From Islamic fundamentalists to white liberals to good old-fashioned racists, no one is safe from stand-up comic Tissa Hami’s sharp wit.  One of the world’s few female Muslim stand-up comics, she hopes that her comedy will help break down stereotypes about Muslim women and foster understanding between Iranians and Americans, though she warns that people who disapprove of her act will be taken hostage.

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Fierce, fresh and smart, author and journalist Daisy Hernandez focuses on race, gender, sexuality, and other issues affecting young women of color. She is Senior Writer and Managing Editor for ColorLines magazine, coeditor of the book Colonize This! Young Women of Today’s Feminism, and on the editorial advisory board for the Feminist Press. Her editorials and columns have appeared in the New York Times, Ms. Magazine, and many other publications.

Powerful and touching! A voice for countless Afghan families, Farooka shares her experiences of escape and loss and helps us to understand life under totalitarian rule. Her critically acclaimed book, Searching for Saleem: An Afghan Woman's Odyssey, was applauded as the first English language memoir by an Afghan woman.

Chan stars in the one woman play "Unbinding Our Lives" which shatters the exotic, subservient, “China doll” image.  In this powerful show Ms. Chan portrays three real Chinese American women from China in the 1800's and their personal stories of being sold into child slavery, prostitution, and abandonment.  An unforgettable look at forgotten history.

sojourner truth: "a woman ain't i?"

Abolitionist and suffragist Sojourner Truth’s life is told in her own words using her speeches and songs in this dramatic presentation by Kathryn Woods. Born a slave, Isabella Baumfree walked away from slavery to become an evangelist, when she wasn’t being a maid or laundress. In her travels she met preachers and advocates of all sorts, and evolved into Sojourner Truth.

brooke stephens

A 20-year veteran of Wall Street, Brooke Stephens uses her knowledge of finance and business to help you turn your financial life around. She focuses on African Americans and women in the business world as well as money and finances for the future. Employing her money smarts, she helps people and companies yield great financial results!

America’s young people want straight talk about sex from parents and schools. Most are not getting it. Amber Madison, author of Hooking Up: A Girl’s All-out Guide to Sex & Sexuality gives them what they want in simple non-clinical language.  It's all here, from Gonorrhea to the "G" spot, emergency contraception to erectile dysfunction. A fresh, fun and much-needed presentation.

Once marginalized, pornography has now become a central part of our cultural landscape, with its idealized, mass produced images of women, men and sex seeping into our identities, body image, and relationships. In this powerful multi-media presentation, Dr. Gail Dines explores how gender is shaped by a consumer-driven culture, and the ways the public images we consume on a daily basis spill over into our most private worlds.
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Media critic, American Studies professor, and author of Where the Girls Are: Growing Up Female with the Mass Media, Susan Douglas reveals how television and advertising target images of women.  Her other recent books include Listening In, a history of radio listening, and The Mommy Myth, an examination of how motherhood has been portrayed in the mass media from the late 1960s to the present.

An award winning journalist and former Washington Post reporter, Patrice Gaines works to empower girls and young women at risk, drawing from the heart of her experiences on the streets and in prison. She is the co-founder of Brown Angel Center, seeking to provide formerly incarcerated women and their families with the tools to renew their lives. Gaines is author of Laughing in the Dark and Moments of Grace: Meeting the Challenge to Change.