Author

V. M. Johnson

United States · b. 1950

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V. M. "Vi" Johnson (Viola Johnson) is an American leatherwoman, author, archivist, community elder, and activist whose work has made a lasting contribution to the preservation of Leather history. Active within the Leather and BDSM communities since the early 1970s, she became widely respected not only through her writing but also through decades of community service, historical preservation, mentorship, and educational advocacy. Johnson is the author of *To Love, To Obey, To Serve: Diary of an Old Guard Slave*, one of the few published first-person memoirs documenting everyday life within an Old Guard Female-Led Master/slave household. Rather than presenting a manual or philosophical treatise, the book preserves journals written over many years, providing an exceptionally rare primary historical account of consensual authority, service, protocol, and household life. Beyond her literary work, Johnson devoted much of her life to safeguarding Leather heritage. Together with Jill Carter, she founded the Carter/Johnson Leather Library & Collection, one of the most important private collections dedicated to preserving books, periodicals, photographs, artwork, ephemera, and historical documents relating to Leather, fetish, and BDSM culture. She has also served in leadership roles within organisations such as the Leather Archives & Museum and the Leather Hall of Fame, and has been recognised with numerous lifetime achievement and community service awards for her contributions to Leather history and culture.