Book Club
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Skepchick Book Club: This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things
Welcome back to the Skepchick Book Club! Even though you don’t get free pizza for reading this month’s book, you do get a discussion on this month’s book, This Is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things: Mapping the Relationship between Online Trolling and Mainstream Culture by Whitney Phillips. The book is exactly as the title says: it’s about trolling culture and how…
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Get Educated AND Celebrate Galentine’s Day with Sikivu and Surly Amy!
This Saturday February 13th at 2 pm the Los Angeles Women’s Atheist and Agnostic Group is hosting a Galantine’s celebration and book club meet up at Surly Amy’s art studio with special guest author, Sikivu Hutchinson! Sikivu Hutchinson has written a fantastic historical fiction novel about the events leading up to the horrific Jonestown murder/suicide that was led by the…
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White Nights, Black Paradise Book Club and Galentine’s Celebration!
I have decided to be a better friend by giving all of our wonderful readers a chance to get more involved in the Los Angeles Women’s Atheist and Agnostic Group activities. I will do my best to post events that are coming up with enough time for you to participate, as well as a reminder right before the event for…
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Los Angeles Women’s Atheist and Agnostic Group – Bitch Planet Meetup!
You read that right! The Los Angeles Women’s Atheist and Agnostic Group is having its monthly book club meetup and this month we are reading and chatting about an AWESOME comic series called Bitch Planet by Kelly Sue DeConnick. Volume One has been released and it’s freakin’ fabulous! Even if you can’t make it to our meetup this Saturday I…
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Skepchick Book Club: Merchants of Doubt
Note: next month’s book club pick is at the bottom of this post Welcome back to the Skepchick Book Club! This month we read Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway. The key word from this book is: obfuscation. In other words, if you…
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LAWAAG is Hosting a Meetup With Best-Selling Author Scott Sigler!
Our book club just got freakin’ REAL! Very excited to announce a special get-together with the author of the Los Angeles Women’s Atheist and Agnostic Group bookclub selection for November! New York Times Best-Selling author, Scott Sigler will join us, in an intimate setting, to do a reading from his latest sci-fi YA book, ALIVE and to talk about how…
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Skepchick Book Club: Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?
Note: next month’s book is at the end of this post Welcome back to the Skepchick Book Club! This month, we read Do Zombies Dream of Undead Sheep?: A Neuroscientific Look at the Zombie Brain. I wasn’t too sure what to expect when I picked this book, I was curious as to how the authors would relate neuroscience to zombies, but they…
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Secular Los Angeles Ladies, Join us!
This is just a quick shout out to let you know that LAWAAG has three fun and inspiring meetups on the horizon. If you are in Los Angeles and primarily identify as a woman and like books and art or helping homeless veterans -you might be interested in participating in our next three gatherings! Art and Craft Secular Saturday Gathering…
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