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Bode is making history for being the first wheelchair user to play the character, Nessarose. As a trailblazer for authentic representation, her inspiring story and journey in the arts offer a powerful message of resilience, creativity, and inclusivity.
Katz’s dynamic and engaging multimedia presentations have long played an important role in the education of college students because of the ways in which they combine cutting-edge analysis of gender, culture, sex, and politics with a call to action – especially for men. Since the 1990s he has been a go-to speaker for campus programmers who want to reach men – including men in athletics and Greek life — with a message that is by turns provocative, affirmative, and inspiring.
Dr. Katz is also the creator and co-founder of the mixed-gender, multiracial Mentors in Violence Prevention (MVP) program, one of the longest-running and most widely influential gender violence prevention initiatives in North America and beyond, and the first major program of its kind in the college and professional sports culture, and all branches of the U.S. military.
His award-winning films include the classic Tough Guise series and The Bystander Moment: Transforming Rape Culture at its Roots. His next book, due from Penguin Random House in fall 2024, is Every Man: Why Violence Against Women is a Men’s Issue, & How You Can Make a Difference. His TEDX talk, Violence Against Women is a Men’s Issue, has been translated into 27 languages & has more than 5.5 million views.
Hurt has over two decades of experience navigating discussions about masculinity with high-profiled NCAA athletes, members of the U.S. military, fraternities, and everyday men and women throughout the world. He strengthened and honed his gender politics while working with the Mentors in Violence Prevention Program (MVP), and pioneering the Bystander Intervention Program he co-founded with Jackson Katz, Ph.D.
Hurt’s presentations focus on how representations of masculinity in popular culture normalize male violence; how heteronormative masculinity performed by all races contribute to gender oppression: how homophobia and transphobia make LGBT communities vulnerable to male violence: how positive male leadership and bystander intervention can end gender-based violence: and how to use male privilege to ally with women and girls to redefine masculinity and promote healthy relationships.
themselves just as they are.
Jes is best known for her visual campaigns, including: The “Attractive and Fat” Campaign to Mike Jeffries c/o Abercrombie & Fitch; The Smash the Scale Revolution; Body Love Spans Generations, #LoveTheMirror, and most recently her letter to Lane Bryant/#EmpowerALLBodies.
Jes is also the author of bestselling Things No One Will Tell Fat Girls, a manifesto and call to arms for people of all sizes and ages, published in October 2015. Her second book, Landwhale, was published in 2018. The memoir chronicles her journey as a body positive activist.
Peters has also appeared as the mutant Quicksilver/Peter Maximoff in the superhero films X-Men: Days of Future Past, X-Men: Apocalypse, and Dark Phoenix. In 2021, Peters made a surprise appearance in the Disney+ series WandaVision, portraying an alternate version of his character from the X-Men film series.
Peters is in production now on a new F/X television series The Beauty, also starring Rebecca Hall, Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Ramos, and Jeremy Pope.
Dr, Lafayette, Jr. co-founded the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) in 1960 with his college roommate, Rep. John Lewis, and was a core leader of the civil rights movement in Nashville, TN, and in Selma, AL, in 1965. As part of the May 17th Nashville Student Movement Ride, Lafayette endured riots and fire bombings in Montgomery, AL, and arrest in Jackson, MS, and jail time at Parchman State Prison Farm during June 1961. He directed the Alabama Voter Registration Project in 1962. He was appointed by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. to be National Program Administrator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and National Coordinator of the 1968 Poor People’s Campaign.
Master language creator Peterson offers a captivating overview of language creation, covering its history from Tolkien’s creations and Klingon to today’s thriving global community of conlangers.
Along the way, behind-the-scenes stories lift the curtain on how he builds languages. It’s an inside look at a fascinating culture and an engaging entry into a flourishing art form-and it might be the most fun you ever have with linguistics.
He has also created languages for Syfy’s Defiance, the CW’s The 100, Showtime’s Penny Dreadful, Marvel’s Thor: The Dark World, NBC’s Emerald City, and MTV’s The Shannara Chronicles.
He is the author of living language Dothraki and The Art of language Invention.
He has been covering post-9/11 issues-including national security, individual rights and the rule of law-since 2003, when he was a reporter for the Miami Herald. Later that year, he joined the Washington bureau of the Boston Globe; he then moved to the Washington bureau of the New York Times in 2008. He has also co-taught a seminar on national security and the Constitution at Georgetown University’s political science department.
His first book, Takeover, chronicles the Bush-Cheney administration’s efforts to expand presidential power. His second book, Power Wars, is an investigative history of national- security legal policy during the Obama administration.