elizabeth | rhonda chittenden

ahndi fridell    |  melissa gelula  |

carolyn e. hopkins | krista jacob  |   

kathleen b. jones | emari dimagiba lavine |

alia levine  |  

| shauna pomerantz  

jamie russell  | patti see  | ashley sovern

kimberly springer

Elizabeth has chosen not to provide her last name in order to maintain her privacy and safety. She and her husband of two and a half years live in the Midwest, where she teaches writing and goes to graduate school and he works at a computer software company.

Rhonda Chittenden, MS, is a creative writer, collage artist, and queer neo-spinster. Her career includes serving women and girls as a reproductive health counselor, a sexuality educator, and an advocate for those in the juvenile justice system. Most recently, she has begun work as an advocate for women who have been abused by their intimate partners. Making her home in the Midwest, she has organized feminist conferences, film festivals, and fundraisers and spends her free time saving innocent grasshoppers from deformation and death in the jaws of her carnivorous cat.

Ahndi Fridell is a writer and stay-at-home mom of two gorgeous little boys. She is a big fan of documentary radio and just started her own production company, Elastic Collision Productions. After reviewing Anne Crittenden’s book for this issue of Sexing the Political, she is convinced that women will never achieve meaningful power in this country as long as the raising of children is not given value.

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.

Carolyn Hopkins is currently a tenth-grade English teacher at Bethel High School in Hampton, Virginia. Additionally, she is a freelance writer and interpretive dancer. She will receive her master’s degree in Teaching and Learning in December of 2002. Ms. Hopkins is currently researching and writing a book that will focus upon the history of oppression and racism of generations of women in her family. She says, “I realized that I was feminist when I never desired to marry and discovered that the real power of a woman comes from celebrating ‘self’ and empowering that self through self-love and self-esteem, with or without a man.”

Krista Jacob, MS, is editor-in-chief and founder of Sexing the Political: A journal of third wave feminists on sexuality. She has a long history of involvement in women’s issues, from domestic violence and sexual assault to reproductive freedom and other women’s health issues. She presents at state and national conferences on issues related to violence against women, third wave feminism, motherhood, images of women in the media, abortion, and adolescent women's issues. At present, she is a writer, mother, and Reproductive Health Counselor.

Her work has appeared in Just Sex: Students Rewrite the Rules on Sex, Violence, Activism, and Equality, (Rowman & Littlefield), The Minnesota Women's Press, and numerous feminist periodicals. She is also the editor of Our Choices, Our Lives: Unapologetic Writings on Abortion.

If you would like to inquire about bringing Ms.Jacob to speak in your community or to set up an interview, please contact SexingthePolitic.

Kathleen B. Jones is a writer, a grandmother, a political activist and professor of Women’s Studies at San Diego State University who writes about feminism and the politics of the women’s movement in both scholarly and popular journals. Her scholarly works include Compassionate Authority: Democracy and the Representation of Women, (Routledge, 1993); The Political Interests of Gender, with Anna Jonasdottir, (Sage, 1988), and, with Cathy Cohen and Joan Tronto, Women Transforming Politics, (New York University Press, 1997). Her latest book, a memoir, Living Between Danger and Love: The Limits of Choice, (Rutgers University Press, 2000) reflects on the murder of one of her students and the "choices" made in the face of violence. Dr. Jones served on the City of San Diego Commission on the Status of Women and was their representative on the San Diego Domestic Violence Council from 1995-1998. She is also a trainer for the Family Violence Prevention Fund's Workplace Awareness Project.

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 (she only planned to visit), where she works at Equality Now, an international human rights organization focusing on violations against women. A Women's Studies/English Literature graduate from Victoria University, NZ, Alia spends most of her time in her garden weeding the eggplants, cooking compulsively or trying out impossible positions at her local yoga center. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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.

Jamie Russell currently manages a reproductive health center at Planned Parenthood Golden Gate. She is a feminist and a women's rights activist. For the past two years, Jamie has been working to promote the Mid-South Access Project, an organization she co-founded that provides financial assistance to women seeking abortions. She also volunteers as a peer counselor for Exhale, a post-abortion support hotline. Jamie holds a Master of Arts degree in Medical Anthropology from the University of Memphis.

Patti See's work has appeared in Salon, Women's Studies Quarterly, Southeast Review, and Wisconsin Academy Review. She co-authored with Bruce Taylor Higher Learning: Reading and Writing About College (Prentice Hall, 2001). Patti teaches developmental education, English, and women's studies courses at the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire. She recently taught a course on third wave feminism.

Ashley Sovereign has a long history of involvement in issues related to women's sexuality. A former rape crisis counselor and sex educator, she is a counseling psychology doctoral candidate who recently completed five years as director of counseling at a non-profit women's reproductive health clinic in Minneapolis. Her teaching and research interests include: life transitions, crisis intervention, ethics, personal values, grief and loss, and healthy sexuality.

Kim Springer is trying hard to resist being SBW (SuperBlackWoman) and preserve some of her sanity through writing, teaching Africana Women’s Studies at Portland State University in Oregon, and living/breathing Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

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