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Feminista Jones
Feminista Jones is a Philadelphia-based feminist writer, public speaker, community activist, and semi-retired social worker. She is an award-winning blogger and the author of the novel Push the Button, the poetry collection The Secret of Sugar Water, and the critically-acclaimed Reclaiming Our Space: How Black Feminists Are Changing the World From the Tweets to the…
Feminist Frequency
Anita Sarkeesian and the Feminist Frequency team produce media criticism and penetrating feminist analysis with “a hint of humor, a dose of drollery, and a soupçon of snark.” They create video series like Tropes vs. Women in Video Games, Ordinary Women: Daring to Defy History, The FREQ Show, Queer Tropes and a large slate of podcasts. With their…
Badass Cross Stitch
Badass Cross Stitch is Shannon Downey, a queer art activist who lives full-time in her RV “traveling the United States (and hopefully the rest of the world when the borders open back up) in an attempt to know everyone and trick people into hanging out with me by teaching them how to embroider.” All this…
Black Girl in Maine
Black Girl in Maine is Shay Stewart-Bouley, the creator of BGIM Media, a digital space for in depth discussions on racism and white supremacy, a podcast series and public talks, centered around the belief that we need to look at who creates the narratives that we read and believe. Says Stewart-Bouley, “In most places, the narratives are fed to…
Aji’s
Aji’s mission is to empower the elderly to live healthy and happy lives by providing a platform to showcase their skills and knowledge. Their patrons support their efforts documenting the stories and experiences of the elderly community in Nepal through their podcast and blog and organizing events like Aji’s Health Forum to share information relevant…
水仙 SHUIXIAN
水仙 SHUIXIAN is a self-described “traumatized, chronically suicidal, Mad, & Disabled, light-skinned non-Black trans 上海人 shanghainese-usameriKKKan human being.” Others describe them this way: “you’re a frankly brilliant socio-political analyst & writer, whose ability to apply radical frameworks of analysis in granular ways to your immediate conditions should honestly terrify liberal pretenders, & inspire radical newbies. you…
Carsie Blanton
Carsie Blanton writes anthems for a world worth saving. Inspired by artists including Nina Simone and John Prine, her songs swing blithely from sultry jazz ballads to pop-punk protest anthems, all with an equal dose of moxie and mischief, bringing her audience together in celebration of everything worth fighting for. “Carsie Blanton is one of…
K Tempest Bradford
K Tempest Bradford is a writer, podcaster, teacher and activist. She writes Afrofuturist and AfroRetroFuturist fiction for kids and adults that reflects her multiple identities, including her Blackness and Queerness. Her short stories have been published in magazines such as Strange Horizons and Electric Velocipede and anthologies such as Sunspot Jungle and In The Shadow…
Austin Channing Brown
Austin Channing Brown is a media producer, author, and speaker providing inspired leadership on racial justice in America. She’s the New York Times and USA Today Bestselling author of I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness and CEO of Herself Media. Her workshops are incisive, fun, disarming, and transformative. By using…
Jesú Estrada, Ph.D.
Jesú Estrada, Ph.D. is a Chicana and first-generation American. Jesú owns a small independent, charity press, Barrio Blues Press that promotes the work of underrepresented authors. Founded in 2020, in Chicago, the mission of Barrio Blues Press is to elevate the voices of emerging writers and to help build a cooperative society. Visionaries for a better world are given…