FtBCon is over for another year. We’re resting and planning for the next one–and planning ways to keep the next one from requiring quite so much rest afterward.
Miri pulled the whole thing together into a playlist that you can find here. I also want to draw your attention to a few individual videos as well. The first of these is short. It’s our opening remarks from Debbie Goddard.
I asked Debbie to provide opening remarks because, when I talk to her, I always come away with a stronger sense of what the atheist and skeptic movements are as a whole. I don’t just see my corner of them. I don’t just think of the loud voices. I see all of us, our history, and our interests. This was no exception.
I love this talk. It’s brimming with perspective. It’s funny. It’s compassionate as hell. You should watch it.
Stephanie Zvan is one of the hosts for the Minnesota Atheists' radio show and podcast, Atheists Talk. She serves on the board of Secular Woman. She speaks on science and skepticism in a number of venues, including science fiction and fantasy conventions.
Stephanie has been called a science blogger and a sex blogger, but if it means she has to choose just one thing to be or blog about, she's decided she's never going to grow up. In addition to science and sex and the science of sex, you'll find quite a bit of politics here, some economics, a regular short fiction feature, and the occasional bit of concentrated weird.
Oh, and arguments. She sometimes indulges in those as well. But I'm sure everything will be just fine. Nothing to worry about. Nothing at all.
Yay. Broad collective… stuff… ill-defined, contrary, at times contradictory, coming at the world from a bunch of different directions… but honest about it, aware that it is a strength… and united in overall trends of ambition.
Yay. Broad collective… stuff… ill-defined, contrary, at times contradictory, coming at the world from a bunch of different directions… but honest about it, aware that it is a strength… and united in overall trends of ambition.
MOAR.
Thanks for posting the video, Stephanie!
Debbie did a wonderful job describing the “movement” in her opening remarks.