Gender Inequity & Inequality
A Panel Discussion
Meet the Panelists
Zackary Drucker is an independent artist, filmmaker and cultural producer. She has performed and exhibited her work internationally in museums, galleries and film festivals, including the Whitney Biennial 2014, MoMa PS1, Hammer Museum, Art Gallery of Ontario, MCA San Diego, and SF MoMA, among others. Drucker is an Emmy-nominated producer for the docuseries “This Is Me” and was a producer on the Golden Globe- and Emmy Award-winning Amazon show “Transparent.” “The Lady and The Dale,” her directorial debut for television, premiered on HBO in early 2021.
Suzie Silver is a queer/gnc media artist, educator and curator. With Joseph Hall and Scott Andrew, Silver organizes and produces “TQLive!” an annual queer variety show at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh. Since 2003, Silver has worked collaboratively with Hilary Harp on videos, mixed media installations, curated screenings and performances that celebrate their shared love of science fiction, camp sensibilities and fairy tales. All of Silver’s work alludes to the capacity for desire to disrupt social boundaries and imagine new futures. Silver’s work has screened and exhibited widely nationally and internationally.
Siena Liggins is not shy about what she wants. That's what you learn from a childhood spent packing for the next new city - when it's time to move, you know what to do. At home in Detroit, she started making music. At home in Atlanta, she started using it for good. On the road to creating a space for girls who like girls to call their own, she ended up tapping into feelings that everyone shares, “no matter whose DMs we slide into,” she said. With “The Fader,” “Billboard,” “Essence” and “E!” leading the way on who’s taking notice of Siena in 2021, somehow, she turned a batch of songs about girls fucking girls into a movement.
Meet the Moderator
Greisy Genao (she/they) is a poet and filmmaker from Queens, N.Y., with a bachelor’s in English Writing and Film Studies from DePauw University. She was awarded the Posse Foundation scholarship to DePauw University in 2014, and in 2018 conducted research on Dominican folklore and film in the Dominican Republic as a Fulbright U.S Student Researcher. They have been published in the anthologies “Women of Eves Garden,” “Ritmo Que Late” from the Dominican Writers Association, and Sarah Lawrence College’s “Lumina Journal." Their film work has been celebrated across the Dominican diaspora, and alongside being featured at the Femujer! Film Festival in Santo Domingo, their latest short film, “Si Ardiera La Ciudad,” won first place for the “Dominicans in the Diaspora” short film competition of the 2020 Dominican Film Festival in New York. Greisy has also produced “Stories of the Diaspora," a series dedicated to capturing the narratives of multi-generational Dominicans in New York. As a multidisciplinary storyteller, Genao seeks to explore and honor the connection between folklore and nostalgia as it appears in the hyphenated Dominican experience.
