Amanda Marcotte has written an excellent open letter to the Center for Inquiry — it’s measured and reflects the consensus of the 30+ people who packed my hotel room on Saturday night. Well, there are exceptions. This was Justin Vacula’s response on twitter: Get out, Amanda, you not welcome here. Take your dogma elsewhere (you …
Category Archive: Conferences
May 19 2013
It’s 4am and people are really annoyed
It’s been a strange evening. I had a crowd of people descend on my hotel room after the evening’s events at Women In Secularism and a good day of wonderful and inspiring talks from strong women, and besides just wanting to talk and celebrate, they wanted to complain. These are people who came here for …
May 18 2013
Who’s getting silenced?
Rebecca Watson has a few things to say about The Silencing of Men at Women in Secularism, and Ron Lindsay’s opening talk. You know, there is a very, very tiny grain of truth to what he said — I’ve been in a few situations this weekend where I’ve felt uncomfortably like an outsider because I’m …
May 18 2013
Women in Secularism is going strong
I’m off in Washington DC at Women in Secularism 2, and I’m taking it easy. You can try to follow what’s going on at the conference via twitter, but that’s going to be a mess: unlike every other conference I’ve ever been at, the twitter feed for this one is nearly completely divorced from the …
May 15 2013
I think we call that an own goal
An article in the Houston Chronicle blog, Female atheists fight for equality in freethought movement, goes out of its way to find some people who disagree with that sentiment. I don’t know whether the author was being cunningly ironic or not (he is a religion writer), but he really picked the worst possible critics, which …
May 15 2013
If you can’t make it to Washington DC this weekend…
…don’t forget the Imagine No Religion conference in Kamloops, British Columbia — the East and West coasts are covered! If you miss both of those, there’s also Empowering Women Through Secularism 2013 in Dublin, Ireland, 29-30 June. And if you can’t make that, there’s CONvergence on 4-7 July. Busy, busy, busy. If you’re interested in …
May 15 2013
Stand up against sexism
Amanda Marcotte shares a success story in the struggle against casual sexism, and also plugs this great conference coming up this weekend. I bring this up because I’m one of the speakers at Women in Secularism, which starts on Friday in D.C. (There’s still time to register, if you want to come!) The very existence …
May 15 2013
Women at #WiSCFI
It’s this weekend! And look, more women are attending! I am so looking forward to Women in Secularism: not only is it a sign of progress that atheism can broaden its reach, but it’s a meeting where I don’t have to give a talk, and so nothing is hanging over my head and I can …
May 09 2013
Who is joining me in Romania?
It’s going to be a great conference on science, education, and human rights (and that’s precisely what my talk will be about: science as a human responsibility and ethical obligation). You should all come! Don’t you want to visit Bucharest? I might get lost in that building.
May 01 2013
Horde meetup at Women in Secularism
An event has been planned for Sunday, May 19, 2013 at 1:00 PM, somewhere in Washington DC. We’re not telling you where, because this is exclusively for the elite, the cream of the crop, the best of the best, good people by invitation only. If you’re interested, you’re going to have to contact the Guardian …
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