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A.W.R.O. Art Opening and Live Feed tonight!
UPDATE: A live feed of the art installation can be seen at awomansroomonline.com. Tonight, Saturday the 13th at 7pm the activist art installation entitled A Woman’s Room Online will open its (one) door to the public at CFI-LA! The art installation is an 8ft by 10ft office space that I, along with a lot of wonderful volunteers, helped to create.…
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Skepchick Sundaylies: Implausibility of Griffins, LGBTQ Homelessness, and Special Needs Pets
Sunday Funny: Cure for Pants (via SMBC) Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 113: Don’t Interfere (Or Do) Mindy explains wave interference. Cryptophile: Griffins Eddy starts his series on the plausibility – or implausibility – of the biology mythical creatures. The Not So Beautiful Game Step 4: In Which our Narrator Talks about Himself Elizabeth is even less impressed with…
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A Woman’s Room Online
[Trigger warning for images based on threats and harassment] Get your black dresses- and your reading glasses out. There is an art show a comin’ to town! For the past month I, along with the help of LAWAAG have been building an art exhibit called, A Woman’s Room Online. The art installation is about online harassment and stalking from the…
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Skepchick Sundaylies: How Not to React to a Suicide, Lunar Influence, Male Circumcision, Safe Sex, and the Politics of the Emergency Room
Sunday Funny: The Science Channel (via SMBC) Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 110: Ring My Decibel Mindy is all about wave intensity. 5 Inappropriate Responses to Robin Williams’ Suicide Olivia gives advice on how not to respond to someone’s suicide. Mad Art Lab The Curve Who Became a Witch: The Mathematics of Maria Agnesi She wrote the first comprehensive…
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Skepchick Sundaylies: Montessori, Human Sacrifice, Creationism, and the Debut of Skeptability!
Everyone! Welcome our shiny new sister site Skeptability in the Skepchick Family! Sunday Funny: Science Works. Sometimes. (via Twisted Doodles) Teen Skepchick Treating Depression is Not Medicalizing Sadness Depression and sadness are not the same thing. The Physics Philes, lesson 98: The Most Important Equation in All of Physics Who knew that wave velocity and acceleration would be so important?…
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Skepchick Sundaylies: “Free Gifts,” Hedy LaMarr, Google Classroom, and Mother’s Day
Teen Skepchick Sex and Sexuality: Masturbation Alice makes the case for masturbation. Do Your Research: Campus Sexual Assault Olivia encourages would-be college freshmen to look into how their choice in university handles sexual assault. If Proselytizing Speech Were Held to the Standards of Advertising Speech When you’re promised a “free gift” that seems too good to be true, be sure…
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Skepchick Sundaylies: Baby Love, Your Inner Fish, Creationism, and the Frozen Agenda
Teen Skepchick The Physics Philes, lesson 96: Surf the Wave Function Ever wonder what a wave function is? Mindy finds out. What If I Don’t Know? Olivia acknowledges that, for some people, their sexual orientation is not obvious to them. A Mandatory Love for Babies Elizabeth doesn’t get those fuzzy feelings around babies she’s been told she’s supposed to have.…
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Three Reasons Art Should Matter to Atheism
Does art matter to atheism? This is actually an interesting question that I don’t think movement atheist thinks much about. I have dedicated my life to making art and so I would say that art matters to everything, but let me tell you why I specifically think it matters to atheism as a social change movement. Movement atheism often focuses…
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