Good Vibrations 2012 Sex Summit » Panelists & Moderators

Reid Mihalko

admin — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 18:57:50 +0000

Sex and relationship expert Reid Mihalko teaches adults how to create more self-esteem, self-confidence and greater health and satisfaction in and out of the bedroom. Using humor, insight and solid information, Reid appeals to audiences of all orientations, backgrounds, ages and identities. His mission is to give men and women new tools to transform their love lives into fulfilling, satisfying, and sustainable expressions of self by asking the question: do you have the courage to be the change you want to see in the bedroom?

Twitter: @ReidAboutSex
Facebook: ReidAboutSexFB
Website: ReidAboutSex.com

Yoseñio V. Lewis

admin — Mon, 02 Apr 2012 22:51:08 +0000

Yoseñio V. Lewis is a Latino of African Descent (Panamanian) female to male transsexual who has been a social justice activist since he was 13 years old. A health educator, speaker, writer, performer, trainer, facilitator and spiritual hugger, Yoseñio is a member of the National Advisory Board for the Center of Excellence for Transgender Health. He also serves on the Community Advisory Board for the All Gender Health Online Study, sponsored by the Program in Human Sexuality of the University of Minnesota. Yoseñio is on the faculty for the Sexuality Track of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force Creating Change Conference. He is also a frequent speaker at the medical schools of the University of California at San Francisco and the Institute for the Advanced Study of Human Sexuality.

Yoseñio is a co-founder of Big Boys’ Ink™ Productions, a theatrical writing and performing company. He is also a co-founder of “The TransAms”, a barbershop quartet composed of transsexual men. Yoseñio has been featured in several documentaries, most recently “Diagnosing Difference,” a full-length documentary featuring interviews with 12 diverse scholars, activists and artists who identify on the Trans spectrum (Transgender, Transsexual, Gender Queer, and Gender Variant) about the impact and implications of the Gender Identity Disorder (GID) on their lives and communities. Other documentaries include Christpher Lee’s “Trappings of Transhood,” the television channel A&E’s “Transgender Revolution,” “The Believers,” a documentary about the Transcendence Gospel Choir and “Transforming Healthcare,” a short highlighting the issues that Trans people face when accessing healthcare.

Yoseñio believes that there can be no art without activism and no activism without art.

Abiola Abrams

admin — Thu, 15 Mar 2012 18:25:47 +0000

Love columnist Abiola Abrams is the director of AVN-award-winning erotica film “Afrodite Superstar” and author of the upcoming “Official Bombshell Handbook.” Find her popular web TV series and Passionista Playbook blog at AbiolaTV.com. Currently she gives lifestyle advice on several TV and radio shows. She has appeared as a host and correspondent on networks from MTV and the CW to BBC Radio and HBO.

Twitter: @abiolatv
Website: AbiolaTV.com

Emily Morse

admin — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:15:50 +0000

Emily Morse is the creator and host of Sex With Emily, a daily live streaming audio and video podcast. Launched in August 2005 as a podcast, it quickly garnered a spot on iTunes’ most downloaded “Top 20 Podcasts”, and has remained there since. The show earned the #1 spot in the Savviest in Social Media category and won the 2010 Home-Based 100 Award. She now has a television show in development based on Sex With Emily.

Twitter: @sexwithemily
Website: sexwithemily.com
Facebook: facebook.com/sexwithemily

Tracy Clark-Flory

admin — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:14:47 +0000

Tracy Clark-Flory is a staff writer at Salon.com where she writes about sex and relationships through personal, cultural and scientific lenses. Her work has been published in Elle, Women’s Health, San Francisco and the yearly “Best Sex Writing” anthology.

Twitter: @TracyClarkFlory
Website: tracyclark-flory.tumblr.com

Jaclyn Friedman

admin — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:08:37 +0000

Jaclyn Friedman is a writer, educator, and activist, and the author of the hit book What You Really Really Want: The Smart Girl’s Shame-Free Guide to Sex & Safety, and editor of Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World Without Rape. Friedman is a founder and the Executive Director of Women, Action & the Media, a national organization working for gender justice in media. She is a popular speaker on campuses and at conferences across the U.S. and beyond, and has been a guest on the BBC, Democracy Now, To The Contrary, and numerous other radio and television shows, and her commentary has appeared in outlets including CNN, The Washington Post, The Nation, Jezebel.com, Feministing.com, The American Prospect, Bitch Magazine, AlterNet, and The Huffington Post.

Twitter: @jaclynf
Website: jaclynfriedman.com

Carmen Vázquez

admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:33:36 +0000

Carmen Vázquez is an activist, writer and community intellectual. Currently, she is the Coordinator of the LGBT Health & Human Services Unit for the NYS AIDS Institute. She is the former Deputy Executive Director of the Empire State Pride Agenda. She was the government and public policy director of the New York City LGBT Community Services Center, a founding member of the New York State LGBT Health and Human Services Network, a board member of the National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, a board member of the Funding Exchange’s OUT Fund and a Co-Chair of Equality Federation from 2004 – 2006. She was a founder of the Women’s Building in San Francisco and of Causes in Common, a national coalition of LGBT Liberation and Reproductive Justice Activists. Her essays have been published in several anthologies.

Chauntelle Anne Tibbals, Ph.D

admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:32:24 +0000

Chauntelle Anne Tibbals, Ph.D. is a sociologist specializing in gender and labor issues. She has spent almost ten years researching the adult industry, working to complicate popular understanding of the adult business, its enterprise, and its socio-cultural significance. Her research has been published in numerous scholarly journals including Sexualities, Stanford Law and Policy Review, Gender Work & Organization, and Journal of Contemporary Ethnography. She is a Visiting Scholar in USC’s Department of Sociology and blogs regularly about industry issues at PVVOnline.com.

Twitter: @drchauntelle
Website: PVVOnline.com
Facebook: facebook.com/DrChauntelle

Dr. Carol Queen

admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:25:00 +0000

Author, lecturer and sex-positive activist Dr. Carol Queen is the Bay Area’s favorite cultural sexologist. Dr. Queen currently serves as Good Vibrations’ Staff Sexologist and Chief Cultural Officer; she leads regular workshops on a variety of topics for Good Vibrations and scripts and hosts the Pleasure-Ed Series line of informational films for Good Vibrations’ sister company, Good Releasing. She is also the director and co-founder of the Center for Sex & Culture, as well as a much-published writer of erotica, sex ed, and essays about sexuality.

Twitter: @carolqueen
Website: carolqueen.com
Facebook: facebook.com/carolqueen

Mireille Miller-Young, Ph.D

admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:20:58 +0000

Mireille Miller-Young Ph.D, is Assistant Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research explores race, gender and sexuality in visual culture and sex industries in the United States. Her manuscript, A Taste for Brown Sugar: Black Women, Sex Work and Pornography (forthcoming in 2013 from Duke University Press) examines African American women’s representations, performances and labors in pornographic media from the 19^th century to the present.

Twitter: @drmireille
Website: mireillemilleryoung.tumblr.com
Facebook: facebook.com/milleryoung

Heather Corinna

admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:19:41 +0000

Heather Corinna is the executive director of Scarleteen, the inclusive online resource for young adult sexuality education and information she founded in 1998. She is the author of S.E.X.: The All-You-Need-to-Know Progressive Sexuality Guide to Get You Through High School and College; a contributor to numerous sexuality and erotica anthologies and other publications; and director of the CONNECT sexual health outreach program for King County, which primarily serves homeless and transient youth. She is on the editorial board of the American Journal of Sexuality Education, was a writer and contributing editor for the 2011 edition of Our Bodies, Ourselves, a member of the Board of Directors for NARAL Pro-Choice Washington, and her sexuality advice is syndicated weekly at RH Reality Check.

Twitter: @heathercorinna
Website: heathercorinna.com | femmerotic.com | Scarleteen.org
Facebook: facebook.com/heathercorinna

Judith Levine

admin — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:17:42 +0000

Author, activist and journalist Judith Levine illuminates the ways that history, culture, politics, and the marketplace are entwined in intimate life. She is the author of four books, including Harmful to Minors: The Perils of Protecting Children From Sexand, most recently, Not Buying It: My Year Without Shopping. Judith writes ”Poli Psy,” a column about emotions in politics, for the Vermont weekly Seven Days, and serves as a director of the National Center for Reason & Justice.

Website: judithlevine.com

Maggie Mayhem

admin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:28:56 +0000

Eight years ago, Maggie Mayhem took a volunteer job in an HIV testing clinic that changed her life forever. Since then she has coordinated free testing clinics, served as the HIV Senior Specialist at Larkin Street Youth Services, done field work in Tanzania, Africa and has been an out and loud sex worker through it all. She is proud to call Oakland, CA her home of many years.

Twitter: @msmaggiemayhem
Website: missmaggiemayhem.com
Porn: meetthemayhems.com

Dr. Charlie Glickman

admin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:27:08 +0000

Dr. Charlie Glickman has been a sexuality educator since 1989, when he became an HIV educator and counselor. In 1996, he joined the staff at Good Vibrations was the Education Program Manager, coordinating educational workshops and training staff as Sex Educator-Sales Associates. He currently is touring with the new book The Ultimate Guide to Prostate Pleasure.

Twitter: @charlieglickman
Website: charlieglickman.com

Dr. Lynn Comella

admin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:18:39 +0000

Dr. Lynn Comella, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies and Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Her research and teaching interests include media and culture, gender and sexuality, and popular entertainment and consumer culture. Her research explores the intersection of feminist sexual politics and marketplace culture, with a focus on the women’s market for sex toys and pornography. Her work has appeared in Sex for Sale: Prostitution, Pornography, and the Sex Industry, Commodity Activism: Cultural Resistance in Neoliberal Times, and New Sociologies of Sex Work, among other places. She’s a frequent media contributor, and writes a regular column on sexuality and culture for Las Vegas Weekly.

Twitter: @LynnComella

Liz Canner

admin — Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:16:46 +0000

Liz Canner directed Orgasm Inc., a powerful documentary about the medical industry and the marketing campaigns that are literally and figuratively reshaping our everyday lives around health, illness, desire and orgasm. Canner was recently named one of the top ten independent filmmakers to watch in 2009 by The Independent Magazine and honored with a Visionary Award from Dartmouth College for the movie. She has received more than 45 awards, honors and grants for her innovative documentary projects on human rights issues.

Twitter: @orgasm_inc
Website: orgasminc.org