contributors

hope borchardt  |  kristy beckman  | rhonda chittenden

melisse gelula    |  suzie guilette  |

 krista jacob  |   charlotte green honigman-smith

alia levine  |  emari dimagiba lavine

katie novotny  | shauna pomerantz  

lise sanders  |  ashley sovern

kimberly springer

Hope Borchardt is a third-wave feminist who began her work in the Battered Women's Movement at age 18. Raised in a small rural community, she was involved in implementing domestic violence and sexual assault services to the county where she grew up. Now, several years later, she works as an advocate in an urban domestic violence shelter, and is a student taking full-time classes at Iowa State University. Hope has devoted her time to helping victims of violent crimes as well as educating society about the dynamics of violence. She enjoys her family, comfort food and an occasional solitary moment.

Born in 1968, Rhonda Chittenden grew up in rural Warren County, Iowa with her parents, sister, brother, and dog Lady. Inspired by the necessary diversity of the natural world, she believes that various feminisms survive and thrive, like the orneriest weeds, because of the need within human culture for multiple perspectives. Currently, she is a professional sexuality educator who applies her understanding of human sexuality to issues of youth development, including adolescent pregnancy prevention and the service needs of female juvenile offenders. Recently relocated to Minneapolis via Boston, Rhonda is co-editor of the forthcoming anthology It's a Bloody Evolution: Gen X Women Rewrite Their Biological Destinies. In addition to her monthly column, she is an occasional contributor of collage, photography, and special articles.

Melisse Gelula is, among other things, an editor at Random House. She is a former rape crisis and domestic violence counselor and is now studying psychoanalysis in New York.

Having recently completed her bachelor’s degree in philosophy, Suzie Guillette is currently waitressing. In addition to writing essays, she looks forward to her weekly singing lesson (for fun) because, let’s face it: everyone has a voice.

Charlotte Green Honigman-Smith is a twenty-seven year old writer, activist and insurance-company receptionist in San Francisco. She edits a print zine called Maydeleh, and is currently working on a book about third-wave Jewish feminism.

Krista Jacob, MS, was raised in a rural Midwestern community, which she is certain helped to shape her radical feminist politics. A big fan of memoir, second wave feminism, and cross country skiing, she has dedicated the next four years of her life to organizing against George Dubya and his administration.

Emari Dimagiba Lavine is the result of 16 years of Catholic education. Raised in the San Francisco Bay Area, she is the youngest of four children in a Filipino family. With experience in radio broadcasting, rape prevention education and adolescent reproductive health advocacy, she has devoted her life to increasing interpersonal communication and social understanding about sexuality. She has been writing in a journal since age eight, and appreciates learning about new music. She lives with her husband and two cats in the Twin Cities.

A staunch lesbian/feminist/antipodean, Alia Levine moved from New Zealand to her family's native New York in 1997. For the last three years, she has worked as a literary agent, as well as freelance writer and editor. Having recently jumped into the non-profit sector, she's now trying to save the world at an education advocacy organization. A Women's Studies/English Literature graduate from Victoria University, NZ, Alia spends most of her time in her garden weeding the eggplants, obsessive/compulsively knitting, or trying out impossible positions at her local yoga center. She lives in Park Slope, Brooklyn, New York.

Katie Novotny is a 25-year-old third wave feminist. She is a stay-at-home mama of a beautiful 15month old son named Moti. Katie enjoys being a feminist activist in the Twin Cities. Her interests include: welfare rights, local and national politics, breast-feeding and other issues related to motherhood.

Shauna Pomerantz has been a columnist for Fredericton's The Daily Gleaner, a city paper with a circulaiton of about 40 000. Her column, entitled "Minimum Rage," was dedicated to issues of popular culture, feminism and youth culture as it related to Generation X. She is a thirty-year old PhD student, living in Vancouver, British Columbia. Her research is in the fields of education, sociology, and feminist theory.

Lise Sanders was born in 1970 and raised on a farm outside Seattle by feminist parents who gently corrected her when, despite her mother's doctorate in chemistry, she proclaimed at age six that she wanted to be a nurse because "everyone knows that women can't be doctors." She went on to receive a PhD in English Literature from the University of Chicago and currently teaches literature and gender studies at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts. She is the co-editor of Embodied Utopias, a forthcoming collection of articles on gender and space, and is presently at work on a book as well as a series of personal essays on women, politics and culture.

Ashley Sovern is a Gen X feminist with a long history of involvement in issues related to women’s sexuality. Currently, she is a doctoral student in counseling psychology and director of counseling at a non-profit women’s reproductive health clinic in Minneapolis. A former rape crisis counselor and sex educator, Ashley now specializes in issues related to bisexual identity and polyamory.

Soon-to-be Portlander by way of E. St. Louis/Michigan,
Kim Springer is trying hard to resist being SBW (SuperBlackWoman) and preserve some of her sanity through writing, teaching women's/African American studies, and watching Buffy. She's also founder of ColoredPublicRadio.com---dedicated to bringing people of color producers, writers, and stories to the forefront of public/community radio.