V. M. Johnson
V. M. Johnson, also known as Viola Johnson, born in 1950, is a leatherwoman, leather activist, and author.[1][2][3][4][5]
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.[4]
In the early 1970s she joined the BDSM and leather scenes.[6]
In 1988 she became an honorary member of Tulsa Uniform Leather Seekers Association (T.U.L.S.A).[7]
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."[8][9]
She served as a judge for many leather-related contests, including Ms. World Leather.[10][11]
She was on the board of directors of the Leather Archives & Museum.[5]
She is a member of the Lesbian Sex Mafia.[5]
She is married to Jill Carter.[12]
Notable awards
- 1995: National Leather Association’s Jan Lyon Award for Regional or Local Work[13]
- 1995: National Leather Association Lifetime Achievement Award[14]
- 1995: Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award[15] (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.)[16]
- 2000: Pantheon of Leather Woman of the Year[17]
- 2005: SouthEast LeatherFest Jack Stice Memorial Community Service Award[18]
- 2005: Master/slave Conference slave Heart Award[19]
- 2005: Pantheon of Leather Forebear Award (tied for the win with David S. Kloss)[20]
- 2007: Black Beat Lifetime Achievement Award (This was the first Lifetime Achievement Award given by Black Beat.)[16]
- 2012: Master/slave Conference Guy Baldwin Master/slave Heritage Award[19]
- 2012: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Leather Leadership Award[21] (Johnson was the first woman to be given this award.)[5]
- Unknown date: Induction into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame[22]
Works
All books
- V. M. Johnson. Dhampir: Child of the Blood. Mystic Rose Books, 1995. ISBN 978-0-9645960-1-6
- 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
Other publications
- Contributing author, all anthologies
- 1995: Some Women, ed. Laura Antoniou (contributed “Journal entries”)[23]
- Contributing author, notable periodicals
External links
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References
- ^ "Oral History Exhibit - Leather Archives & Museum". Leatherarchives.org. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
- ^ Aspasia Stephanou (17 July 2014). Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines. Springer. pp. 194–. ISBN 978-1-137-34923-1.
- ^ V. M. Johnson. Dhampir: Child of the Blood. Mystic Rose Books, 1995. 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 d "Vi Johnson Receives NGLTF Leather Leadership Award - Leatherati Online". Leatherati.com. 2011-12-14. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
- ^ "Oral History Exhibit - Leather Archives & Museum". Leatherarchives.org. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
- ^ https://www.tulsaleather.com/membership
- ^ "Carter/Johnson Leather Library". Leatherlibrary.org. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
- ^ "Carter/Johnson Leather Library". www.leatherlibrary.org.
- ^ Andy Campbell (9 January 2020). Bound together: Leather, sex, archives, and contemporary art. Manchester University Press. pp. 238–. ISBN 978-1-5261-4283-2.
- ^ "Oral History Exhibit - Leather Archives & Museum". Leatherarchives.org. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
- ^ "Vi Johnson Receives NGLTF Leather Leadership Award - Leatherati Online". Leatherati.com. 2011-12-14. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
- ^ "List of winners". NLA International. 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
- ^ "HugeDomains.com - Nla-i.com is for sale". Nla-i. 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
{{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help) - ^ Ariane Cruz (4 October 2016). The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography. NYU Press. pp. 236–. ISBN 978-1-4798-6532-1.
- ^ a b Mama Vi Johnson, Carter Johnson Leather Library. Master slave Conference. Retrieved on 2020-04-25.
- ^ "2000". The Leather Journal. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
- ^ SouthEast LeatherFest - Jack Stice Award History. Seleatherfest.com. Retrieved on 2020-04-25.
- ^ a b "Master/slave Conference 2013 Labor Day Weekend". Archive.is. 2013-08-11. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
- ^ "Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients". The Leather Journal. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
- ^ "Viola Johnson Accepts NGLTF Leather Leadership Award". The Leather Journal. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
- ^ "Society of Janus". Erobay. 2019-07-20. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
- ^ Some women (Book, 1995). [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 34697142. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
- ^ "iron-rose.com". iron-rose.com. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
- ^ "Black BDSM resources & personal ads". Dark Connections. Retrieved 2019-12-29.