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]

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

  • Black Leather in Color
  • Black Mistress Review

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


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