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Jan Gibson, Cofounder of Lesbian Band, Moral Hazard

Jan Gibson, Cofounder of Lesbian Band, Moral Hazard

Jan Gibson cofounded the lesbian band Moral Hazard. She was also a poet, a songwriter, an artist, a feminist, and a proud mother.

Posted on September 21, 2025 Posted in Culture and the Arts Tagged with 7 Stages, ALFA, ALFA House, An Evening with the Queen of Sheba, Atlanta, Atlanta Lesbian Feminist Alliance, Awkward Unicorn, Bisexual Girls, Bomb Shelter, Callenwolde Fine Arts Center in Atlanta, Cherry Omega, Eat Sweet Treats, Equal Rights Amendment, ERA, Flight 101, Gaga, Georgian Terrace Hotel, Jaen Black, JB Sapp, Jimmy Starr, KC Wildmoon, Lavender Jane Loves Money She Works for IBM, lesbian, lesbian feminist, Little Five Points Atlanta, meditation, Moral Hazard, Nobody Knows the Trouble I’ve Seen, Other Harmonies, Song of Atlanta, Southern lesbian, Step over This Line, Take a Walk on the Dark Side, We Don’t Make No Plans No More, Who the Hell Do You Think You Are, Yellow Rose

Ellen Spangler and Starcrest

Ellen Spangler and Starcrest

Ellen from Memorial

After finding feminism and feminist spirituality while living in Florida, Ellen Spangler founded a teaching and healing center in rural South Carolina.

Posted on June 29, 2023 Posted in Social Justice, Women’s Health, and Social Services, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with 1990 Census, A Ritual Declaring and Affirming Our Birth, abuse, age and wisdom honoring, Alapine Village, Alaska, Anderson South Carolina, barter, battered women’s shelter, Beverly Little Thunder, Boston, Carol Christ, channeling, chanting, Charlene Spretnak, Clemson University, Clinton Tennessee, Cloudland Georgia, collective, croning, cross country trip, ecofeminism, Ellen Spangler, Elsa Gidlow, energy, Equinoxes, feminist activist, first national womens spirituality conference, Florida State University, gardening, Georgia, grass and sod roof, hands-on healing, healing center, Illinois, inner-child work, intuition, Jacksonville Florida, Jean Adele, Kaimora, Kay Mora, Knox County Education Association, Lakota, Lesbian and Landdyke Documentary, lesbian residential community, lobbying, lobbyist, Maine, Margot Adler, Martha Stozier, Mary Alice Stout, Mary Daly, Mary Stout, meditation, Methodist ministers, Mississippi, Moon circles, Mountain Mamas consignment shop, native American Sundance, Native American women, negotiating contracts, One Bead at a Time, Owl Song, Pagoda, Pagoda cottages, Peace and Justice Center, Phoenix Arizona, psychic, rainbow colors, rape crisis center, Riane Eisler, Rose DeBernardo, Ruth Mountaingrove, sacred rototiller, seven chakras, singing, Sinister Wisdom, Solstices, South Carolina, spiritual leadership, Split Creek Goat Farm, St Augustine Florida, Standing Rock North Dakota, sweat lodges, The Chalice and the Blade, Through the Looking Glass, trance, trance work, two spirited Lakota Elder, underground house, Vermont, Washington D.C., Wiccan circles, women artists, women dancers, Women Earth and Spirit, women’s ceremonies, women’s council of the sweat lodges, women’s spirituality, workshops, Z Budapest

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