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Skepticism
Transgender Day of Remembrance, 2011
And one final post in my perhaps overly prolific first week at Skepchick… Today is Transgender Day of Remembrance. Since 1999, the trans community and their allies have come together this day each November to remember those we’ve lost to acts of anti-transgender violence. I’m not entirely sure to what extent TDOR is known or recognized outside of our own…
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Feminism
Reasonable Divisions? CFI Vancouver Cancels Women’s Skepticism Group
Before I begin, it’s probably important to say that I appear to have caught some kind of horrible dread illness that has turned my bronchial tubes into sandpaper. Undoubtedly, this has something to do with all the toxins I’ve absorbed, an imbalance of chi energy, and the unnatural chemicals in my flu shot a couple weeks ago. As such,…
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Feminism
Transkeptuality: Gatekeeping and The Value of Critical Thought
(note: this was originally intended as a guest post, but then timing got all crazy. I think it will work nicely as an introduction instead, though.) An important, interesting, and increasingly common question in the contemporary skeptical community is to what extent should social concerns like sexism, misogyny, racism, homophobia, etc. be incorporated into the overall agenda of skepticism.…
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