Melanie Mallon

Melanie is a freelance editor and writer living in a small town outside Minneapolis with her husband, two kids, dog, and two cats. When not making fun of bad charts or running the Uncensorship Project, she spends her time wrangling commas, making colon jokes, and putting out random dumpster fires. You can find her on Twitter as @MelMall, on Facebook, and on Instagram.
  • Activism

    Yessenia will shave her head to help students get to SSA Con

    This month’s Skepchick Challenge: Yessenia of Queereka has agreed to part with every last hair on her head if we can reach our goal of raising $2,500 by June 4 to send students to the Secular Student Alliance Conference in Las Vegas this June. That amount will cover travel, lodging, and conference fees for 20 students, 10 from SAC City Freethinkers and 10 from the Atheists and Skeptics Society…

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  • Featured

    Bad Chart Thursday: The Skeptic’s Secret

    We’ve had a lot of discussions of privilege lately, and I’ve noticed that whenever the topic comes up, whether the focus is on race, gender, sexuality, ability, or any other axis, someone comments along the lines of suggesting we should all focus on simply being human. Usually, there’s a moral high ground implied in somehow being above all this prejudice…

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  • Events

    Skepchick Auctions: Winged Shape-Shifter, GMO & UFO signed photographs by GiGi Chickee

    This week’s auctions feature three incredible photographs created just for SkepchickCon by Gigi Chickee, from Mad Art Lab. She has signed and framed her “Winged Shape-shifter,” “GMO,” and “UFO,” and donated them to help us raise money for travel costs for the con. (See GiGi’s post about these photographs here and about two of the other photographs she created for…

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  • Events

    Auctions End in Less than 2 Hours!

    If you want a crack at the items up for sale this week, you are running out of time. In less than 2 hours, these donated items may be lost to you FOREVER. Can you live with that kind of regret? CAN YOU?! Here’s what we’ve got up for auction to help raise money for SkepchickCon travel costs: The original…

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  • Random Asides

    Bad Chart Thursday: Map of Hate Speech against Conservative White Male Christians

    Rebecca is off to the Women in Secularism 2 conference, so I’m covering Bad Chart Thursday this week. In today’s Quickies, Amanda included a link about a map showing hotspots in the United States for racist, homophobic, and ableist language in geotagged tweets, and commenters expressed valid concerns and questions about the methodology and data presentation. So I went to…

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  • Activism

    Skepchick Challenge: Send 20 Students to SSA Con

    Yessenia of Queereka and SAC City Freethinkers want to help send 1020* students to the Secular Student Alliance Conference in Las Vegas this June. Considering how amazing SSA is and the importance of supporting the future of secularism, we want to do whatever we can to help them out. The Skepchick Challenge: If we can raise $2,500 for travel, lodging, and…

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  • Events

    Skepchick Auctions: Original Surly Art, Elyse’s Penis, Skepchick Goblet, Custom Cocktail & More

    Contrary to MRA mythology, Skepchicks don’t think there’s anything wrong with owning a penis. In fact, this week, you have a chance to own the penis you’ve always dreamed of, custom made to your specifications in MS Paint by El Mofo herself, Elyse Anders. That’s just one of the many items we’ve got up for sale on eBay as part…

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  • Events

    SkepchickCon: Early Registration Discount Ends May 15

    Meet Skepchicks, Freethought Bloggers, and tons of special guests at SkepchickCon, the science and skepticism track of CONvergence, a sci-fi/fantasy conference held July 4-7 in the Minneapolis area. If you register by May 15, you pay only $60. That’s it. Sixty bucks gets you access to four freaking days of panels, cosplay, multiple nightly themed parties, interactive workshops, and more.…

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