Stephanie Zvan
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Stephanie Zvan is an American skeptic, feminist activist and radio host, blogger, newspaper writer,[1] and fiction author.[2] Her radio show, "Atheists Talk", is produced by Minnesota Atheists and broadcast on KTNF in Minnesota.[2]
Her fiction has been published in Nature and Scientific American.
Kathleen Raven has noted her as an important science/rational/skeptic blogger.[3]
She voiced opposition to harassment of women in the Rebecca Watson elevator incident and following a 2012 Readercon F/SF convention incident,[2] and is involved in research on "collaborative social blocking" of Internet trolls to provide a more inviting social space for women and other minorities.[4][5][6]
Bibliography
- Zvan, Stephanie (2012), "The Unexpected Consequences of Coming Out", in Bill Lehto (ed.), Atheist Voices of Minnesota: an Anthology of Personal Stories, Freethought House, ISBN 978-0615598574
- Here be monsters, Nature
- The Gravity of the Situation, Scientific American
References
- ^ Editor/contributor profile Archived 2014-07-11 at the Wayback Machine at Twin Cities Daily Planet
- ^ a b c Stephanie Zvan: skeptic, feminist activist, and SF&F fan, Ada Initiative, October 1, 2014
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Bora Zivkovic; Kathleen Raven (November 29, 2011), ScienceOnline2011 – interview with Kathleen Raven, Scientific American blogs
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Glenn Fleishman (August 11, 2014), Blocking trolls "How collaborative social blocking could bring sanity to social networks", Boing Boing
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value (help) - ^ Renee Kelly (September 25, 2013), Stephanie Zvan gives a quick primer on the block bot, Skepti-Schism
- ^ BBC NewsNight "Twitter Trolls" c. Jul 30, 2013 on YouTube
External links
Categories:
- Writers from Minnesota
- American science fiction writers
- American women short story writers
- American short story writers
- Living people
- American atheists
- American skeptics
- American atheism activists
- American newspaper journalists
- American feminist writers
- Women science fiction and fantasy writers
- American women non-fiction writers