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Speakers & Artists
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 | | Margarita Alcantara
Writer, Performance Artist, Community Activist
As a Queer Pilipina Mestiza, her presentations explore multiple identities as well as community organizing
Founder and editor of the 'zine Bamboo Girl
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 | | Tom Ammiano
California State Assemblyman, Advocate for Schools, Health Care & Civil Rights
Gays in Government and Education: From the Frontline
The Debate Over Marijuana Reform: Decriminalization and Taxation of Marijuana
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 | | Kate Bornstein
Transexual Author, Playwright & Performance Artist
Author of Gender Outlaw: On Men, Women and the Rest of Us , among other books which are taught in over 120 colleges and universities
Lectures and Workshops on sex, gender, and alternatives to teen suicide
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 | | Kimberly Dark
Award Winning Performance Artist, Poet and Scholar
- Becoming the Subject of Your Own Story
- Gender, Race and Money
- Examining the intersections of gender, race and class with humor and compassion
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 | | Carolyn Gage
Award-winning Lesbian Playwright and Performer
Plays include The Second Coming of Joan of Arc, Ugly Ducklings and Harriet Tubman Visits a Therapist
Books include Take Stage! How to Direct and Produce a Lesbian Play
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 | | Heather Gold
Hilarious Comedian, Speaker, and Solo Performer
Her latest talk looks at gay marriage - I Didn't Know How Much I Loved You
Till Ken Starr Filed to Divorce Us
Her award-winning solo show, I Look Like an Egg, But I Identify as a Cookie is an interactive baking comedy
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 | | Alice Y. Hom
Educator and Community Builder
Co-editor of the anthology Q & A: Queer in Asian America
Makes the connections on race, gender, and sexuality as well as address topics of lesbian of color organizing, Asian American feminism, and Asian American lesbian and gay cultural activism
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 | | Ericka Huggins
Human Rights Activist, Poet and Scholar
Former Black Panther leader and political prisoner
Lectures focus on womens' leadership, physical and emotional well-being of women and children, youth incarceration, education, and the role of spiritual practice in sustaining activism and promoting change
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 | | Andrew Jolivette
Accomplished Educator, Writer and Social/Cultural Critic
Topics include Rethinking Identity: Mixed Race, HIV/AIDS and People of Color, Indigenous Rights and Cultural Survival, LGBT/Queer Community of Color Identity
Author of Cultural Representation in Native America and Louisiana Creoles: Cultural Recovery and Mixed Race Native American Identity
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 | | Pamela Means
Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter and Acoustic Artist
- A favorite at Black History Month, Womens Month, Gay Pride, and Take Back the Night events.
- Seven CD releases including her latest, Precedent
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 | | Rev. Irene Monroe
Lesbian Theologian, Scholar, Writer and Activist
Popular columnist for New England Blade, The Advocate Magazine, Black Commentator and Huffington Post
Sought-after speaker on race, women's spirituality and gender issues.
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 | | Cherrνe Moraga
Prolific Playwright, Poet, and Essayist
Recipient of numerous awards for her plays including a United States Artist Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature
Co-editor of the groundbreaking This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color, among other books
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 | | Alix Olson
Folk Poet and Progressive Queer Artist-Activist
Editor of the acclaimed book Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken World Revolution and author of several books of poetry and spoken word CDS
Poetry slam champion and subject of award-winning documentary Left Lane: On the Road with Folk Poet Alix Olson
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 | | Scott Turner Schofield
Award-Winning Transgender Performer, Writer and Educator
Stage performances include Becoming a Man in 127 EASY Steps and Debutante Balls
Author of Two Truths and a Lie
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 | | Mab Segrest
Lesbian Feminist Scholar, Writer and Activist
- Adressses topics of White Privilege, GLBT and Women's issues, Mental Health and Ending Campus Sexual Assault
- Author of Memoir of a Race Traitor and Born to Belonging: Writings on Spirit and Justice
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 | | Aishah Shahidah Simmons
Lesbian Feminist Filmmaker and Writer
Producer, writer, and director of the feature length documentary NO! (The Rape Documentary)
Her published essays are featured in several anthologies and journals in the U.S. and abroad
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 | | Helen Zia
Award-Winning Journalist and Scholar
Author of Asian American Dreams: The Emergence of an American People and co-author of My Country Versus Me
One of the "most influential Asian Americans of the decade," her speech topics include "From Minority to Majority, Invisible to Envisioning"
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 | | Family Diversity Exhibits
Traveling Photo-Text Exhibits for Diversity Education
LOVE MAKES A FAMILY: Portraits of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender People and Their Families
NOTHING TO HIDE: Mental Illness in the Family
IN OUR FAMILY: Portraits of All Kinds of Families
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