Fayetteville Arkansas – Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Marie Steinwachs: Waste Warrior and Environmental Champion

Marie Steinwachs’s activism confronted authority and educated on environmental issues and sustainability practices, earning awards for her pioneering work.

Posted on February 11, 2025 Posted in Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with Ann Arbor Michigan, anti-nuclear work, antinuclear work, Arkansas, Big Mountain, Bioregional Congress, Bureau of Land Management, California desert, Colorado, Damascus, Desert Center, Fayetteville Arkansas, feminism, feminist, Friends of the United Nations Environment Programme Award, Gainesville Florida, hazardous household waste, Hazardous Waste Commission, Hog Farm, Household Hazardous Waste Project, incinerators, International Conference on Women and Environment, LBGTQ, lesbian, Little rock, Little Rock Chapter of the Dogwood Alliance, local sustainability efforts, Love Canal, NABC, New Destiny Federation of Co-ops, New Life Farm, North American Bioregional Congress, OACC, Ozark Area Community Congress, Ozark Regional Land Trust, Ozarks, preventing pollution, Rodale, Springfield Community Task Force, Springfield Missouri, Steamboat Springs, The Guide to Hazardous Products Around the Home, Three Mile Island, University of Florida, University of Michigan, University of Missouri, University of Missouri Extension, Venice Florida, water quality, Yellowstone Park

Mendy Knott: The Writer’s Life on the Mountain

Mendy Knott lives in Swannanoa, North Carolina. Her work reflects her experiences as a former police officer, military veteran, and Southern preacher’s kid. She is an award-winning, screenplay writer and poet.

Posted on January 20, 2025 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers Tagged with A Little Lazarus, academic poets, Across the ARK-LA-TEX: A Cross Family Cookbook, alcoholic, Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts in Gatlinburg Tennessee, Asheville North Carolina, Asheville Womens Chorus, Austin Texas, Burnsville North Carolina, butch lesbian, Climbing Mt Pisgah, cultural mecca, DeKalb County at Emory University, Down and Dirty, downtown church Jubilee, fantasy novel, Fayetteville Arkansas, Goddess Festival, HOWL, In My Dreams, Jackson Mississippi, Leigh Knott, Leigh Wilkerson, lesbian feminist cultural center, lesbians, Malaprops Bookstore, married, Matinee, mecca for lesbians, Men Only Screenplay, Mendy Knott, military veteran, Minden Louisiana, mountains, Peacework, Peggy Seeger, performance poets, poet, poetry chapbooks, Poets Under the Maples, Police Academy, police officer, poppyseed cake, post apocalyptic, Presbyterian ministers family, Raising Voices: A Café of Our Own Anthology, raped in the military, Rhodes in Memphis, S M sexuality, screenplay writer, screwed over by a lesbian press, sexuality, slam poets, sober, Southern preachers kid, Southern Sin: True Stories of the Sultry South and Women Behaving Badly, street poets, tattoo, The Pentaculum, University of Memphis, US Air Force, violence against women, Voice Like a Hammer: Women Respond to 9 11, Womansong, womens open mic, womens voices, Womonwrites, write a novel, writer

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 Águila, Aguila, 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

Maria Cristina Moroles (Águila): Building Sacred Community on the Land

It’s a very complex thing that I’ve taken very seriously as a sacred responsibility. Our mission now is to heal our community, our local community, our Ozark community, and our indigenous community; and to bring all the colors into sacred union again.

Posted on May 24, 2024 Posted in Lesbian Land Groups, Social and Political Groups, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Aguila, Arco Iris Earth Care Project, Coahiulateco, cristina morales, curandera, epidemic of hepatitis, Ester Martinez, Fayetteville Arkansas, healer, hippie commune, indigenous daughters, indigenous women of color, Maria Christina Moroles Águila, master massage therapist, Mexica nation, Mexico, Michigan Womyns Music Festival, Native American, organic farming, Ozark Food Coop Warehouse, Ozark Natural Foods Co op, Ozark Womens Trucking Collective, Rainbow Goddess, Rainbow Ranch, Rancho Arco Iris, raped, recurring dream, Santa Maria, Sassafras, Sassafras Women’s Collective, separatist, Shiner Patti Cardozo, South Texas, spiritual medicine lodge, SunHawk, survival camp, vision, women’s community

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Marie Steinwachs: Waste Warrior and Environmental Champion

Mendy Knott: The Writer’s Life on the Mountain

Águila Talks about Her Memoir

Maria Cristina Moroles (Águila): Building Sacred Community on the Land