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SLFA HERSTORY PROJECT MISSION:

We are collecting, archiving, and celebrating oral and written stories of unsung, Southern, lesbian-feminist activists during the second half of the twentieth century.

SLFAHP IN THE NEWS

July-August 2026


--Beth Marschak's memorial service is to be live-streamed from Cheryl Marschak’s Facebook page, Saturday, July 18, at 1:00 pm Eastern Daylight time.

--Melissa Connelly, our SLFA Herstory Project intern from last year, wrote a story about artist and Pagoda resident, Rainbow Williams, to be published in the upcoming issue of Maize magazine.

--Emily Morgan, our SLFA Herstory Project intern from last summer, is presenting with our own Rose Norman in the Memorial Archiving  workshop at the National Women's Music Festival in Michigan, July 2 to July 5, 2026. See nwmf.info

--Herlands: Lessons from Societies Where Women Make the Rules by Megha Mohan, just published in the UK, is a new book about women's communities around the world. Each chapter explores women's lands in different countries.
In 2023, Mohan interviewed our own Rose Norman about women's lands in the United States.
--Megha Mohan quotes Rose Norman in Chapter 4, about the United States.
--Megha Mogan also quotes from Cedar Heartwood's story published on our website, "Finding Women's Lands and Lesbian Communities"

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A Herstory Project workshop on the porch at Womonwrites in 2011. Seated at the table, left to right: Merril Mushroom, Barbara Ester, Kate Ellison, Harvest, Gail Reeder, unidentified woman, Beth York, and Phyllis Free.

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Blanche Jackson: Dreaming a Great Big Womyn of Color Tent

Blanche Jackson

Blanche Jackson was living in Brooklyn when she met Amoja Three Rivers, who turned Blanche’s roof garden into a “roof farm.” They went on to have many more adventures, starting with moving to Maryland, where, in Blanche’s words, “you can just put the seeds in the ground, and the ground is right under your feet,” instead of having a garden on a roof in the city.

Blanche and Amoja’s joint enterprises included starting the Women of Color tent at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival; raising funds to buy women’s land in Virginia that they called Maat Dompim; and running Market Wimmin, a business that sold crafts at women’s festivals and on college campuses. The two parted company in 2002. Amoja has left the planet (b. 1946 and d. 2015). 

Blanche Jackson continued to maintain Maat Dompim, now a much smaller acreage still in Virginia, offering short stays for travelling wimmin. In 2026, health issues caused her to leave the property.

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The Lesbian Pride flag, also known as the Amazon Pride flag, used since the second half of the twentieth century, continues to be used today.
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