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A Short Biography of Sonia Johnson

Author Name:

Sonia Johnson

Born As:

Sonia Ann Harris

Other Names:

Born:

26 Feb 1963

Died:





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Activist and Writer                          
Selected Works:

Telling the Truth - Crossing Press, 1987
Going Out of Our Minds: The Metaphysics of Liberation - Crossing Press, 1987
Wildfire: Igniting the She/Volution - Wildfire Books, 1990
The Ship that Sailed Into the Living Room: Sex and Intimacy Reconsidered - Wildfire Books, 1991
Out of This World: A Fictionalized True-Life Adventure - Wildfire Books, 1993                          
Husband Rick Johnson, four children.
Partner	Jade DeForest
                          
Master's degree and a Doctor of Education from Rutgers College.

Delivered a scathing speech entitled "Patriarchal Panic: Sexual Politics in the Mormon Church".                          
A copy of Johnson’s no-holds-barred rallying cry for women’s rights currently resides in Idaho’s Boise State University’s Albertsons Library, where it is part of a collection donated by the Boise Chapter of National Organization for Women’s - NOW. 

Excommunicated by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Church.

Supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.
Co-founded, with three other women, an organization called Mormons for ERA - Equal Rights Amendment.

Denounced the LDS Church's opposition to the amendment.

Sonia and twenty ERA supporters were briefly jailed for chaining themselves to the gate of a Mormon temple in Bellevue, Washington.