Everyday Feminism has an awesome team of writers who are also available for speaking engagements at colleges, conferences, nonprofits, and other public events.
All topics can be adapted to be presentations, keynote speeches, or workshops and can be tailored to the audience. If you don’t see a topic that quite meets your needs but think we can cover it, just let us know. We are also willing to create a signature talk or workshop for groups.
Please note that all speaking engagements require that at least the travel expenses be covered as our speakers are located all across the US. The fee ranges from $2,000-10,000 depending on the speaker, type of presentation, and number of presentations requested.
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Sandra Kim
Sandra Kim is the Founder and Executive Director of Everyday Feminism. Since its launch three years ago, Sandra has led Everyday Feminism to become one of the largest independent feminist media sites in the world, with a few million visitors per month from over 150 countries. She also developed and leads the Compassionate Activism program and the Everyday Self-Love and Relationship online courses. Sandra’s commitment to intersectionality and radical inclusiveness and her belief in the interdependence of personal and social transformation have shaped Everyday Feminism’s unique approach to feminism.
Her presentations include:
- Compassionate Activism: Responding with Everyday Oppression with Love and Justice
- Applying an Intersectional, Inclusive Leadership Approach to Work and Organizations
- Bringing Intersectionality and Inclusiveness Into Our Daily Feminist Work
- Building an Intersectional and Inclusive Movement to End Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault
- Creating Authentic Anti-Oppression Cultures within Communities of Color
- Making Self-Care for Sustainable Activism the Norm
- Building a Massive Online Base for Social Change
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Melissa A. Fabello
Melissa A. Fabello is the Managing Editor of Everyday Feminism. She is also a body acceptance activist and sexuality scholar. Melissa is a licensed educator with over a decade of experience working with diverse populations, including extensive training in domestic violence and sexual assault prevention education. With a passion for advocacy and a drive for liberation, Melissa’s work revolves mostly around body image, female sexuality, and media literacy.
Her presentations include:
- Why Feminism? Why Now?: An Introduction to the Movement and Why It Still Matters Today
- Media Literacy 101: How Pop Culture Seduces You into Gender Roles
- Bleeding Love: Pop Music, Advertising, and the Normalization of Dating Violence
- Reclaiming Our Bodies, Our Sexuality, Our Lives: Exploring Female Sexuality Through Five BS Body Myths
- Social Justice Activist Self-Care (or, Why My YouTube Comments Are Disabled): Why You Need It and How to Start
Sam Dylan Finch
Sam Dylan Finch is an LGBTQA+ and mental health educator. As a transgender person with mental illness, Sam draws from his lived experience to defy the stigmas that surround his identity, as well as teaching others about the challenges that are faced by his communities. With a passion for stigma-busting and impacting change through personal narratives and storytelling, Sam is quickly becoming a powerful and accessible voice for queer, feminist, and mental health issues.
His presentations include:
- What is Cis Privilege? An Essential Guide For Aspiring Allies
- Transgender 101 (For Those of Us Not On Tumblr)
- Mental Illness and Self-Love
- Transgender Mental Health: The Invisible Struggle
- A Movement for Everyone: Body Positivity For All Genders
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Patricia Valoy
Patricia Valoy is a Latina feminist activist and blogger, and a Civil Engineer who promotes STEM education for women. She combines her experiences as a Latina, a feminist, and an engineer to advocate and inspire girls considering careers in the fields of STEM and speak on transnational feminism. Patricia’s work mostly revolves around the Latino/a community, feminism, cultural identity, gender stereotypes, and workplace sexism.
Her presentations include:
- Gender Bias, Sexism, and Stereotypes in STEM
- STEM Outreach for Girls and Minority Groups
- Working in a Male-Dominated Fields
- Battling Sexism in STEM, Construction, and Other Non-Traditionally Female Employment
- Transnational Feminism and Cultural Identity
- Latina/o Feminism and Ethno-Racial Identity
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Michón Neal
Michón Neal is a minority of minorities: female assigned at birth, mostly black, disabled, autistic, genderqueer, aromantic, pansexual, kinky, demisexual, poor, noetisexual, polyamorous, singleish, RA, a survivor, intersex, and left-handed. Michón Neal writes a mix of scifi, fantasy, erotica, and autobiography called cuil fiction about unique people in unique circumstances, with characters running the gamut of non-monogamous and LGBTQIA+ spectrums.
Hir presentations include:
- Intersectional Non-Monogamy
- How to Write Cuil
- The Forgotten Queers
- The Invisibility of Disability
- Aro Eros Arrows
- The Actual Sexual Spectrum
- Parental/Caregiver Privilege
- Ally In Action
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Jon Greenberg
An award-winning public high school teacher in Seattle, Jon Greenberg gained broader recognition for standing up for racial dialogue in the classroom—with widespread support from community—while a school district attempted to stifle it. With nearly 20 years of diverse teaching experiences under his belt, he has long dedicated his teaching career to social justice and civic engagement.
His presentations include:
- Teaching a Unit on Race: Practical Lessons on a Taboo Topic
- The Race Curriculum Controversy: The Benefits and Costs of Social Justice Teaching
- Civic Engagement 101: Connecting Your Classroom to the Community
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Jamie Utt
Jamie Utt is a diversity and inclusion consultant and sexual violence prevention educator to combat prejudice, bigotry, and hate in all its forms. One of the most dynamic new voices for change and inclusion today, his interactive presentations have empowered thousands to take personal accountability for making this world a better place. His presentations include:
- Yes Please! Making Consent Fun and Sexy
- Party On! Building Sex Positive Party Culture
- Man Up: Building Positive Masculinity
- The Wall: Understanding Your Own Power, Oppression, and Privilege
- The Antidote: How Students Can Create a More Inclusive School
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B. Cole
Cole is the Founder and Executive Director of Brown Boi Project, a community of masculine of center womyn, men, two-spirit people, transmen, and allies committed to transforming privileges of masculinity, gender, and race into tools for achieving racial and gender justice. As a young queer consultant of color with almost ten years consulting and facilitation experience, she is often uniquely positioned to bring together groups across divides.
Her presentations include:
- Gender Justice
- The New Masculinity
- Resourcing a Movement
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Akilah Richards
Akilah Richards is a Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) who specializes in women’s emotional wellness. Her work in centered on Radical Self-Expression, a practice she created to address societal oppression of the voices and needs of women and girls, and to explore the consequences and potential remedies therein. Akilah has created and delivered in-person and online workshops at college campuses, private summits, and public conferences about designing our ideal lives through the defining and exploration of self-expression, womanhood, modern feminism, location independence, and the unschooling lifestyle.
Her presentations include:
- Strategy & Soulwork for Radical Self-Expression
- Nurturing the Aha’s: What to Do with Your Biggest Breakthroughs
- Life Design through Free-Range Learning: Exploring the Unschooling mindset
- Live Your Grain: Insights on Radical Lifestyle Management
- Life Chanting 101: How Incantations Support Spiritual Exploration
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Adrian Ballou
Adrian is a genderqueer writer, activist, consultant, and social justice educator as well as a state-certified mediator and trained facilitator. Adrian has founded/directed six youth programs focusing on topics ranging from food justice/farming/cooking to community organizing to youth ministry. They also consult with organizations on how to best improve diversity practices for staff and clients. They specialize in working with non-profits and schools/youth organizations on building best practices for trans, non-binary, and/0r gender non-conforming safety and inclusion.
Their presentations include:
- Non-Binary Identities 101
- How to Make Your Organization More Trans Inclusive
- Creating Trans-Affirming Youth Spaces
- Feminism and Trans Identities
- Youth Organizing and Adultism
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Kim Tran
Kim is a teacher, scholar and organizer finishing her PhD in Ethnic Studies and Gender, Women’s and Sexuality Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. Her scholarship and community work engages the intersection of cross racial coalitions, gender inequality, class oppression and queer sexuality. Kim combines an academic and organizing background in queer literacy, intersectional feminism and anti-racist coalitions to inspire and deepen allyship and solidarity work.
Her presentations include:
- Uprooting Anti-Black Racism at Home
- Understanding the Queer Alphabet
- Anti-Oppression in the Classroom
- Navigating Internalized Racism
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Pidgeon Pagonis
Pidgeon Pagonis is an intersex artist, activist and former communications & operations manager and youth leadership coordinator for interACT youth—the world’s first intersex youth project. Pidgeon has over ten years experience researching, advocating and educating a wide range of audiences about the intersex movement for bodily autonomy and justice. They’ve recently been published in the academic journal Narrative Inquiry in Bioethics, and were awarded by the White House as an LGBT Champion of Change.
Their presentations include:
- Intersex is Beautiful: Binaries are Pitiful
- The Son I Never Had
- Something Else: Sex, Gender and Intersex
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