V. M. Johnson
Template:Short description 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]
- 2021: Leather Archives & Museum’s Chuck Renslow & Tony DeBlase Founders’ Award[19]
Works
Books
- V. M. Johnson, Dhampir: Child of the Blood. Mystic Rose Books, 1995. Template:ISBN
- Laura Antoniou (ed.),Some Women. Masquerade Books, Inc, 1995 (contributed "Journal entries")[20]
- V. M. Johnson, To Love, to Obey, to Serve: Diary of an Old Guard Slave Mystic Rose Books, 1999. Template:ISBN
Contributing author, notable periodicals
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References
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External links
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- 1950 births
- African-American writers
- American non-fiction writers
- BDSM activists
- BDSM writers
- Leather subculture
- American lesbian writers
- African-American LGBTQ people
- Living people
- American women erotica writers
- 21st-century African-American people
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- 20th-century American women writers
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