Confluere: A Different Speaker's Bureau
Below is the list of activists and artists available for presentations/performances. To schedule a presenter/performer or to ask a question, please contact her or him directly. Confluere is a "speaker's bureau without the bureau," that is, we share our resources and contacts but remain independent of each other.
Featured Speakers/Performers
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Emi Koyama is a multi-issue social justice slut who synthesizes feminist, Asian, survivor, dyke, queer, sex worker, slut, intersex, genderqueer and crip politics. Emi is the founding director of 
Nomy Lamm is a badass fatass jew dyke amputee, performance artist, writer and activist. She has co-written and performed in queer punk theatrical productions including the post-apocalyptic rock opera "The Transfused" and "Dr. Frockrocket's Vivifying (Re-Animatronic) Menagerie and Medicine Show." In 1997 she was named one of Ms. Magazine's "Women of the Year."
Kristina Sheryl Wong is a writer, solo performer, actor,
educator, and filmmaker. She is the writer/ performer of two
solo shows, "Miss Chinatown 2nd Runner Up" and "Free?". She
has been the recipient of the PEN USA Emerging Voices Fellowship,
and the Visual Communications Armed with a Camera fellowship.
Her work is infected by trademark quirkiness, tucking subversive
activism within art. Her website is
Lauren Martin is a mixed-race queer feminist artist/writer/activist. In addition to her work in the anti-violence movement, she writes and performs about the intersections of race, class, gender and sexuality, exploring the fragmentation, overlapping and performance of identities. All of her work is informed by a feminist, queer, anti-racist, anti-oppression framework and a commitment to social justice.
Leslie Bull is a white girl, ex-junkie ho, queer, feminist, prisoner family activist with a powerful race, class, and gender analysis based in her lived experience and expressed through her mind-blowing art. Leslie is into writing for survival, living through her art, and debunking the myth of the sacred pussy. She recently made a video with Penny Arcade and Ariel Lighteningchild titled, "on being a junkie ho in sex worker world" and created a new workshop called "Prisoner Family Pride."
Thea Hillman is a writer and intersex activist from Oakland, California. She is the author of Depending on the Light (Manic D Press, 2001). A poetry slam champion with an MFA in English/Creative Writing, Thea has performed her work at festivals, bookstores, and colleges across the country. She is board chair of the 
Qwo-Li Driskill is a Cherokee Two-Spirit/Queer also of African, Irish, Lenape, Lumbee and Osage ascent. From hir groundbreaking presentations on First Nations' struggles, to hir skilled facilitation of the "Theatre of the Oppressed" liberation movement for social justice, Qwo-Li's multi-issue approach to education gives a refreshing view of the cutting edge concerns of the new milennium.
Diana Courvant enacts change through hir writings and presentations. Using hir own experience as a foundation, ze co-founded the 
Kim So Yung is a faux Korean who was adopted/abducted by white americans when she was four months old. So Yung now speaks and writes extensively on the racial and economic politics of transracial adoption/abduction. So Yung is co-founder of Transracial Abductees, an organization that works to educate transracial adoptees and communities of color and expose the unequal power between the white adoption industry and children of color adoptees. 
Colin Kennedy Donovan is a crippled queer geeky transfag
mothersworstnightmare. S/he is an activist, educator, performer, poet and essayist, and the creator of the (dis)ability zine Fuck Pity. Hir work has appeared in several publications, including Clamor Magazine, Revolutionary Voices: A Multicultural Queer Youth Anthology, Xcp: Streetnotes, and Turning the Tide. Colin speaks and educates on anti-racism, radical (dis)ability politics, gender and queer issues.