Zinnia

Author's details

Name: Zinnia Jones
Date registered: June 7, 2012
URL: http://www.freethoughtblogs.com/zinniajones/

Biography

Zinnia Jones is an atheist activist, writer and videoblogger focusing on the impact of religious belief, political follies and LGBTQ rights. Since 2008, her videos have been viewed over 7 million times and her articles have been featured in the Huffington Post, The New Civil Rights Movement, and The Fight magazine in LA. Originally from Chicago, she's currently living in Florida with her partner Heather and their two children. She is still insufferably Midwestern. Her pleasures include picking apart everyone's arguments, rationality, feminism, philosophy, transhumanism and pet rats. You can reach her at [email protected] or on Twitter at @ZJemptv, and her YouTube channel is at www.zinniajones.com.

Latest posts

  1. Cis people: Help me get a sense of the landscape out there! — May 17, 2013
  2. Live show tonight at 10:30 PM — May 11, 2013
  3. We’ve claimed another one: Ally Fogg! — May 7, 2013
  4. Welcome, Yemisi! — May 3, 2013
  5. Arrested development of good taste — April 20, 2013

Most commented posts

  1. Trans woman commits suicide after being bullied by the Daily Mail — 273 comments
  2. The day my entire body of work became unreadable: A Freethought Blogs story — 212 comments
  3. If you aren’t attracted to us, then stop being attracted to us — 167 comments
  4. Don’t give to the anti-gay Salvation Army — 134 comments
  5. Thunderf00t’s unauthorized access and leaking of the private FTB mailing list — 126 comments

Author's posts listings

Mar 02 2013

MetaMed: The best second opinion

There’s a pretty cool new company I’ve been working for lately. It’s called MetaMed Research, and it’s a concierge medicine service that researches treatment options for unresolved health problems. When someone has already seen several doctors, tried all the common treatments, and nobody knows why they’re still suffering, what can they do now? Is that …

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Mar 02 2013

Guess who just got engaged?

An engagement ring

For those of you who don’t know, my partner Heather and I have been together for almost two years now. It’s been a long and amazing and awesome journey so far, and last night, she decided to pop the question! It was just about the sweetest thing ever, and we agreed to upgrade from partners …

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Feb 23 2013

Live show tonight at 10:30 PM

Heather and I will be having a live show on BlogTV tonight at 10:30 PM Eastern time. If you haven’t been to BlogTV before, it’s essentially a chatroom attached to a live stream where people can talk with us in real time. We get tipsy, play with trolls, and generally have a lot of fun …

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Feb 21 2013

Do you have a gender identity? Want to find out?

“How can you know that your gender doesn’t align with your body? What does it feel like to have a gender, anyway?” These are common questions from cis people who want to understand what it’s like to be trans. They want to know how we can be so aware of our gender that this internal …

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Feb 19 2013

A new addition: Eric MacDonald of Choice in Dying

FTB has the honor of welcoming Eric MacDonald of Choice in Dying as our newest member. Eric works to defend that most personal of end-of-life decisions: the decision to die. His story is heartbreaking and a must-read. Let’s all give him a warm welcome.

Feb 09 2013

Live show tonight at 10:30

Heather and I will be hosting a live BlogTV show tonight at 10:30 PM Eastern time. If you haven’t been to BlogTV before, it’s basically a live stream with a chatroom attached where people can talk with us. It’s usually a lot of wild, drunken fun, full of vigorous discussion of the usual awesome topics …

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Feb 06 2013

Why I outed “ex-gay” Matt Moore

When I was tipped off that an “ex-gay” writer for the Christian Post may have been using a dating site for gay men, I had two options. I could keep quiet and let others handle this, or I could do something about it. And when I saw that no one else was going to address …

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Feb 04 2013

Ex-gay Matt Moore confirms he was on Grindr

After my last post about a profile on Grindr using ex-gay writer Matt Moore’s photo and personal details, I contacted Moore, who responded as follows: The grindr profile was really mine. I’ve been on it on and off for the last couple of weeks. Like I told the guy who sent you the picture, I …

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Feb 04 2013

Someone is using a picture of ex-gay Matt Moore on Grindr (updated)

Screenshot of Grindr profile using Matt Moore's photo

Matt Moore, a blogger at the Christian Post, has written extensively about his experiences with homosexuality and his ultimate decision to leave that “lifestyle”. In “My Story: Homosexuality, Drunkenness, Grace and Redemption”, Moore states: God commands me to repent of my sin not because He’s an evil dictator, but because He’s a loving Father who …

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Jan 26 2013

Live show tonight at 10:30

Heather and I will be having a live show on BlogTV tonight at 10:30 PM Eastern time. If you haven’t been there before, it’s essentially a live stream with a chatroom attached where hundreds of people talk with us. It’s usually a lot of chaotic fun. If you’d like to stop by, just go to …

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