Greta Speaking in MI, OH, NY, and IN, Sept. 10-17! (Akron Cancelled; A Few Other Changes.) Plus San Francisco, Charlotte NC, Sacramento, Springfield, MO!

I have a mega-epic speaking tour coming up this week in the Midwest and East! I’ll be in Grand Rapids, MI; Farmington Hills, MI; Cleveland, OH; Amherst, NY; Columbus, OH; Cincinnati, OH; and Indianapolis, IN.

A couple of changes: The Akron event, unfortunately, has been cancelled. The topic for the Columbus talk has changed: it’s now going to be “Atheism and Sexuality.” And the topic for the Cincinnati talk has been expanded: I’m now going to speaking on both “Coming Out Atheist” and “Why Are You Atheists So Angry?” (More briefly on each topic, obviously.)

I’m also going to reading in San Francisco at Perverts Put Out! on Saturday, September 20, along with Sherilyn Connely, Lori Selke, horehound stillpoint, Xan West, hosts Simon Sheppard and Dr. Carol Queen, and more. And I’m going to be speaking in Charlotte NC at the Carolinas Secular Conference; Sacramento CA at Sacramento Freethought Day, and Springfield MO at Skepticon!

Here are details about the upcoming tour, as well as my other upcoming speaking gigs. If you’re in any of these cities, I hope to see you there!

CITY: Grand Rapids, MI
DATE: Wednesday, September 10
TIME: 7:00 pm
LOCATION: Women’s City Club, 254 E. Fulton St Grand Rapids, MI
HOSTS/ SPONSORS: Center for Inquiry – Michigan
TOPIC: Coming Out Atheist: How To Do It, How to Help Each Other, And Why
SUMMARY: Coming out is the most powerful political act atheists can take. But coming out can be difficult and risky. What are some specific, practical, nuts-and-bolts strategies we can use: to come out of the closet, to support each other in coming out, and to make the atheist community a safer place to come out into? What can atheists learn about coming out from the LGBT community and their decades of coming-out experience — and what can we learn from the important differences between coming out atheist and coming out queer?
COST: Free and open to the public (suggested donation $5)
EVENT URL: http://www.cfimichigan.org/events/event/w-lecture-091014/
FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/751180984920178/

CITY: Farmington Hills, MI (near Detroit)
DATE: Thursday, September 11
TIME: 7:00 pm
LOCATION: Birmingham Temple Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, 28611 W 12 Mile Rd, Farmington Hills, MI
HOSTS/SPONSORS: CFI – Michigan and the Birmingham Temple Congregation for Humanistic Judaism
TOPIC: Coming Out Atheist: How To Do It, How to Help Each Other, And Why
SUMMARY: See above
EVENT URL: http://www.cfimichigan.org/events/event/se-lecture-091114/
FACEBOOK PAGE: https://www.facebook.com/events/751180984920178/?ref=5

CITY: Cleveland, OH
DATE: Friday, September 12
TIME: 7:00 pm
LOCATION: Mavis Winkles Irish Pub & Restaurant, 5005 Rockside Road, Cleveland, OH
HOSTS/ SPONSORS: CFI Community of Northeast Ohio
TOPIC: Coming Out Atheist: How To Do It, How to Help Each Other, And Why
SUMMARY: See above
COST: Free and open to the public
EVENT URL: http://www.meetup.com/CFI-NEO/events/201063462/

CITY: Amherst, NY
DATE: Saturday, September 13
TIME: 7:00 pm
LOCATION: CFI – Transnational, 3965 Rensch Rd., Amherst, NY
(Across from the UB North Campus on Sweet Home Road. Plenty of free parking is available.)
HOSTS/ SPONSORS: CFI – Western New York
TOPIC: Coming Out Atheist: How To Do It, How to Help Each Other, And Why
SUMMARY: See above
COST: Free for members, $5.00 for non-members, open to the public
EVENT URL: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/wny/events/greta_christina_coming_out_atheist/

CITY: Columbus, OH
DATE: Monday, September 15
TIME: 7:30 pm
LOCATION: Thompson Library, Room 165, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
HOSTS/ SPONSORS: Secular Student Alliance at The Ohio State University
TOPIC: Atheism and sexuality
SUMMARY: The sexual morality of traditional religion tends to be based, not on solid ethical principles, but on a set of taboos about what kinds of sex God does and doesn’t want people to have. And while the sex-positive community offers a more thoughtful view of sexual morality, it still often frames sexuality as positive by seeing it as a spiritual experience. What are some atheist alternatives to these views? How can atheists view sexual ethics without a belief in God? And how can atheists view sexual transcendence without a belief in the supernatural?
COST: Free and open to the public
EVENT URL: https://www.facebook.com/events/794817570559066/

CITY: Cincinnati, OH (actually in Newport, KY)
DATE: Tuesday, September 16
TIME: 6:00 pm
LOCATION: Newport on the Levee, 1 Levee Way, Newport, KY
(From the Parking Garage: Take the Gallery Building elevators to the Riverwalk Level. The CommunityCenter Suites are located opposite of GameWorks. We are in Suite B.)
HOSTS/ SPONSORS: Tri-State Freethinkers
TOPIC: Coming Out Atheist: How To Do It, How to Help Each Other, And Why AND Why Are You Atheists So Angry? (I’ll be giving shorter talks about both topics)
SUMMARY: Coming Out Atheist: See above
Why Are You Atheists So Angry? The atheist movement is often accused of being driven by anger. What are so many atheists so angry about? Is this anger legitimate? And can anger be an effective force behind a movement for social change?
COST: Free and open to the public
EVENT URL: http://www.meetup.com/Tri-State-Freethinkers/events/200713502/

CITY: Indianapolis, IN
DATE: Wednesday September 17
TIME: 7:00 pm
LOCATION: Center for Inquiry – Indiana, 350 Canal Walk, Suite A, Indianapolis, IN
HOSTS/ SPONSORS: Center for Inquiry – Indiana
TOPIC: Coming Out Atheist: How To Do It, How to Help Each Other, And Why
SUMMARY: See above
COST: Free and open to the public
EVENT URL: http://www.centerforinquiry.net/indy/events/greta_christina/

CITY: San Francisco, CA (Perverts Put Out!)
DATE: Saturday September 20
TIME: Doors at 7:00, show at 8:00
LOCATION: Center for Sex and Culture, 349 Mission Street, San Francisco (near Civic Center BART)
HOSTS/SPONSORS: Perverts Put Out!
OTHER SPEAKERS: Sherilyn Connely, Lori Selke, horehound stillpoint, Xan West, hosts Simon Sheppard and Dr. Carol Queen, and more
COST: $10-25 sliding scale
EVENT URL: http://www.simonsheppard.com/simonsheppard%27su.html

CITY: Charlotte, NC (Carolinas Secular Conference)
DATES: Friday September 26 – Sunday September 28
LOCATION: Hilton Charlotte Executive Park, 5624 Westpark Dr, Charlotte, NC
HOSTS/SPONSORS: Carolinas Secular Association
TOPIC: TBA
OTHER SPEAKERS/ PERFORMERS: Mandisa Thomas; Bridgett “Bria” Crutchfield; Steve Ahlquist; Harry Shaughnessy; Faisal Saeed Al Mutar; Fred Edwords; Conor Robinson.
COST: $125. Includes the Meet and Greet which is also a costume party (costumes optional); all speaking events and workshops; and the Awards Dinner Banquet.
EVENT URL: http://www.carolinassecularassociation.org/conference/

CITY: Sacramento, CA (Sacramento Freethought Day)
DATE: Sunday, October 12 (plus reception on Saturday October 11; Secular Advocacy Day on Monday October 13)
LOCATION: Capitol Building, on the North Steps
HOSTS/SPONSOR: Sacramento Atheists and Other Freethinkers
OTHER SPEAKERS: Rebecca Watson, Phil Zuckerman, Victor Harris, Ross Blocher, Dan Arel, Tom Manger; plus authors’ panel with Brendan Powell Smith, Richard Carrier, David Fitzgerald, Thomas Beasley, Andrea Griffith
TOPIC: I’m not giving a talk at this event, but I’m going to be on their Authors’ Panel.
COST: Free
EVENT URL: http://freethoughtday.org/

CITY: Springfield, MO (Skepticon)
DATES: Friday November 21 – Sunday November 23
LOCATION: Ramada Oasis, Springfield, MO
OTHER SPEAKERS: PZ Myers, Jamie Kilstein, Cara Santa Maria, Hemant Mehta, Heina Dadabhoy, Amy Davis Roth (“Surly Any”), Dr. Nicole Gugliucci, Ben “Sweatervest” Blanchard, Melanie Brewster, Sheree Renee Thomas, Kayley Whalen, Daniel Bier, Peggy Mason, Dr. David Gorski, Scott Clifton, JT Eberhard.
TOPIC: TBA
COST: Free
EVENT URL: http://skepticon.org/

Coming Out Atheist
Bending
why are you atheists so angry
Greta Christina’s books, Coming Out Atheist: How to Do It, How to Help Each Other, and Why and Why Are You Atheists So Angry? 99 Things That Piss Off the Godless, are available in print, ebook, and audiobook. Bending: Dirty Kinky Stories About Pain, Power, Religion, Unicorns, & More is available in ebook and audiobook.

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Greta Speaking in MI, OH, NY, and IN, Sept. 10-17! (Akron Cancelled; A Few Other Changes.) Plus San Francisco, Charlotte NC, Sacramento, Springfield, MO!
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