Key West - Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project

Bonnie Netherton: Traveling a Winding Path to Women’s Community

Bonnie Netherton: Traveling a Winding Path to Women’s Community

Bonnie Netherton in the rowboat she used to travel back and forth to her Chinese junk, Ming Meng

The very best years of my life were the years that I lived on the water, on the boat. I think of those years as the best, the best I ever lived.

Posted on January 30, 2023 Posted in Lesbian Land Groups Tagged with ALFA, Atlanta, Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance, Barbara Deming, Barbara Deming Money for Women Fund, Barbara Lieu, Blue Lunden, Bonnie Netherton, Chicago, Chinese junk, Coast Guard, consciousness raising groups, feminist lawyer, Florida, Frances Pici, Ft Lauderdale, Gainesville, Georgia, Harriett Green, Hurricane Wilma, Jewish, joint custody, Key West, LaGuardia Airport, Latvia, Lavender Lieu, Lesbian Connection, lesbian hotel, Manhattan, Margie Pitts Hames, Mermaid Inn, Mexico, Mickey Alberts, Ming Meng, Mobile Alabama, Morgana, New Orleans, New York City, New Yorker, Pagoda, Pearls, Pici, pograms, Rainbow Williams, real estate license, Red Dyke Theatre, San Francisco, Sandy Hagan, school bus, scooter, Skyler Maxwell, St Simons Island, Star, storm surge, Sugarloaf Community, Sugarloaf Key, Sugarloaf Womens Village, Wilma, Womens Peace Walk

Corky Culver and the Women’s Peace Walk, 1983-1984

Corky Culver and the Women’s Peace Walk, 1983-1984

The Women’s Peace Walk celebrates finally arriving in Key West, Florida. From left to right: Lynda Lou Simmons (facing the camera), Pam Smith, Rainbow Williams, Robin Ferguson (holding the Women’s Peace Walk banner), Sandy Cosgrave (looking up), Kate Gallagher (clapping), Gail Mayes, Dixie Biggs, Weed Roy (wearing “stop the bomb racket” poster), Jean Frances (making peace sign), Sandra Lambert, unidentified woman in a rainbow tam, and Sandy Malone.

Corky Culver joins the Gainesville Women’s Peace Walk, an act of courageous defiance, a 41-day journey down the east coast of Florida, from Gainesville to Key West.

Posted on December 8, 2022 Posted in Social and Political Groups, Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services Tagged with antinuclear, Barbara Deming, consensus, disarmament, Florida, Gainesville, Girl Scout Camp, Jane Doe, Key West, meditation, peace activism, peace walk, Savannah River Nuclear Plant Blockade, Savannah River Site, the Jane Does, Women’s Peace Walk

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