May 19 2013
There is a tendency for people to take criticism of ideas personally. It’s true of all people, though I noticed it particularly this weekend at the Women in Secularism conference. People also have a bad habit of criticizing individuals rather than their ideas. I do not claim freedom from this tendency, although I do work …
May 19 2013
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 …
May 18 2013
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 …
May 18 2013
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 …
May 17 2013
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 …
May 17 2013
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 …
May 15 2013
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, …
May 13 2013
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 …
May 05 2013
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. …
May 05 2013
Part of the reason I’ve been so inactive on the internet recently is that the indomitable Louise (@spa_yedimonster) and I spent part of this week in Kentucky at a certain museum (hint: it involves creationism) you may recognize… …for a women’s conference. A full write-up (with pictures!) will be appearing over at Friendly Atheist shortly. …
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, and she is on the Secular Woman speakers bureau. Opinions do not necessarily reflect those of the Secular Student Alliance
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