Speakers and Performers

It is our vision at V-Day and ABC that Love Your Tree will serve as a steady mirror to the powerful single event of seeing Eve in "The Good Body". As such, it is inseparable from the show and can be thought of as an extended piece of theatre itself: a theatre of healing. Love Your Tree will be open for all to return to during the day and evenings- offering a full calendar of talks, discussions, and performances.

The women presenting at Love Your Tree over the next two months are generously donating their time, talents and insights, to help all of us process the issues that are evoked in "The Good Body". The speakers and performers carry the wisdom of generations of women, and they are helping us to create an extraordinary community of support.

In the Red Tent at Love Your Tree, you may discover that we are all "hungry" for beauty and rest. Feel free to come before a talk or performance and give yourself time in the Red Tent, or come and spend time with us at the resource table where we are continually gathering a wealth of information from a rich community of women. We hope you will return again and again, and help us to build a community and a vision that will live way beyond this Love Your Tree installation.

Cissy Brady-Rogers
"Missing Parts: Honoring Expected & Unexpected Changes in Our Bodies"

Sussan Deyhim
"Vocodeliks"

EMME
"Reclaiming Our Bodies, Reclaiming Ourselves."

Rita Freedman, Ph.D.
Judith Ruskay Rabinor PhD
"Looking for Love? Just Hug Your Tree"

Blair Glaser
"Demystifying Body Obsessing"

Jane Hirschmann and Carol Munter
"Overcoming Overeating"

Jane Hirschmann, Kate Hirschmann-Levy and Lela Zaphiropoulos
"Mothers and Daughters: Breaking the Cycle of Body Hatred and Eating Problems"

Lynn Jericho
"The three essential questions and their answers"

Anita Johnston
"Eating in the Light of the Moon"

Fawzia Afzal-Khan
"Bold, Bald and Beautiful: Acting Out As A Muslim/Pakistani/American Wo/Man"

Elizabeth Lesser
"Broken Open: How Difficult Times Can Help Us Grow"

Suzanne Braun Levine
"Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Defining Second Adulthood by Living it"

Carol Gilligan
"Inventing the Rest of Our Lives: Defining Second Adulthood by Living it"

Leah McElrath
"The Lesbian Body"

Zhena Muzyka
"Gypsy Tea Party"

Llorraine Neithardt
"The Crucified Venus" Filling Up The Empty Places

Tammy Nelson
"Mandalas: A Symbol Of the Self" Filling Up The Empty Places

Christiane Northrup, M.D.
"Loving Everything About Your Tree"

Adrienne Ressler, MA, CSW
"A Body to Die For"
"Insatiable Hungers and the Pursuit of Pleasure"

Sil Reynolds
"A Body to Die For"
"Listening to Your Good Body"

Nelly Rosario
"Reading from Song of the Water Saints"

Kim Rosen
"Poetry as Passion, Prayer and Practice, a gathering for women and girls (10 and older)"

Geneen Roth
"Feeding the Hungry Heart"

Janice Rous
"Loving Our Aging Bodies"
"The Art of Body Dialogue"

Sharon Salzburg
"Meditation as Self Care"

Lisa Sarasohn
"The Goddess Ungirdled: Learning To Love Our Bellies, Finding the Sacred Feminine Within"
"THE GOOD BELLY: Owning Your Pro-Creative Power"

Mona Lisa Shultz
"The NEW Feminine Brain"

Wendy Shanker
"Big Mouths: Jewish Women and Appetite"

Laura Simms
"The Robe of Love"

Gioia Timpanelli
"Stories From Sicily in the Red Tent"

Nina Utne
"The Body Politic: How Loving Your Body Can Change the World."

Urban Bush Women
Urban Bush Women present "A Batty Party"

Jessica Weiner
"Do I Look Fat in This?"

Elettra Wiedemann
"The Legacy of Beauty"

Naomi Wolfe
"The Beauty Myth Revisited"