Not your Mom - Women Resisting Gender Ideology Panel Discussion

Panelists: Heather Heying, Carrie Mendoza, Nina Paley and Carole Hooven. Moderated by: Jessie Mannisto.

Heather Heying
Heather Heying is a scientist, educator, and author. She holds a PhD in Biology, and a B.A. in Anthropology, and has conducted research on the evolution of social systems and sexual selection, from frogs to humans. Formerly a visiting Fellow at Princeton, and before that, a tenured professor at The Evergreen State College, she has written two books (Antipode: Seasons with the Extraordinary Wildlife and Culture of Madagascar and the NYT best-seller A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life, co-authored with Bret Weinstein).

Carrie D. Mendoza
Carrie D. Mendoza, MD is the Director of FAIR in Medicine with the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism, and a practicing Emergency Medicine physician with over 20 years experience working in rural, suburban, and urban hospitals treating snakebites to gunshot wounds to Covid-19 patients. Her practical experience provides unique insights into the American medical system and how the modern healthcare bureaucracy can scale harmful policies while ignoring the negative side effects. Dr. Mendoza will share her experience with the opioid epidemic and how the lessons learned about it can inform our understanding of medicalizing gender ideology and how to best stop its harmful effects.

Nina Paley
Artist, animator, cartoonist, and scapegoat Nina Paley created the GENDER WARS Playing Cards shortly after her unexpectedly controversial comic book Agents of H.A.G. got cancelled by crowdfunding platform IndieGoGo. In the Before Times, she made the award-winning animated musical feature films Sita Sings the Blues and Seder-Masochism. Her experimental digital projects include ApocalypseAnimated.com and MysticSymbolic.com. A staunch proponent of Free Speech, Nina cohosts the Heterodorx podcast with Corinna Cohn.

Carole Hooven
Dr. Hooven is a Non-resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute and an associate in the Psychology department at Harvard University. Until recently, she served as Co-director of Undergraduate Studies in Harvard’s Department of Human Evolutionary Biology, where she was an award-winning instructor for over 20 years. Dr. Hooven is the author of T: the Story of Testosterone, the Hormone that Dominates and Divides Us.

Jessie Mannisto
Jessie Mannisto is Genspect's executive editor. She is also founder and editor in chief of Third Factor, a platform dedicated to the life of the mind and the search for the higher path. It was in a 2019 Third Factor article that she first publicly questioned gender identity and its apparent over-representation among those identified as gifted. She is a former CIA analyst and Google policy fellow and also volunteers as a debate chair for Braver Angels.

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