Kate Donovan

Author's details

Date registered: September 2, 2012

Biography

Ashley's co-blogger is a third year student at Northwestern University who runs on coffee and snark. . At some point, she'd like to make people sit on couches and tell her about their feelings, but right now she writes in different places around the internet and makes silly faces when she doesn't know what to say. She's the president of her local Secular Student Alliance affiliate, the SSA Volunteer Network Coordinator for Military Academies, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau.

Latest posts

  1. Monday Miscellany: Chronic Pain, Brains, & Beauty — June 17, 2013
  2. How to Be the ‘Right’ Kind of Crazy — June 11, 2013
  3. Monday Miscellany — June 10, 2013
  4. And Then, Square One — June 5, 2013
  5. Monday Miscellany — June 3, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. When You Tie Shootings to Mental Illness — 308 comments
  2. You are Not His Mother — 163 comments
  3. A National Database of the Mentally Ill — 57 comments
  4. Do Something Good — 50 comments
  5. The Fallacy of Generalization from Fictional Evidence. (a.k.a. Harrison Bergeron) — 44 comments

Author's posts listings

May 19 2013

[#wiscfi] Who Speaks for Feminism?

Second to last thing! Elisabeth Cornwell will be speaking about who speaks for feminism. This could be….interesting? I’m not sure where it’s going. 11:08 Here we go! Elisabeth is thanking everyone in the CFI staff. They’re pretty freaking great. Elisabeth learned a great deal this weekend, and talks about how important it is that we …

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May 18 2013

[#wiscfi] Liveblog: How Women’s Concerns Can Best Be Advanced within the Context of a Secular Agenda

Here we go! Panelists: Soraya Chemaly, Susan Jacoby, Amanda Marcotte, Katha Pollitt Moderator: Jamila Bey 2:43 Jamila: So. Personhood. (She said a longer thing, but I was busy collecting my sanity.) Amanda: Personhood is the idea of giving a fetus more rights than human beings (because humans can’t feed off of each other to survive right …

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May 18 2013

[#wiscfi] Liveblog: Gender Equality in the Secular Movement

Second panel of the day! I just got here…and left my phone in the hotel. Womp womp. Also, there’s a whole tub of hummus next to the projector. CAN I HAZ? On the panel: Stephanie Zvan, Debbie Goddard, Ophelia Benson, Elizabeth Cornwell. Moderator: Greta Christina Stephanie introduces herself as perhaps most known for suggesting anti-harassment …

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May 17 2013

[#wiscfi] Liveblog: How Feminism Makes Better Skeptics: The Role Rationality Plays in Ending Sexism

I’m going to be liveblogging Amanda Marcotte’s talk, How Feminism Makes Better Skeptics: The Role Rationality Plays in Ending Sexism in just a little bit! You can follow other tweets at #wiscfi, and me at @donovanable. 3:42 In terms of the amount of time that anti-secularists spend on arguing….gender related issues are some of the biggest …

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May 17 2013

[#wiscfi] Kate Live Blogging Women in Secularism

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I am! I’m here! It’s nice, if a bit muggy in DC, and I am trying to avoid buying ALL THE SURLIES (but will eventually crack). Jason, Miri, and I will be trading off live blogging events! Ron Lindsay is reading from the Bible right now, and you should go head on over to Lousy …

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May 15 2013

No, You Shouldn’t Be Jerks to the Homeless Just Because A&F is Awful

Fat-shaming gets me on a gut level. I hate it, I’d like it to go away, and the recent statements of CEO of clothing store Abercrombie & Fitch, which included this little gem: In every school there are the cool and popular kids, and then there are the not-so-cool kids,” he told the site. “Candidly, …

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May 13 2013

Monday Miscellany

A little light on the links (and very late) for this one–I ran a fever for a few days and haven’t been much caught up on the blogosphere. I’d be remiss if I didn’t include this gem about depression and coping from Hyperbole and a Half. But people want to help. So they try harder …

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May 05 2013

[Blogathon] Say Hi to Ally Fogg!

So this is a cheater post because I’m on a bus with spotty wifi at best, no place to put my laptop, and an overactive heater. BUT You should go check out Heteronormative Patriarchy for Men, written by the lovely brilliant Ally Fogg. He’s our latest arrival to FtB, and would probably like some shiny …

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May 05 2013

[Blogathon] Wildly Inappropriate Things to Say to People With Eating Disorders

1. But you’re not skinny! I swear to god, you’d think daring to have an eating disorder while not being rail skinny was the equivalent of wandering around yelling “I WAS MURDERED” while still breathing. No. Staaaahp. 2. But if you don’t think you’re thin enough, what does that make me?! Bad at understanding mental …

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May 05 2013

[Blogathon] 6 Reasons to Own a Rat

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I’m posting every hour on the hour until 6pm for SSAWeek! Have something you want me to write about? Donate $20 or more to the Secular Student Alliance and tweet me! It’s virtually impossible to follow me on any social media and not know I own a rat named Boo. Been considering getting one yourself? You totally should. 1. …

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