Today, a repost. Last year, Ian Cromwell started a series asking atheists at large to contribute what being an atheist has done to improve their lives. Though I was not raised in a particularly religious fashion—a progressive take on Catholicism, followed by the epitome of spiritual-but-not-religious—my involvement in the secular movement and active identification as an atheist …
Category Archive: atheism
May 22 2013
WiS and Liveblogging Wrap-Up
I’m back! Women in Secularism was excellent. I’m catching up on everything I left alone while I was gone and have a bigger post in the works, so you’ll have to forgive me for the short summary and links. Liveblogs: Opening Remarks Faith-Based Pseudoscience. [Another from Jason] Amanda Marcotte [Jason] Rebecca Goldstein [Jason] Women Leaving …
May 19 2013
Taking it Personally: Privilege and Women in Secularism
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
[#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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
May 17 2013
[#wiscfi] Kate Live Blogging Women in Secularism
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
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, …
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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Kate Donovan
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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