Selected Papers and Presentations: Art
2007 The Ethics of Contracts with Persons: Life Models in the University Studio, paper presented at the National College Art Association Conference in New York, February 17.
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2004 Hysterical Women: The Gendering of Genius, essay presented at the Bemidji Center, Bemidji, Minnesota.
2002 Intersections of Observation and Action: Personal Reflections on Art, Pornography, and the Territories of the Nude, paper presented at the Red River Women’s Studies Conference, Grand Forks, North Dakota.
Selected Papers and Presentations: Other
2007 Speaking from Invisibility: The Women's Network Task Force 1996-2000, paper presented at MSUM's Violence and Abuse Summer Institute.
2003 The World War I Christmas Day Truce, presentation held at the Unitarian Universalist Church in Fargo, North Dakota, exploring the uncelebrated history of the WWI Truce and linking the topic to our current war and broader issues of violence and peace.
2000 HIV and AIDS in Rural Communities: A Changing and Challenging Pandemic, World AIDS Day speech exploring the social and political context of AIDS, including HIV stigma and discrimination, political barriers to finding a cure, and rural issues in relationship to HIVprevention and education. North Dakota State University.
1998 Pornography: The Liberal Dilemma, Unitarian Universalist Church, Fargo, North Dakota.
1997-1998 Intensive Workshop on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Women and Children, 2-day workshops held in locations in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and North Dakota.
1997 Gender, Free Speech, and the Internet, University of North Dakota Law Women's Caucus, Grand Forks, North Dakota.
1997 The Intersections of Class, Race, and Gender, facilitated training for Communities Working to Dismantle Racism, Moorhead, Minnesota.
1996 Stripping, Prostitution, and Pornography in Rural Communities, National Teleconference on Violence, site post: Minnesota State University.
Publications: Art Work
Illustration to accompany an article on Buddhism and nature published in the October 2005 edition of the Shambhala Sun, "North America's premiere magazine on Buddhism and spirituality."
Publications: Writing
Aneroxia Porn, White Porn. Published in Rain and Thunder: A Radical Feminist Journal of Discussion and Activism, Issue 39, Northampton, MA: Summer 2008.
Making Hay While the Sun Shines: The Dynamics of Strip Clubs in the Upper Midwest and the Community Response. Published in Not for Sale: Feminists Resisting Prostitution and Pornography, Spinifex Press, Australia, 2005.
Review of Making Hay can be found at NoPornNorthHampton.
"Loving and militant, practical and prophetic, this book collects the least compromised writing on a most crucial problem of our time--even the bottom line issue of all time. This book is not for sale." --Catherine MacKinnon, Elizabeth A. Long Professor of Law at the University of Michigan.
5 Sex Industry Stories: Women from the Red River Valley Speak Out. 2000. Interviews were collected and published by the Women's Network Task Force. Authored introduction and participated in all interviews. Additional interviewers were members of the Task Force, women who were or who had been in prostitution in the Red River Valley region of North Dakota and Minnesota. This publication is no longer available, other than for review on file at Women's Network of the Red River Valley.