the Womenâs Movement.Â
Susan Robinson writes about her then partner Betty Bird, and tells the story of how she and others began a system for recording feminist journals like *Sinister Wisdom* and distributing those recordings through services for the blind.
Maria Cristina Moroles, known now by her ceremonial name Ăguila, is an Indigenous curandera, shaman, and landyke who has lived at Santuario Arco Iris, rugged womenâs land in the Ozark Mountains near Ponca, Arkansas, since 1974. The land offers over a hundred acres of sanctuary for women and children, especially women and children of color. In 2000, she founded the Arco Iris Earth Care Project, a nonprofit that preserves 400 acres of neighboring wilderness land.
Maria Cristina Moroles, Ăguila (eagle), has lived at Santuario Arco Iris in the Ozark mountains since 1976. It is one of the few womenâs land communities in the United States founded by women of color. An Indigenous Mexican American curandera (healer), Ăguila turned this very, very rugged mountain land into a sanctuary for women and girls.