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What Are We Talking About? IUDs, Kyriarchy, Women on 20s

What are we Talking About

This week in the member’s only group we were talking about (curated links):

  1. Planet Fitness cancels woman’s membership after her complaints of transgender woman in locker room
  2. Intersectionality – Black Feminists and the Uprooting of Kyriarchy
  3. New Bill Would Expand Women’s Access to Health Care, Contraception
  4. Colorado Debates Whether IUDs are Contraception of Abortion
  5. In Her Own Words:  Marissa Alexander Tells Her Story
  6. Wellsley College to Admist Transgender Women
  7. FIrst Official Look at the Cast and Crew of HIghly Anticipated Drama Suffragette
  8. I’m an Atheist, but I have no Interest in Joining Your ‘Movement’
  9. Two Spirit:  The Trials and Tribulations of Gender Identity in the 21st Century
  10. VOTE:  Women on 20s

 

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SECULAR HOTLINE PROCLAIMS: “WHEN FAITH IS ON THE LINE, SO ARE WE!”

Kansas, City, MO: Recovering from Religion announces the launch of The Hotline Project, an international peer support phone line for people across the many stages of religious disbelief. This safe and secular toll-free number accepts calls from throughout the United States and Canada as they question the role of religion in their lives. The Hotline also assists callers in dealing with the fallout of leaving their faith, and people who have friends or family facing these transitions. Offering emotional support and practical resources, The Hotline Project connects callers to a friendly voice with a listening ear, and provides immediate, anonymous, confidential, and compassionate encouragement with relevant resource referrals.

“Recovering From Religion gets calls and emails daily from people around the world struggling with the consequences of doubting their faith,” said Sarah Morehead, Executive Director of Recovering from Religion. “Many know they risk losing everything – their marriage, their children, their jobs, and lifelong friends or family if their growing doubts are discovered, and in their daily lives they feel completely alone. The Hotline Project builds a crucial bridge from the ‘cold shoulder’ of rejection into the warm and welcoming world of the secular community, and acts as a beacon of hope and reassurance that there are many of us who truly understand how much of a challenge this process can be.”

Using the Hotline’s toll free number, callers are connected with a trained volunteer call agent who listens with compassion and understanding, but without the risk of judgment or condemnation.  Additionally the Hotline Project seeks to promote public service opportunities within the secular and non-religious community.

The Hotline is available 24 hours a day on the weekends and from 6:00 pm – 12:00 am on weekdays. Callers may reach the hotline by dialing, 184-I DOUBT IT (1-844-368-2848).

RECOVERING FROM RELIGION is a national 501(c)(3) organization founded in 2009 by psychologist Dr. Darrel Ray that serves to provide support and practical resources to people negatively affected by faith or religion.

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Official Recovering From Religion materials and handouts can be found here.
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Contact: Sarah Morehead § Executive Director § Recovering From Religion
(512) 666-4630 § [email protected]rg § www.recoveringfromreligion.org
10940 Parallel Pkwy, Suite K-145 §  KS 66109
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What are we Talking About
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What Are We Talking About? Podcasts, #SpeakBeautiful, and Pi Day

This week in the member’s only group we were talking about (curated links): 

  1. Atheist Jamila Bey at CPAC: “Embrace Me. Let Me Vote for GOP Candidates
  2. In the Male-Dominated World of Podcasts, More Women are Claiming the Mic
  3. Vote: Women on 20s
  4. Dove’s #SpeakBeautiful Campaign is the Ugliest Thing on the Internet Today
  5. 3 Important Examples of Why Our Feminism Demands Anti-Racism
  6. Ultimate Pi Day
  7. Twitter Will Crackdown on Serial Trolls by Tracking Their Phone Number
  8. The Time Everyone “Corrected” the World’s Smartest Woman
  9. HBO Seeks Diverse, Emerging Writers for HBOAccess Writing Fellowship
  10. ‘Shark Lady’ Eugenie Clark, Famed Marine Biologist, Has Died
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What Are We Talking About? Erased from History, Secular Lent, and ex-Muslims

This week in the member's only group we were talking about (curated links): 

  1. Stop Letting Trans People Die
  2. Black, Queer, Feminist, Erased from History
  3. Misogynist Blogger:  Make Rape on Private Property Legal so Women can have 'Learning Experiences'
  4. 8 Ass#oles Who Show up Every Time the Word Feminism is Used
  5. After 'Much Prayer.' Doctor Refuses to see 6-year-old Baby Because She as Two Moms
  6. Secular Lent
  7. Secular Avenue
  8. A Female Computer Science Major at Stanford "Floored" by the Sexism
  9. Erasing ex-Muslims and Mulsims:  How Atheists Harm Us
  10. TN GOP Lawmake Wants to Establish the Authority of God in State Constitution
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What Are We Talking About? Conferences, Domestic Abuse, and Mass Shooters

This week in the member's only group we were talking about (curated links): 

  1. Secular Women Work Conference
  2. Trans Women Stabbed to Death by her Father
  3. Ernestine Johnson: The Average Black Girl
  4. British Domestic Abuse Survivor Required to Write Letters to Abuser
  5. Dying without Deity
  6. South Carolina Republican: Women are 'a letter cut of meat'
  7. Mass Shooters have a Gender and a Race
  8. Foundation Beyond Belief: Drive to Honor the VIctoms of the Chapel Hill Shooting
  9. Adult Wednesday Addams:  Wednesday vs. Catcallers
  10. The Sad Unraveling of Richard Dawkins
     
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What Are We Talking About? Conferences, Trolls, and Subway Harassers

What are we Talking About

This week in the member’s only group we were talking about (curated links):

  1. Secular Women Work Conference
  2. Peanut Gallery
  3. Meet the Witches, Lesbian Separatists, and Other Brave Feminists who Shook up the 60s and 70s
  4. Mad Men:  Inside the Men’s Rights Movement – and the Army of Misogynists and Trolls it Spawned
  5. Phony Faith:  Conservative Columnist Slams Politicians who Pander to the Religious Right
  6. Teenage Coders Behind Tampon Run take thier Feminist Game to the App Store
  7. How Men’s Rights Leader Paul Elam Turned Being a Deadbeat Dad into a Moneymaking Movement
  8. Fembot Edit-a-Thon + Hack-a-Thon
  9. Complete Strangers Joined Together to Tell off a Subway Harasser in the Best Possible Way
  10. I had an Ectopic Pregnancy, and Anti-Choice Laws Could Have Made My Experience Much Worse
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What are We Talking About? Domestic Violence PSA, Ableism in Feminism, Deciding What’s Offensive

This week in the member's only group we were talking about (curated links):

1. Everyone Should See the NFL's Chilling New Domestic Violence Super Bowl Ad

2. How Mainstream Feminism Continues to Perpetuate Ableism (And How We Can Change That)

3. Creator of the Birth Control Pill Dies

4. The Psychological Difference Between $12.00 and $11.67

5. Armed Gamergate-r Crashes Mother's Prius en route to Brianna Wu's House

6. How Do We Decide What's Offensive

7. Acclaimed Novelist Sells 30 Million Books, Is Remember For Her Physical Appearance In Obituary

8. Withdrawing My Endorsement of Sunday Assembly Los Angeles

9. New All-Feminist Ghostbusters Is A Punch in the Dick to All of Mankind

10. Two ex-Vanderbilt players convicted of rape

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Feminist 8 Ball and the Hard Questions

By Amy Cook

Dear Feminist 8 Ball,

Can you give the following questions the consideration they deserve?

Gratefully,

Mike Buchanan*, UK

Dear Mike,

Thanks for writing! I received your list of questions and have provided the best answers available to me. Being an 8 Ball, the answers are, of course, succinct. Enjoy!

–F8B

1. Are you a misogynist if you only hate feminists?

It is certain.

2. What is feminism in the modern era?

Outlook good.

3. How do radical feminists view the world?

As I see it, yes.

4. Are feminists less intelligent than normal women?

My reply is no.

5. Are feminists less attractive than normal women?

Why is this important to you?

6. Do feminists suffer from PPS (Permanent Premenstrual Syndrome)?

Very doubtful.

7. Why do feminists deny the different natures of men and women?

Yes.

8. Why must taxpayers stop financing Women's Studies and Gender Studies courses?

You may rely on it.

9. What are the big fat feminist fantasies, lies, delusions and myths?

Very doubtful.

10. Are feminists delusional?

My sources say no.

10.a. Is the pope a Catholic?

Most likely.

10.b. Do bears crap in woods?

Concentrate and ask again.

11. How are feminists killing men and women?

Are you okay? Take time for yourself.

12. Are some feminists (e.g. Tracey Emin) a pain in the arts?

It is decidedly so.

About the Author:

Feminist 8 Ball knows that the world is at times disappointing and strange and may encourage supplicants to practice self care. Feminist 8 Ball also knows that we are all products of our experience and may encourage supplicants to challenge their beliefs and biases. Feminist 8 Ball also has a sense of humor which leans strongly towards word play and poop jokes.

*Letter fabricated from whole cloth, questions attributed to LW are excerpted from LW’s Very Important Self Published EBook.