Riki Wilchins is the founding Executive Director GenderPAC and author of “Read My Lips,” “GenderQueer,” and “Queer Theory/Gender Theory,” She has spoken and performed at colleges all over the U.S. Riki’s work has been profile in The New York Times, and in 2001 TIME Magazine selected her as one of “100 Civic Innovators for the 21st Century.” Her writing has appeared in publications like Social Text, Village Voice, Curve, The Advocate as well as anthologies like Women on Women, Pomosexuals, Out at Work, Feminist Frontiers, Language Awareness, and the Encyclopedia of Identity.
She has spoken or performed at:
- California State University-L.A.
- Citywide Pride – Chicago
- Close to Home Conference: Bringing Human Rights to Illinois
- Chatham College
- Chicago Fest
- Creating Change
- Eastman Kodak Co.
- Facing Race Conference
- Ithica College
- Indiana University-South Bend
- Ivy League Queers
- Loyola Marymount College
- Michigan State University
- Midwest Queer Conference
- Midwest LBGT Conference
- Ms. Foundation for Women Symposium
- National Conference on Gender
- National Council for Research on Women
- National Education Association
- National Press Club
- New College of Florida
- Out & Equal Conference
- Out & Equal Workpace Summit
- OutGiving
- Southern Comfort
- State University of New York-Geneseo
- University of Florida-Gainesville
- University of Massachusetts
- University of Pittsburgh
- University of San Francisco
- University of Texas-Austin
- University of Utah
- University of Washington
- University of West Georgia
- US Human Rights Network Bi-Annual Conference
- Women’s Funding Network Conference
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