Making Our Own Kind of Music: The History and Legacy of the Women’s Music Movement

Toni Armstrong Jr.

Toni Armstrong Jr. is a lifelong educator and LGBT and social justice organizer who played a key role in building the women's music and culture movement. She published HOT WIRE: The Journal of Women's Music and Culture; We Shall Go Forth Directory; and Paid My Dues, while also acting as a photographer for HOT WIRE and other publications and music festivals. She also performed in Lavender Jane alongside Alix Dobkin and Kay Gardner and in Surrender Dorothy. She is a co-founder of Music Industry Conferences and Women Writers Conferences (National Women's Music Festival) and produces concerts with Chicago's Mountain Moving Coffeehouse. She led the charge to build Gay-Straight Alliances in the Chicago area, co-founded and contributed to organizations like GLSEN Chicago, Color Triangle LGBT anti-racism coalition, and Amazon Lesbian Red Hat Sisterhood. In 2008 she founded BLAST (Bi, Lesbian, and Straight Together) Women of the Palm Beaches after her move to Florida. She also funded and helped create films including women’s music documentary Radical Harmonies.¹

Chicago Gay History. “Toni Armstrong Jr.”  https://www.chicagogayhistory.com/biography.php?id=600.
 
 

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