Activism
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Speaking Out Against Hate Directed at Women: Dale McGowan
In my continuing series where I reach out to men in leadership roles in the secular, skeptic, humanist and atheist communities, I bring you a lovely essay from Dale McGowan. Dale is the Executive Director of Foundation Beyond Belief. This story may restore a tiny bit of your ‘faith’ in humanity and it gives some darn good advice on how…
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Speaking Out Against Hate Directed at Women: David Silverman
I recently wrote about dealing with hate and harassment and a good point was brought up. How do the leaders in the secular, humanist, skeptic and atheist communities feel about what has been happening to women online and at events? Why haven’t they spoke up about it? Maybe no one has asked them to. Until now. Over the next few…
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Ask Surly Amy: How to Deal with Hate
I was wondering how you guys manage to deal with all the hate? I became an atheist/skeptic a little less than a year ago, and since then it’s just been wave after wave of violent pushback against feminism. It’s not even just the atheist movement anymore (i.e. Anita Sarkeesian & the gaming community) – everyday, I see some explosion over feminism/women, and every time I…
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Atlanta Skeptics Star Party 2012
It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Only 45 days to Dragon*Con, which means only 44 days to the Atlanta Skeptics Charity Star Party for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society! This year, our featured astronomers are Phil Plait and Skepchick’s own Nicole Gugliucci. And our musical line up has doubled – in addition to George Hrab coming back to…
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Global Quickies: The Flattery Will Get You Everywhere Edition
Hello awesome Skepchick readers. Have I ever told you that you guys are the greatest audience in all of the intertubes? Well, you are not only that, you are also forgiving of a bad blogger who hasn’t posted an update of Global Quickies in a long time. I hope I can make up for it with the news items I…
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Ask Surly Amy: How Can I Help?
Hello Amy! First off: I’m a long time fan of Skepchick and the SGU, you RULE! I work in a natural history museum, as an informal science educator. I see thousands of people, answer questions, explain basic science. When you talk about scientific illiteracy in the US, you get the news from survey data. I see it first hand. Every.…
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Women in World of Warcraft: The Bigger Picture
Skepchick reader Sean sent in this link to a post on a World of Warcraft fansite that discusses the lack of strong, independent female characters in World of Warcraft’s lore. The author of the article refers to “barnacle characters,” which are characters that depend upon the storyline of other characters for their existence. While I like this idea, I think…
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Tam Women Grants: The Final Four
What a long strange trip it has been. What started out as just another happy TAM fundraiser for us has turned into what feels like a literal marathon on my end. I’m exhausted. But I am proud to say that I have stuck it out and raised more money that ever before. A heartfelt thank you goes out to everyone…
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