V._M._Johnson

V. M. Johnson

V. M. Johnson

American writer and leather activist

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

References

  1. [1]
    "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.
  2. [2]
    V. M. Johnson (1995). Dhampir: Child of the Blood. Mystic Rose Books. ISBN 978-0-9645960-1-6.
  3. [3]
    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. [4]
    "Vi Johnson Receives NGLTF Leather Leadership Award". Leatherati. 14 December 2011. Retrieved 24 April 2020.
  5. [5]
    "Membership". T.U.L.S.A.
  6. [6]
    "Carter/Johnson Leather Library". Leather Library. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  7. [7]
    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.
  8. [8]
    "Board Of Governors". Leather Hall of Fame.[permanent dead link]
  9. [9]
    "List of winners". NLA International. 14 March 2019. Archived from the original on 3 January 2020. Retrieved 8 May 2020.
  10. [10]
    "All NLA-I Awards". NLA International. 5 November 2019. Archived from the original on 6 February 2012. Retrieved 22 March 2021.
  11. [11]
    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. [12]
    "Mama Vi Johnson, Carter Johnson Leather Library". Master/slave Conference. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  13. [13]
    "Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients". The Leather Journal. Archived from the original on 2020-12-28. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  14. [14]
    "2000". The Leather Journal. Retrieved 22 April 2020.[dead link]
  15. [15]
    "Jack Stice Memorial Community Service Award". SouthEast LeatherFest. Retrieved 25 April 2020.
  16. [16]
    "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)
  17. [17]
    "Viola Johnson Accepts NGLTF Leather Leadership Award". The Leather Journal. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  18. [18]
    "Society of Janus". Erobay. 29 July 2019. Retrieved 21 April 2020.
  19. [19]
    Laura Antoniou, ed. (1995). Some Women. Masquerade Books, Inc. OCLC 34697142. Retrieved 25 April 2020.


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