Viola Johnson is a beloved figure in the Leather Community. A forty-something year old leatherwoman and vampire, she has been out of the closet and active for over two decades as an activist, writer, and educator. She lives in the northeast as a member of a triad and is devoted to her family. She is slave and wife of Jill Carter, 1996 International Ms. Leather, 2000 Pantheon of Leather's Woman of the Year, and husband to Queen Cougar. Her mates are also remarkable women celebrated in the community. Her extended leather family is enormous. She has been dubbed "mother" by a whole generation of leather men and women.
Vi describes herself as a "...lifestyle slave. I have spent twenty years as the property of a few very special women. I have loved them, laughed with them, learned from them, and served them. My slavery is a total commitment based on love."
From her journals kept while living as a slave and vampire, V.M. Johnson authored two autobiographical books published by Mystic Rose Books. They are Dhampir, Child of The Blood and To Love, To Obey, To Serve, Diary of an Old Guard Slave. Her work has been published in Some Women (the Anthology) and various leather magazines. She is published in Dominant Mistique, BLIC, Passion, The Link, Black Mistress Review, Black Amazon Digest, Ouch, Obeya, and Bitches with Whips.
Her activities in the leather community has included membership and positions in numerous organizations. She has been a workshop presenter since 1989 at events, clubs and organizations around the country. Vi has conducted classes on a mélange of S/M, leather, and fetish related topics from the use of the bullwhip to lifestyle relationship issues. Her lifetime of service has been recognized by numerous certificates of appreciation and awards including Pantheon of Leather Lifetime Achievement Award 1995, National Leather Association Lifetime Achievement Award 1995, Oklahoma's Honorary Leather Mother, and Pantheon of Leather Couple of the Year 1998 (with spouses Jill Carter and Queen Cougar. She has been the only person to win both NLA and Pantheon’s lifetime achievement awards in one year. She is the originator of the "Unsung Hero" Award that is presented by the family around the country. Articles about Viola have appeared in many periodicals such as Drummer, The Leather Journal, 2002, Passion, Black Leather In Color, and The Link.
WELCOME HOME, a “home” for the Alternative Living Pansexual community in a warm accepting environment that will nurture an aging population with an alternative lifestyle. Her vision is for a 1,500-acre site that is a resort and assisted living community that will also house conference and recreational facilities that are in tune with the natural environment.

Link to Welcome Home: http://www.wewelcomeyouhome.com/

Current as of 5-1-02

2002 Presentations:

Leather Show and Tell - Have you ever seen a copy of Physique Pictorial? Do you know what it is, or how important it is to leather history? How about the Justice Weekly? The first edition of Dungeon Master? An original Exotique? Come spend an hour with Viola Johnson asking questions and looking at some of the books and magazines that are so much a part of our leather fetish past.

Corseting for Husbands and Lovers - Is the corset her thing? Do you love to see her in it but don’t know how to lace it? Come spend an hour of hands on practice lacing, touching, feeling and getting an understanding of just how the darned thing works. Bring your lady and the corset she loves to wear.