Carmen Maria Machado is the author of In the Dream House and Her Body and Other Parties, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and winner of the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize. She lives in Philadelphia with her wi

adrienne maree brown—Pleasure Activism

Aug 2nd, 2019 1h 8m

adrienne maree brown is the author of Emergent Strategy: Shaping Change, Changing Worlds and Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, and is the co-editor of Octavia’s Brood: Science Fiction from Social Justice Movements. She is a write

Sonya Passi—FreeFrom Violence, Freedom to Thrive

Jul 19th, 2019 55m 50s

Sonya Passi is the founder and CEO of FreeFrom, a national organization on a mission to create pathways to financial security and long-term safety for survivors of gender-based violence. Sonya has been a domestic violence activist since she was

Julie Schwietert Collazo—Immigrant Families Together

Jun 28th, 2019 1h

Julie Schwietert Collazo is the co-founder and director of Immigrant Families Together (IFT), an organization founded in response to the zero tolerance immigration policy initiated in 2018 that has resulted in the separation of thousands of imm

Amy Irvin—Abortion Access, Reproductive Justice, & Story Sharing to End Stigma

Jun 21st, 2019 47m 53s

Amy Irvin is the executive director of the New Orleans Abortion Fund and served as the first intake coordinator. She has worked at abortion clinics in New Orleans and Atlanta, and was recognized as the Volunteer of the Year by Planned Parenthoo

Dr. Yaba Blay—Celebrating Professional Black Girl Culture

Jun 21st, 2019 48m 18s

Dr. Yaba Blay is the Dan Blue Endowed Chair in Political Science at North Carolina Central University. An ethnographer, scholar, and content creator, her scholarship centers on global Black identities and the politics of embodiment, with partic

Nishta J. Mehra—Writing At The Intersection Of Myriad Identities

Mar 4th, 2019 47m 53s

NISHTA J. MEHRA is the proud first-generation daughter of Indian immigrants and the author of two essay collections: The Pomegranate King, self-published in 2013, and Brown White Black, published by Picador in February 2019. A native of Memphi

Adiba Nelson—Why Inclusion and Representation Matters

Feb 14th, 2019 51m

Adiba Nelson: Adiba Nelson is a writer, author, performer, mom, wife, and occasional rabble-rouser. According to Jes Baker, Adiba is the wittiest, sassiest, most survivingest broad you'll ever meet. Adiba Nelson is the girl that maybe you shou

Jade Beall—The Healing & Transformational Power of Photography

Jan 28th, 2019 44m 36s

Jade Beall is a proud mother and a Tucson, AZ based world-renowned photographer specializing in truthful images of women to inspire feeling irreplaceably beautiful as a counter-balance to the airbrushed photoshopped imagery that dominates mai

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