Showcase – Page 9 – Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Falcon River: An Amazing Appalachian

Falcon River being nuzzled by her horse, Flame, in 2005

There’s nothing about me that’s masculine. Every aspect of me, at the cellular level, is female. I was born female; I live female. Butch women like me embody the full spectrum of womanhood.

Posted on May 15, 2023 Posted in Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Social and Political Groups, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Amazon song, Appalachia, Falcon River, Goddess-based religion, Lesbian Feminist Union, Maxine Feldman, Mother’s Brew, Olivia Records, RCG, Re-Formed Congregation of the Goddess, Ruth Barrett, the Guardian Path, West Virginia, Wicca, women’s spirituality, Z Budapest

Dore Rotundo: Architect and Land Dyke

Dore Rotundo

Dore Rotundo, an original, broke barriers in architecture, created community, loved women, and always found ways to spread joy.

Posted on April 17, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Social and Political Groups Tagged with architectural Design, Architecture, Building skills, Community, Corky Culver, discrimination, Dore Rotundo, feminism, Florida, Found Art, Gainesville Florida, gay marriage, John O’Connell Technical High School, lake swan, LEAP, Lesbian Land, Lesbians Empowered for Activism and Politics, life estate, Long Beach Washington, Marcella Benson, Martha Strozier, North Forty, Pagoda, Pat Paul, Rose Norman, San Francisco California, Santa Fe Community College, Sherry Emory, Speedville, St. Augustine, St. Petersburg Florida, University of Florida, Utica New York

Alexis Pauline Gumbs: Black Feminist Love Evangelist

Alexis has described herself as “a queer Black troublemaker, a Black feminist love evangelist, and an aspirational cousin to all sentient beings.”

Posted on March 14, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with ’Young Women’s Writing Group, Advocate's 40 under 40, Akasha Gloria Hull, Alice Walker, Angela Davis, Atlanta Constitution Newspaper, Atlanta Georgia, Audre Lorde, Barnard College at Columbia University, Best American Experimental Writing, Black Dirt, Black feminism, Black feminist activists, Black Feminist Bookmobile, Black Feminist Breathing Collages, Black Feminist Film School, Charis Books and More, Charis Young Writers, China Martens, Cliterati, Dr. Farah Jasmine Griffin, Dr. M. Jacqui Alexander, Dr. Zenzele Isoke, Duke University, Emory University, Erin Sharkey Free, Essence magazine, Eternal Summer of the Black Feminist Mind, Farrar Straus Giroux, feminist bookstores, Feminist Studies, Firefly Ridge, Harvard University Cambridge Massachusetts, Helena Cragg, heternormativity, Honeypot, Hortense Spiller, Humanities for the Public Good gathering in Chapel Hill North Carolina, James Baldwin, June Jordan Reading Room, Juneteenth Freedom Academy, Katina Parker, Laurie Carlos, lesbian, Leslie Parker, LGBTQ Soul Sanctuary, Lucille Clifton, Lucille Clifton ShapeShifter Survival School, M Archive After the End of the World, Mai’a Williams, Mama Mosaic theatre company, Margaret Wade, Mobile Homecoming Living Library, Mobile Homecoming project, Mobile Homecoming Trust Living Library and Archive, Penny Winton, Pushcart Prize, Revolutionary Mothering, Rondo Neighborhood St. Paul Minnesota, Sallie Bingham Center for Women’s History and Culture, Sangodare Julia Roxanne Wallace, School of Our Lorde, Signe Hardily, Spelman College Atlanta Georgia, Spill Scenes of Black Feminist Fugitivity, SUNY State University of New York New Paltz, Sylvia Williams, Sylvia Wynter, The Eternal Life of Audre Lorde: Biography as Ceremony, Truth Be Told, Undrowned Black Feminist Lessons from Marine Mammals, University of Minnesota Winton Chair in the Liberal Arts, UTNE Reader Visionaries Transforming the World, Vox teen newspaper, Youth Communication, Zenzele Isoke

Sandra Gail Lambert: Becoming A Writer

Sandra has been involved in many kinds of activism, including anti-racism through the Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance (ALFA); Lesbians for Empowerment, Action, and Politics (LEAP); and anti-nuclear protests and peace activism; and disability rights actions in South Carolina and Florida.

Posted on February 27, 2023 Posted in Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social and Political Groups Tagged with able-bodied, ALFA, anti-nuclear protest, anti-racism, Atlanta, Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance, Atlanta’s Lesbian-Feminist Community, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Augusta, Black Women’s Health Project, Boogie Women Committee, Carolyn Mobley, Changer and the Changed, Charis Books and More, civil disobedience, Common Lives Lesbian Lives, Common Lives/Lesbian Lives, Connie May Fowler, Cris Williamson, Dee Liston, Disability and Intimacy, disability rights, disability rights consciousness, disabled, domestic violence, Emory, feminist bookstore, Feminist Bookstore News, fiction, Florida, Gainesville, Georgia State University, I Know You Know, incest, Jill Marsh, Karate, Kay Hagan, LEAP, Lesbian Land, Lesbian Readers Potluck, Lesbians for Empowerment Action and Politics, Linda Bryant, literary citizenship, Liz Hill, Mariana, Medical College of Georgia, Meg Christian, memoir, Norway, Oslo, peace activism, peace walk, Physician Assistant, polio, post-polio syndrome, Pteradyktil, River Plant, Sandra Gail Lambert, Sandra Lambert, Santa Fe College, Savannah, self-defense courses for women, Sherry Emory, Sinister Wisdom, social inequalities, Southern Voice, Suzanne Carlton, Swainsboro, The River’s Memory, wheelchair, Womonwrites, worker-owner