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Faye Williams – Growing Sisterspace

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

Rose Norman: Finding Lesbian Community in Alabama

Rose Norman: Finding Lesbian Community in Alabama

Rose Norman, author, grew up in rural Alabama during the civil rights era. She finally found lesbian culture when she was forty, and it changed her life forever for the better.

Posted on January 22, 2024 Posted in Lesbian Land Groups, Social and Political Groups, Spirituality and Religion Tagged with Aggies, Autobiographies of American women writers in the 19th century, Baptist church, Betty Clemens, Black Womens Autobiography, Bloody Lowndes, British literature, civil rights activism, College Station, Coretta Scott King, Corp of Cadets, director of Business and Technical Writing program, dissertation, DISTAR Direct Instruction Reading Intervention PrograM, English, english composition, feminist approaches to literature, feminist criticism, Fort Deposit, Fort Deposit Academy, fort Deposit Elementary, Fortex, Fun with Quarantina, George Wallace, Haneyville, HBCU Historically Black College or University, Head Start, Huntsville Alabama, Huntsville Feminist Chorus, IBM Selectric typewriter, in store credit, Joanne Braxton, Job Corps, Jonathan Daniels, Judson College, Justine Shrider, Knoxville Tennessee, Literary London, Lowndes County Alabama, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power PBS, Lowndes County Training School, LydiaBetty Giardini, Marion Alabama, McGovern, Merril Mushroom, Nancy finley, National Television, NOW National Organization for Women, pajama factory, Pam Siegler, privileged, racist, Renaissance drama, Rock Hill South Carolina, Rose Norman, Royal Shakespeare Company, Sacred Heart Monastery Cullman Alabama, Sandra Carpenter, segregated, Sherry Mercieca, Sister Maurus, SNCC Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, South Carolina, Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project, step sings, Stratford, teachers aide, teaching assistant, tech writer, tenure track job, Texan, Texas A&M, Tom Coleman, Unitarian Universalist Church, University of Alabama, University of Tennessee, Viola Liuzzo, violence, Virginia Woolf seminar, Winthrop College, women in American History, Women in European History, Women Spirit Rising, womens college, Womens Getaway Weekend retreat at Sacred Heart