Gus Schleis has quite an activist resume already. This is not surprising since Avaren Ipsen is his mother. Gus has testified before the Nuclear Regulatory Committee on behalf of kids afraid of a radioactive environment, protested against the Iraq war and dressed as a killer tomato in protest of genetically modified foods.

Shelby Aesthetic is an artist/writer/film documenter. Shelby has done underground sex work at various times in her life as means of survival, and is currently a sex worker activist. She moved to Alabama in 1998 and is currently doing outreach for sex workers, documenting their lives, and writing for her own underground punk zine. Shelby is a

Dr. Rita Nakashima Brock is co-author of the critically-acclaimed Proverbs of Ashes: Violence, Redemptive Suffering, and the Search for What Saves Us (Beacon Press, 2001), is a Visiting Scholar. Author of Journeys By Heart: A Christology of Erotic Power. Co-authored Casting Stones: Prostitution and Liberation in Asia and the United States which won the 1996 Catholic