V. M. Johnson
V. M. Johnson, also known as Viola Johnson, born in 1950, is a leatherwoman, leather activist and author.
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.In the early 1970s, she joined the BDSM and leather scenes. In 1988, she became an honorary member of Tulsa Uniform Leather Seekers Association. 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".
She was a judge for many leather-related contests, including Ms. World Leather.
She is on the board of governors for the Leather Hall of Fame.
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.
Notable awards
- 1995: National Leather Association's Jan Lyon Award for Regional or Local Work
- 1995: National Leather Association Lifetime Achievement Award
- 1995: Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award
- 1998: Pantheon of Leather Couple of the Year award
- 2000: Pantheon of Leather Woman of the Year
- 2005: SouthEast LeatherFest Jack Stice Memorial Community Service Award
- 2005: Master/slave Conference slave Heart Award
- 2005: Pantheon of Leather Forebear Award
- 2007: Black Beat Lifetime Achievement Award
- 2012: Master/slave Conference Guy Baldwin Master/slave Heritage Award
- 2012: National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Leather Leadership Award
- 2018: The Carter/Johnson Library & Collection received the Nonprofit Organization of the Year award as part of the Pantheon of Leather Awards.
- Unknown date: Induction into the Society of Janus Hall of Fame
- 2021: Leather Archives & Museum’s Chuck Renslow & Tony DeBlase Founders’ Award
Works
Books- V. M. Johnson, Dhampir: Child of the Blood. Mystic Rose Books, 1995.
- Laura Antoniou,Some Women. Masquerade Books, Inc, 1995
- V. M. Johnson, To Love, to Obey, to Serve: Diary of an Old Guard Slave Mystic Rose Books, 1999.
- ''Black Mistress Review''