Diana Rivers - Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Águila Talks about Her Memoir

Águila Talks about Her Memoir

Maria Cristina Moroles, known now by her ceremonial name Águila, is an Indigenous curandera, shaman, and landyke who has lived at Santuario Arco Iris, rugged women’s 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.

Posted on August 14, 2024 Posted in Lesbian Land Groups, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Aguila, Águila, Águila The Vision Life Death and Rebirth of a Two-Spirit Shaman in the Ozark Mountains, Arco Iris, Arco Iris Earth Care Project, Arkansas, curandera, Diana Rivers, Fayetteville Arkansas, indigenous sustainability skills, interns, land stewards, Landyke, Lauri Umansky, Luisa, Maria Cristina Moroles, Ozark Mountains, Patti Cardozo, Ponca, Rancho Arco Iris, Santuario Arco Iris, Sassafras, shaman, Shiner, Sun Hawk, Woofer, World Wide Organization of Organic Farms, WWOOF

Diana Rivers: From Atheist to Pagan

Diana Rivers: From Atheist to Pagan

Diana Rivers’s sculpture called Goddess Rising is the centerpiece of her home altar. Courtesy of Diana Rivers

Diana Rivers goes from atheist to pagan while serving cakes for the Queen of Heaven.

Posted on October 1, 2022 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Bea Howard, City of Strangers, Clouds of War, Dancer for The Goddess, Diana Rivers, Fayetteville Arkansas, Goddess Festival, Goddess Productions, Journey to Zelindar, Matriarts, OLHA, Ozark Land Holding Association, Path Hennon, Sassafras, Snake Memories and Other Stories, speculative fiction, the Hadra, The Red Line of Yarmald, The Smuggler The Spy and the Spider, Vick Kelley, WomanVision

Diana Rivers: Author, Cultural Activist, and Grassroots Landyke

Diana Rivers: Author, Cultural Activist, and Grassroots Landyke

Diana Rivers in the home she built at OLHA

Divorced and alone in 1972, Diana Rivers paddled her way from New York to Arkansas with an unbridled fever that turned the local landscape upside down.

Posted on October 1, 2022 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers Tagged with Aguila, antiwar activism, Arco Iris, Arkansas, Blue Creek Tribe, Buffalo River, commune, Congress of Racial Equality CORE, Debra Gish, Diana Rivers, Earth school, Fayetteville Arkansas, feminism, land community, Landyke, Lesberadoes, lesbian, lesbian land community, Madison County, Nancy Vaughn, Newton County, non-violent civil disobedience, Ozark Land Holding Association OLHA, Ozark Women’s Land Trust OWLT, Rose Norman, Sassafras, separatism, Sun Hawk, Wild Magnolia

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

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