feminist – 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

Kecia Cunningham: Bodacious African American Trailblazer

In 1999, Kecia Cunningham was the South’s first, openly lesbian African American elected to office, winning a seat on Decatur, Georgia, City Commission.

Posted on February 4, 2025 Posted in Social and Political Groups Tagged with activism, African American woman, Agnes Scott College, Decatur City Commission, Decatur Georgia, each one teach one, feminist, first openly gay African American, Gay & Lesbian Victory Fund and LGBTQ Victory Fund, HRC, Human Rights Campaign, Lenny Lasater, lesbian, LGBTQIA+, Mayor Elizabeth Wilson, queer person, southern, The Enlightened Coalition, Victory Fund, Wellesley College, Wellesley’s Organization of Lesbians and Friends, WOLF

Dianna Ward: Carrying Forward the Legacy of Education

Dianna Ward

My passion has always been to be a part of the solution, whether it is activism through preserving our neighborhoods or marching in the streets.

Posted on May 22, 2024 Posted in Lesbian-Owned Enterprises Tagged with 1987 March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, ACT UP, Albuquerque New Mexico, Andre Watts, Bank of America, banking, bike rentals, bike tours, bikeshare program, Blue Bikes NOLA, bus tours, business plan, Catholic Church food bank, Charlotte BCycle, Charlotte Joyrides, Charlotte NC Tours, Charlotte North Carolina, Chattanooga Tennessee, civic minded, Collin Powell, Corning Incorporated, Department of Defense, Dianna Ward, District Convention in Iowa, El Paso Texas, entrepreneur, feminist, Fifty Most Influential Women, food tours, ghost tours, Greenville South Carolina, Grinnell College, Grinnell Iowa, Historic West End of Charlotte, Jesse Jackson, Kansas City Ballet, Kansas City Kansas, Kansas City Missouri, Kansas City Symphony, LGBTQ Support Group, Martha Graham Dance Company, Mathematician, Mecklenburg Times, Memphis, Memphis State Eight, Mississippi, music, New Orleans Louisiana, North American Bikeshare Association, North Carolina State University, Operations Research, people of color, PFLAG, phone banks, Prague, Sankofa Partners LLC, Segway tours, Spectra, Statistics, STEM, Sumner Academy, Take A Hike, unwavering love, van tours, Wachovia, walking tours

Mary Anne Adams, Champion for Change

Mary Anne Adams

A dedicated woman’s journey, making her way from the segregated south, through the civil rights movement, into today’s complex lesbian feminist environment.

Posted on July 10, 2023 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with aging, Angela Denise Davis, Audre Lorde, Audre Lorde Scholarship Fund, Black Lesbians, Black nationalists, Black Student Union, blind, Community Engagement Core, Eddie Sandifer, feminist, First Existentialist Congregation, Frederica Sands, Gay Community News, intersectionality, LGBTQ, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, National Organization of Black Lesbians on Aging, old lesbians organizing for change, OLOC, racism, Rev Lanier Clance, Rev. Wayne Johnson, Sister Harriet, Southern Rural Women’s Network, the Black House, Tougaloo College, Womonwrites, ZAMI, ZAMI NOBLA

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Marie Steinwachs: Waste Warrior and Environmental Champion

Kecia Cunningham: Bodacious African American Trailblazer

Dianna Ward: Carrying Forward the Legacy of Education

Mary Anne Adams, Champion for Change