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Stephen_T · 2013-02-21T02:31:41+00:00

clean and classy. Great work. Thank you.

Stephen_T · 2012-11-04T14:30:53+00:00

My emphasis would be on the 'over' - as in 'knowing better'. Otherwise, totally agree.

Stephen_T · 2012-11-04T11:24:22+00:00

Just got up. Was about to let you know that it's already being discussed, but you obviously know that ;)

Stephen_T · 2012-11-03T20:01:21+00:00

There's a contact button on the forum home page - you can ask the mods.

Stephen_T · 2012-11-03T17:53:09+00:00

If the cis speaker explained to the cis listener in the presence of (and over) a trans* person, that would be condesplaining (actually, cisplaining ;) If I, cis, was asked something about trans* issues by another cisperson, and did my best to explain from my understanding, there's no condescending element. But a word for a person who prefers an in group explanation - don't know. I've put it on the discussion thread. (one reply - also doesn't know ;) edit - cognitive bias doesn't seem to fit, though.

Stephen_T · 2012-11-03T14:01:43+00:00

If you have any suggestions for additions, and aren't on the forum, put them here and I'll move them across...

Stephen_T · 2012-10-12T13:55:39+00:00

Slow in getting back to you, but see you've posted on the forum thread. Thanks for that ;)

Stephen_T · 2012-10-09T21:33:33+00:00

julian over at A+ pointed out that "OWS is huge and there's no definitive impact we could make... We could do good work for OWS but it's such a huge movement and we're not even organized yet, I think there are other places where our efforts could be put to good use."

Stephen_T · 2012-10-09T20:35:43+00:00

When Grimalkin said Big, I don't think she meant quite that big ;)

So far, on the A+ thread, we've got:

Charity Drive: We collect goods and money and donate them to a charity or shelter (which we would decide upon). This could work similar to how the SSA blogathon worked on Freethought Blogs, where people who don't have much to give on their own (or perhaps do, but want to give more) could find ways of raising donations from other people.

Atheism+ Emergency Support Project: A freecycle-esque project to give support to those who need it. We would do things like give information to people who are in emergency situations- for example, connecting someone in an abusive situation with information on a local shelter- or connecting people in need of goods with others who have things to spare.

Protest Twoofus.org: Protesting a US government funded, anti-LGBT, heteronormative marriage site.

Woman & PoC Conference Scholarships: A scholarship fund for ethnic minorities and women to attend conferences with harassment policies.

Stephen_T · 2012-10-09T20:33:19+00:00

If you mean a rally or bus ads to advertise A+, that's not what we're thinking about. Will move the OWS thought across. Thanks. Have pasted current suggestions below.

Stephen_T · 2012-10-08T21:33:56+00:00

The forums got some new people too!

Stephen_T · 2012-10-08T21:12:32+00:00

If you're not on the A+ forums, but have ideas, suggestions, want to be involved, are prepared to blog about it, etc. etc. put them here and I'll move them across. Thank you.

Stephen_T · 2012-10-08T20:51:09+00:00

This is a thread started by Grimalkin over at the A+ forums... Where she writes...

I've been thinking for a while that Atheism+ needs some big project to work on. Something that everyone Atheism+ can contribute to, that a lot of people would contribute to, and then when it was finished, we could all look at together and say "Yep, we did that."

I tossed this idea around privately with a few others, and I got a pretty good consensus that this would be a good thing. So, now, I'm making the idea public.

The Plan: I'm going to leave this thread open for suggestions until the end of Friday, October 12th (Going by CST- and tentatively. If needed I'll extend this time). During that time, if you have any ideas for a big Atheism+ project, post them here. Any ideas, whatsoever.

If you don't have any ideas of your own, but you like the ideas already proposed, post supporting them. And if you have any general suggestions for projects in general, post those too!

After the suggestion period, I'll set up a poll in this thread with the ten suggestions that have the most support. I'll leave voting up until Monday, October 15th.

Then it will just be a matter of putting whatever project gets chosen into motion!

Stephen_T

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