Tag: Skepchick
Altruism in Action
Short post, exciting news! With the generosity and support from so many people, including a match of $10/necklace from @Data_Jack, Skepchick’s ‘Surly Amy’ beat last year’s record and raised enough money with her Surly Women Grants to send EIGHTEEN women to TAM2012! Among the recipients are Sheree Ko, Tawnya Mendosa, Taylor Proctor, Sarah Moglia, Kathryn [...]
Sexual Harassment: An Interview
Late afternoon on 8JUN2012, Rebecca Watson and I were live on Geoff Berg’s Partisan Gridlock, discussing the implications of sexual harassment at conventions. It took five hours to render the 38min. video of the radio show, and within the first hour of posting it to YouTube, the comments began rolling in. I’ll start off by [...]
Perseverance & Policies
After only attending three conventions, I can attest that sexual harassment does occur- and contrary to DJ Grothe, I’m positive that it occurs at TAM, too. Outside of other women’s accounts, there have been multiple occasions where I was made uncomfortable and actually frightened by sexual harassment and predatory behaviour at atheist/etc conventions. My responses [...]
Mad Art Lab
Amy Davis Roth a.k.a. Surly Amy, fearless leader of MadArtLab recently prompted me to interview Shelley Segal for the site. I hope you enjoy the full interview, found on the Skepchick Network. … Blogger Emily Dietle recently had the opportunity to interview the talented Australian singer-songwriter Shelley Segal. Segal is best-known for her single “Saved” off [...]
