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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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