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Kathy Etchingham, former partner of Jimi Hendrix, speaks out against new biopic
Kathy Etchingham was a DJ working in London when she met a young Jimi Hendrix on his first day in the city in 1966. They would date for the next three years, during Hendrix’s rise to stardom, and live together in London until 1969. Etchingham played a key role in Hendrix’s life, inspiring, among other songs, the much-loved “Wind Cries Mary”…
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The Economics of Our Robot Future
On Sunday morning of SkepchickCON I was one of the panelists on the faux award winning Cities of the Future panel along with Ryan Consell, Desiree Schell and Shawn Otto. We discussed a whole bunch of issues and problems that may come up in a future society such as global warming, resource constraints, and increased urbanization, but by far my favorite…
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American Atheists Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with a Sombrero and a Trip to Puerto Rico
There are certain benefits I enjoy by being a white American, and chief among them is the ability to find things like this hilarious without being personally hurt by them: We hope you have a safe & fun Cinco de Mayo weekend! Can't wait to see you at our Puerto Rico convention in August! pic.twitter.com/4S1DNBRdL4 — American Atheists (@AmericanAtheist) May…
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Women in Secularism Making You LOL: Lindy West
Women in Secularism is sooner than my overbooked schedule would like to admit. I am incredibly excited to meet, for the first time in person, the fellow speakers, con attendees, and ex-Muslims I’ve known online and through their work. I have been following Lindy West‘s feminist, body acceptance, and comedy work for years. Eighteen-year-old me would squee herself to death…
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Bad Chart Thursday: Reverse Twingineering
In “Time Magazine and the Impending Twin-pocalypse,” Deek takes apart one of the most amazingly bad Time articles in the history of crap, “The Problem With America’s Twin Epidemic,” by Sarah Elizabeth Richards. While reading Deek’s sweet, sweet smackdown, my chart-dar went off, for she presented a perfect example of the quintessential bad chart, followed by a chart that shows…
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Throwback Thursday: Tell Me How I Should Feel
This post was original shared on June 28th, 2011. Sad that it is still relevant, but it is a lovely post that I’m proud of past Amy for having written. It reminds me of something that would be read at a poetry slam. It was my response to the early phase of the online harassment that we had begun to…
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Last Chance for a Free Pass to SkepchickCon!
LAST CALL to get your name in the hat! Sometime next week I will be pulling the names and buying some passes for some lucky peeps to get in to SkepchickCon and Convergence this summer. Convergence is a fun-filled, Sci-fi conference that happens in Bloomington, Minnesota each year. We help organize the science track that we call SkepchickCon and…
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Honda Offered Me $0 in Exchange for My Entire Social Media Presence
Last week, I got a strange tweet from @Honda: @rebeccawatson We'd like 2 ask u a quick question! Can u follow us so we can DM you? Thanks! :) — Honda (@Honda) April 25, 2014 I knew there was a chance they’d been hacked or something, but I’m a curious person. I followed them, and shortly got this DM: We’d…
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