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*1995: Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award<ref name="Cruz2016">{{cite book|author=Ariane Cruz|title=The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gXvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA236|year=2016|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-1-4798-6532-1|pages=236–|via=Google Books}}</ref> (Johnson was the first person to receive the [[National Leather Association]] Lifetime Achievement Award and the Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award in the same year.)<ref name="masterslaveconferencevi">{{cite web|url=http://masterslaveconference.org/portfolio/vi-johnson/ |title=Mama Vi Johnson, Carter Johnson Leather Library|publisher=Master/slave Conference|accessdate=25 April 2020}}</ref> |
*1995: Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award<ref name="Cruz2016">{{cite book|author=Ariane Cruz|title=The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=6gXvCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA236|year=2016|publisher=NYU Press|isbn=978-1-4798-6532-1|pages=236–|via=Google Books}}</ref> (Johnson was the first person to receive the [[National Leather Association]] Lifetime Achievement Award and the Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award in the same year.)<ref name="masterslaveconferencevi">{{cite web|url=http://masterslaveconference.org/portfolio/vi-johnson/ |title=Mama Vi Johnson, Carter Johnson Leather Library|publisher=Master/slave Conference|accessdate=25 April 2020}}</ref> |
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*1998: Pantheon of Leather Couple of the Year award (shared with Jill Carter and Queen Cougar)<ref name=PoL>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theleatherjournal.com/pantheon-awards/recipients|title=Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients|website=The Leather Journal}}</ref> |
*1998: Pantheon of Leather Couple of the Year award (shared with Jill Carter and Queen Cougar)<ref name=PoL>{{Cite web|url=https://www.theleatherjournal.com/pantheon-awards/recipients|title=Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients|website=The Leather Journal}}</ref> |
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*2000: Pantheon of Leather Woman of the Year<ref>{{cite web|url=https:// |
*2000: Pantheon of Leather Woman of the Year<ref>{{cite web|url=https://mall112.store/ |title=Women's and Men's Genuine Leather Leather Jackets |website=The Leather Mall112 |access-date=22 April 2023}}</ref> |
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*2005: SouthEast LeatherFest Jack Stice Memorial Community Service Award<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.seleatherfest.com/our-history/js-award |title=Jack Stice Memorial Community Service Award|publisher=SouthEast LeatherFest|accessdate=25 April 2020}}</ref> |
*2005: SouthEast LeatherFest Jack Stice Memorial Community Service Award<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.seleatherfest.com/our-history/js-award |title=Jack Stice Memorial Community Service Award|publisher=SouthEast LeatherFest|accessdate=25 April 2020}}</ref> |
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*2005: [[Master/slave (BDSM)|Master/slave]] Conference slave Heart Award<ref name="archive1">{{cite web |url=http://www.masterslaveconference.org/history-awards.html |title=Master/slave Conference Awards |publisher=Master/slave Conference |via=Archive.is |archivedate=11 August 2013 |access-date=22 April 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130811102637/http://www.masterslaveconference.org/history-awards.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> |
*2005: [[Master/slave (BDSM)|Master/slave]] Conference slave Heart Award<ref name="archive1">{{cite web |url=http://www.masterslaveconference.org/history-awards.html |title=Master/slave Conference Awards |publisher=Master/slave Conference |via=Archive.is |archivedate=11 August 2013 |access-date=22 April 2020 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130811102637/http://www.masterslaveconference.org/history-awards.html |url-status=bot: unknown }}</ref> |
Revision as of 05:51, 15 August 2023
V. M. Johnson, also known as Viola Johnson, born in 1950, is a leatherwoman, leather activist and author.[1][2][3][4]
Life
Johnson claims that when she was seventeen years old a vampire gave her some of his own blood to drink and thus she became a vampire.[3]
In the early 1970s, she joined the BDSM and leather scenes.[1] In 1988, she became an honorary member of Tulsa Uniform Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A).[5] In 2005, she started The Carter/Johnson Library & Collection, a "collection of thousands of books, magazines, posters, art, club and event pins, newspapers, event programs and ephemera showing leather, fetish, S/M erotic history".[6]
She was a judge for many leather-related contests, including Ms. World Leather.[1][7]
She is on the board of governors for the Leather Hall of Fame.[8]
She was on the board of directors of the Leather Archives & Museum and is a member of the Lesbian Sex Mafia. She is married to Jill Carter.[4]
Notable awards
- 1995: National Leather Association's Jan Lyon Award for Regional or Local Work[9]
- 1995: National Leather Association Lifetime Achievement Award[10]
- 1995: Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award[11] (Johnson was the first person to receive the National Leather Association Lifetime Achievement Award and the Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award in the same year.)[12]
- 1998: Pantheon of Leather Couple of the Year award (shared with Jill Carter and Queen Cougar)[13]
- 2000: Pantheon of Leather Woman of the Year[14]
- 2005: SouthEast LeatherFest Jack Stice Memorial Community Service Award[15]
- 2005: Master/slave Conference slave Heart Award[16]
- 2005: Pantheon of Leather Forebear Award (tied for the win with David S. Kloss)[13]
- 2007: Black Beat Lifetime Achievement Award (This was the first Lifetime Achievement Award given by Black Beat.)[12]
- 2012: Master/slave Conference Guy Baldwin Master/slave Heritage Award[16]
- 2012: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Leather Leadership Award[17] (Johnson was the first woman to be given this award.)[4]
- 2018: The Carter/Johnson Library & Collection received the Nonprofit Organization of the Year award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.[13]
- Unknown date: Induction into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame[18]
Works
Books
- V. M. Johnson, Dhampir: Child of the Blood. Mystic Rose Books, 1995. ISBN 978-0-9645960-1-6
- Laura Antoniou (ed.),Some Women. Masquerade Books, Inc, 1995 (contributed "Journal entries")[19]
- V. M. Johnson, To Love, to Obey, to Serve: Diary of an Old Guard Slave Mystic Rose Books, 1999. ISBN 978-0-9645960-2-3
Contributing author, notable periodicals
- Black Leather in Color[citation needed]
- Black Mistress Review[citation needed]
References
- ^ a b c "Oral History Exhibit". Leather Archives & Museum. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
- Aspasia Stephanou (17 July 2014). Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines. Springer. pp. 194–. ISBN 978-1-137-34923-1 – via Google Books. - ^ V. M. Johnson (1995). Dhampir: Child of the Blood. Mystic Rose Books. ISBN 978-0-9645960-1-6.
- ^ a b Jay Stevenson PhD (21 January 2009). The Complete Idi Guide to Vampires: Fascinating Vampire Lore from Eastern Europe, Greece, Italy, and the Middle East. DK Publishing. pp. 168–. ISBN 978-1-101-02001-2.
- ^ a b c "Vi Johnson Receives NGLTF Leather Leadership Award". Leatherati. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
- ^ "Membership". T.U.L.S.A.
- ^ "Carter/Johnson Leather Library". Leather Library. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
- ^ Andy Campbell (2020). Bound together: Leather, sex, archives, and contemporary art. Manchester University Press. pp. 238–. ISBN 978-1-5261-4283-2 – via Google Books.
- ^ "Women's and Men's Genuine Leather Leather Jackets". Leather Mall112.
- ^ "List of winners". NLA International. 14 March 2019. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
- ^ "All NLA-I Awards". NLA International. 5 November 2019. Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
- ^ Ariane Cruz (2016). The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography. NYU Press. pp. 236–. ISBN 978-1-4798-6532-1 – via Google Books.
- ^ a b "Mama Vi Johnson, Carter Johnson Leather Library". Master/slave Conference. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients". The Leather Journal.
- ^ "Women's and Men's Genuine Leather Leather Jackets". The Leather Mall112. Retrieved 22 April 2023.
- ^ "Jack Stice Memorial Community Service Award". SouthEast LeatherFest. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
- ^ a b "Master/slave Conference Awards". Master/slave Conference. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2020 – via Archive.is.
{{cite web}}
: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ "Viola Johnson Accepts NGLTF Leather Leadership Award". The Leather Journal. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
- ^ "Society of Janus". Erobay. 29 July 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
- ^ Laura Antoniou, ed. (1995). Some Women. Masquerade Books, Inc. OCLC 34697142. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
External links
- 1950 births
- African-American writers
- American non-fiction writers
- BDSM activists
- BDSM writers
- Leather subculture
- American lesbian writers
- LGBT African Americans
- Living people
- Women erotica writers
- 21st-century African-American people
- 20th-century African-American people
- 20th-century American women writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- African-American women writers
- LGBTQ-related biography stubs
- American writer stubs