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][6]

She was on the board of directors of the Leather Archives & Museum.[5]

She is on the Board of Governors for the Leather Hall of Fame.[11]

She is a member of the Lesbian Sex Mafia.[5]

She is married to Jill Carter.[5]

Notable awards
  • 1995: National Leather Association’s Jan Lyon Award for Regional or Local Work[12]
  • 1995: National Leather Association Lifetime Achievement Award[13]
  • 1995: Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award[14] (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.)[15]
  • 1998: Pantheon of Leather Couple of the Year award (shared with Jill Carter and Queen Cougar)[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.)[15]
  • 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]
  • 2018: The Carter/Johnson Library & Collection received the Nonprofit Organization of the Year award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.[22]
  • Unknown date: Induction into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame[23]

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
Contributing author, notable periodicals
  • Black Leather in Color[25]
  • Black Mistress Review[26]

References
  1. "Oral History Exhibit - Leather Archives & Museum". Leatherarchives.org. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  2. Aspasia Stephanou (17 July 2014). Reading Vampire Gothic Through Blood: Bloodlines. Springer. pp. 194–. ISBN 978-1-137-34923-1.
  3. V. M. Johnson. Dhampir: Child of the Blood. Mystic Rose Books, 1995. ISBN 978-0-9645960-1-6
  4. 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.
  5. "Vi Johnson Receives NGLTF Leather Leadership Award - Leatherati Online". Leatherati.com. 2011-12-14. Retrieved 2020-04-24.
  6. "Oral History Exhibit - Leather Archives & Museum". Leatherarchives.org. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  7. "T.U.L.S.A - Membership". www.tulsaleather.com.
  8. "Carter/Johnson Leather Library". Leatherlibrary.org. Retrieved 18 May 2014.
  9. "Carter/Johnson Leather Library". www.leatherlibrary.org.
  10. Andy Campbell (9 January 2020). Bound together: Leather, sex, archives, and contemporary art. Manchester University Press. pp. 238–. ISBN 978-1-5261-4283-2.
  11. "> Board Of Governors - Leather Hall of Fame". leatherhalloffame.com.
  12. "List of winners". NLA International. 2019-03-14. Retrieved 2020-05-08.
  13. "HugeDomains.com - Nla-i.com is for sale". Nla-i. 2019-11-05. Retrieved 2019-12-29. Cite uses generic title (help)
  14. Ariane Cruz (4 October 2016). The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography. NYU Press. pp. 236–. ISBN 978-1-4798-6532-1.
  15. Mama Vi Johnson, Carter Johnson Leather Library. Master slave Conference. Retrieved on 2020-04-25.
  16. "Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients - The Leather Journal". www.theleatherjournal.com.
  17. "2000". The Leather Journal. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  18. SouthEast LeatherFest - Jack Stice Award History. Seleatherfest.com. Retrieved on 2020-04-25.
  19. "Master/slave Conference 2013 Labor Day Weekend". Archive.is. 2013-08-11. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  20. "Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients". The Leather Journal. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  21. "Viola Johnson Accepts NGLTF Leather Leadership Award". The Leather Journal. Retrieved 2020-04-22.
  22. 🖉"Pantheon of Leather Awards All Time Recipients - The Leather Journal". www.theleatherjournal.com.
  23. "Society of Janus". Erobay. 2019-07-20. Retrieved 2020-04-21.
  24. Some women (Book, 1995). [WorldCat.org]. OCLC 34697142. Retrieved 2020-04-25.
  25. "iron-rose.com". iron-rose.com. Retrieved 2019-12-29.
  26. "Black BDSM resources & personal ads". Dark Connections. Retrieved 2019-12-29.


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