Gainesville Florida – Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

JB (Judy) Sapp: An Engineering Rock Star

JB "Judy" Sapp

JB Sapp, Moral Hazard bass player and professional sound engineer, loved providing the equipment to help make them sound good.

Posted on October 22, 2025 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian-Owned Enterprises Tagged with A Bomb Shelter, ABC Sports, activist, artist, Atlanta Georgia, audio engineer, audio equipment, audio for CBS The Masters, avant garde, bass, Beth York, Bisexual Girl, broadcasting, campus radio station, CBS, CBS Television Station, Center Stage Theatre, Chlorine and Tundra Landafille, cornet, corporate television, Disney, Disney American Idol Experience, Disney Legends School, Eddies Attic, engineer, engineering degree in electronics, ESPN remote satellite truck, executive producer for IBM, female engineer, feminist, first class FCC license, Florida, Florida cracker, Florida State University, freelance, Gail Reeder, Gainesville Florida, Georgia Pacific, Georgia Power, groovy FM station WGVL, guitar, Harvest Moon, HBO, head audio for the Super Bowl, head audio for the U.S. Open, head audio for the World Series, Home Depot, Howard Cosell, IBM, improv, in house television productions studios, Indigo Girls, Jaen Black, Jan Gibson, JB Sapp, journalism, Judy Sapp, Kampho Feminique FrothingSlosh, KC Anima Rising, Lake Placid New York, Landafille Sisters, lesbian, Little Five Points Pub, Moral Hazard, news reporter WGGG, nontraditional job, oboe, original Florida people, Phyllis Free, playing music, Pretty Good for Girls, psychic connection, raised by a black woman, Rose Norman, satellite trucks, set up cameras, Seven Stages theatre group, sexual harassment, Signals from Sheba, ski tournament, southern, Tammy Whynot and the Even Strangers, Ted Turner, televise basketball games, televise football games, televise tennis matches, television broadcast, tenor sax, The Moon Shadow, The Washington Squares, training videos, Turner broadcasting, TV news trucks, University of Florida, University of Florida Television, WAGA CBS affiliate, washtub bass, WUFT Gainesville radio station

Faye Williams – Growing Sisterspace

Faye Williams, founder of Sisterspace and Books in Washington, D.C. has spent her adult life organizing in support of her community and actively resisting
racism, fascism, and other antidemocratic forces.

Posted on July 24, 2025 Posted in Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with activist, Alice Walker, American Studies, Angela Davis, anti abortionist, Atlanta Georgia, bell hooks, Black authors, Black books, Black community, Black feminism, Black Liberation, Black movement, Black Nationalism, Black woman, Black women activists, Black women books, Black womens Self Help Collective, bookstore, Byllye Avery, Cade Museum, Carol Downer, Cassandra Burke, Charles Ogletree, clothing store, consignment shop, domestic violence, Dream Defenders, Faye Williams, FBP Socialist Party, feminist, feminist movement, Feminist Womens Health Center, Florida State University, forum, Freedom Socialist Party, Gainesville Florida, Gainesville High School, gentrification, George Washington University, Hillary Clinton, homophobia, lesbian, Linda Curtis, M.A.M.A.’s Club, Mama’s Club, Manning Barron, Mari0n Banzhaf, Marion Barry mayor of DC, New York, Nikki Giovanni, Octavia Butler, Porters Community Center, Porters Quarters, protesting, racism, Random House, sexism, Sisterfire Festival, SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, southern, Tallahassee, Toni Morrison, University of District of Columbia, University of Florida, Washington Women’s Self Help Collective, womanism, womens health care, Woody Blue

Kathleen “Corky” Culver: Activist, Organizer, Filmmaker, Landyke, Poet

Corky Culver has been a leader and a documenter since the early days of modern lesbian feminism, cofounding a women’s land group, organizing cultural and political events (especially peace activism), publishing poetry, and singing with others at every possible opportunity.

Posted on April 14, 2025 Posted in Culture and the Arts, Lesbian Land Groups, Lesbian-Owned Enterprises, Publishing, Publications, and Booksellers, Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Abby Bogomolny, Blue Lunden, C.A. Culver, Cathy Drompp, chem-free, consciousness-raising, consensus decision-making, Corky Culver, CR group, croning, Culla Culver, Denise Matthews, documentary filmmaking, Donna Dyke, Dore Rotundo, FAN, FAN Feminist Action Network, feminist, Feminist Action Network, Ferron, Finding the Well, Flash Silvermoon, Gainesville Florida, Gractia Culver, Harvard Film Archive, Joan Larkin, Julia Dragonfly, Kathleen Anne Walsh, Kathleen Culver, Katura Carey, Kentucky, LEAP, lesbian, lesbian archives, lesbian CR group, lesbian feminism, Lesbian Home Movie Project, lesbian websites, Lesbians Empowered for Action and Politics, Lorelei Esser, Marie Steinwachs, Michigan Womyn’s Music Festivals, Minnie Bruce Pratt, North Forty, Old Lesbian Oral Herstory Project, Red House, rural lesbians, Ruth Dreamdigger, Savannah River Peace Camp, Sharon Thompson, slfahp, southern, Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project, SPARC Sexual and Physical Abuse Resource Center, The Natural Law of Water, Theresa Carr, Thoreau, women’s land, Women’s Peace Walk, Women’s Renaissance Festival

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

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JB (Judy) Sapp: An Engineering Rock Star

Faye Williams – Growing Sisterspace

Kathleen “Corky” Culver: Activist, Organizer, Filmmaker, Landyke, Poet

Marie Steinwachs: Waste Warrior and Environmental Champion