This Sunday, I’m going to be blogathonning from 10am-6pm for SSA Week. Every hour, on the hour, I’ll be posting a new post! Also blogging will be Chana Messinger and Mike Mei. All posts will be written in the hour they publish, though I will be trying to clear out some topics from my Drafts …
Category Archive: atheism
Apr 28 2013
For Best Results, Trust in God and Use Large Sample Sizes
Earlier this week, Crommunist pointed me to this article in The Atlantic, People Who Believe in God are More Responsive to Treatment of Depression. And ohhh boy do I have feelings and crinkly skeptic eyebrows. [As a side note, I’d like to thank The Atlantic for putting a link to the original research in their footnotes. Nice touch, actually …
Apr 22 2013
Monday Miscellany
Bulimia, Non-Purging Type? Should that continue to be a diagnosis? Tetyana works through it. (For a crash course on bulimia, I strongly suggest her guest post for this site.) Chana looks at glorifying political incorrectness. This social disapproval is what people are referring to when they talk about political correctness and the lack of free speech. What …
Mar 11 2013
Monday Miscellany & Questions
This weekend was lovely (if blogging-less). Ashley was in Chicago! Along with her were Sikivu Hutchinson, Ian Cromwell, Stephanie Zvan, and Anthony Pinn for a panel on real world atheism. You might recognize some of those names. I think they…blog, or something? Who knows. Speaking of blogs, Miri has the liveblog of the panel. Also, …
Mar 07 2013
The AP Stylebook on Mental Health
The AP Stylebook hasn’t been my favorite in the news. Recently, a memo was leaked showing some bigoted plans for same-sex spouses. (After the inevitable doubling-down, the AP did retract it.) But this has put me in a slightly better mood–the AP Stylebook now has an entry in mental illness. I strongly suggest reading the …
Feb 22 2013
Ashley on HuffPoLive at 9PM EST talking interracial dating
At 9PM tonight Jamila Bey, my boyfriend, Emmett, and I will all be on Huffington Post Live to discuss interracial dating with Nancy Redd, who wrote the fantastic book Body Drama. Here is the link to the segment, where comments have already begun: http://live.huffingtonpost.com/r/segment/interracial-dating-today/511c496c2b8c2a4572000324
Feb 14 2013
Happy Valentine’s Day! Surly Amy: Citation Needed
It’s more a graduate school sort of necklace than a Valentine’s one, but I got it today so! Go buy her awesome stuff.
Feb 11 2013
Monday Miscellany
The pope is gone! Paul Fidalgo wants to replace him. Oh, and I’ll put an immediate end to the church’s tolerance and enabling of sexual assault; its treatment of women as second-class; its adherence to Bronze Age notions of morality; its hoarding of wealth for no purpose but its own aggrandizement (except for me, of …
Feb 06 2013
Forward Thinking: What Would You Tell Teens About Sex?
Libby Anne and Dan Fincke have been running a project called Forward Thinking. Prompts are proposed, and bloggers can respond. Every two weeks a roundup of links is published. The most recent topic is what we should be telling teenagers about sex. Being as I was a teenager a very short six months ago, I …
Feb 05 2013
Ashley Speaking in Chapel Hill Next Monday
If you are in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area and like Freethought Blogs and/or me and/or the topic of social justice movements and religion, then have I got good news for you! I will be speaking at UNC-CH for their SSA (Secular Student Alliance) and SAGA (Sexuality and Gender Alliance) groups. Monday, February 11, …
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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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