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Performance artist, writer, and global agitator, Anida Yoeu Ali (www.atomicshogun.com) is a first generation Muslim Khmer woman born in Cambodia and raised in Chicago. Anida is a 2011 U.S. Fulbright Fellow to Cambodia, and her video 1700% Project: Mistaken for Muslim won the 2010 Grand Prize award from the One Chicago One Nation Film Competition. Since 1998, Anida has toured over 300 colleges and venues with the spoken word ensemble I Was Born with Two Tongues and the multimedia collective Mango Tribe. She is also a founding member of Young Asians With Power!, Asian American Artists Collective—Chicago, the National APIA Spoken Word & Poetry Summit, and MONSOON fine arts journal. Her artistic work has been the recipient of grants from the Rockefeller Foundation, Ford Foundation, National Endowment of the Arts, and Illinois Arts Council.

Moya Bailey is a graduate candidate at Emory University and blogger for the Crunk Feminist Collective. She is interested in how race, gender, and sexuality are represented in media and medicine. She is the founder and co-conspirator of Quirky Black Girls, a network for strange and different black girls.

Lina Bertucci (www.linabertucci.com) lives and works in New York. Her most recent photographic series explores the fluctuating periphery between exhibitionism and marginalization through the ritualized practice of tattooing. Her new series, Women in the Tattoo Subculture, was recently exhibited at the Perry Rubenstein Gallery. Bertucci has lectured at New York University, the International Center for Photography, The New School, and The School of Visual Arts. She received critical acclaim for her book Railroad Voices, published by Stanford University Press in 1998, an early photographic project documenting the gritty life of railroad workers where she worked as one of the first women hired as a break-man on the freight trains.

Nuala Cabral (http://nualacabral.wordpress.com) is an educator and filmmaker, currently teaching television production at Temple University, where she recently obtained her Master's degree in Broadcasting, Telecommunications, and Mass Media. She is co-founder of FAAN Mail, a media literacy and media activism project based in Philadelphia.

Lindsay Caplan is a doctoral student in art history at The Graduate Center, CUNY, and a fellow at the Center for the Humanities. She is also a member of the Autonomedia publishing collective.

Lisa Factora-Borchers (www.myecdysis.com) is a writer and independent scholar/tist. In addition to working as an assistant editor with make/shift magazine, she focuses her writing on feminisms, spirituality, and liberation. She has guest blogged for Flip Flopping Joy, Bitch, and Feministe. Lisa was recently recognized as a "Revolutionary Poet" by Left Turn magazine, and her photography was included in the Red Sun Press' political photo exhibit Critical Views: A New Generation. She is currently editing Dear Sister, an anthology written by and for survivors of sexual violence. Lisa's life goal is to be a self-proclaimed and accomplished renaissance woman.

Felicia "Fe" Montes (feliciamontes.wordpress.com) is a Xicana Indigenous artist, activist, academic, community and event organizer, and poet and performer living and working in the Los Angeles area. She believes art is a tool for education, empowerment, and transformation, and has translated her passion for art and social justice as the co-founder and coordinating member of two groundbreaking creative women's collectives, Mujeres de Maiz and In Lak Ech. Fe has worked with Self Help Graphics, Proyecto Pastoral, and the United Farm Workers. She has been influential in transnational art and organizing efforts, including work with the Zapatistas, Peace & Dignity Journeys, and La Red Xicana Indigena.

Jasmeen Patheja was born and raised in Kolkata, India. She is the founder of Blank Noise Project, a community-led art project and blog that confronts eve-teasing. Jasmeen attended the esteemed Srishti School of Art Design and Technology in Bangalore, and during her time in college, she found ways to express her fundamental belief that an artist should engage directly in the process of social transformation. Jasmeen was a fellow at the Ashoka network for social innovation in 2008 and is currently working on an art project with her grandmother.

Born in Jerusalem, Larissa Sansour (www.larissasansour.com) studied Fine Art in Copenhagen, London, and New York. Her work is interdisciplinary, immersed in the current political dialogue, and utilizes video art, photography, experimental documentary, the book form, and the Internet. By approximating the nature, reality, and complexity of life in Palestine and the Middle East to visual forms normally associated with entertainment and televised pastime, her grandiose and often humorous schemes clash with the gravity expected from works commenting on the region. Sansour is currently represented by Galerie La B.A.N.K in Paris. She lives and works in London.

SPEAK! Radical Women of Color Media Collective (speakmedia.wordpress.com) is a net-roots coalition of media-makers interested in strengthening our communities through truth-telling, media justice and the creation of a network of women of color media makers.

Mary Jane Villamor is currently a graduate student in the School of the Art Institute's MFA in Creative Writing program in Chicago. She primarily writes fiction and makes artist books. She originally hails from San Francisco where she studied film and screenwriting at San Francisco State University.

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MOYA BAILEY : LARISSA SANSOUR : SPEAK! : LINA BERTUCCI : FE MONTES
LISA FACTORA-BORCHERS : NUALA CABRAL : JASMEEN PATHEJA : ANIDA YOEU ALI & MARY JANE VILLAMOR

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