Rivers is an advocate for LGBT rights, peace, racial equality, social justice, and ecology.
She spent time in various communes in New Mexico, Oregon, and California including Hog Farm.
[1] In 1980, Rivers moved to Fayetteville, Arkansas, and created the Ozark Land Holding Association with 19 other women.
From 1991 to 1993, Rivers was an organizer of the WomenVision month-long arts and performance show hosted in Kansas City, Missouri, and Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
From 1990 to 1999, Rivers organized the University of Arkansas Women's Conference and Festival where she served as the art show curator.
[1] She published The Red Line of Yarmald in 2003 which was nominated for a Lambda Literary Award for science fiction, fantasy and horror.
In 2012, she won the Golden Crown Literary Award in speculative fiction for the novel, The Smuggler, the Spy and the Spider.
She is a Pagan, lesbian, and feminist who actively supports gay rights, peace, racial equality, social justice, and ecology.