V. M. Johnson, also known as Viola Johnson, born in 1950, is a leatherwoman, leather activist and author.[1][2][3][4]
Life[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
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[edit | edit source]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Oral History Exhibit. Leather Archives & Museum. Retrieved on 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.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 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.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Vi Johnson Receives NGLTF Leather Leadership Award. Leatherati (14 December 2011). Retrieved on 24 April 2020.
- ↑ Membership. T.U.L.S.A..
- ↑ Carter/Johnson Leather Library. Leather Library. Retrieved on 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.
- ↑ Board Of Governors. Leather Hall of Fame.[permanent dead link]
- ↑ List of winners. NLA International (14 March 2019). Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved on 8 May 2020.
- ↑ All NLA-I Awards. NLA International (5 November 2019). Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved on 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.
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Mama Vi Johnson, Carter Johnson Leather Library. Master/slave Conference. Retrieved on 25 April 2020.
- ↑ 13.0 13.1 13.2 Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients. The Leather Journal. Archived from the original on 2020-12-28. Retrieved on 2020-04-22.
- ↑ 2000. The Leather Journal. Retrieved on 22 April 2020.[dead link]
- ↑ Jack Stice Memorial Community Service Award. SouthEast LeatherFest. Retrieved on 25 April 2020.
- ↑ 16.0 16.1 Master/slave Conference Awards. Master/slave Conference. Archived from the original on 11 August 2013. Retrieved on 22 April 2020.
- ↑ Viola Johnson Accepts NGLTF Leather Leadership Award. The Leather Journal. Retrieved on 2020-04-22.
- ↑ Society of Janus. Erobay (29 July 2019). Retrieved on 21 April 2020.
- ↑ Laura Antoniou, ed. (1995). Some Women. Masquerade Books, Inc. OCLC 34697142. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
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