Secular Woman Membership Awards
…via her writing, being extremely active and effective with social media, and participating in conferences. You can find Soraya writing for various outlets such as the Huffington Post, Salon, and…
What are we Talking About? Quiverfull, Atheist Community, Best State for Women
…colleagues have actually said to me, annotated 12 school to prison pipeline facts that every person should know The best states for women in America, in 11 maps and charts…
Inspired by Science and Nature: An Interview with Amy Roth
…name so I could sell at events and online. My boyfriend at the time (now my husband) and I were joking around in the car on the way home one…
Bias Against Feminists
…Development, I have my students do a brief writing exercise that one of my psychology professors used when I was a student. It’s quite simple: Write out five statements that…
Introduction
Hello everyone! I’m M. A. Melby (not my real name) from Minnesota. I teach physics. I write. I’m pushing 40 years old, been married to a man for…
Zora Neale Hurston
…anthropology into her writing. A commission by a wealthy white patron to collect folklore stymied her career, since the contract barred Hurston from writing. In 1933, Hurston wrote her best-known…
Secular Woman Awards 2014
…mental health has opened doors so that others feel more comfortable talking about their own mental health. Additionally, her views have brought a flood of online harassment. She has been…
Quiverfull Mega-Moms Matter the Mostest
…in Washington, DC. Lately, I’ve been doing more speaking than writing in my efforts to promote No Longer Quivering and raise awareness of the issue of spiritual abuse. In my…
Pizza and Pregnancy Tests
…me with her serious issue. She wasn’t my best friend; in fact, far from it. She often seemed to really dislike me, often calling me “boring” and like “an old…
Sadism is the dominant trait in the personality profile of Internet trolls
Some of us get online to enjoy a sense of community with like-minded individuals. In the secular movement, in particular, many of us are not in a position to be…