Leather Archives & Museum

And over the decades, she trailblazed a path to become a very prominent figure, and she has been a longtime mentor for decades for a lot of people in the community.

She's one of the eight original founders of the Mid-Atlantic Onyx Pearls, which has become a sister leather organization to Onyx, which is now a nationwide... leather club she's the founder of the carter johnson library which she's most known for in recent times the carter johnson library are archives of thousands of books posters and newsletters documenting our history our leather history of the leather fetish culture one of the most respected leather archives in the world next to the leather archives and museum which she has served on the board of so she's been there too She's also served on the board of the Leather Hall of Fame.

So she is an integral part of our community, even at age 75.

She's the author of multiple books that you can read out there.

Notable of sorts are the Leatherman Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018, the Fora Award in 2019, and the Race, Ban, and Advocacy Award in 2020.

So she's well known for And she's really been given a lot of medals for her best, so to speak.

The Carter Johnson Leather Library and Collection, which she is most known for today, is... really a living historical resource, like I say, alongside the Leather Archives and Museum in Chicago.

But this is a cultural resource that she has lovingly maintained and curated, along with some other people that are part of that now over the last decades.