Graduation Speeches:

“The Limits of LGBT Inclusion: Pursuing Our Dreams,” Lavender Graduation, CU Boulder, May 2016

“You are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For,” Women’s and Gender Studies Graduation, CU Boulder, May 2015

 

Intro to Gender and Sexual Diversity:

“Thinking More Complexly about Gender,” Renaissance Adventures Staff Training, Boulder, May 2018

“Unpacking Gender and Sexuality,” University of Phoenix, June 2017

“Intro to Gender and Sexual Diversity,” Watershed High School, Boulder, April 2017

 

On Trans Issues:

“Trans People are Here to be Teachers and Leaders” keynote, Transforming Gender Conference, Boulder, March 2018

“Administrative Violence and Trans Politics,” Anti-Oppression Workshop, INVST Community Studies, CU Boulder, Oct 2018

“Keeping a Trans Choir Sustainable,” Transgender Voices Festival, Macalester College, St Paul, April 2018

“The Inclusive Music Classroom: Welcoming Trans and Non-Binary People into the Music Community,” School of Music, CU Boulder, March 2018

“The Role of the Arts in Trans Empowerment and Societal Change,” Transforming Gender Symposium, Boulder, March 2018

“Trans 101,” Denver Gay Men’s Chorus, Nov 2017

“Trans 101,” Mosaic Gospel Choir, Boulder, March 2017

“Transgender Health,” Dennis Small Cultural Center, CU Boulder, Oct 2016

“Trans 101/Trans Voices,” Resonance Women’s Chorus, Boulder, March 2016

“Living Outside the Gender Binary: Health Concerns and Disparities for Transgender and Intersex People,” University of Denver, April 2013

“Eating My Words: A Transsexual Feminist Exploration of Embodiment,” Transforming Gender Symposium, Boulder, March 2013

“Trans 101,” Harmony Chorale, Denver, Aug 2012

The Body Project Interdisciplinary Conference Keynote, University of Missouri. April 2010

“Changing Skins: Folktales about Gender, Identity, and Humanity,” Columbia College, June 2010

“Challenges in Being Transgendered,” William Woods University, Oct 2009.

“Being Transgendered,” for Sexual Health Advocacy and Service Learning training, University of Missouri. Oct 2009 and Oct 2008.

“Fat Girls, Trans Guys, and Issues of Embodiment in Feminism,” University of Missouri, April 2009

“Questioning Conventional Transgender Narratives,” Transgender Awareness Week, University of Missouri, Nov 2009

“Shared Transition: Issues for Transexuals and Their Loved Ones,” Do It Yourself Conference, Columbia, April 2007

Transgender Narratives Panel, Midwest Trans Institute, Minneapolis, April 1998

 

On Masculinities:

“Toxic and Healthy Masculinities,” Safe Shelter Symposium on Domestic Violence, Longmont, CO, April 2017

“Alternative Masculinities,” Sugar Free Feminism, CU Boulder, Oct 2016

“Healthy Masculinities,” Conversations at the Cottage for Denim Days, CU Boulder, April 2015

“Fe(men)ism:The Role of Men in Feminism,” Dennis Small Cultural Center, CU Boulder, March 2015

“Alternative Masculinities,” Conversations at the Cottage for Denim Days, CU Boulder, April 2014

 

Unlearning Racism:

“Unlearning Racism,” Gender Justice League, CU Boulder, April 2018

“Unlearning Racism,” Portland Gay Men’s Chorus, Portland, March 2017

“Unlearning Racism,” Women and Gender Studies, CU Boulder, Feb 2017

“Unlearning Racism,” Transforming Gender Symposium, Boulder, CO, March 2017

Unlearning Racism training for GALA Choruses Board, Palm Springs, Jan 2017

Unlearning Racism workshop, GALA Choruses Leadership Symposium, Palm Springs, Jan 2017

“Unlearning Racism,” Women and Gender Studies, CU Boulder, Nov 2016

Facilitator of year-long Community Race Dialogue, We Win Institute, Minneapolis, 2001

 

Decolonizing Teaching:

“Decolonizing the Classroom: Rehumanizing the Neoliberal University,” College of Media, Communication, and Information, CU Boulder, April 2020

“Decolonial Pedagogical Praxis: Reimagining Feminist Learning,” Women’s and Gender Studies, CU Boulder, March 2017

“Decolonial Pedagogical Praxis: Reimagining Feminist Learning,” National Women’s Studies Association, Montreal, Nov 2016

Decolonial Pedagogies: Bodies and Border-crossings Roundtable, National Women’s Studies Association, Montreal, Nov 2016

 

Spirituality:

“The Power of the Liminal: Rites of Passage in Everyday Life,” Mountain Ancestors Symposium, Longmont, CO, July 2019

“Reigniting Passion,” Arise Music Festival, Loveland, CO, Aug 2018

“Reigniting Passion,” Althea Center for Engaged Spirituality, Denver, May 2018

“Introduction to Shamanism,” The Center, Denver, Aug 2012

“Coming Out, Leaving the Tribe, and Living Beyond the Binary,” Columbine Unitarian Universalist Church, Denver, June 2012

“Introduction to Shamanism,” Sol Center for Radiant Living, Georgetown, CO, Aug 2011

“Spirituality and Activism in Changing Times,” Unitarian Universalist Community Church, Kalamazoo, Aug 2009

 

Reimagining Social Justice:

“Beyond Equality and Inclusion: Reimagining Our Vision of Social Change,” Pueblo Community College, March 2019

“Beyond Equality and Inclusion: Reimagining Our Vision of Social Change,” Transforming Gender Conference, Boulder, March 2019

“Beyond Equality and Inclusion: Reimagining Our Vision of Social Change,” Colorado Community Colleges Student Leadership Conference, Oct 2018

“Beyond Equality and Inclusion: Reimagining Our Vision for Social Change,” Arise Music Festival, Loveland, CO, Aug 2018

“How Scarcity Thinking Leads To Systemic Xenophobia and Racism,” Diversity and Inclusion Summit, CU Boulder, Nov 2017

“Scarcity Thinking and New Prosperity,” Anti-Oppression Workshop, INVST Community Studies, CU Boulder, Nov 2017

“Self Care for Activists,” School of Education, CU Boulder, Sept 2017

“Rethinking Inclusivity,” GALA Choruses Leadership Symposium, Palm Springs, Jan 2017

“How Women’s Studies Lost Its Way and How It Can Regain Its Heart,” National Women’s Studies Association, Oakland, Nov 2012

 

South Africa:

“Conflicts and Collaborations: Building Trust in Transnational South Africa,” National Women’s Studies Association, Denver, Nov 2010

“South African Women Struggling with HIV/AIDS: How They Are Impacted and What They Are Doing About It,” William Woods University, March 2009

“Opposing the ‘New Apartheid’: South Africa’s Treatment Action Campaign and the Struggle for AIDS Treatment Access,” Association of American Geographers, Boston, April 2008.

“The Struggle for Sexual Equality in South Africa,” Macalester College, St. Paul, Oct 2007

“Constitution Making in the Rainbow Nation: Sexual Orientation and Democracy in Contemporary South Africa,” Loughborough University, UK. Sept 2007

“South Africa Today,” Hankey School 7th grade social studies class, Mission Viejo, CA. Dec 2007

“South African AIDS Treatment Access Politics in Historical Perspective,” University of the Western Cape, South Africa, Sept 2007

“AIDS Treatment Access in South Africa,” Celebrating Africa Week, University of Missouri. April 2006

“Understanding Thabo Mbeki’s Political Leadership: AIDS in ‘Post-Apartheid’ South Africa,” MacArthur Gender Consortium, University of Minnesota, April 2004

“Race, Gender, and Poverty: HIV/AIDS in South Africa,” MacArthur Program, University of Minnesota, March 2004

“AIDS Treatment Access in South Africa,” Human Rights Watch, University of Minnesota, Feb 2004

“Fighting to be Heard: Tensions Among South African Gay and Lesbian Activists and Implications for Post-Apartheid Nation-Building,” African Studies Association, Boston, Oct 2003

“Constitution-Making in the Rainbow Nation: Sexual Orientation and Democracy in Contemporary South Africa,” University of the Witswatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa, June 2003

“The ‘Devil Dean’ of Cape Town: Race, Sexuality and the Limits of the Nation in Contemporary South Africa,” Center for Advanced Feminist Studies, Talk Back Series, University of Minnesota, April 2002

“Lesbians and Gays in South Africa: Legally Protected but Internally Divided,” University of Minnesota, Oct 2001

“Tailoring the Nation: The Place of Homosexuality in Imagining the Nation in Zimbabwe and the New South Africa,” American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, Dec 1998

“Southern Africa: Stories from the Travellers’ Classroom,” Minnehaha United Methodist Church, Minneapolis, April 1996