elizabeth |  hanne blank  | rhonda chittenden

christina french    |  melissa gelula  |

 krista jacob  |   

alia levine  |  martha mccaughey

| shauna pomerantz  

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.

Hanne Blank is a writer, editor, and educator whose work includes such joyously in-your-face tomes as Big Big Love: A Sourcebook on Sex for People of Size and Those Who Love Them, Zaftig: Well Rounded Erotica, Shameless, and Best Transgender Erotica. She has taught college, edited feminist newsmonthlies (this piece originally appeared in Sojourner: The Women's Forum), sung opera, and been a sex worker, a waitress, and a childcare worker, among other things. Currently she lives near Baltimore and online at www.hanne.net.

Born in 1968, Rhonda Chittenden grew up in rural Warren County, Iowa. 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 lives in snowy Minneapolis and is employed in the field of women's reproductive health care. Inspired by Inga Muscio's Cunt: A Declaration of Independence, Rhonda intends to make 2002 her cuntlovingest year yet.

Christina French is currently assistant editor of Virginia Tech Magazine and writes and edits for numerous university publications, but as she's beginning to feel a bit like a female Dilbert, she's contemplating a return to academe, where summer and winter "sanity checks" are de rigeur. Having recently earned an M.A. in English, she has taught college English and composition courses emphasizing cultural studies and will teach a women's studies course this semester. French's academic interests lie in the "(de)construction of sexuality and gender," and she reports that she "struggles with navigating the intersections of my theoretical concerns and my personal life."

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.

Krista Jacob, MS, a third wave feminist and mother of a one-year-old son, received her master's of science in women's studies from Minnesota State University, Mankato. She has presented 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. Her work experience includes eight years as a rape/domestic violence victim advocate, and as an anti-violence educator.

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 We Will Choose: Writings on Abortion, a forthcoming anthology on reproductive freedom.

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

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.

Martha McCaughey is Associate Professor of Women's Studies at Virginia Tech, and is the author of Real Knockouts: The Physical Feminism of Women's Self-Defense (1997, New York University Press) and editor of Reel Knockouts: Violent Women in the Movies (2001, University of Texas Press).

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.

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 Sovern 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.

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.

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