Planning a Conference? Check Out Everyday Feminism’s Speakers Bureau!

Originally published on Everyday Feminism Magazine on September 9, 2015 by Sandra Kim and re-published here with their permission.

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Fall has just started and so has planning for upcoming conferences and events. If you’re organizing a feminist event and are interested in bringing an Everyday Feminism speaker to present, you’ve got a lot of options!

Our Speakers Bureau includes:

 

Planning a Conference Check Out Everyday Feminism's Speakers Bureau Sandra KimSandra Kim is the Founder and CEO of Everyday Feminism. Since its launch three years ago, Sandra has led Everyday Feminism to become one of the largest online feminist platforms, drawing 5 million visitors every month from over 150 countries.

Her presentations include:

  • Building Inclusive Leadership for Anti-Oppression Work Environments
  • Bringing Intersectionality and Inclusiveness Into Our Daily Feminist Work
  • Building an Intersectional and Inclusive Movement to End Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
  • Making Self-Care for Sustainable Activism the Norm
  • Building a Massive Online Base for Social Change


Planning a Conference Check Out Everyday Feminism's Speakers Bureau Melissa Fabello
Melissa A. Fabello is the Co-Managing Editor of Everyday Feminism and a domestic violence prevention and sexuality educator with a specialty in body image as well as a fierce feminist activist.

Her presentations include:

  • Media Literacy 101: How Pop Culture Seduces You into Gender Roles
  • Bleeding Love: Pop Music, Advertising, and the Normalization of Dating Violence
  • Reclaiming Our Bodies, Our Sexuality, Our Lives: Exploring Female Sexuality Through Five BS Body Myths
  • I Know It Hurts, But Starving Works: How Pro-Eating Disorder Content on Social Media Harms Our Body Image and How to Fight Back
  • Social Justice Activist Self-Care (or, Why My YouTube Comments Are Disabled): Why You Need It and How to Start


Planning a Conference Check Out Everyday Feminism's Speakers Bureau Tate Walker
Taté Walker is a Lakota feminist activist, blogger, filmmaker, photographer, and social services professional who promotes cultural competency and inclusion for professionals in the workplace

Her presentations include:

  • Gender & Sexuality in Native American Cultures
  • The Role of Women in Native American Societies from 1492 to Today
  • Surviving Love: Promoting Awareness & Prevention of Violence Against Indigenous Women
  • 566: An Introduction to Native American Cultural Competency
  • Not Your Tonto: Native American Representations in Media
  • The Harm of Indian Mascots on Native American Youth
  • Not Your Cliché: A Look at the Stereotypes Plaguing Tribal Communities
  • Columbus, the Discovery Myth, and the Importance of Teaching Indigenous Histories
  • Moving Past the Thanksgiving Fairytale
  • Topics specific to the Oceti Sakowin (Seven Council Fires, often mistakenly referred to as “Sioux”)


Planning a Conference Check Out Everyday Feminism's Speakers Bureau Sam Dylan Finch
Sam Dylan Finch is an LGBTQA+ and mental health educator. As a transgender and bipolar activist, Sam draws from his lived experience to defy the stigmas that surround his identity, as well as teaching others about the challenges that are faced by his communities.

His presentations include:

  • What is Queer Feminism?
  • Queering Gender: Living Life Outside of the Binary
  • In Trans*it: Transitioning as Non-Binary
  • Stigma 101: Dismantling Shame and Healing Our Communities
  • Neurodiversity and Self-Love
  • Bipolar and Me

 

Planning a Conference Check Out Everyday Feminism's Speakers Bureau Patricia ValoyPatricia Valoy is a Latina feminist activist and blogger, and a Civil Engineer who promotes STEM education for women.

Her presentations include:

  • Gender Bias, Sexism, and Stereotypes in STEM
  • STEM Outreach for Girls and Minority Groups
  • Working in a Male-Dominated Fields
  • Battling Sexism in STEM, Construction, and Other Non-Traditionally Female Employment
  • Transnational Feminism and Cultural Identity
  • Latina/o Feminism and Ethno-Racial Identity

Planning a Conference Check Out Everyday Feminism's Speakers Bureau Kaila PrinsKaila Prins is a wellness coach specializing in disordered eating, dieting, exercise dependency, and distorted body image

Her presentations include:

  • Media Literacy and Body Image
  • How to Stop Losing the Last 10 Pounds and Start Living Your Life Instead
  • Advertising the Body: How to Survive in Culture Where the Body is Currency


Planning a Conference Check Out Everyday Feminism's Speakers Bureau Jon Greenberg
Jon Greenberg is an award-winning public high school teacher in Seattle and gained broader recognition for standing up for racial dialogue in the classroom — with widespread support from community — while a school district attempted to stifle it.

His presentations include:

  • Teaching a Unit on Race: Practical Lessons on a Taboo Topic
  • The Race Curriculum Controversy: The Benefits and Costs of Social Justice Teaching
  • Civic Engagement 101: Connecting Your Classroom to the Community


Planning a Conference Check Out Everyday Feminism's Speakers Bureau Jamie Utt
Jamie Utt is a diversity and inclusion consultant and sexual violence prevention educator to combat prejudice, bigotry, and hate in all its forms.

His presentations include:

  • Yes Please! Making Consent Fun and Sexy
  • Party On! Building Sex Positive Party Culture
  • Man Up: Building Positive Masculinity
  • The Wall: Understanding Your Own Power, Oppression, and Privilege
  • The Antidote: How Students Can Create a More Inclusive School


Planning a Conference Check Out Everyday Feminism's Speakers Bureau Creigh Farinas
Creigh Farinas is a neurodiversity activist and blogger, and an advocate for autism acceptance.

Her presentations include:

  • Autistic People Can Lead Happy Lives: Helping Them Get There
  • Why Would Anyone Want to Accept Autism? An Explanation of the Autism Acceptance Movement Presuming Competence: What That Means for You
  • The Social Model of Disability: How Someone Can Be Simultaneously Very and Not at All Disabled
  • How to Be an Ally to Neurodiverse People
  • Teaching Kids about Disabilities
  • What is Autism?


Planning a Conference Check Out Everyday Feminism's Speakers Bureau B Cole
Cole is the Founder and Executive Director of Brown Boi Project, a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and allies committed to transforming privileges of masculinity, gender, and race into tools for achieving racial and gender justice.

Her presentations include:

  • Gender Justice
  • The New Masculinity
  • Resourcing a Movement

Planning a Conference Check Out Everyday Feminism's Speakers Bureau Akilah Richards

Akilah Richards focuses on Radical Self-Expression, a practice she created to address societal oppression of the voices and needs of women and girls, and to explore the consequences and potential remedies therein.

Her presentations include:

  • Strategy & Soulwork for Radical Self-Expression
  • Nurturing the Aha’s: What to Do with Your Biggest Breakthroughs
  • Life Design through Free-Range Learning: Exploring the Unschooling mindset
  • Live Your Grain: Insights on Radical Lifestyle Management
  • Life Chanting 101: How Incantations Support Spiritual Exploration


Planning a Conference Check Out Everyday Feminism's Speakers Bureau Adrian Ballou
Adrian Ballou is a genderqueer writer, activist, consultant, and social justice educator as well as a state-certified mediator and trained facilitator.

Their presentations include:

  • Non-Binary Identities 101
  • How to Make Your Organization More Trans Inclusive
  • Creating Trans-Affirming Youth Spaces
  • Feminism and Trans Identities
  • Youth Organizing and Adultism

If you’d like to bring one of these wonderful speakers to your event, click here to get more info.

And if you don’t see the topic you want, please let us know and we’ll match you up with the best person.
Hope to see you at your next event!

Sandra

 

P.S. To book one of Everyday Feminism’s speakers, please go to:http://everydayfeminism.com/speakers-bureau/

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