On Parenting a Human with a Non-binary Gender Identity

On Parenting a Human with a Non-binary Gender Identity

Phil Crawford

Oct 05, 2014

 

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Phil Crawford

Phil Crawford, a member of Bay Area Humanists, will share his experiences since his kid came out as genderqueer.

He will discuss gender as an identity matrix and what it means to be an ally to the trans and genderqueer community.

Among other sources of information he has accessed is a Gender Spectrum Conference – an annual Bay Area conference for health and other service providers and families of transgendered youth – which he and his wife attended last year.

Humanist Community Forum (2014-10-05): On Parenting a Human with a Non-binary Gender Identity (Phil Crawford) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

Asteroid Mining and Colonizing Space

Asteroid Mining and Colonizing Space

Marc Perkel

Sep 28, 2014

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How practical is asteroid mining and how soon will it happen?

It’s actually beginning to happen this year.

Humanist Community member Marc Perkel will show a 30 minute video about Planetary Resources that explains asteroid mining in detail.

He will also discuss the advantages of colonizing space itself rather that colonizing other planets, and create a new vision for the future of humanity.

For more background you can watch the videos at:
http://www.planetaryresources.com/mission/

 

Humanist Community Forum (2014-09-28): Asteroid Mining and Colonizing Space (Marc Perkel) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

 

Whose Schools are These, Anyway? The Privatization of the Public Good

Whose Schools are These, Anyway? The Privatization of the Public Good

Prof. Roberta Ahlquist

Sep 21, 2014

Roberta Ahlquist
Roberta Ahlquist

In the purported interests of improving public schooling for all, No Child Left Behind (Bush’s educational reform mandate), and Race to the Top (Obama’s reform mandate), public schooling is undergoing massive changes. Many of these changes will negatively affect a majority of students. How can interested communities challenge these draconian measures? Professor Roberta Ahlquist (a writer, speaker, and book editor, who teaches teachers the multicultural foundations of education in the College of Education at San Jose State University) will present.

To view the slides from the presentation click here.

 

Secular Activism

Secular Activism

Tom Manger

Sep 14, 2014

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Tom Manger (the Legislative Chair for the Secular Coalition for California (SCCA), http://states.secular.org/states/california) will speak on secular activism in California, with some discussion of national secular activism (e.g., his work with SecularityUSA, http://www.secularityusa.org). Tom will give a wrap up of 2014 California legislation from a secular perspective. He will also talk about activities planned for 2015 and ways you can assist in not just enforcing the separation of church and state, but in reversing the many ways that religion is unduly privileged in existing laws.

To see the slides Tom presented click here

Humanist Community Forum (2014-09-14): Secular Activism (Tom Manger) from Humanist Community-SiliconValley on Vimeo.

Death with Dignity in California: Strategies for Victory

Death with Dignity in California: Strategies for Victory

Chris Riley

Sep 07, 2014

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Chris Riley is the San Mateo County Organizer for Compassion & Choices’ newly launched Death with Dignity Campaign (https://www.compassionandchoices.org/2014/07/03/california-kicks-off-dwd-campaign/). She will discuss how this Campaign is leading the effort to make aid in dying open, accessible, and legitimate in the state within five years.