Guest Bloggers
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Cross Post: Internet Meme Demolition Derby: Girls are (NOT) Like Apples on Trees…
Editor’s note: This cross post from Grounded Parents was written by Lou Doench for his Internet Meme Demolition Derby series. Click through the link at the bottom to read the full post and make comments. ****** I usually let these memes stew on my desktop for a couple of days. Kind of letting them marinate while I decide what particular…
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Guest Post: ‘Mommy PhD’ Launches Scientists are People Campaign
Editor’s note: Today’s guest post is by the once anonymous Mommy PhD. Here, she reveals her identity and explains the #ScientistsArePeople campaign. ****** I started my once anonymous page, Mommy, PhD, at the end of January with so much enthusiasm about educating the public, spreading scientific knowledge and debunking pseudoscience. It’s been a lot of fun so far! However, I…
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Guest Post: Skeptics Have a PR Problem
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post, from Jenny Splitter, is a good reminder to step out of your comfortable echo chamber and engage with people instead of lecturing at them. **** A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece for Grounded Parents called In Defense of Gluten Free. As I’m obsessed with site stats, I was pouring over all of…
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Guest Post: Intersex in the Media
Editor’s Note: Check out Amy’s other pieces on what being intersexed is all about. Today’s post is about the different ways in which being intersexed has been featured in the media. ***** Last summer at CONvergence/SkepchickCon, I attended a break out session called “Not Men or Women: Everyone Else in Fiction.” The panel members explored the gender binary and ways…
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Guest Post: My Confidence in Planned Parenthood Waned but Then Returned Stronger
Editor’s Note: Today’s Guest Post is by Kavin Senapathy, who also blogs over at Grounded Parents. This is a great example of how speaking out about an issue can end up in real change. Good job, Kavin! ****** If you read Grounded Parents, you may have shared in my aversion to a recent mailer sent by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin…
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Guest Post: Insight into the Lives of the Intersexed
Editor’s Note: You may remember Amy’s last guest post about the Invisible Intersexed Community. Next, she tackles what it feels like to be diagnosed as intersexed (with a female identity). ****** There are some things about being intersexed that straight-gendered people wouldn’t fully understand because they will never have these particular combinations of experiences themselves. I am going to provide…
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Guest Post: Coming Out as Feminist
Editor’s Note: Today’s post, by Chris (who also blogs at Grounded Parents), was written a while ago about finally coming to terms with the identity “feminist.” ****** I’m tired. I’m tired of tiptoeing around labels because “it politicizes the issue.” I’m going to have to put up with “what about the menz” and MRA manifestos of ignorance regardless; I may…
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Guest Post: The Second Amendment is for White People
Editor’s Note: Today’s guest post, by Jon Childress, is a must-read on the racial politics of guns in America. ****** If you haven’t been following (on social media, not cable news) the finally-concluding force escalation against protesters by police after the fatal shooting of unarmed Michael Brown by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, you’re missing what should one day be…
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