Gender Public Advocacy Coalition : About GenderPAC

Bring the GenderTOUR to Your Community

Riki Wilchins tours colleges to speak out against discrimination and violence caused by gender stereotypes.

Topic: Ending Gender Stereotypes: A New Path to Full Equality or call 202.462.6610 to request a topic.

Riki Wilchins
Executive Director, GenderPAC

Author, Read My Lips: Sexual Subversion and the End of Gender (Firebrand, 1997)
Author, GenderQueer:Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary (Alyson, 2002)
Author, Queer Theory, Gender Theory: An Instant Primer (Alyson, Spring 2004)

Honored by TIME Magazine's "100 Civic Innovators for the 21st Century"

Former Featured Columnist for The Advocate Magazine

Why bring the GenderTOUR to your community?

In the last year:

Defendants accused of killing transgender Latina teen Gwen Araujo of CA, after discovering that she born biologically male, use a "gay panic defense" claiming they experienced temporary insanity after discovering they had had sexual relations with a transgender woman.

Joel Robles, a 29-year-old transgender woman was stabbed to death last year; her murderer, Estanislao Martinez, will be a free man in just four years.

Ronald Paris, Jr. was sentenced to 30 years after slamming his 3-year-old son, Ronnie, into a kitchen wall and fatally wounding him in an effort to prevent little Ronnie from being a 'sissy.'

From classrooms to boardrooms, from reservations to the city streets - transcending narrow gender stereotypes can get you or your loved ones harassed, fired, or even killed. Change won't come quickly - this struggle is just beginning.

Riki Wilchins focuses on how discrimination and violence caused by gender stereotypes affect us all -- gay and straight, feminist and transgender, youth and of-color. Learn about what GenderPAC is doing and what each of us can do to build safer communities, fairer workplaces, and schools where all children are valued and respected.

Engagements Include:

Main address;

Question and answer session; and

Pre-or-post student and faculty event with an optional book signing.

Please let us know any special requirements for events or topics.

Engagements Requirements:

$5,000 plus travel and accommodations, or $8,000 with Patricia Ireland, President of NOW (1993-01) and author of What Women Want (Dutton, 1995). Please ask us for rates for limited budgets.

For overnight engagements, accommodations at Hyatt, Marriott, or Hilton Hotels and car to-and-from airport

For More Information

To find out more about bringing the GenderYOUTH Activist Training Session to your school or conference, Click here.

To find out if the GenderTOUR is coming to a location near you, click here.