Corky Culver has been a leader and a documenter since the early days of modern lesbian feminism, cofounding a womenâs land group, organizing cultural and political events (especially peace activism), publishing poetry, and singing with others at every possible opportunity.
May and June 2024 are multiple anniversaries for the SLFA Herstory Project. Itâs the fifteenth anniversary of our first Herstory Project planning workshop at Womonwrites. Itâs the tenth anniversary of our first special issue of Sinister Wisdom. And itâs the second anniversary of the launching of this website.
We celebrated the publication of our sixth and final Sinister Wisdom volume two years ago. The six special volumes contain a treasure trove of collected stories, interviews, timelines, and photographs from three decades of twentieth-century, lesbian-feminist activism in Southern states. Now, we are focusing on making these edited interviews available online as we continue to add new interviews.
The herstory of lesbian-feminist activism in the South was rapidly being lost as these stories of unsung sheroes were not being reported in any of the memoirs and histories of the womenâs liberation movement in the twentieth century.
Dore Rotundo, an original, broke barriers in architecture, created community, loved women, and always found ways to spread joy.
Shewolf said that it was a miracle that her directory happened at all. It was important to document this movement, to show how widespread it wasâŠ.