Speaking & Media

Eesha regularly presents at conferences and meetings on the following topics:

  • Reproductive Health, Rights & Justice
  • Progressive Policy Change Strategies
  • Ending Gender Based Violence
  • Transnational Feminisms
  • Intersectionality and Movement Building
  • Media, Arts, Culture Strategies for Social Change

Some recent media:

A roundtable of Texas advocated for a roundtable on the Laura Flanders Show:

A keynote address with Dr. Robin Boylorn on “Why you shouldn’t be an ally” for the UIC Conference on Women:

Some past events:

2018 Speaking Events

January 20 – Rally with the Women of the Resistance|Pre-event at the Women’s March, Houston, TX

2017 Speaking Events

November 17 – Crunk Feminist Collective Round Table| National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, MD

November 17 – Panel: South Asian and Black Feminist Solidarity in Practice| National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Baltimore, MD

October 8 – National Women’s Conference | University of Houston, Houston, TX

March 7 – Houston + Feminism Wikipedia edit-a-thon | University of Houston, Houston, TX

May 12 – Keynote Address | Sojourner House, Providence, RI

Selected 2016 Speaking Events

February 17 – Public Interview of Samina Ali on Muslim Women’s Art and Activism | University of Houston, Houston, TX

February 26 – Queer Political Art in the Wake of H.E.R.O: A Panel Discussion | Art League, Houston, TX

April 22 – Keynote Address | Gender, Bodies, Technology Conference, Virginia Tech University, Roanoke, VA

September 15 – Panel Discussion | Screen Asia: “SOLD: Human Trafficking is Modern Slavery, Asia Society, Houston, TX

November 10 -12 – Mobilizing Black Women & Girls in the Movement for Black Lives | Workshop at Facing Race, Atlanta, GA

Selected 2015 Speaking Events

February 20-21 – Closing Plenary | Take Root Conference, Norman, Oklahoma

June 6 – Plenary on Abortion Access and Self-Determination | National Network of Abortion Funds Organizing Summit, St. Louis, Missouri

July 24 –Closing Keynote Address | Texas Reproductive Rights Summit, Houston, Texas

August 5 – Access to Health: Elevating the Discourse on Health Care and Reproductive Justice | First Person Learning Luncheon, Houston, TX

November 13 – The Pleasures and Possibilities of Precarity: A Crunk Feminist Collective Roundtable | National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI

November 14 – Affective Networks, Political Organizing & Embodiment Online | National Women’s Studies Association Conference, Milwaukee, WI

Selected 2014 Speaking Events

January 24 – Percussive Pedagogies: Teaching (And Being Taught) Feminism in Digital Spaces | Feminist Digital Pedagodies Conference, Rutgers University, New Jersey

February 7-  Colonization, Gender, Culture and Resistance | CONVERGE Conference, University of Miami, School of Law

April 11 – Online Feminism and Social Change | From Abortion Rights to Social Justice Conference, Civil Liberties and Public Policy Program, Amherst, MA

April 24 – Keynote Panel: Oppression Informed Strategies to End Sexual Violence | Minnesota Indian Women’s Sexual Assault Coalition, Morton, MN

April 25 – Keynote Address | Powerful Partnerships: 20 Years of the Violence Against Women Act, Delaware Coalition Against Domestic Violence, Newark, DE

July 26 –  Standing Our Ground: Raising Our Voices against Reproductive Oppressionand Violence against Women | SisterSong and Free Marissa Now, Jacksonville, Florida

August 20 – Youth Organizing: Catching Fire for Social Justice | National Sexual Violence Conference, Pittsburg, PA

November 14 – Crunk Feminist Collective Roundtable | Feminist Transgressions: National Women’s Studies Association Conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico