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The 2018 Global Atheist Convention is the third Global Atheist Convention and its theme is "A Reason to Hope".[1] The first two global atheist conventions were in 2010 and 2012.[2]
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2018 Global Atheist Convention controversy about a women speaker
See also: Atheism and women and Atheist feminism and Sexual harassment at atheist conferences
Andrew Street wrote in The Sydney Morning Herald about the 2018 Global Atheist Convention:
| “ | Thus in recent times there has been a concerted, deliberate effort to overcome the not-inaccurate perception that atheism is exclusively a boys' club. And there has been predictable pushback from members of said community who are deeply concerned that this progressive attitude may yet expose them to dangerous levels of girl germs.
The latest example came on Tuesday when the upcoming Atheist Global Convention in Melbourne announced that feminist author and commentator Clementine Ford would be one of the speakers. Predictably, this made a few people unhappy - but the venom levelled at Ford and the conference generally for daring to have a line up of speakers which approached gender parity was a shock. And that's despite the moderators on the Facebook page making clear that "we have been deleting specific rape and death threats as they occur… there have been substantial numbers", just in case there was any doubt about the calibre of awesome dudes weighing in with their important opinions about the line up.[3] |
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- ↑ 2018 Global Atheist Convention website
- ↑ 2018 Global Atheist Convention website
- ↑ Why do public atheists have to behave like such jerks by Andrew Street, The Sydney Morning Herald, June 21, 2017
